Chicken Should Taste, CHICKENY!

Monday. Worked all day, What perks up a day of office work? That's right, Julia Child's Roast Chicken. It tastes so CHICKENY! And my very own butter and port wine drenched red potatoes, baby carrots and sweet onion. It is the homey-est taste I can think of besides soup or stew. My sweety loves chicken and taters so I baked it before he got home. And here it is.

I also baked some home made Italian spiced bread in bug shapes! Clayton got my this Nordic Ware bug shaped pan for Christmas. I've made brownies and little cakes but this was the first bread attempt and it came out great! Crunchy outside, soft and fluffy inside. Perfect!

 

SO cute! He was pleased. Another home cooked meal achieved. I can't believe my friends don't cook!?! Its relaxing and you have so much pride and love making something from nothing for the one you love.

Antiquing!

So I got a new job and its M-F. Sunday is finally here! My husband was given the day off as well so we had ALL DAY together! It was so nice! Okay, I'm going to try to stop using exclamation marks. Just know through out this entire post I am very excited. Anyways so my husband took me thrifting and for the first time ever, antiquing. I used to think old people were so boring and, well...old, for antiquing. CHILDREN KNOW NOTHING. I had so much fun! We're going to do it again as soon as we are off together. We got the first item for the vintage man-shelf. I am going to put a little shelf in his bathroom with vintage shaving supplies and other products. Today we found a badger hair shave brush from England. It is so cute.

 Remember those egg cups I wanted so badly? Well today at the Goodwill I got three for only $1.16 each! Which is great because NONE of the antique stores had any. She said that egg cups have been really popular lately and she didn't know why, I told her it was because backyard poultry keeping was sweeping the nation! Yay urban chicken owners!

I also found the EXACT stained glass turtle shell for my turtle lamp. I got this lamp at a garage sale for $5 a year ago in the hopes that it would work when I got home. It did, but the stained glass had a hole in it and several cracks. It did not secure to the base because the metal part was missing. Well, at the antique store today we found the same, same one! With no cracks, no holes and it clicked on perfectly! I could not be happier!

*WARNING NOT CHILD FRIENDLY*

Below is the Tanooki, which is "A Japanese raccoon dog." With HUGE BALLS. If you want to see them in action, go watch Pom Poko. Anyways apparently he is a mug, but I'm going to use him as a terribly tacky Tanooki tulip vase...with huge balls, if you didn't catch that before.

So thats that! Antiquing is fun! I also got some sweet shelves on clearance from Bed, Bath and Beyond WITH a coupon! I have several treasures in it now. We put my old green horse shaped Avon bottle in it, and with it the 'new' Avon bottle I bought today antiquing! Its a buffalo and smells like my dad's cologne inside. It is called "American Buffalo Country Aftershave"

 

Thanks for reading, have a great day! Not that anyone is following me, but here in the south we have manners.

Rain, Rain Go Away

So, it has been raining for weeks now. Just storm after storm. My garden is pretty much obliterated. Every time a green pepper would make a bloom, the heavy rain pour would detach it. All I've gotten out of my entire spring garden is some small tomatoes. No beans, no lettuce, no radishes, nothing. Its terribly disappointing. My husband has swore to me we shall begin anew come August to start preparing for our Fall beds.I  will hold him to it! We WILL become gardeners!

Lift the Veil, If Only For A Moment

You know? I figured out why I like cooking so much. Like anyone else my age, the book series 'Harry Potter' got me through my childhood and lent an escape from school and chores and puberty into a magical world so close to our own. As if only hidden by a veil. I bring this up because I feel like cooking is as close to mixing potions as I'll get.