Daily Photo Journal -- May 14 (Pioneer Woman Breakfast Bowls)

Today's Daily Photo Journal is about my next entry in our cooking adventure through Pioneer Woman Cooks. If you forgot, because, really, it has been an eternity since I posted about this, my daughter, daughter-in-law and I are cooking our way through Pioneer Woman's cookbook and writing about it here. I have no excuse for slacking off because I'm not the one who is in Pharmacy School or Medical School. I haven't been studying my brains out so I can someday help with the health with their fellow human beings like Megan and Amanda. 

Maybe that's it, my brain isn't near as active as those two amazing young women... anyway...

Today for lunch I made Breakfast Bowls. I would say that I doubt seriously I would ever make these for breakfast, because it took me quite a while to do all the chopping and assembly and, hello??? Breakfast? That comes quite early in the day, you know! (Mornings and I don't get along very well.) (But, if you know me or have read this blog for very long, you are well aware of that.) (I'm not quite as energetic as my sweet, newlywed daughter.)

So I spent the late morning chopping onions, baking a potato, chopping tomatoes, slicing up leftover breakfast sausage links we had in the freezer, crumbling bacon, breaking open eggs, grating cheese (which honestly took about 10 seconds in my oh-so-cool food processor), slicing basil, and chopping mushrooms (Ree doesn't call for these in her recipe, but they were in the fridge. This is the kind of recipe you can add almost anything you want to it.)

After all that hard work is done (I suppose if you really wanted this for breakfast you could spare yourself all this intensive morning labor and do all this work the night before. At night. Like a sane person would do.)

The ingredients are layered in an oven-safe bowl. I used a Grab-It bowl. Pour the egg and milk mixture over the all and top off with cheese and throw it in the oven for 10-15 minutes.

It turned out quite yummy! (I think I could have baked them a little longer.) Hubby says it was the perfect dish to have after working in the yard this morning on this cold and rainy spring (?) day.

Daily Photo Journal -- May 13

Tonight I made roasted chicken. And mashed potatoes. And gravy. I believe it was the first time I have ever made gravy. And it was good.

I have one of these nifty vertical roasters for chicken.

My poor chicken had a little lean to it.

But it still tasted amazing.

And so did the gravy.

Hubby liked it too!

Daily Photo Journal -- May 12

(I am technically posting this on Friday, but am dating it for Thursday. Blogger wasn't working last night and I went to bed before it was back up.)


We've had tickets this year to a concert series that are at the high school in town. Last night was the last one. It was a band with four brothers. I only had my phone with me, but the picture turned out okay. Not great, but okay. (Which is the same thing I would say about the concert....we left at intermission.

Daily Photo Journal -- May 11

There was excitement out the window today. I've been hoping to catch the farmer planting the field next to our house and today was the day! (Yes, I am hard up for entertainment.) An old college friend asked me if the planter thingy on the back was a mechanical or vacuum system. Like this city girl would have any idea... Do any of my readers know?

God gave me an extra bonus this morning! A Double Rainbow! Wasn't that sweet and generous of The Creator?

(***Sadly, Blogger had issues this day and lost the comments.***)

Daily Photo Journal -- May 10

Tonight the hubby and I went shopping for some new chairs for the living room.

We narrowed the fabric choices down to these: (The smaller piece is a piece of leather for an ottoman.)

Decisions. Decisions. Sigh.

Daily Photo Journal -- May 9

Have any of my readers ever had a project they've intended to do, but have put it off because you fear it's more involved than you want?

Well, I have. Several times.

Today's project was to re-stuff some pillows that go with our couch because what was inside just wasn't enough. They sagged. My first plan was to buy pre-made pillow forms. When I was shopping for them, I decided it would be a lot cheaper to make my own pillow forms. So I bought two bags of stuffing and found some fabric in my stash at home that would work for the covers. This afternoon I tackled the job.

Thankfully, there is a zipper on the back of the pillows, so it was easy to get in to. I thought there would be a pillow form inside, but I found that there was a cover with stuffing inside. Just not enough. So I cut off one end, and added stuffing, sewed it back up and stuffed it back in and Poof! It was perfect!

The before is on the left with the improved pillow on the right.

Much, much better. It only took me three years to do a 30 minute job. Sigh.

Daily Photo Journal -- May 8

I got to spend Mother's Day with my mom. Did I remember to take a picture of my mom? No. Ugh.

We all went to the church my dad preaches at. I hope he didn't notice me taking a picture... :)

I also was blessed with wonderful phone calls from my amazing children. I feel so privileged to be their mom. When we got home, I found some flowers on the front porch that my boy sent. They sat there for a day because they were gone, but they seem to be okay.