Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

I had our UMW meeting this morning and realized I needed to get started on Christmas quilt. Over at Lesley's,  The Cuddle Quilter  she has given the instructions to part three and links to the 2 earlier parts if you are interested in doing the quilt also. So far it has been a piece of cake and with enough said for now I'll get started and post an update here in a little while. But back at Lesley's there are links to others who have joined in and been posting today.  TO-DA-LU for now Kat

Egg Recipe # 15 With Easter dinner I served these and they are always a hit, usual not one left on the plate. But with Easter and a very busy first part of this week, I forgot to write this week's egg recipe. I realize it is to late to you to serve these for your Easter dinner but you know deviled eggs are great and it's just starting their peak eating season. Soon we'll be having barbecues and picnics and deviled eggs are a staple. Picture courtesy from Food Net. Classic Deviled Eggs Ingredients 10 eggs 1/4 cup mayonnaise 1 teaspoon yellow mustard 1 Tablespoon finely chopped onions 1 Tablespoon finely chopped celery 1/8 teaspoon salt Freshly ground black pepper Paprika, for garnish (sometimes I add a 1 Tablespoon of sweet relish) Directions Place eggs in a single layer in a saucepan and cover with enough water that there's 1 1/2 inches of water above the eggs. Heat on high until water begins to boil, then cover, turn the heat to lo

Chickens and books are two of my favorite things and when the two are together, boy I am full of giggles. Last month there was a Blog Hop and giveaway of this book, The Chicken Encyclopedia by Gail Damerow. Well I entered all the blogs I could trying to win this book and when the giveaway was over and I did not win I figured Ill just go and get my own.. But that's not the end, here I was ready to go and get one of my own when I received an email from  Daricia at A Charlotte Garden  to let me know that the first pick was unable to reach so I was second pick. Yippee I did win. Thank you Daricia, and do yourself a favor and check out her beautiful blog on gardens of the Charlotte area in N.C. And if you are interested it is a very informative book, one that should be in every chicken raisers library. It's published by Storey Publishers.

The beginnings of a quiche.

I just love asparagus!!! My asparagus is growing like crazy in the beds I had planted 9 years ago and seeing how it is over 3 years established,  I can harvest spears for 3 weeks. I have a bed that is 25' long and 2.5' wide with 20 plants/crowns. I have been harvesting the spears for a week now and in this first week I have harvested 5.5 lbs. So as you can see I have a bunch, a big bunch to do something with. Yesterday on our local TV channel they had a great soup recipe that sounded wonderful. We tried it tonight and  "the man of the place"  loved it, even thou it was healthy. It was very good. But I had more asparagus than what the soup called for so I froze the rest.  I used the spears to freeze and the stalks for the soup. To freeze them cut the ends off and leave about 5- 6" spear tips. Cut the stalks into 2" pieces. Need to blanch the spears for 1 - 2 minutes and then put in ice water. Dry and freeze  in freezer bags, jars for freezing or

You know that saying "When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade" Well I change that to "When family and friends give you yarn, you make African Flower Hexagons"   You see today I cleaned out the hall closet, I should of took a before picture so I could do a before and after but I didn't think about it. So what I did do was take a picture of the worsted weight yarn I have.  That's to say I have other types of yarn not shown.  Pitiful   Two of the large containers came out of the hall closet. If you crochet or knit, maybe this happens to you too but I have family and friends who will give me yarn. And as you can see I can not say no to free yarn. I realize I really need to start using it and giving some away because it has just been too much. Decide to go online and find a new pattern (easy). I've done granny squares in the past and wanted something fresh. Love hexagons in quilts so this pattern just spoke to me. I found ve

This is an egg I made by covering Styrofoam eggs with Yo-Yo's.  They are so cute. You make a lot of Yo-Yo's and I did used the Clover Yo-Yo maker. I really like using it because to me it is easier and faster. So when making a lot of these it helps. Then you attach them with straight pins. I did not try a hot glue gun, because I could not remember if you can use hot glue on Styrofoam.  Overlap the Yo-Yo's  Now you can add small buttons when pinning the Yo- Yo's on like this one. This is how all of these are done. I love eggs, you think. Kat