Despite moving a bit more slowly these days and halving my to-do list much of the time, I’m so inspired by the many fun, crafty groups/challenges out there to join! Two of them fit in with what I’m already doing, so I felt ok about joining up- namely, Quilt Month over at Sew Mama Sew (the button on the left will take you over there) and The Dinner Challenge, which I found out about through Linda (whose risotto recipe looks so good!). The Dinner Challenge was originally 5 days long, so is officially over but looks like it is informally continuing on the flickr group. The chilly winter weather had me longing for comfort food, so I got everything together to try out Ina Garten’s Chicken Pot Pie recipe on Friday night. They turned out very pretty
They were also pretty delicious. However, I started cooking around 3pm and dinner wasn’t ready until 7, and the recipe was so rich, and made SO MUCH that we could barely finish our two servings, and neither of us really are in the mood to have any more, though there are about 4 more servings left in the fridge. I’m thinking about freezing the sauce, as the pastry is fairly easy to make, which would decrease the 4 hours of cooking time to more like 1.5 for defrosting and pastry-making.
Yesterday was spent cruising around in the car and doing baby-type-errands, including buying the all-important car seat/travel stroller thingy. Moondoggie spent the evening doing an awesome job putting together the crib, which now has a pink polka-dotted sheet on the mattress. The room is still rather bare, but once I’ve framed all of the pictures to go on the wall, and finished the wall hanging and a few other crafty baby items(quilt month, yay), I’ll take a picture to show you.