Frugal Food, Delicious Dishes

Hi friends. I've made a couple dishes I'm super excited about. 

Broccoli quiche

It might look gross, but it was sooo good. Here's what I did:

First I went to Pinterest for a run-o-the-mill pie crust recipe. 1&1/4 cup flour, little sugar, little salt, a stick of butter and some cold water. I could have chilled it and rolled it out all nice and pretty, but I didn't because I wanted some broccoli quiche, and I wanted it right then and there, so I just pushed the dough into the pan and stick it in the freezer for a quick 10 minute chill.

Then I finely chopped a thawed bag-ful of frozen broccoli, and mixed it up with a little cheese (I didn't measure, I just eyeballed it) and four eggs. Stir stir stir, throw it in the crust, bake at 375 for around 35 minutes and call it a day. Super easy, super yum, and here's the proof:

Mary Clare (above) and Rachel (below) and I were working on decor for Rachel's wedding and we took a quiche break. Totally worth the effort.

Chickpea Curry

Cut up an onion, add some garlic and extra virgin olive oil or virgin coconut oil and soften the onions. Add chickpeas (canned is easiest, these were dried chickpeas that I had let soak for the whole day), curry, cayenne pepper, and salt. Give it some time (maybe 8-10 minutes) and then, right when you're done, stir in a bunch of cilantro. I like lots and lots of cilantro, personally. Serve over white rice and for me, cottage cheese. It might sound gross, but it's oh so good. Sorry there's no measurements for this one, I've always kinda winged this one, but it's hard to mess up, so it's worth a shot. I don't have any pics to back me up on this one, but trust me, it's very good. Oh, and a little lime is a nice touch.

Enjoy!

 

D.I.Y. Quote Pillow

Hi friends. So I have these two pillows, and on one side, they have this nice chevron pattern,

But on the other side, it's just plain, so today I decided to make them more reversible-friendly. 

First thing I did was paint a nice gold heart in the middle of the pillow. Not for any reason other than it was the first thing I thought of and it seemed like a good Idea to me.

Then I went to my Pinterest board that I have for quotes, because the lines on the heart weren't perfect, so I decided to use words to distract from that. I found my quote and used stencils to trace it out in sharpie (thin point sharpie).

Then I colored the letters in using black fabric paint.

Ta-Da!!! So that's what I did today while the baby I watch was snoozing. It took about a half hour from start to finish. I have another pillow with a gold heart already emblazoned on its chest (matching set of clearance pillows), so if anyone has some good ideas for quotes, leave them In the comments! Bye for now!

New Apartment, New Puppy, New Obsession

Hi friends. It's been an unbearably long time, and I do apologize. So, let's update you on the goings-on of the McShane clan.

First things first, we moved into our new apartment in July. It was madness. It's still kinda madness, but the painters are finally coming next week and then I'll finally be able to finish up all the unpacking. It's amazing how much that's affected things. Anyway, here's a quick look at us setting up our main room, and I'll show a pic of how it all turned out in the end when the painters are done.

So, it's set up kinda like this now, but with a larger table and less debris. And James is probably still on the computer, but as you probably noticed, he does move around a bit.

So yeah, love the new apartment. Onto smaller and smellier things! We got another wee pup!

Her name is Sansa, and she has the same dad as Lady. They're the same breed, but their coloration is different (obviously). This is a picture of her taking a bath. Much like Lady, she is quite sad in the bath.

Here she is asleep on my leg at the vet. She's much more dog-like than Lady. Lady is a small, fur-covered child/human who just looks like a dog. Sansa is definitely a dog. Lady has no idea how to handle it.

See? totally freaked out. haha. Lady remains ever a weirdo, like owner, like dog, I guess.

Here's them sitting together normally on the couch/loveseat dealy. They actually get along quite well. I mean, of course Lady is shocked and alarmed whenever Sansa does something dog-like, and yes, Sansa is also a little bit of a bully, but we're working with her and it's getting better. Sansa is a biter, so that's a fun thing to learn to train her out of. She also has the world's tiniest bladder, so even though I let her out every hour and a half or so during the day, she usually still smells strongly of urine and regret. It's a real treat. But she's a really nice pup so enduring the smell is a cross I can easily bear.

New topic! I just got the ap called "Snapchat" on my ipad. It's so fun! It comes on non-apple products, too, so that's really fun. You send people you're friends with pics, but they only last for about 10 seconds. So you can send hair ideas or weird faces or whatever you want, but the pics don't save to your hard drive unless you save them on purpose, so it feels more carefree. Plus it's fun. Here are some examples of that kind of fun I'm talking about:

I'm a weird snap-chatter, but it's fun, and I love it, so...that's nice. my screen name is "liciemac" if you want to snapchat with me.

Ok, so here's a pic of the four of us:

Yay. Home and happy. Ok, well, I hope everyone has a wonderful day, and I'm going to try to get back to blogging more regularly, so...that's fun...

Alright, bye.