Love it :D its so happy and colorful!!

The first thing on our news was the smoke from BC that's moved down here. Not as bad as the poor folks of BC! :-(

Well did Tuesday behave any better? Making chicken and veggies in the slow cooker tomorrow. Do you use canned toms or just broth/bullion for the liquid part? (bought thighs, carrots celery, potato cause that what hubby wanted)

Woohoo! I hope you're having a fun day! I love your birthday HA too! And you're welcome!! :-)

I hope so too! ;-) Would love to see a pic sometime!

Yikes! I know exactly what you mean about moving stuff! I don't recover as fast as I used to either!

I use no canned tomatoes or broth/bouillion at all... just meat and wine and veggies and rice. It's not recommended to use tomatoes in slow cooker (canned or otherwise) as they apparently taste weird to some people that way (metallic or something).

The wine provides enough acidity that you'd get from tomatoes other wise, I think, but I also put in some lemon juice. If you don't want to use that much wine like I do, go ahead and put bouillon or broth, I guess. Maybe with a bit of vinegar? But it's going to be totally different that way :D

I don't use much salt (my husband has high blood pressure) so that's why I don't use canned vegetable or bouillon or broth... I think you could just use water if you used enough spices, probably, the meat will turn it INTO broth. But you can add salt to it, if you don't need to worry about the blood pressure thing :)

Tuesday was better but still not good, I am so exhausted. Today we went out to dinner. I will probably go to sleep early again. Tomorrow early day as I have morning meetings... one starts 30 mins before my official start time so that's making me irritable already ;)

Now that you got me thinking, I might try making it with some kind of tea instead of wine. I wonder how that'd be. Maybe I'll try a mutton or lamb roast with mint tea, I wonder if that'd be good? Kind of weird maybe. Maybe like one of the pumpkin spice teas I have would be good with chicken... hm... and some apple cider vinegar maybe for the acidity...

Dang it! I forgot it was wine and didn't buy a bottle!! Guess I can run to the store in the morning. LOL! That will make them wonder. ;-) Wanted to make it during the day tomorrow.

Getting up earlier than my regular time makes me irritable too! grrrr! At least it's hump day!

The tea might be really good. Maybe even green tea or a fruit tea. The pumpkin spice tea sounds interesting as well! I use cider vinegar in my smoothie bowls. May try it if I don't make it to the store. I have cooking sherry though too.

It's weird how cooking has evolved. There used to be a way you did things and that was it. I make a cilantro lime rice dish, only I use riced cauliflower instead of rice, and I love it and don't even miss the rice!

:D The wine provides some strong plant flavoring, flavonoid/antioxidant, and a good amount of acidity, that's why I have a theory that some strong tea plus vinegar would work in its place. Fruit tea might be an ideal choice really, since most of the flavor of wine is fruit! So if you do that, let me know what you get :D (Probably add some sugar too? Only a bit...)

The wine was the main thing I wanted to try. D'oh! I'm going to go buy a bottle. :-P

This is my latest ones: http://i.imgur.com/1GClSv4.jpg and my demon!castiel I did: http://i.imgur.com/uiVZ5Mb.jpg

Haha well I'm going to try and publish it under a penname

I see well hopefully you can get it published some time soon ^^

All this food yall are talking about sounds so yummy!! Love your ha today too! I need to do more in my crock pot :O

great western HA style there :D

Thanks :D Saw the cut out and was like hmm that might work :P How is your week going?

not great :D how's yours?

ty and hope your day is going great.


lol, let's not go down that road. (age)


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We are cut out buddies!

yea, it getting pretty bad. on the news last night they were talking about how they think people are starting the fires on purpose :/

Both great costumes!! The second one is really cool! I like your hands. You're so cute too! :-)

Went and bought a bottle of wine. The cheapest bottle was Chardonnay and when I got home and tasted it, it was not too sweet or bitter. I could of actually just drank it! And was only $3.99. :-) Hubby decided on the veggies and seasonings and kidlet's totally excited cause I made something with tomatoes. lol I'm sorry your week is not going well! :-( And cute HA!!

Ok! LOL! :-P

I love love love your HA!!! You just keep upping your game! :-) Effing a**holes! What in the world is the matter with people? Disgusting... The smoke here is getting bad and I can only imagine how it is for those closer.

Love your HA!! Very summery! :-)

I hope all is well as I haven't seen you around lately!

hehe, thanks.. i just through this together to go with the heatwave soles i had to have xD yup and people are also stealing the water pumps and hoses that the firefighters need

I just can't wrap my head around someone doing that. :-( How's the kids and the critters? :-)

the kids and critters are all good. how are you guys doing?

We're all good. But the heat here is way higher than we're used to. Our air conditioning sucks but I know it's cooler than most homes. (most homes here don't have it) Liz and I got invited to go swimming at a friends house on Friday so we're both looking forward to that. Otherwise, same ole same ole. lol

Working with on some events for the forum group. :-)

oh, swimming, i haven't been in years. the lakes are nasty here, i was hoping i could go swimming when we went to BC but its looking like things might not happen with the fire.. but we have yet to see. we have a portable AC and its so nice :D