Here’s another of the meals that I featured on my Frugal Cooking Carnival Beef Dumpling Stew Serves 8 Stew 2 lbs hamburger or sausage 2 T. oil (olive or vegetable) 2 c. sliced carrots 2 c. minced onion 4 T. flour 8 c. beef broth (make this with beef bouillon if you don’t have...
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Archive for May, 2008
Hearty Beef Dumpling Stew
A fire hydrant, maybe.
The other day in the van my five year old daughter exclaimed excitedly, “Did you see that lady walking back there?” “No, why?” “Mommy, she looked exactly like a telephone pole.” My eyebrows went up. “Really?” “Yeah, she was sooo tall and sooo skinny!” “Really??” I said, trying to imagine the proportions of such...
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Sunday
Psalm 61: 2-4
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The start of this year’s garden
120 tomato plants, being transplanted by my hubby from seed packs into yogurt containers. Technorati Tags: Gardening, tomatoes
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An interesting mix
Spoken by my 10 year old son this evening: “Mom, I’m going to save up my money, so I can pay all your bills. Then you can live in the middle of fountains and Bibles and new cars.”
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The Blanket Party: May 1st update
The Blanket Party was three months ago, but now and then a donation still trickles in, most recently $500 from a groups of preschoolers!! That donation and the many others from all you kind people have brought the total to $4008. Thank you so much, everyone! $2500 for a washer has already been delivered...
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Midnight snack: Mushroom egg pasta
Or breakfast. Or lunch. This evening around midnight I was writing away, but getting increasingly sidetracked by hunger pangs. I kept telling myself that I just ought to go to bed, but the quiet of the night lured me to keep writing. And besides, there was that rumbling in my stomach. No wonder. Dinner...
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