Cheap Window Solution while house in under construction

As you can see from the photo, my house is under construction.  Regardless of the fact that I do not have any walls in my bedroom right now, I need to have some sort of shade or something up.  The problem is that I don't want to hang a shade and curtain up when I am going to have to take it down to put up walls.  I also don't want to put up anything nice until the room is finished.  If I put up something nice right now it would just get ruined. 

So I went to a discount store and bought a towel.  I decided that the towel, if done right could double as a curtain and a shade for right now!

This would also be great for anyone on a tight budget.

SUPPLIES

1 towel big enough for the window

1 spool of wide ribbon

2 tacks

scissors

All I did was cut 2 pieces of ribbon to the length of my towel.  Then I folded the ribbon in half.  I placed  each piece of the ribbon about 1/4 of the way in on the ends of the towel.  Then, I tacked the towel up to my window frame.  One tack on each of the ribbons, and one in the center of the towel. Then I tied a bow in the bottom of each of the ribbons. 

When night comes I let the towel hang down.  When it's daytime, I just roll the towel up and put it through each ribbon. 

It is kind of cute!

                                               

ON THE RANGE WESTERN OMELET

This morning, I woke up and felt like having something different for breakfast.  Now, there are several reasons why this could be a problem.  First, I make a big breakfast every morning, so pretty much anything I can think of I've already had recently.  Second, I am trying to eat completely out of my cupboards this week without buying a lot of groceries.  I found some roast beef sandwich meat, and I always have onion on hand.  This turned out great and was enough for 3people ! 

Ingredients
1 Tbs. butter
5 eggs
1/8 cup milk
1/2 onion chopped
1/4 green pepper chopped
1/4 lb. roast beef sandwich meat
3 slices deluxe American cheese
salt and pepper

Heat up a griddle on the stove at a medium low heat.  Melt the butter and spread over the griddle.  Crack the eggs, add the milk, onion and green pepper.  Whisk and pour onto griddle, spreading it out into a large square with the spatula.  Next, salt and pepper.  Cook until you can start to smell the onions and pepper and the egg is not runny.  Add  the cheese and roast beef along one side.  Flip the other side over on top of the side with the cheese and roast beef.  Turn the heat to low and let cook until cheese is melted.  Serve with buttered English muffins.

50 MILES FROM A FAST FOOD RESTAURANT, AND A MASSIVE CRAVING!

Here's the thing, I live so far in the boonies, that a simple thing like a fast food burger becomes impossible.  So the only thing to do is to rummage the cupboards and improvise big time.  This is what I came up with.  The rodeo burger!

Ingredients
2 lbs. hamburger 90 % lean
1 onion sliced in rings
salt and pepper
buns
lettuce
Angus barbecue sauce
deluxe American cheese

I made the hamburger into patties and put them on my George Foreman Grill.  Then I salt and peppered and  laid the onion on top.  See photo above.  Then closed the cover and cooked it half done.  Next, I turned the onion over on each patty so that it would brown on both sides.  Then, I closed the cover and let it finish cooking.  When the burgers were cooked, I laid a piece of cheese on them, put them on a bun, added lettuce and the barbecue sauce.  This was delicious and took care of the craving.  Where there is a will, there is a way I always say!!!

What's Cooking Today? Breakfast Calzone!

There is nothing like a nice breakfast in the morning to start the day right.  Try this one.  I came up with this as an idea to use up some leftover pizza dough. 

Ingredients

pizza dough
1 Tbs. olive oil
1 onion chopped
4 strips bacon cooked and broken into pieces
1 cup cheddar cheese
8 eggs
1/4 cup milk
salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  In a heavy skillet, cook bacon, break into pieces, and set aside.  Drain bacon grease off.  Add the onion to the pan and saute while preparing the egg.  In a cereal bowl, add eggs and milk and whisk.  Put the egg in the skillet on top of the onions that are cooking , salt and pepper and cook while  scrambling.  While the eggs are cooking, add the olive oil to a cookie sheet and grease the pan.  Now, press in the pizza dough.  When the eggs and onions are done, put them right in the center of the pan going the long way.  Make sure to leave plenty of dough on the ends and sides without anything on it.  Next, add the cheddar cheese on top the the eggs.  Then, put the bacon on top of the cheese.  Finally, it's time to fold the dough.  First, fold the long sides in so that they overlap each other.  Second, fold in both ends so that all of the filling is covered, making sure to press the dough so that there isn't any gaps.  Third, take a sharp knife and make about 5 small angle cuts along the top of the dough.  It is time to bake it. Put it in the oven and bake for about 30 minutes.  Cut and serve.  I served it with fresh diced  pears.  My family rated it 4 stars.  ENJOY!!

Breakfast Pizza Kids Style

Ingredients

Pizza Dough
5 eggs
 1 cup tater tots
1/2 tsp. oregano
salt and pepper
4 strips of bacon fried and broken up
2 cups mozzarella cheese
1 Tbs. olive oil
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Grease a cookie sheet with olive oil and press in dough.  Then whisk the eggs and add the oregano.  Spread the raw egg over the dough. Shake on some salt and pepper generously on the pepper.  Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.  Place the tater tots on the top spread out.  Then add the bacon.  Bake until golden brown on top. 

My family loved this breakfast pizza that I came up with.  My son that complains about everything that we eat, just absolutely loved it.  I recommend this to anyone with a fussy eating child.