Month: September 2012

Dinner time

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Dinner time

Wednesday nights are the night that my 90 year old mother-in-law comes for dinner. It is always a challenge to me to make the best, most flavor-able food for her because she is the one that started my love for cooking.

Since she comes every week I also try to have something different. Last night I was piddling around with some sweet potatoes. How can I make this have some pzazz? So I put some fresh rosemary stems,olive oil and butter a saute pan and heated it up for a few minutes, reduced the heat and left it. I then wash and dried the sweet potatoes. I took a sharp knife and sliced the potatoes, added salt and pepper to them and placed 1 layer of them in the pan. Flipped them to cook the other side and Yum! They were so good. The name I am giving them is, “Rosemary Infused Sauteed Sweet Potatoes”. I felt like the infused oil/butter really brought the sweet potato up a few notches. It was so tasty!

I did remove the rosemary stems before serving. There were a few pieces of rosemary in the sweet potatoes but it just made it look better. You could garnish your plate with fresh rosemary.

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From Red to Green!

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From Red to Green

Decorating is another thing I enjoy doing and in my home and I had a very large red room that was in style about 8 years ago. I have wanted to redecorate for a while but life has kept me busy and the decission of what to do with the room was a big thing. Also, the challenge of painting a room that has 14 foot ceilings.

Red is my favorite color but a red room was out! So in with the green! The color is actually called Burlap and I bought it at Sherwin Williams. I wish I had taken before pictures but I didn’t.

Also, I am a “traditional” style trying to become more modern. I love color and red! I have attached the pictures of the newly decorated room. Let me know what you think.

I painted the room, made the curtians and hug them, made the colorful pillows and shopped second hand stores for decor. I purchased the endtables and the lamps at a consingnment store. I did buy the fabric couch and chase new. I hope you are inspired! If I can do this so can you!