I Like Thursday # 383 A new year, a new recipe, a movie and a poodle

 

welcome to this week's list of likes. Starting with a captured glimpse of my plant that made a distinct heart in it's leaves..... just noticed it while settling in to watch a movie...

 Milo's Moment, first today

we watched a funny smart character driven movie on Netflix NYE. A 2 hour movie that took 3 hours to watch (thanks to pause buttons now on the tv remote) because we have Milo. 

Milo seems to feel it's his moral obligation to keep us diverted from staring ahead, which must be what he thinks we are doing, sort of like mini- seizures or falling into mutual comas. He interrupts us to check that we are still alive and able to give him treats. 

one of us will eventually come out of the delicious movie trance to say, "what does he want now?!"The other of us will inevitably say, "I don't knowwwwwwww!" 

When we give in and pause the tv he leaps to action, demanding water or outside or feed me or chase me or tug on the other leg of this octopus so he knows we are still here. It's the stare though, the intense poodle look that bores through your mind and demands attention,. 

 When I shift my gaze to his eyes, lowered in his head to bore more intensly into me, he suddenly tilts his head and smiles, and I imagine says, there you are! I thought you were a goner! Let's play/eat/drink/go outside/have dessert/or run around the room! 

do something!

He is 6 years old (when did that happen??!) and for the last 6 years we have not seen an uninterrupted show on tv of any duration. 

I used to wonder why my older married sister told her kids and me, "I'm watching a movie tonight, starting at 7 and will not talk to you, listen to you, fix food for you or in general acknowledge your presence" 

Hmph! we'd all say! what's up with her?? 

Milo would have taken that as a challenge!

watching on TV

the really good, funny character driven movie we saw was Happiness for Beginners

there is a new season of Great British Baking Show on, and a new season of Midsomer Murders both on Acorn love both of them

Our prompt 

this time is about appetizers... I asked dh what party appetizer he goes for first and true to form he said, "I don't know, hard cheese maybe" At a gathering or party I go for dips, spreads, and hot items. 

around here I sometimes prepare a dish with cheese, crackers, pepper jelly and a little spreader, apple slices, olives and if we have turkey sausage, slices of that. (Hickory Farms was out of it early in Dec so none for me this whole year)  Lately I've been trying new appetizers and we finally found puff pastry for sale at our grocers so I tried these

the recipe made 16 of them

https://www.joyousapron.com/spinach-pinwheels/

our puff pastry came with only one sheet so I have a bit of filling left to add to scrambled eggs

I had to bake them 5 min longer to crisp the pastry but pretty good!! 

I want to try this guy's recipe for jalepeno cheese bites... a crust made of panko and cheese and filling 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y5-buC0dfs&list=TLPQMDIwMTIwMjRRbrbsvJLDxw&index=2

I used to make quick appetizers with crescent rolls, cheese, and a slice of that turkey sausage baked, now there is soy in most prepared items.... I used to like a salmon log made with canned salmon, cream cheese, lemon juice and something.... I love a spread! 

long ago when we ate out, I loved outback's bloomin' onion. Back in Baltimore I just loved going to Little Italy and Amicci's and getting the garlic shrimp bowl... OMG y'all

this week I made something I remembered vaguely from childhood, potato pancakes, with leftover boiled potatoes. When I make Greek potatoes (another OMG food for us) I go ahead and clean peel and boil all the potatoes left over. This time we mashed them with sour cream, chives, S & P, garlic powder, egg. I formed them into small patties, coated them in a bit of flour and fried in butter...

By sheer will power we didn't eat all those made. They could have been appetizers if made just a bit smaller, but we used them in three meals as extras, and Milo got one made without chives or flour

Milo: yes, I got less than them. Again. I could have eaten all the big plate of them! 

well you got three kinds of cookies this week... the regular ones and this rice flour/applesauce/cheddar cheese cookie

doggie cheese cookies marked with an M

Milo: oh yes, I give these doggie cookies 4 paws up, which means I'll roll on my back for them!!!

Mama: oh really! better than Fox toy to nosh on?
 

Milo: heh heh... it had a squeaker that needed removing!

not an appetizer but tuna sandwich made with our home made buns

 

we subbed pumpkin seeds for sesame seeds

the grocery was out of hamburger buns again, so we made some from Jenny can cook's recipe 

 https://www.jennycancook.com/recipes/sesame-seed-hamburger-buns/  subbing in pumpkin seeds for the sesame seeds we didn't have. Easy peasy! I find I need to let things rise and rest a bit longer, at high alt. 

Y'all.... these are the BEST buns I've ever had, and I now trust Jenny on any recipe. Easy and big and perfect. We made 4 meals for the two of us with them all week and they were good to the last bite!

while looking at calendars I saw this one

 Looking for a new engagement calendar to sit by the computer. I ran across that one, making me laugh

 but purchased this one for the studio wall, so pretty and quilter-y

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BRQWR151/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I found out she has a wonderful fabric line, and all these freebies on her website! link to freebies here!

and another one for next to the computer:

 

and for a hermit, that's a lot of calendars! I found one with 2 art prompts a day also, no dates so it will be just for inspiration! 

To finish up today, I got to chat with some friends this week, and just saying, I've been enjoying creative writing again, (it's on my goals list for this year) and have written several little stories already. 

If I had to say who I am at a party, I think I might say "I write, and I create art" 

Please visit these people to see their lists this week and let me know if you wrote one to be included

 

https://knittingquilter.blogspot.com/ 

https://tentoesinthewater.blogspot.com/

http://wordweaverart.blogspot.com/ 

grammajudyb.blogspot.com

http://littlepenguinquilts

princess bubbles creates   

https://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/

 craftscaviescontras   

 http://imworkingonaproject.blogspot.com/

https://www.homesewnbyus.com/

the knitty quilter

  pieceful thoughts

chasing my stories

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/ 

http://3poodlesandanana.blogspot.com  

https://lavenderdreamstoo.blogspot.com/

 

   LINKING WITH 

https://brianshomeblog.com/ 

http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/   

http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com

https://llbinourbackyard.blogspot.com/

               friday smiles at a stitch in time