Low Carb Meal

Spicy Zucchini and Squash  

 

 

Husband likes to eat low carb, boo :( How can you resist the deliciousness of carbs?? At the very least I'm still going to eat something tasty. To make this recipe even better, its only 6 ingredients!

 

I started with browning a half of a white onion. I put butter in there to get it started. Paula would be proud!

 

While the onion is cooking away, I just chopped up 2 zucchini and 1 summer squash. I just made sure they were bite sized pieces. Then just add into the pan with the onions.

 

So meow the onions, zucchini and squash are cooking. I then chopped up two garden fresh tomatoes. For real, I grew them in my garden! I suppose that you could use a can of diced tomatoes, if your not a domestic goddess. Just add the tomatoes into the pan as well.

 

Add a can of chicken broth into the pan with the veg. You could use homemade chicken broth, but who has time for that? Then in a separate pan cook the Italian sausage. After the sausage is cooked add it into the veg pan.

 

Once all the ingredients are in the pan, add salt and pepper. Then for a spicy touch add a dash or lots of dashes of hot sauce. I like a little flavor, buy I don't want to pay for it later. You know what I mean...

 

 

List

 

Onion

Squash

Zucchini

Tomatoes

Italian Sausage

Chicken Broth

Salt, pepper and hot sauce

 

 

 



Chalkboard kitchen menu

 

Chalkboard Menu

 

 

Elmer... he'll eat anything.

 

I found this spider invested easel for FREE. So I put it in the back of husband's truck took it home and washed the spiders off. Free doesn't come cheap, there are prices that have to be paid.  

 

I already had chalkboard paint from a previous Pinterest project. So I decided to repurpose the easel into a chalkboard to use for whatever. Why not?

 

I painted the wood portion with the chalkboard paint. I used about three coats. Then I found some paint in the garage. Its a lovely shade of green call "Avocado". It use to be the color of kitchen for about 3 weeks, then I repainted it ;) so indecisive.  

 

You can't really see the green in this picture, but Elmer likes it despite that. I used some chalk to make my menu board. The menu states " eat it or starve" pretty much the motto at my house. Anyone want to come over for dinner??

Married Up Cake

 

Anniversary Cake

 

 

I want to be romantic, but its not in my blood. I want to be that wife that writes long paragraphs on the Facebook proclaiming endless love. I just can't bring myself to do it. Sorry Husband.

 

So I'm not a huge fan of cake. I love to make/decorate them, but hands down I'd rather have a cookie. So this is just a layer 6 inch round of chocolate cake. Husband is the fan of the chocolate cake, this is how I show love. I frosted it with a nice chocolate buttercream.

 

I then decided after 8 years of wedded bliss that he deserved a cake dusted with love or cocoa powder. I think they're pretty much the same thing. I don't own a duster thing. Obviously I don't even know what I'm talking about. So I used a tea disperser ? I'm not even sure what its called, but I own it!

 

So I dusted the cake.. The End

 

Just kidding, there's more. So I felt like this should be a fancy cake. Rose= Fancy. I colored my white buttercream with red. Oh so fancy.

 

Use disposable decorating bags. No one likes to wash bags after you've spent hours on a cake and they always feel greasy.. nasty

 

Wilton 103 tip

 

Flower nail. Attach a piece of wax paper with a little icing on the bottom side so that it doesn't move around on you.

 

Fat side down. Twirl it girl!

 

That's your base. Just a little guy.

 

On to the base add petals in odd numbers. the first should have 3. Then the next layer 5. Finish off with some edible glitter... yummo! Perhaps I should do a detailed blog on buttercream roses, since I'm basically a doctor of flower making.

 

Then use your flower scissors to remove your flower. Yes that is a half chopped potato you see. I don't have 3 hands. Deal with it. 

 

Then just place your romantic red rose right onto your cake. I put roses all around the base of the cake.

 

whoops. Sometimes it just happens. Wipe it off and start over. It's all good!

 

Add your fancy text

" Your yearly reminder that you married up"

Pipe some hearts on the side. There you have it a wonderful romantic cake.