{"id":3225,"date":"2011-06-05T19:30:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T00:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2011-06-06T09:53:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T14:53:13","slug":"i%e2%80%99m-baaaaack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/05\/i%e2%80%99m-baaaaack\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m baaaaack!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m baaaaack!!!<\/p>\n

I know I said I’d be back in a week four months ago and as you can see there as been a whole overhaul around here, the blog has expanded to better sort and organize all the content and the really exciting news is in the middle of all of this – we bought a house!! There are a lot of reasons we love the house we bought but for now I’ll give you a sneak peak of our favourite parts – the backyard and of course the kitchen. There’s no way we could buy a house without a serious kitchen.<\/p>\n

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\nThere will be more pictures as we move in and get settled – which isn’t happening until August anyway. The backyard is huge and has an area already set aside for gardening, and as you may have suspected, will be growing once I get my hands on it. The other thing I adore so much about this house is that it has a pantry – an absolute necessity in my dream kitchen.

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\nThe changes to this site have been long in the making and I am so happy to finally be finished and able to show it all off. I’m still going to be posting my weeklies – I love doing them! Just now I’ll be linking to the pages instead of putting the recipe or instructions directly in the blog post – this way I can include more than one if I want to. <\/p>\n

Tomorrow, we’ll get back to business as usual, with a few little changes. The weekly line up looks like this now:<\/p>\n

Mondays – Menu Mondays from Kate Says Stuff<\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesdays – Tempt My Tummy Tuesdays<\/a>, Tuesdays at the Table<\/a>, Tuesday Night Supper Club<\/a> and Hearth ‘n Soul<\/a><\/p>\n

Work in Progress Wednesdays – from Freshly Pieced<\/a>, Tami’s Amis<\/a> and Musings from the Fishbowl<\/a><\/p>\n

Baking with Kids Thursdays – documenting the kids’ cooking and baking through Baking with Kids<\/a><\/p>\n

Cookie Fridays – perhaps the best day of the week, check out the gallery<\/a><\/p>\n

Super Cute Saturdays – if I have time for this, so do you!<\/p>\n

Catchall Sundays – rando day, for things that don’t fit anywhere else<\/p>\n

I have still been doing my self-inflicted challenges, so I’ll be posting them as often as I can to catch up. Right now, I have a lot of fun stuff to share with you!<\/p>\n

As far as my domestic endevours go, I feel head over heels for Bakerella’s<\/a> Cupshakes<\/a>, which essentially is a milkshake crossed with a cupcake. I also made step by step instructions for eclairs<\/a>, and chocolate fudge<\/a>. As part of the Baking With Kids challenge, where the kids are baking and cooking their way through Linda Collister’s cookbook, I made a batch of puff pastry<\/a> for them to use in the giant cheese straws<\/a> recipe. I also added the 4th cookie of the year, the playfully pink cowgirl cookies<\/a> to the gallery.<\/p>\n

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\nI have gotten my crafty groove back, though so far I’ve only posted about my stack of facecloths<\/a>. Ahem. I did add two window shopping posts though, one on Charlene’s Supply Closet<\/a> and one on The Loopy Ewe<\/a>, two shops I am moderately to severely obsessed with. I’ve also added two interviews (Krissy of Krissyanne Designs<\/a> and Megan of Radmegan<\/a>) plus a book review of yet another new obsession – Martha Stewart’s Craft Encyclopedia<\/a>. I’ve been busy!<\/p>\n

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\nThere have been some health-concious related kitchen changes around here as well. I may as well just say it now without outing anyone, but two dear friends of mine have gone vegan. Which means two things really. First of course it means I now know way more than I ever wanted to know about being vegan and what rules there are and what different types of vegans there are which then also means I also know a whole lot about all kinds of scary stuff that even my vegan friends are not interested in. What’s that? SUGAR. Wowzers. White sugar is way worse than I thought and people let me tell you, I love me some sweet treats so what to do? I’ve been testing recipes using other kinds of natural<\/b> sweeteners (because as bad as white sugar is fake sugar is even worse), and they’re working out pretty well. I mention this because while I am still cooking and baking my way through Deceptively Delicious, and while I am aware that adding veggies to pretty much anything is never a bad thing, I hesitate to call these recipes healthy knowing all that I know now. I am going to keep them in the ‘healthy’ category anyway because they are miles healthier<\/i> than what used to come out of my kitchen. The second thing that happens when good friends go vegan is that I have to learn to cook and bake for them! I can’t have them coming up for the weekend to eat pasta and lettuce, can I?! I have been learning so much – expect some uber healthy additions to the healthy section in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

In the meantime though, here’s what I have added to that section to start with – Deceptively Delicious Stew<\/a> (which adds pureed borccoli to a yummy stew), Dr Oz’s Green Smoothie<\/a> (this is crazy healthy), Deceptively Delicious Mac & Cheese<\/a> (with cauliflower puree and two kinds of cheese), Deceptively Delicious Applesauce Muffins<\/A> (with applesauce duh<\/i> and carrot puree), Deceptively Delicious Brownies<\/A> (with pureed carrots and spinach), and an old school homemade Garlic, Honey & Lemon Cough Syrup<\/a> recipe. Very old school, my Granny would be proud.<\/p>\n

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\nAaaaad just like I said I would, I dove right into making a ‘pretty’ section. I’ve become more of a girly girl than ever in the last year so it’s been fun to write about it! I added two window shopping pieces, Body Shop<\/a> and Mod Cloth<\/a>, plus a 101 on Lotions<\/A>, my Make Up Bag Must Haves<\/a> and my first hair tutorial ever – my Puffy Bun<\/a>, which literally takes 5 minutes – no more than 10 even with all three wee ones running underfoot at once.<\/p>\n

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\nPhew. I hope my little hanful of loyal readers are happy with the changes. Let me know what you think guys!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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