I love finding and trying new recipes, I always have! what i love is when I find one the whole family falls in love with! I love finding recipe books that are practical and that use ingredients that are familiar to the regular person. I am also a sucker for finding new recipes online, my husband has had to remind me sometimes to check my books that I have instead of always going to the internet. My favorite go-to website for looking up recipes is 

I found this great recipe the other day, which I tried yesterday and everyone loved!

Chinese Chicken Fried Rice IV

1 egg

1 tablespoon water

1 tablespoon butter

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

1 onion, chopped

2 cups cooked white rice, cold

2 tablespoons soy sauce

 ground black pepper to taste

1 cup cooked, chopped chicken meat

Beat the eggs and water together. melt the butter in the frying pan and then add the egg mixture and fry for 1-2 minutes. Remove from frying pan and cut into shreds.

In the same pan add the oil and onions. saute till the onions are soft. add the cold rice, soy sauce, chicken, and pepper. stir-fry for about five minutes and then add egg.

Note: I added cooked frozen veggies to the recipe like you have when you order the rice in a restaurant. add to your own liking!

Well I hope You enjoy this as much as we did!

Blessings!

Karen E.

New direction!

Ive been thinking about the whole direction of my blog lately and I don't want it to be a whole lot of randomness. I wanted to gear to towards interior decorating, but where we are at right now, yeah, it doesn't really work. We are at a temporary house (and its not worth improving anything), and I'm not sure when we will find something more permanent. 

While living in this house there has been something that I've learned with my dear husbands help. You can make a house a home and feel like a home no matter how horrible you think it is. We hated this house for the first several months we lived here, and we never thought we would stay here this long, let alone learn to actually like this house. 

Turning a house into a home for those you love is far more important than making it look stylish and picture perfect. 

That is my goal here!

Wow that was a round about way of saying that!

I'm still learning about interior decorating, but I feel the home has more dimensions like I said above. I want to expound more on my love for working in the kitchen, and my 

attempts at making this house a home.

Sorry it's taken me so long to post this, but being in my last trimester, I've been busy getting things ready, filling my freezer, canning, and getting the house ready (ish).

This is just some of what I've done!

Hopefully I'll be posting more soon. So till next time!

Blessings!

Karen E.