Quick, Easy, Healthy Dinner

I love ordering noodle bowls from various asian restaurants, but never really thought to try making them at home....until now!

I tried it and will definitely be doing it again.  It was really quick and simple!

What I used:

shredded lettuce

rice noodles (vermicelli)

chicken (ground ginger, garlic powder, salt & pepper to taste)

shredded carrots

finely chopped parsley

crushed peanuts

Sauce:

1/2 cup water

1/4 cup fish sauce

3 Tbsp vinegar

2 Tbsp brown sugar

1 crushed red chile

Cook chicken in skillet and season with above mentioned spices

Place noodles in boiling water & stir until they're cooked (not very long!) and drain. 

Mix all ingredients for sauce well. 

Place shredded lettuce in the bottom of bowl.  Dish the noodles on top of the lettuce.  Toss chicken on top, add carrots, parsley, peanuts.  Spoon as much or as little of the sauce over top and enjoy!

Clever Solution for a Peppery Problem!

In my house it's fresh ground pepper or the highway!  The crappy stuff in the shaker just doesn't do it for me (not to mention it's hard to shake out!)

We used to have a problem with the cupboard we store our salt shaker & pepper grinder in because the pepper grinder would always leave a residual mess.

But my mom, clever one that she is, came up with this:

That's right, that's just a muffin liner under the pepper grinder!

How smart is she??

Works like a charm.  When it gets icky, throw it out and get a new one!

Yarntastic February (held over) Fun Twist on Granny Square

Does anyone else have that problem of leftover yarn that you really don't know what to do with? It's not enough to make a new project, but you can't *gasp* throw it out!

Granny square blankets are usually a great way to use up the extra yarn.  However I didn't want to make just any granny square.  So I searched ravelry.com  and found a pattern I loved.  It's called the garden granny square.

And I eventually will make millions of these and then join them into a blanket!

My crocheting really isn't that crooked! I just have to do that blocking thing or whatever it's called to make them lay nice & flat!

Yarntastic February (held over) Baby Blanket!

Alright, so I did do a lot of yarn-y things in February, I just didn't get them done quite early enough to blog about them.  Life has been crazy, and there doesn't seem to be any signs of it slowing down.  This month I teach 14 Zumba classes (including a Zumbathon that I'm planning), 3 muscle sculpt classes, I get to go to Vancouver for my birthday for 5 days to see my sister! AND I cheerleading provincials takes over my life for one weekend (I'm on the provincial board's executive committee).  So that's my excuse for being a terrible blogger!

So here we go with projects!

I made another cro-hooked baby blanket for another co-worker.  (check out the first ones I made here)

I'm not sure how I feel about the colors.  I don't LOVE it, but it's nice enough.

What do you think?  Would you want this for your little baby boy?

Yarntastic February (held over) Baby Hat with Ears

If you're Canadian like me, you might recognize this as a toque!

It's heck-a-cute!

Love it!!

I made it from this pattern on Ravelry

(from the pattern.  CA-UTE!)

The only thing was that I found the gauge wonky.  I made the smallest size and it turned out pretty big.  Which worked out okay because I have a cute little girl to give it to, but still!  

I will definitely be making more of these!