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Sunday, December 13, 2009
More Mini Card Sets
Colouring Fun
Keeping Busy
Hello! It is a busy day over here! I have just finished cooking up a storm, and am now going to tackle some more Christmas gift projects.
On the stove right now I have simmering:
- Pasta Sauce (to freeze)
- Asian Chicken Soup (for dinner tonight)
- (Regular?) Chicken Soup (to freeze)
Asian Chicken Soup
(Please note that I made this up based on an episode of Chef at Home that I watched last week.)
Ingredients:
- 2 chicken quarters (leg and thigh attached)
- 2 bunches green onions - 1 bunch cut into 2 inch pieces, 1 bunch cut into small 1/4 inch pieces
- 2 inch piece of fresh ginger sliced (1/8 inch pieces approx), leaving a piece at the end that can be grated.
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 6 cloves of garlic - 2 whole, 4 minced
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- salt to taste
- hot pepper flakes (to desired spice level)
- pkg pre-made chicken dumplings (unless you want to be brave and make them homemade) I used Wong Wing Oriental Dumplings - Chicken which I found in the Oriental section of my frozen food isle.
Directions:
1) In a medium pot saute saute the minced garlic in the olive and sesame oil for a few minutes.
2) Add the chicken and saute until lightly browned on each side (about 2 minutes per side)
3) Fill the pot with 8 cups of water, and allow water to simmer, taking time to skim off the foam from the chicken.
4) Once the foam is skimmed off completely, add the green onions which were cut into 2 inch pieces, the sliced ginger, soy sauce, oyster sauce, and hot pepper flakes. Allow time to simmer and reduce, to concentrate the flavours and fully cook the chicken (at least an hour).
5) When you are ready to serve the soup, remove all of the contents from the pot, setting aside the chicken to eat, and leave just the broth in the pot.
6) Add the frozen dumplings to the broth, as well as the smaller chopped green onions. Grate some fresh ginger. At this point I also tasted the broth to see if it needed additional salt, and added a few more hot pepper flakes. Allow the soup to simmer for about 5 minutes, or until the dumplings are cooked through, and then serve!
It was DELICIOUS! Even my hubby loved it!
Hope you enjoy! Please leave a comment. I love to hear from you!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Crop-O-Dile and Snowman Tag
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Sunday, November 29, 2009
Welcome Little One
The card is 4 1/4 by 5 1/2
Patterned Paper: ?
Ribbon: Papertrey Ink White Grosgrain, Papertrey Ink True Black Gingham, Papertrey Ink Spring Rain Gingham
Ink: Stampin' Up! Basic Black
Stamp Sentiment: Papertrey Ink Bitty Baby Blessings
Stamp Image: Imaginisce Baby Powder Collection
Hope You Like It!
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving...
:)
Monday, November 16, 2009
'Merry Christmas' Card
Just a quick card that I made that I thought turned out really cute! I am definitely 'branching' ( :) sorry, couldn't help myself) out from what I normally do, and am enjoying the results!
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Scrapfest U! Update
In the meantime, I wanted to share a bit about my weekend, which was easier to do in a video than in pictures and text - so here it is!
At the end of the weekend we each received these cute 'diplomas' - too cute.
Thanks for checking in! Please leave a comment, I love to hear from you!
Lisa
Friday, November 6, 2009
Scrapfest U
Workshop #1 - Bring on the Holiday Cheer - Card and Layout
Workshop #2 - The Time Traveller's Memory Journal
Workshop #3 - Two of a Kind Cards to a Layout
You can check out all the details HERE. SOOOO excited! I will be sure to share my projects (probably in a video), as well as fun details about the weekend!
Enjoy your weekend everyone!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Plum Crazy! Challenge
Over on Moxie Fab World, they are hosting a Plum Crazy Challenge, where your inspiration for your next project is none other than the colour Plum! I chose to make this cute card, (which may also be part of a card set for someone's Christmas gift) - haha.
I used all Papertrey Ink Products:
Cardstock - Plum Pudding, Stamper's Select White
Patterned Paper - Bitty Box Basics, Friends Till the End, Polka Dot Parade
Ink - Plum Pudding
Ribbon - Plum Pudding Luxe Satin
Stamp Set - Mega Mixed Messages
Edit: The envelope is stamped with images from a Martha Stewart Set I have that I do not know the name of.
I hope you like it!
Friday, October 30, 2009
Hallowe'en DressUp
PS - It was SHOCKING the number of people who thought that because I was DRESSED like a doctor, that meant they could talk to me about being naked. Not appropriate people! Dr. Lisa no likey! :)
Have a great hallowe'en everyone!!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Card - Sending Holiday Cheer
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Two Completed Mini Albums
Awhile ago I posted a video showing you some great deals I got at Michael's! (HERE)
Well I have since finished up two of the mini albums, and wanted to share with you how they turned out (SUPER cute I think!)
Hope you like them!
Check out Moxie Fab World for a super fun Ruffle Challenge as well (this is my entry!)
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
CatchUp
I am thinking I am going to start organizing all of my wedding pictures from the many many friends who got married over the summer. I must start scrapbooking these or it will never get done. We had 6 weddings this summer, plus I still have to finish a wedding from last summer, not to mention my own wedding album. I got kind of demotivated doing my own wedding book because I did it colour themed to our wedding colours. There are only so many ways you can find brown and green inspiring, so I have left that alone for awhile. I am hoping after I finish all of the other wedding pages I will come up with some fresh layout ideas that I can use in my own book!
Also, just wanted to share some pics of our 'view' from our balcony. Toronto may be filled with oodles, of buildings, but there are some trees outside our building that are showing their gorgeous fall colours! (OK, they have NOTHING on my backyard from back home...but I love fall colours, and at least these ARE beautiful!) :)
Friday, October 23, 2009
Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #18 - Card #2
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #18
Just a quick post today to share my card for Dawn's Color Challenge over at My Favorite Things. She asked us to use Raspberry, Green, Cream, Chocolate, and Kraft colours for this challege, and here is what I came up with!
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