2.36 Peter Rabbit

Well, I took a break from the small stitching that is Wrath, and instead have been back with the Peter Rabbit patterns I'm doing for a family friend.

Today I finally took pictures of all the ones I've finished.

2.35 Rose of Sharon Oct-Nov. Update

Hello all (well Kat and Es), Sarah here....and yes I know it's been awhile. Lets just say school has been my priority for the past 2 months. Figured I would finally take a small reprieve and update you all on my progress on Rose of Sharon!

I have not had much time to work on my stitching the past 2 months, but I try to throw in little bits of time on it every now and then. Here is what I have so far...haven't exactly kept up with taking pictures so there is only one to show...

I stopped working on her dress for now since that part for me is more fun, and I am now focusing on the arch and flowers, those dang flowers are pains in the butts....

Now to fill up this post a bit and make it seem like I have more than I do I will put in a picture to give you an idea what I've been doing in my PTA program. :D

 

 

Learned all about the heart, nervous system, etc. This was a fun project to try and help us learn locations of the parts of the heart.

 

And now for a random picture!

 



It's my cats in Halloween collars! How cute :3

That's it for now, hope you enjoyed the update :)

2.34 Vegetable and Bacon Rice

So I'm trying food/cooking photography today.  Admittedly, I could have chosen a better day to start this, but no, I decided the day I'm having my second-most-simple meal.

Vegetable and Bacon Rice.  Yeah, I'm great with planning ahead >.>

Keep in mind, this is set up for one person.  I cook for one, and thus eat for one.  So if (heaven forbid) anyone decides to try this for more than one person, adjust accordingly, K?

The ingredients of my delightfully simple dish.  Oil, bacon, leek, mushroom, rice, pak choy, chive paste.

 The bacon, leek, mushrooms and pak choy all get chopped up roughly.  If you're me, then the bacon is kept en masse in a bag in the freezer, already cut (butchers bacon scraps FTW!), as with the leeks (Hey, my Dad had an overflowing garden of them this year, I had to do SOMETHING with them).
My rice gets thrown into the rice cooker while I cook the rest.

 All the bacon, leek, pak choy and mushrooms go into the pan.  I like to add mixed herb paste (or in today's case, chopped chive paste) but it depends if it's on special at the local supermarket.

 Depending on how long the rice will take, I may or may not need to steam the pak choy faster or slower.  For faster, I swipe a pot lid and steam them a couple mins under cover.  Otherwise, I just let it all fry up and cook slower.

 After a few minutes, things are nicely cooked.  Basically, this stage is simple:  cook until bacon and leeks are done.  The greens don't exactly take long.  This is (try not to collapse in shock here Mother) usually the time I do my dishes.  Which admittedly usually consists of a knife, and a chopping board, but still....

 Once the rice is cooked, throw it in.....

 ....and mix it all up.  Using stuff frozen, I have extra moisture in there usually, so I fry it all up a few extra mins to let the rice collect the moisture that doesn't want to leave.

Then we're done!  Nomonom.

Before anyone (I know Es won't, but still, I live in hope someone other than us reads this eventually, even if only to laugh) complains "Oh I don't have pak choy or.....BLAHBLAH", I have made this with and without mushrooms and herb paste, with spinach, with silver-beet, with shanghai cabbage (that's what the local supermarket calls it, ....I just call it 'the green leafy stuff that tastes good'), and with cubes of pumpkin, swede or rock melon.

Before you judge, the rock melon actually worked really well, it was a nice burst of sweet with the salty bacon.  Don't knock it until you try it.  Just...don't put pumpkin AND rock melon.  That makes too much sweet.  LEARN FROM MY MISTAKE!!

Vegetable and Bacon Rice.

1 rasher of bacon, chopped.

2 inches of leek, chopped OR ~1/4 onion.

1-2 mushrooms, chopped.

1 baby pak choy OR 1-2 cups of vegetables of choice (green is good though)

1 Tablespoon oil, for frying.

1/2 Cup of rice (long or short, doesn't matter.  I prefer short, but both work fine)

*1 teaspoon chopped herbs/herb paste if desired.

Put rice on to cook (Pot or rice cooker).  Fry bacon and leeks in oil, until cooked.  Add herbs, then rest of vegetables.  Fry until cooked, then add cooked rice, stir and serve.

2.33 The EssyKat Home Reno Corporation

Here at EssyKat Home Reno's, we take pride in our services to the community and our business.  What began as just two girls from different parts of the world who started a small company, has grown over time into a multi-faceted corporation encompassing a wide spectrum of services.

EssyKat Home Reno's

"We're just awesome like that."

At the forefront of the EssyKat brand, is, of course, the Home Reno section.  A business built on simple, cheap and readily available items, and easy instructions for everyday people.  We have expanded into DIY reports, product reviews and boredom alleviation programmes suitable for all ages and abilities*.

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"Nomnomnom."

Our most rapidly expanding section of EssyKat, and the brainchild of the Essy side has been EssyKat Eats.  Covering everything food related from meal planning, to recipes, to food reviews, it has become a scrumptious addition to our brand, and we are much pleased with it.

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"If you're going to do it, do it correctly."

EssyKat Grammar Police, while the most vocally maligned of our services, has also become the product of some of our greatest successes.  We work tirelessly** to improve the average fluency of one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, both verbal and written.  Language is a fascinating subject***, and one we are always glad to help the community improve.

EssyKat Feels

"We don't judge, we listen."

EssyKat Feels is our newest, and most promising new service we are proud to provide.  We have a team of trained, thoughtful therapists who take great pride in being helpful, nonjudgmental listeners.  Our practice of assigning not just one therapist but two has proven a great success****.


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2.32 Wrath update for October

Before anything, I want it noted that Sarah is whining again.  Argh.

2.31 Wrath update for September

2.30 Wrath update

 Wrath, page one, has been finished, to the amount of thread I have available at the moment.  Lets just say when the other colours are obtained, filling in is going to be AWESOME.

Soon as page one was finished, I moved onto page two. And a face started to appear....

Turns out this page is very .... bitsy.  It's actually hard to work out what colour to do next.

But, it really is starting to take shape.  While the missing colours are irritating me, they aren't irritating me enough to go back to Queen quite yet.