Fri-Yay #3

October 7, 2022Posted inFriYays, Uncategorized

Oh my goodness, it is Friday again! The week goes so quickly with the kiddos in school! Here are my favorites from the week:

  • I am still on a bread making kick and though I have not gotten my sourdough to come out right yet I decided to make some yeast bread instead while I work on another sourdough starter. It is so yummy, my kids LOVE it (and they are extremely picky). I used the bread recipe from my much loved Little House Living* book (it is one of my all-time favorite and most used books).
  • I’m still on a Jack Johnson kick! This week’s favorite is Calm Down (can’t we all use that message on repeat in the background?!!)
  • In making my bread I realized I have one small bread pan and one larger one. And both are not in great shape and kinda rusty on the bottoms. So I went on Amazon to replace at least the little metal and found this gorgeous ceramic light green loaf pan*, which I immediately ordered. I have been on a kitchen clear out recently and have decided when well used things need replacing to replace them with beautiful ones I really love. I really love this one, and I read in the reviews it doubles as a mini casserole pan, which makes me love it more! Of course now I want all the other versions too…
  • I found out we’re going on a FIELD TRIP for M’s school this month! I know this might not seem that exciting, but with Covid school as a 3rd grader M has only been on one field trip ever, and it was fall 2019 and he was only 5. I am so excited things are going back toward more “normal” around here, even if just a little at a time.
  • I used to shop at a cute fabric shop down in Country Village when we lived in Bothell (like a million years ago now). Well, the owner of the cute fabric shop happened to walk into my husband’s office recently and said she is selling online only now. They of course chatted because Mr Danger has been a craft-husband for ever, and then I of course got on her website and ordered fabric. This cute order came last week and I can’t wait to sew with it! Look at the adorable ribbon the fabrics are wrapped in, and I got a free spool of thread since I ordered on “Thread Thursday”!
  • I watched Cooked on Netflix and just soaked up every minute of it. I have recommended it to every one I know this week, and I am recommending it to you now! I’ve never been into food shows, but I have watched several this year now.
  • My neighbor mentioned he was having a bit of a hard time and I wanted to do something to let him know I was thinking about him but I didn’t know what to do. So I made this gorgeous Apple Galette yesterday and we took it over. I used the recipe in my much loved Food Gift Love* book and it was just delicious (I made one for us as well). It was so good I was on Pinterest looking at other types of Galette recipes this morning because I want to make them all the time now!
  • Mr Danger and I went over to check out The Green Barn little grocery shop in Lynden this morning. If you are in the area it was a sweet little shop with all kinds of produce and local cheeses and breads and even a Dutch corner filled with fun treats!
  • And, because I take more pictures of my dogs than my kids, a sleepy poodle snuggling in a bathrobe.

Well, I think that wraps up this week! I didn’t get much sewing done, my time seemed to be mainly spent in the kitchen for my creating this week. But I did THINK about sewing a lot, so that counts! What are your favorites from this week? Leave me a comment and let me know!

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Fri-Yay #2

September 30, 2022Posted inFriYays

Happy Friday friends! We have plans for an extra kiddo, Hocus Pocus 2, and trying a brand new to town pizza restaurant for movie night tonight. Yeah! We are very excited to be getting a Sahara Pizza right down the road from us, it just opened this week. We live in a very small town and our restaurant selection is limited, so anytime something new comes in it is very exciting! Let’s just say our old pizza restaurant’s slogan has been “The Best Pizza In Town” because it has been the ONLY pizza in town…

This has been a lovely week. Nothing super exciting, just pretty low key with lots of fun things to share with you. I have to say I have really enjoyed adding to a list of things all week for my Fri-Yay post! Alright, in no particular order, here we go!

  • I’ve been on a Jack Johnson kick lately and found this song Rainbow, which is my new favorite song.
  • Mr Danger sent me this meme and I just love it and thought you guys would too.
  • I made this pear Dutch Baby recipe last weekend and it was AMAZING. Seriously, my 8 year old, extremely picky eater said it was the best breakfast of all time. Go find some pears and make it and let me know what you think! I put 2 pears in it instead of one and cooked it at 450 for less time (20 minutes) like my normal Dutch Baby.
  • I tried making my first sourdough loaf. It was delicious, and look at that beautiful color, but it did not puff up like it was supposed to and was very dense. I am back to working on perfecting my starter this week.
  • I made this yummy corn chowder recipe with some aging produce in the fridge and it was very good. If you have local corn available I think that is what made ours so delicious.
  • Amazon suggested these amazing Halloween cake pans* to me and I can’t stop looking at them! I love the haunted house Bundt pan, although I have never made a Bundt cake, and am totally tempted to get the mini skull pan and make cute little mini skull muffins. Make sure and dig through all the options, they are so incredibly fun!
  • Mr Danger listened to some podcast (he always is…) and we were discussing it and he mentioned a quote along the lines of “We live in all tenses but the present tense.” I love that and hope your brain enjoys rolling it around and processing it as well.
  • Cutie dogs in their cutie Halloween harnesses! Juniper (the white one) has quite a face going on in this picture!

I hope you guys had a lovely week and have fun plans for a lovely weekend!

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The First Fri-Yay Post!

September 23, 2022Posted inFriYays

Hi friends! We generally call Fridays FriYays in our house. We do pizza and movie night as a family every Friday, which is a tradition I grew up with in my house and have loved passing on to my kiddos, which makes Friday a day to look forward to. And, one of my kids only has a half day of school every Friday and gets out at noon. And, the kids get extra screen time on Fridays as long as every one follows the family rules the rest of the week, which my kids love because they get more than their normal hour at a time to do bigger builds in Minecraft. Fridays really are FriYays around here!

So, because Fridays are always fun days in our house, I thought it would be a great idea to do a round up of the most fun and notable things from the week every Friday!

  • Mr Danger and I have been trying to get the dogs out for a fun walk every day after we drop the kids at school and before we go to work. This week was a challenge because I had at least one kid home sick Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, but we walked at Semiahmoo today, and it was gorgeous. We had not walked here in years and I forgot how much I love it. Since I haven’t introduced the girls here yet, the white one on the left is Juniper, and the black one on the right is Coco. Juniper (Junie) is a Maltese/Poodle/Shih Tzu mix and is 10lbs, and Coco is a toy poodle and weighs under 8lbs.
  • There was lots of movie watching with sick kids home this week and we watched the Speed Cuber documentary on Netflix. My oldest, P, LOVES Rubiks cubes and has decided he wants to get into speed cubing now. We thought he had a speed cube, but he apparently did not and after some research he decided on this speed cube* and we ordered it for him.
  • After halfheartedly trying since Spring 2021, I got my first (I think) successful sourdough starter going this week. This is me attempting my first Leaven last night and we are going to try homemade sourdough crust pizza for movie night tonight. I will let you know how it goes!
  • Mr Danger took Coco to work yesterday and took this adorable photo that I couldn’t help but share.

Ok friends, I think that is a good start for my first FriYay post! I am off to meet the school bus and try my hand at my first loaf of homemade sourdough!

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