The Sewing Mom

Oh my! With yesterday being Christmas and my husband having been home all week, I’ve completely lost track of what day of the week it is! We just got home from making a couple of returns and having a nice lunch when I realized it’s Friday! So, without further ado, here is my favorite meme, Four Foods on Friday. If you’d like to participate, head on over and give a shout out to Valmg at Fun, Crafts and Recipes.

#1. Do you prefer cooking with electric or gas? I prefer gas, I’m just so used to it. I now tend to burn things when I cook on electric. With gas, when you turn the burner off, it’s off. With electric, the burner is still hot even after it’s turned off.

#2. How many times a month do you order out? To tell you the truth, I’m not sure. Although I do know we’ve cut way back and probably order out 3-4 times a month now.

#3. How do you like your ice – cubed or crushed? At home I like cubed, but when I’m out, I tend to like crushed, especially from Sonic!

#4. Share a Christmas recipe Well, I just made this yesterday, so I’ll share. I used to always buy the can of jellied cranberry sauce to serve with our dinner, but I recently learned to make it from fresh cranberries and it tastes the same.

1 bag of fresh cranberries, 1 c. water and 1 c. sugar. Rinse cranberries and remove any stems or bruised fruit. Heat water and sugar to boiling, add cranberries. Boil for 10 minutes. Cool to room temperature and then refrigerate until ready to serve.

It’s Friday! It’s also my last day before starting 7 weeks of training, so I have a lot to get done today. First though, I just have to do my absolute favorite meme, Four Foods on Friday.

Here are this weeks questions and my answers:

#1. Share a recipe for something Italian. Well, I consider it a staple of our diet and we eat it probably once a week, spaghetti. Although I do occasionally make my sauce from scratch, I typically brown hamburger with onion and then poor on a jar of Ragu. I have recently switched over to whole wheat noodles and I really like them. The noodles are firmer and more filling.

#2. Jam, jelly, preserves, marmalade, fruit butter or butter. What’s on your toast or bread? I don’t eat toast too often, but when I do, I like it with butter and either strawberry jam or jelly.

#3. What’s your favorite Kellogg’s product? (Since they’re multinational I’m hoping everyone can answer this one. If you don’t have Kellogg’s products, what’s your favorite cold breakfast cereal?) I like the Kellogg’s Special K with strawberries. I like both the cereal and the cereal bars.

#4. Do you like liver? What about liverwurst? I do like liver and onions, although, I haven’t cooked it myself in many years. I ate it recently at a restaurant and really enjoyed it. I’m not a fan of liverwurst though.

Well, I completely missed doing this one last week. It was July 4, so I took that day off from blogging and the computer in general, to spend time with my family. I am here today, barely. I’m getting ready for our trip to Tennessee and so I’m running around like a chicken with my head cut off! I’m not sure I’ll have access to the internet next Friday, so I wanted to be sure to get this done today. There is no way I could miss doing my favorite meme 3 weeks in a row!

So, here it is. If you’d like to participate in this fun weekly meme, head on over to Fun, Crafts and Recipes and let Valmg know you’re playing along.

This weeks questions and my answers:

#1. Cake. Buttercream, whipped cream or ice cream? Oh! I love all three!! One of our favorites though is the frozen custard cake from Culvers.

#2. When entertaining do you use real, paper, plastic or styrofoam dishes? That really depends. For birthdays and outdoor parties, it’s usually paper. I don’t use styrofoam anytime, it doesn’t recycle too well.

#3. When hosting a party do you cook, have it catered or go to a restaurant? I usually cook, although, this past weekend we brought in food and it was wonderful. It even came with all the plastic serving utensils and saved me a ton of work.

#4. Share a recipe that you frequently serve when having a party. We don’t party too much, but I would have to say that in the summer, I do tend to serve deviled eggs more frequently than any other time. Everybody makes fun of deviled eggs, but they sure do disappear in a hurry.

Boil eggs, cool under running water and peel. (Doing this right away helps keep the shell from stick to the cooked egg). Remove yoke into a bowl. Using a fork, break apart cooked yokes. Add tablespoon of mustard, 2-3 tablespoons of mayonnaise, a pinch of salt, 1/4 tsp. of celery salt, and a dash of pepper. Mix. Adjust all amount to your liking. Taste. If satisfied, drop by spoonfuls into cooked egg whites. Sprinkle lightly with paprika. Serve.

A while back I entered a contest at one of my favorite blogs. Last week, I found out that I had won!I want to thank Valmg at Fun Crafts and Recipes for not only sponsoring the contest, but for sending me this great prize! It’s a chocolate lovers cookbook, a magnetic calendar and a magnetic memo pad, all of which I will be using immediately.