The Spam Saga, a poem

 

The SPAM Saga

By Christa Hansberry 

Signs of Life: Garden Update

    We've had a lot more sun these days with some intermittent rain so things are growing like crazy!  Check out our new arrivals :)  Pictured above is the first appearance of what I hope will end up as pickles!

Garden Challenge Update

As you know, I joined Olivia's Garden Challenge and it has been great to see what other's are doing and be able to get feedback from them as well.  Be sure to head on over there and see all the bounty!  Praying for poor Olivia would be a good idea as well since she got poison ivy on her eye! UGH!

Now that we are getting some hotter days things are really starting to grow around here.  We had a couple days of lots of rain (amazing how fast something grows in just one day after a rain) and then a lot of sun.

Gardening Challenge Update

Well, most of our seedlings are dead because we used a bad lighting source, but we bought some plants and will keep plugging away regardless.  This is our prized basil .  May they grow big and lush!

I have more pics than usual for this post.  I guess because everything is coming alive and all the green makes me feel like sharing it :)

Garden Challenge Update

OK, so I finally got around to weeding and getting my plants in the ground!  In the pic above, I'm planting the tomatoes.

Garden Challenge Update

A week ago I bought a few small plants from the garden center.  Yellow pear tomatoes, Romas for making salsa, yellow squash, and zucchini (since the squash we started from seed looks like it is about to die).

Au Gratin Potatoes

     I finally got some decent au gratin potatoes after several tries. 

Let the Gardening Begin!

 

     OK, so the gardening should have begun a lot sooner since we are mostly starting seeds, but we never really get going soon enough!   As you can see, we are using those expandable jiffy pots.  The kids get a kick out of watching them 'grow'.   This year we are using this plant light, but it is too hot and directs light mostly in one spot.  I think I'm going to switch back to the florescent bulbs.

Cheesecake



Here is another favorite of ours...I don't know where it came from.  A fellow low-carber gave it to me years ago.  You can use sugar or make it sugar free as we do.   It can have a crust or nut topping but can also be left plain.  Best made the day before so it has time to fully set.  Read through the directions thoroughly before beginning.

Potato Casserole

This is our recipe for Potato Casserole which we got from Wes' side of the family. We've been making it many years now, for our Resurrection Day meal, usually having it with ham. You can do a lot with it though..serving it with other meats like ribs or steak etc or you can dice up meat into it for a one dish meal. I like to triple the recipe for our clan of seven so that we can enjoy it for a few days. Tastes great cold the next day too! :)

Candy Bird Nests

This Spring the kids and I made those candy 'bird nests'. Kind of like rice krispy treats only cute. It is a slow process but easy and takes only a few ingredients. I found this recipe somewhere online. You can use just half the ingredients if you only want one pan. I liked that these were not sickeningly sweet. Some recipes use other things for nest material.