A New Recipe Melting Begins & Juvenile Eagle Visitor

   Wow second post in one day haha, my previous post is a movie share if you are interested and the post before that is a list of books I have been reading. and speaking of books I just got in a book I just ordered from ebay a few days ago, a suggestion from my friend at Hill Top-- Hannah The Complete Story. It is a hardcover, like new, free shipping for $4.00 couldn't pass it up. I am anxious to read her story.  Right now though I am reading a book by Hugh G Allison Culloden Tales. Stories from Scotland's most famous battlefield. This one came highly recommended from one of the Outlander groups I follow. It is a good read so far.

   Finally we are slowly getting into a melt down. With ice and almost a foot of snow on top of that I am thankful it is beginning to melt. Sunshine all day today is helping too. I didn't take photos to share but I did more shoveling on our steep driveway to make room for more melting. I shoveled out our garbage container so the pickup will be easy to get to-it is now full as we have had no pick up for over 2 weeks now.  The lake is melting a bit in areas as well. We are still with below freezing temperatures in the evenings, so I am thinking the lake is refreezing. The snow is very heavy now and ice underneath so more of a chore to shovel.

  The room off of the kitchen area, where I have my weaving loom set up, cookbooks on shelves, a wall of stand alone storage pieces that are all vintage, and my computer desk is now a little warmer today. For some odd reason there is no heat vents coming into this room, and with two walls with windows this room was really cold to sit at my computer during the super cold days.  It feels much better today.

  Early this morning we had a juvenile eagle visit us. He sat very high in the trees, so being down below in the house we were really looking up at him. He stayed around for several hours. I zoomed in, as I didn't feel like bundling up and walking up the stairs to get a closer photo.

  A few days ago I found a small pork roast in the freezer. We had 3 meals with it and still had a big chunk left. So I went online searching for ideas to use with pork.  I ran into this one Pork and Sausage Jambalaya With Black Eyed Peas

   This was soooo delicious that the recipe is a keeper. I changed the cooking time around a little bit as the recipe uses fresh pork and mine was already cooked. I had peppers and one large onion left in the frig. I had the chicken stock or bone broth on the pantry-I grabbed the bone broth and I had the andouille in the freezer.  I have allot of herb blends in my spice cupboard but not cajun seasoning. So I looked up the spices to make it and I had everything. 

I didn't have the measurements for each spice so I just sprinkled a good layer over everything with each one and then stirred it all in-the flavors were soooo good

I did add in a little of the crushed red pepper flakes to add a bit more heat.

We have not been eating much in carbs the last few years, but once in awhile like for this dish I will use rice sometimes-it can be a healthy grain. I love this brand-found it amazon I think, but this one is whole grain brown that has been sprouted first and then dried. So this is higher in proteins than just regular brown rice. It also cooks up really nice a bit fluffy.

I did not have any canned black eyed peas-which we don't really care for anyways-so I grabbed a can of white kidney beans instead  I had sweet peppers and also one poblano pepper left in the frig.

  I asked Hubs what he felt like for a baked good that I will bake for us tomorrow morning. Of course he asked for another apple crisp-nope totally out of fruit except for 3 fresh lemons and grapes. He suggest a lemon meringue pie which I might have just enough lemons for or he says how about angel food cakes??  So angel food cakes it is. 

  Hope all of my readers in these very cold wintry areas are warming up too. It does feel amazing today.