Recipe Sharing and a Request

Posted January 10th, 2012 by kerri and filed in small house living
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First, I have a request of Our Living Large com­mu­nity. I’ve been blog­ging now for over two years and have enjoyed every minute of it and I hope you have enjoyed Living Large enough to ask for a cou­ple of min­utes to help me out.

I’ve been told these Bloggie Awards are impor­tant to lit­er­ary agents and pub­lish­ers and since I am writ­ing a mem­oir out about Living Large, I am beg­ging for your nominations.

Before January 15, please to the 2012 Bloggie Awards web­site at http://​2012​.bloggi​.es/ and nom­i­nate Living Large in our Little House in the cat­e­gories of “Best Topical Weblog” and “Best Kept Secret Weblog.” In the space ask­ing for Nominee, please put Living Large in our Little House and the url is http://​www​.liv​inglargeinourlit​tle​house​.com

You will have to pro­vide at least three nom­i­na­tions — so you can nom­i­nate other favorite blogs — and also pro­vide your email address so the sys­tem can ver­ify you’re a per­son and not a bal­lot stuff­ing bot.

I will be for­ever grate­ful if Living Large makes it as a final­ist in either category.

Now some­thing for you.

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Meatloaf Conquered

Posted January 5th, 2012 by kerri and filed in small house living
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(Congratulations to Annette, who won "The Organized Kitchen" book! Thanks for every­one who entered!)

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It began as a roast.

Well, it began as an idea to make a roast in the crock­pot for  New Year’s Day. I removed a large chunk of meat from the freezer and began  thaw­ing it on the counter.

It wasn’t until it was well into thaw­ing that I looked  inside. This was free-range, grass fed organic ground round, not the roast I  thought I had grabbed.

Two pounds of ground round meant for a meat­loaf. I scram­bled  to find a packet of the Lipton dry onion soup mix I had always used to make my meatloaf.

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A Good Year is one in Which we are Content

Contentment.

I see it on our dog’s faces every day, it doesn’t take a whole lot to bring it to them. A warm (or cool) place to lay, a soft bed, plenty of food and lots of love.

Humans aren’t so easy, though.

I had been con­tem­plat­ing friend’s ques­tions on Facebook: “Had this been a good year and if so, why?” and another friend’s lament­ing that “noth­ing good ever hap­pens anymore.”

New Year’s Eve, while watch­ing the dogs sleep and lis­ten­ing to my hus­band snore through an after­noon nap, I thought of all of the pre­vi­ous New Year’s.

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The Organized Kitchen a Book Giveaway

Who doesn’t strive to be more organized?

In a small space, it is essen­tial or I would drive myself crazy.  That’s why I was so excited when Brette Sember announced she was writ­ing a book on kitchen organization.

“The Organized Kitchen: Keep your Kitchen Clean, Organized, and Full of Good Food – and Save Time, Money (and your Sanity) Every day!” is now available.

You might remem­ber that Brette also wrote “The Parchment Paper Cookbook,” which has all kinds of yummy recipes that can be cooked in parch­ment paper. A great book, espe­cially for those of us who don’t have a dish­washer but still would like to have a nice meal after a long day with­out all of the clean-up.

The Organized Kitchen” com­bines all of Brette’s kitchen wis­dom, orga­ni­za­tion tal­ents and even some good recipes to one book.

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