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Good morning Rounders! Hey I blew up the microwave, yep, I killed it. My turkey was almost 1 hour into the cooking process and the microwave just died. It was 3 years ago that we found it on a trash picking venture and brought it home and scrubbed it up. It's a big one, a Sharp Carousel model, and it has worked great for 3 yrs, but yesterday I just knew it would be taxed. Well, not to worry because we found a smaller microwave the same day and it's been on the Lanai all this time and I did use it to dry some Zinnia's, but it still has life.
After the fiasco I had to put the turkey into the oven, which is only 3 yrs into it's young life, but I do not have a roasting pan so I had to use a biscuit pan, which is too shallow, but since I was using the liners for a crockpot to do the turkey I figured it would work. It only took another hour and 40 minutes to cook to perfection. The meat was falling off the bone, the bird was nice and brown and it was delicious.
We had cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, and stuffing. We also had a combo of vegetables; broccoli, tiny carrots and cabbage cooked to perfection. I made a quart of gravy with the drippings and we have more dressing leftover. All in all it was a great meal.
I had a whole basket of dried flowers that have been setting in my guest room for years. I actually gathered the majority of them when we lived at the other place. I wanted to take them all out of the basket, remove the string that I had hastily tied them up with and organize the whole basket.
So I set up my 6 ft work table and started in on that task. I had 2 large bunches of Black Eyed Susan's, 2 bunches of Zinnia's, 2 bunches of Blue Bedder Salvia, and one bunch of Purple Coneflowers. I had several bunches of Pink Baby's Breath, but instead of keeping those I shook out the seeds which are so very tiny and bottled them up for 2020. I had a few Sunflower heads and I picked out the those tiny seeds and got a full bottle.
I use medicine bottles to store my seeds. I had pretty blue & white gingham checked strips of cloth to tie everything up pretty and they all look amazing.
The Purple Coneflowers did not yield many seeds, or so I thought at first glance. It was when I was turning over the scraps of flowers left in the basket that I noticed so many coneflowers seeds. OMG!
I managed to get a whole bottle of those cone seeds. I'm in heaven! I cleaned and wiped up the table and tried to capture all those tiny seeds that fell out as I was reworking them and it was a substantial pile. I put them in the strip of garden by my walkway at the back of the house. That soil is a bit better suited and I have access to the water hose. Bonus!
I forgot to tell you about the Celosia seeds. I didn't want to keep the Celosia flowers because they were not very big and the stems were too short, but those seeds fell out bonkers! We will have plenty of those next spring/summer. If all goes well I will have a cutting garden beyond my dreams next year.
Well, I sure hope all of you had a more uneventful day than we did. Aunt Maye, I'm thinking of you every single day and sending love your way. Hope to see you back here soon.
Peace & Plenty.
After the fiasco I had to put the turkey into the oven, which is only 3 yrs into it's young life, but I do not have a roasting pan so I had to use a biscuit pan, which is too shallow, but since I was using the liners for a crockpot to do the turkey I figured it would work. It only took another hour and 40 minutes to cook to perfection. The meat was falling off the bone, the bird was nice and brown and it was delicious.
We had cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, and stuffing. We also had a combo of vegetables; broccoli, tiny carrots and cabbage cooked to perfection. I made a quart of gravy with the drippings and we have more dressing leftover. All in all it was a great meal.
I had a whole basket of dried flowers that have been setting in my guest room for years. I actually gathered the majority of them when we lived at the other place. I wanted to take them all out of the basket, remove the string that I had hastily tied them up with and organize the whole basket.
So I set up my 6 ft work table and started in on that task. I had 2 large bunches of Black Eyed Susan's, 2 bunches of Zinnia's, 2 bunches of Blue Bedder Salvia, and one bunch of Purple Coneflowers. I had several bunches of Pink Baby's Breath, but instead of keeping those I shook out the seeds which are so very tiny and bottled them up for 2020. I had a few Sunflower heads and I picked out the those tiny seeds and got a full bottle.
I use medicine bottles to store my seeds. I had pretty blue & white gingham checked strips of cloth to tie everything up pretty and they all look amazing.
The Purple Coneflowers did not yield many seeds, or so I thought at first glance. It was when I was turning over the scraps of flowers left in the basket that I noticed so many coneflowers seeds. OMG!
I managed to get a whole bottle of those cone seeds. I'm in heaven! I cleaned and wiped up the table and tried to capture all those tiny seeds that fell out as I was reworking them and it was a substantial pile. I put them in the strip of garden by my walkway at the back of the house. That soil is a bit better suited and I have access to the water hose. Bonus!
I forgot to tell you about the Celosia seeds. I didn't want to keep the Celosia flowers because they were not very big and the stems were too short, but those seeds fell out bonkers! We will have plenty of those next spring/summer. If all goes well I will have a cutting garden beyond my dreams next year.
Well, I sure hope all of you had a more uneventful day than we did. Aunt Maye, I'm thinking of you every single day and sending love your way. Hope to see you back here soon.
Peace & Plenty.
I made pies specifically for those I knew who liked what, and one cake, lots of pie crusts made, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, chocolate pie, dutch apple pie, Reese's cup peanut butter pie, and a Mexican fruit cake. All the while thinking to myself I could never ever do what cookielady does..My menu, turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, baked beans, homemade noodles, `stuffing/dressing, giblet gravy, green beans, corn, cranberry sauce and rolls. I bought pie pans with lids and had been saving containers for a year so was able to send leftovers home with leftovers, with the turkey and ham in quart bags..everyone was happy..
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