Christmas decorating & Leftovers

First off I'll share what I did with some of our left over turkey. I made a turkey buffalo pizza. Gluten free of course. It just like the chicken buffalo pizza I make except I had turkey. The ingredients are.....

1 gluten free pizza crust (I make mine from a Better Batter Flour recipe)

left over chicken, or turkey in this case

Gluten free ranch salad dressing

Franks Red Hot sauce

Cheese

Make your pizza crust how ever it is you make it. I always pre cook mine for about 10 to 15 minutes. Spread as much ranch dressing onto the crust as you and your family would like. Chop up some left over chicken or turkey and toss in a good amount of Frank Red Hot sauce. I don't have an amount, I just make sure it is good and saturated. Then sprinkle the amount of cheese onto the crust that you would like and spread the hot sauced chicken or turkey on top of that and bake until the cheese is good and melted and browned on top a little. After all that is done you end up with this.



I made 2 of these and this is what we had left.



Just enough for Dan's lunch.

I also had an infusion last week and on those days I can't cook so Dan makes what he now calls Dansketti. I don't know if that is how it would be spelled but you get the idea. Here is the dish he made for me.



It was good too! His spaghetti is always better than mine. I have no idea why because we make it the same way but even Susan agrees it's better.

And now I will share a few pictures of our Christmas decorating.

These are 2 new ornaments I bought for Susan this year. A glass blown saxophone and clarinet. Why, because those are the 2 instruments she plays for her high school band.





Here's Dan and Susan goofing around because ever since Susan was little he has lifted her to put the star on top and since she got tall enough to do it herself he always poses behind her now.



And here we are after a job well done!



And this one is Susan and Dan decorating her pine tree outside. She brought that tree home in like the 3rd grade and it was less than a foot high. Hers was the only one in the class that made it. I believe they strung it with 3 strands of lights.



Well, that's all I'll share for now. Blogger is being fussy and not saving or wanting to upload.

Bye!

Thanksgiving 2008

Well I thought I would share our Thanksgiving with you and the gluten free foods I cooked. OF course it was entirely gluten free as it was at home and it was delicious! It was just the 3 of us and I made WAY too much food. I do have a dinner of turkey and a dinner of ham frozen. First off I will say, I made a gluten free pumpkin roll!!! And it turned out awesome and I took it to a friends house that night and it disappeared. I never even got to try it so now I am forced to make another one.



You heard me.................


Forced!









Forced!



This here is the gluten free pie crust I made. I took a pamelas bread mix and used the pie crust recipe on the side. The only change I made was I added a few tablespoons of sugar.



The ingrediants.




Crust in pie plate.





Mixing pie and into the ovens.









Finished product.





Delicious! The best crust we've had since going gluten free. Next time I will spray the pie plates as it stuck to them pretty good.


I also made gluten free mac and cheese. Here is is going into the crock pot. I followed the directions exactly and I should have known better!





Looks good right? Turned to complete mush!! I will try this recipe again making modifications. Like maybe into the oven for a bit instead. You know I think I have the ingrediants so maybe I'll try it for dinner tonight.


Here's what Susan did while I cooked.





BTW, that is my chair and laptop thank you very much!


And Dan helped out by eating leftover frosting from the pumpkin roll.





And now will follow a series of pictures of the food I made.















And so I will end my Thanksgiving sharing with a picture of Dan helping with the clean up.





And me.....


"If some one asks for another piece of pie!!"






Am I right people or what.


Ha,ha!



Bye!

Sewing Room

Okay, This will be a little out of order because I wanted to talk about this before I forgot, haha. Then I will move on to Thanksgiving and other things. Anyways, I was on the fabulous yahoo group Stashbusters yesterday and was suprised. I've been on and off this group for years and had it set to no mail for a year due to all the health problems I was having and it has such a high volume of mail I just couldn't keep up. I decided to reactivate it the other day and have since been enjoying the posts very much. Yesterday some one posted that they put links to websites that listed sewing room pictures. What an incrediable amount of work people did! I so enjoyed looking at sewing rooms and getting ideas. Imagine my suprise to see my sewing room pics from my webshots in the list of one page! Awesome! But then while looking at them I thought "Oh no! That was like 3 or 4 room organizings ago!" so, since Dan just helped me move stuff AGAIN (thanks babe!......he reads my blog you know, what a guy!) anyways he went in a moved my heavy desk and all the furniture where I wanted it this time and I now share with you the way my sewing room looks now. Nothing is staged and the pictures were taken this morning just the way I left it last night. I'm in the middle of making pj pants and a Christmas curtain for my kitchen. Are you ready????

Are you excited????



Okay, okay, I've got to have a little fun once in awhile!



This here is the view of my ironing area from the door.




This is the view of my sewing and ironing area.




This is my cutting area.




This is my part of my scrap booking area and right now it houses my serger since I am working on pj pants. I love this serger. It's a Pfaff Hobby Lock. Awesome serger. The table is one of my favorite. Dan took an old broken up treadle and used the base to make a table for me.




This is a shot of my design area that is above my ironing area and there is a book case behind the ironing board too.

Hey....I only have so much space.





This is a picture of my thread racks and tool rack that hang above the cutting table. The thread rack is a little inconviently placed but it's the only area for them.




This picture shows you how the serge and sewing area is set up. Don't forget that where the serger is is actually my scrap booking table. And with looking at this picture I realize what a mess my scrap book area is! But it is an organized mess and I know where every thing is!




Well, I think I have shown the whole sewing room here. Hopefully I can give someone else ideas or just some enjoyment from seeing it. I will post about Thanksgiving and Christmas decorating in another post.


Bye!