recyclemicol’s Neighborhood

I've been getting some comments and neighborhood

requests from some suspicious looking blogs.  the comments will start out, "i like your post...."  and then will just cut and paste from another comment or from my actual blog post.  Who are these blog bots and what are they doing?   the worst part is they are taking pictures of, assumably, real people and slapping a fake name on it and then filling the blogs with un-personal bla-bla-bla, and then posting it with a faulty time and date stamp.  here is the most recent of the bunch, tell me this doesn't smell fishy to any of you.

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I started these pieces awhile back and finally got a chance to finish them today. They are both listed in my etsy shop for sale.

The top painting is titled: "The juggler and the Fox riding the banana on a Sunday afternoon."

and the bottom painting is: "Well I guess Marvel the monster isn't scared of germs"

http://jelene.etsy.com

We've just returned from Dabysan and Carrienation's wedding and our follow-up trip to New York City and I could not be  a happier new mother-in-law. The wedding itself was perfection, thanks to their meticulous planning and generous attention to the sweet details that made everyone feel special.  More importantly, I'm just so happy that these two found each other.  They seem so compatible in so many ways.  I love her, love her family and just generally loved every moment of the experience.  My mom, who is in her eighties, was enthralled and I was also thrilled that my cousin Rosanne and her husband Ralph made it down from New England for the event.

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I've been playing farmville on facebook for a few months now and I enjoy when they come out with new things for the holidays... For halloween they had pumpkins, tombstones, bats, spider webs, and haunted houses... so far for Thanksgiving, they have a thanksgiving table, turkeys, maple trees and piles of leaves you can get. It's really fun to build your farm, grow plants or flowers and watch them grow. As cheesy as it seems, I enjoy playing this little game to relieve stress :)

there are lots of fun games on facebook now... this one is a new game by the same people that made farmville. you grow little fishies by feeding them... if you don't feed them or give them love, they will die! once they get to the adult stage, you can sell them for money and xp points... pretty fun and addicting!! your friends can be your neighbors and you can send tank decorations to each other.

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn -  I really enjoyed this book.  It goes back and forth between the past and present but doesn't ever become confusing (yay!).  Libby is the survivor of a family massacre when she is only 6 years old.  Her brother Ben is convicted of killing her mother and her older sisters.  As the story unfurls you begin to see how the truth never came to the surface.

 

I am so glad the amazon link is working again!  I love the way it makes book posts so easy.

I love general Tso's chicken,  I have looked at recipes for it in the past but I am always overwhelmed by the long list of ingredients.  Truly my limit is about 5 ingredients.

A few weeks ago I was at the grocery store and came across this mix and decided to try it.

It was pretty easy and tasted good.  I wouldn't say it was as good as restaurant General Tso's but it sure did quench my need and I didn't have to go anywhere on this cold colorado fall day.

In the pan...

And finally here it is with the brown rice and oriental veggies.  It was well received by all the picky eaters (ok... the veggies weren't but everything else was).

 

 

As I was reading vox blogs yesterday I came across Anna's post on Brown butter rice crispy treats.  They sounded so good!  The part that caught my attention was the sea salt.  Last year I started seeing chocolate bars with sea salt and they were so good so this sounded like a delicious idea!

 

They were nice and easy.  The only hitch was that my 17 year old son had decided that the marshmallows needed to be kept in the fridge so they took a little longer to melt but it just slowed the process down a little.

My sister is as big a fan of salt as I am so I packed up a few to bring to her house. Anna's packaging looks much better than mine but at least I tried!  heehee

 

They are very filling so I ended up cutting them into half the size that is showing in the pan. 
When I was buying the rice krispies I saw a bag of puffed brown rice cereal.  I wonder if that would make them taste even more gourmet and grown up!