I Like Thursday # 323 apple cider, quilts, shows and books

Welcome to this week's list of likes! It's good to remember the little things one liked during the week

How about that time change? Adjusted yet? Sure is dark early, the good news? someone in our neighborhood already put up and turned on their Christmas lights....oy, not even Thanksgiving yet

I like hanging quilts up during holidays... this one was made a few years ago...

and hangs at the foot of the stairwell so we see it a lot

this one is now in the family room instead of the Halloween owls

I'm working on a mantle quilt this week and having fun.... I had to hang what I have on the mantle with painter's tape to see how it would look, I'll show the whole thing when it's finished!

A friend sent some travel pics that I'm working on to do a painting... maybe by Saturday's art post? 

I talked to two friends on Tuesday, and it really lifted my spirits... thank you to Cindy and Diane!

 Watching on TV

we were forced into needing new phones, and since my old one was about 10 years old and I keep them long as I can, we both got i-phones, slightly older versions on the "deal" with xfinity. We are now paying less than before but I am not enjoying the learning curve. They gave us 3 free months of Apple tv with the deal so we just signed up. 

Any suggestions for shows we might like? 

regular tv is stale at the moment. We are watching episodes of the Great British Baking show, French Chateau DIY where people fix up ancient buildings, Survivor and the Amazing Race, Miss Scarlett and the duke, finished The Chair (only one season so far) and started the current season of My Life is Murder set in NZ with Lucy Lawless as the mystery solver. So good! 

Good Ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icCUaCfrkMA

for doggie nail clipping. How we'd lift the 65 lb poodle I'm less sure of

I'm enjoying the recap and strategy discussion of Survivor and Amazing Race by Rob  Cesternino. He reviews several shows... since I am writing this on Wed night, this is from last week's episode of survivor. He always has different guests and even interviews those voted off. I love to hear back stories of Amazing Race on his shows.

his guests are smart and funny.

reading

just finished hearing a wonderful book... magical, lyrical, great characters, mystery too

 

I liked the author so I'm now reading another one of her books on Ebook. Finally finished Donut Disturb by Ellie Alexander (loved it!)

 

 and now reading on Ebook:

currently listening to the next in Bay series (love the black standard poodle playing a big role) mystery about a would be author (I relate) and her friends living in coastal town of NC solving mysteries

the prompt this week is Apple Cider.... 

I have such grand memories of driving through New England in Fall and stopping at roadside stands for apple cider donuts! I like drinking hot apple cider with some rum in it at the Red Lion Inn in Mass. I have tried countless recipes using simmered down apple cider so it's more intense and never had an apple flavor in any of the recipes I made so... sad to say I'm just gonna have to drink mine!

love the silicon rolling sheet, modern rolling pin and dough scraper

 

 That said, I tried a new recipe, for pumpkin biscuits. 

lovely crispy on outside, tender inside, made a good breakfast with turkey sausage and a bit of maple syrup

 I wouldn't have thought of it if not for my friend Diane in Texas (who lives with a white standard poodle Danny) who said she was going to make some. 

I looked up a recipe, and tried this one with the help of my husband to do the "crumb" mixing of cold butter and flour. We thinly sliced the butter and first used the whisk to crumb it, then fingers. Add in the buttermilk mixed with pumpkin, manhandled it into dough form, then rolled out into a rectangle.  

After that I looked at the yield, 6 biscuits! Only six?? that's kind of a lot of dough.... oh roll into 1 inch thick. Note to self: one might read the recipe twice to catch all the info... I didn't want to fool with round cutters, so I used my bowl scraper to divide into 6 square biscuits and into the oven on a silicon sheet

6 BIG biscuits baking

Recipe here:

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/pumpkin-patch-biscuits/print/

Also put in the time to make eggplant parm this week. We peel and slice the eggplant, salt and let them drain in a colander for half hour. Then rinse, dry, coat in egg white, and a mix of bread crumbs, bake alone for 25 min. Then make the casserole with layers of sauce, eggplant, cottage cheese with parsley, various cheese, sauteed onion/pepper/mushrooms, over and over and bake. I was able to freeze half the pre baked rounds for another parm later, saving time.

very tasty...

 Milo's Moment

Milo here.... taking a teeny little nap because I feel drugged

Mama: you are. We gave you a benedryl to help with the ear which came from allergies

Milo: well after the nap I'm gonna move furniture around again!

Mama: yesssss Milo, what's that about? Lately you come in from out back, grab your bed and move it around the room, abandon it then grab a toy to play with.

Milo:that's MR. Milo to you since I'm now an interior decorator! 

Mama: then you come back to where your bed was, next to Mama's chair, to lie down and have to lie on the carpet alone since you don't like the new bed location. 

Milo: well, what artist knows exactly what to do the first time? hmmm?

please sit a spell and visit these folk to see their list of good things 

new to our merrie band this week is: 

     https://wordweaverart.blogspot.com/  please welcome her to our group

http://littlepenguinquilts

 craftscaviescontras   

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/   

 http://imworkingonaproject.blogspot.com/

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

 

 the knitty quilter

https://lavenderdreamstoo.blogspot.com/

princess bubbles creates   

https://knittingquilter.blogspot.com/   

 

https://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/

https://whataboutrheema.blogspot.com/   

https://www.homesewnbyus.com/

https://faithtrustandbreastcancer.blogspot.com 

 grammajudyb.blogspot.com 

http://www.piecefulthoughts.com 

 

http://3poodlesandanana.blogspot.com  

 

                                                                  LINKING WITH 

https://brianshomeblog.com/ 

http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/   

http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com

thankful thursday

friday smiles at a stitch in time   

floral passions  

rosie and the boys nature pics