Crock pot inspiration

I've been reading a blog called a year of crock potting lately. I don't know blog etiquette as far as linking to another blog so I won't but you have got to check out this site. Not only does she have fatastic crock pot recipes but she is gluten free! It's a Celiac's dream come true. Her blog has inspired me to get my crock pots out and use them at least once a week. Last week I tried a recipe of mushroom soup from her blog. Here's what I used.



And here is the soup after putting it all together.




Unfortunatly I didn't take an after picture but the soup was pretty good. The only problem for me was I used too much italian seasoning in it. I tend to over estimate my spices some times. I also added cornstartch at the end to thicken it up a bit. I will be making this again.

I got my blood test results from the doctor Tuesday and found I have a vitamin D deficency so am now on a supplement. I also saw my internist today and she said she is leaning towards fibromyalgia (I hope I spelled that correctly) as the cause to a lot of my pain so I am now on a new med to see how it works. I'm starting on a very low dose and will work up from there since I am pretty sensitive to meds.

Well, not too much more news going on. I am working on a project for the goat club but I have been so tired lately that I haven't done too much on it. I did get the canvas cut out and hopefully tomorrow I will get started on the painting. I have about a month to get it done. That is very doable. I've also been trying to clean up the house bit. It can be difficult so I do a little and sit, do a little more then sit. I'm not sure where this even more extream fatigue is coming from but it sure makes things difficult for me.

Bye!

Gluten free chocolate cake

I made a nice gluten free chocolate zucchini cake and it turned out pretty tasty. I used the recipe on the back of the Hershey's tub and added the zucchini at the end. I used Bette Hagmans Bakers Secret frosting. There is some thing about that recipe that I really like.






Looks good right. It tasted good too.

In the garden we've been harvesting a ton of cucumbers, zucchini and tomatoes. So many that I cannot eat them all my self so have been sharing with my mom.

I haven't been getting much of my crafts done lately but plan on scrap booking with my mom tomorrow so will get some of that done and am planning on starting some work on some cross stitched Chrstmas ornaments.

I saw the rheumatologist Wednesday and we are waiting on some blood test results before we start a course of action on the inflammation in all my joints. He thinks it may not be an arthritis situation at all but a low Vitamin D and me not responding compleatly to the celiac diet. I've asked about the D deficency on a few list's and while it may be possible, I have been taking the same amount of D for over a year as those who have been diagnosed severly deficient and my symptoms are the same so I will be interested in hearing those results. I'm sure it will be in normal ranges but we will see. I had blood drawn for other tests too and a course of action was laid out for the different scenerios on what the blood says. It should be interesting.

Bye!

See how big they are now?

My goats that is. Just some updated pictures of how big my goats have gotten. You can see pics of them as babies in my very first post on this blog.
This is Mimi. She will be Susan's showmanship goat.



This is Miss Priss. Mimi's comapnion and an open class goat for Susan.



This is Waffles. He is Susan's market goat and will be sold at fair and most likely will end up in some ones freezer. I am looking forward to him not coming back. He would not be a good pet for some one as he is a bully who constantly jumps up on me and tries to head butt me. He has been sucessful a few times and I am fed up with him.



Just a little over a month until we go to fair. I'm hoping to be in tip top shape by then (fingers crossed). I see the RA doc tomorrow so we'll see what happens. It will probably be another long haul.

I've been looking for paint colors for the living room, dining room and kitchen. We need to replace the french doors and flooring and since we need to do that we may as well paint. I've been looking at some bright colors. Dan's not really fond of some I've shown him but said he will live with whatever I choose. I've been looking for some thing nice and bright since I've been so down lately it would be nice to have some thing cheerful on the walls. We'll see though, I don't want to paint some thing Dan will hate. I've been thinking about painting our bedroom and my sewing room too but he doesn't know about that yet, hahaha!

Bye!