Next Sewing Project

This weekend I finally finished my first sewing project (a cute tote bag complete with lining and pockets). Now I must contemplate my next sewing venture. I am leaning toward a simple dress of some sort. I can envision my attempt ending miserably with different length sleeves, uneven hems, and lookin' like a big hot mess. But, positive thoughts do sometimes pay off.

Here are my options:

MaCall Dress

Vogue Dress

OR

Simplicity Dress

I am tempted to buy them all but I know I have to pace my self. Rome, after all, was not built in one day. The Vogue Dress seems more tempting both because it was in the "easy" section and because saying "Vogue" seems much more fashion forward and an overall elevated cool level.

I will keep you posted.

Ice Cream!

Missed it by a day but Sunday seems to have been national ice cream day - or something of the like. While I don't usually eat store bought ice cream I will say than the frozen dessert does not have to be bad for you. In fact I dare to say that Creamed Ice can be a Wholly Food.

Home made ice cream can skip the preserves and processed sugar and flavoring. Using non processed sweeteners or fruits as sweeteners ice cream can be both good for your health and good for the lickin'. It is mango season here in South Florida. Finely chopped mangoes in an sugar free ice cream base would be perfect for a lazy weekend afternoon.....maybe I should invest in an ice cream maker one of these days.

Happy Ice Cream day. I hope you enjoyed it Wholly Foods style.

Cook Book 1

The first cookbook we choose was Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian". Because of the celebration of our nations birth we went with good old American 'no-mayo coleslaw'. It was much better than I thought it would be and made me realize that maybe following a recipe isn't so bad after all. However, we didn't actually follow the recipe ingredient for ingredient because we didn't have everything. This is what we ended up with:

Recipe:

One bag of slaw mix (Buy at your local grocer)
2 table spoon Dijon mustard
2 table spoons red wine vinegar
crushed black pepper to taste
1 table spoon celery salt
1 table spoon minced garlic

Direction:

Mix it all together and chill for a few hours (we did it over night).

Alternatives:

I think you could add bits of broccoli or celery to give the dish another dimension of flavor an texture. I also played around with the idea of adding caraway seeds but maybe next time. We did leave out green onions which would be an interesting addition I might try one day.

Uses:

Pairing this slaw with some sort of protein was perfect. HER VERSION: I ate it with some grilled tuna steak. HIS VERSION: He had it pile on top of his turkey sausage.

(New way to blog!)Hello all and happy happy July. this month we are going to jump on the food-blog train and take the cookbook challenge. This means that for the month of July we are going to cook one item out of each of our cookbooks. All together i think we have about 8 or 9 so this should be a busy busy month for the blog!

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