2012 February 23 — Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

Progress Report #4

February 23, 2012 · by JudyL

Are you bored with my progress reports yet? Don’t answer that! It really helps me.

Here’s what awaited me in the sewing room this morning.

I sewed all morning, stopped to fix lunch and have lunch with Vince but after lunch, I really wanted to go in and knit. I also want to get this quilt finished before the end of February. When I got to having 5 rows completed, I seriously considered making it a square quilt and stopping.

I sat down and fiddled with the design in EQ, trying to convince myself that about 80″ x 80″ would be perfect but in the end, I made myself keep working on it.

By the time I stopped working, I had the 6th row completed and most of the components done and ironed for the 7th row.

I could have finished the last row of blocks but tomorrow is a road trip and I need to get some things done so the sewing room was shut down early tonight.

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Amy’s Puff Corn

February 23, 2012 · by JudyL

For those who missed the retreat, you missed Amy’s Puff Corn. It was so good but she also brought heirloom tomatoes. Amy is one of the San Angelo girls and that whole group was pretty amazing. I was feeling kinda bad for eating the crumbs out of the puff corn bag because I know I ate at least half of the bag but just when I almost felt bad, I noticed a whole bag. I think Amy’s Puff Corn is one of the reasons I’m on a diet today but I’d seriously forget about my diet if I saw a bag of that puff corn. Here’s Amy’s recipe:

Carmel Puff Corn

3 bags of Puff Corn
(I used Chester’s Butter Puffcorn 3.5 oz bags) (I think Amy said it’s by the Cheetoes in the store)
Open bags and pour into LARGE roasting pan

2 sticks butter
1 cup brown sugar
½ cup Karo

Cook till boiling, boil for one minute

Add 1 teaspoon soda and stir, mixture will swell up.

Pour over corn and stir

Bake @ 250 for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes

OK . now I see the secret . . 2 sticks of butter. This stuff was so good. I know what I’m having for a treat when I lose about . . how many pounds??

Thank you Amy for making and bringing it and thanks for the recipe.

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Last Night’s Dinner

February 23, 2012 · by JudyL

Yum! Even though we’re on “diets”, we’re still eating good.

There’s grilled chicken, roasted red peppers, chickpeas, kalamata olives, feta and cucumbers on a bed of mixed greens. The dressing was a lemon juice, dill weed, olive oil concoction, part of which was used to marinate the chicken breasts.

We grilled extra chicken because tonight we have chicken/mango salad. Our meals taste wonderful.

For those who asked about the cookbook, so far I’m using recipes from the Weight Watchers website. We’ve had three and all three were meals I’ll fix over and over again and most mess up only one pot! I like that . . actually Vince is still washing dishes because of my finger so he really likes it!

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