Apple Pie

 

My friend S gives me a yummy homemade apple pie every year at Christmas time.  I freeze them and we pre-thawed and baked this one up on Christmas Day.  (350F 60-75 min).  Her sister uses less sugar in her pies and her crust is sooo good.

Farm fresh eggs

 The week before Christmas, my neighbour brought us a frozen fish and farm fresh eggs!  The eggs still had dirt and straw on some of them!  I noticed when I microwaved one it was overcooked at my usual 35 seconds.  I googled best to store eggs pointed end down in an egg carton for freshness.

Compostable bin liners

 I found these compostable bin liners that work for us, they fit well in my kitchen compostable container.  After looking around I found them on Amazon.   It is easy to find smaller or larger bin liners but these are grocery bag sized, made from cornstarch.

Linking to Gillena's Sunday Smiles.

Sticky Rice

 I just found out that this is the proper rice to be using for Asian sticky rice dishes.  It has to say 'sweet rice' or 'glutinous rice'.  This 'KOKUHO' rice fits the bill.  I will be trying it out soon.

Friday Art - White-faced Capuchin

 Welcome to Friday Art and Happy New Year!  This is the white-faced capuchin from Costa Rica that showed up on my laptop screensaver.

Linking to Nicole's Friday Face Off and to Gillena's Art For Fun Friday.

Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Faces in Things You See and Spam fried rice

Welcome to the New Year! 

 Rain's Thursday Art Date and Dinner Date's theme is 'Faces in Things You See'.  I thought of a flower face, a pansy in this case.

For the Dinner Date:

I made some spam fried rice in my new'ish wok.  It had a delicious saltiness.  I used a low sodium can of spam.  

2 cups of leftover scented rice

2 eggs

half a can of low sodium spam chopped

1 tbs dark soy sauce

1 tbs light soy sauce

2 green onions diced

a stalk of celery diced

canola oil as required

Mix soy sauces into the rice

saute eggs with a bit of salt and pepper in a tablespoon of canola oil, set aside

saute spam pieces , set aside

saute celery, add garlic in a bit more oil

add rice and more canola oil and stir until the rice is warmed up. Mix in green onions, eggs and spam for a few more minutes.  

Enjoy!

Happy New Year 2025! And Wednesday Memes

Happy New Year 2025!