Spaghetti and Meatballs

The other day I made my first meatballs. They were a lot easier to make than I thought they'd be. I don't have a specific recipe that I used. I made them with about a pound of ground beef, mixed in an egg, half a cup of Italian bread crumbs, a handful of Romano cheese, three cloves chopped garlic, salt, pepper, a little Worcestershire sauce and dried parsley and oregano.






I rolled them into inch and a half balls and baked them for about 20 minutes. I made a basic tomato sauce but the jar stuff would be just as good.

More Zuchinni

After browsing for more zucchini recipes I found one for pineapple zucchini sheet cake here. I tried it out last night and it is delicious. I still have more than half of my huge zucchini left so I'll probably try making fried zucchini tomorrow.



Here's the finished cake. I added a little cinnamon to the frosting because I love the taste of cinnamon and pineapple together. Also, the recipe called for crushed pineapple but all I had was pineapple tidbits so I used those. I wished I would've used the crushed pineapple because the tidbits were a bit too big. Either way it was so good.

First Skirt

I bought this table cloth at a yard sale a few weeks ago and thought I'd try to sew matching mother daughter skirts out of it. I'm new to sewing and so far I've only sewn a few things like aprons, some pillows and a dress that didn't turn out so well. Here's how the skirts turned out:

Zucchini Bread

I had two big zucchinis that boyfriend brought home so I decided to make zucchini bread. I made one loaf of bread and used the rest to make muffins.

Here are the muffins topped with homemade cream cheese frosting. They don't look fancy but they were really good. Here's the recipe:

2 eggs
1 1/4 cups sugar
2 tsp sugar
2/3 cups melted butter
3 cups grated and seeded zucchini
2tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp nutmeg
2 tsp cinnamon

Heat your oven to 350 degrees. Mix sugar, eggs, vanilla and butter. Then mix in zucchini. In a separate bowl mix baking soda, salt, flour, cinnamon and nutmeg. Slowly pour flour mixture into zucchini mixture. Pour batter into two loaf pans. Bake for 60 minutes.

Yard Sale Fabric

I love going to yard sales. This past Saturday I found some great fabrics. I paid twenty five cents for most of floral fabrics and two dollars for the blue one. They're all between a yard and half and two yards. Great deal!

Patio Mini Makeover

For my first post I thought I'd show pictures of the patio makeover I did. Our patio was a big mess before. We never really used it, except to store things, like our old toilet. I decided to fix the area up as a surprise for my boyfriend. After I sold the grill, got rid of the toilet and swept all the gunk out, I painted the floor with cement paint. Painting the floor was lots easier than I thought. I spray painted our old patio table and a pair of side tables I bought at a yard sale for fifty cents. I bought a few inexpensive plants to spruce the area up. The whole project cost just over a hundred dollars...not too bad. The end result came out pretty cute.

Here's the porch before.

Painting

The floor after being completely painted.

Here's the end result.