30.3.09

Teriyaki Beef & Broccoli



Serves 8
Prep time: 15 minutes
Total time: 25 minutes

Nutritional Analysis per Serving:

Energy: 190 calories
Protein: 21.0 g
Fat: 6.0 g
Carbohydrates: 13.0 g

Recipe Ingredients

1 1/2 lbs strip loin grilling steak 750 g
1 tbsp cornstarch, divided 15 mL
2 tsp Soy Sauce, 30% Less Salt 10 mL
1 tbsp vegetable oil, divided 15 mL
1 Broccoli, cut into small florets
1 red pepper, thinly sliced
1/2 cup Teriyaki Cooking Sauce 125 mL
1/3 cup Beef Broth, 25% Less Sodium 75 mL
2 green onions, sliced diagonally

Recipe Directions

  1. Slice beef across the grain into very thin strips, trimming and discarding any excess fat. Place in a bowl with 1 tsp (5 mL) cornstarch and soy sauce. Let sit 10 min.
  2. Heat 2 tsp (10 mL) oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add beef and stir-fry until no longer pink, about 3 min. Transfer to a plate.
  3. Return skillet to heat and add remaining oil. Add broccoli and red pepper and stir-fry until tender-crisp, about 3 min. Add beef and cooking sauce, tossing to coat; cook until hot. In a small bowl, whisk remaining cornstarch with beef broth until smooth; stir into skillet. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Reduce heat and simmer until sauce thickens, about 2 min. Transfer to a platter and top with green onions.

    Recipe from Compliments

    Notes: "Teriyaki refers to a glaze that is added to meats in the final stages of grilling। 'Teri' means gloss and 'Yaki' describes grilling or frying। Teriyaki originated in the Edo period of Japan's history and refers to the use of three favourite ingredients; soy sauce, sake and mirin."

    Robert's place:Recipes

Sesame Garlic Shrimp & Noodle Salad



Serves 8
Prep time: 15 minutes
Total time: 25 minutes

Nutritional Analysis per Serving:

Energy: 150 calories
Protein: 14.0 g
Fat: 3.0 g
Carbohydrates: 16.0 g

Recipe Ingredients

1/4 pkg dry wheat flour Asian noodles (114 g)
1 pkg Green Beans, trimmed (340 g)
1 tbsp vegetable oil, divided (15 ml)
1 pkg frozen, uncooked Shrimp
(907 g)
2 tbsp minced ginger (30 ml)
1/4 cup Sesame Garlic Cooking Sauce (60 ml)

Juice of 1 lime
1 tbsp Soy Sauce, 30% Less Salt (15 ml)
2 tbsp sesame seeds (30 ml)
2 green onions, sliced diagonally

Recipe Directions

  1. In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook noodles until tender but firm, about 8 min. Add green beans in the last 2 min. of cooking. Drain and rinse under cold water. Toss in 1 tsp (5 mL) vegetable oil; set aside.
  2. Heat remaining oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add shrimp and cook just until turning pink, about 2 min. Add ginger and cook 1 min. Add cooking sauce, lime juice and soy sauce. Add noodles and green beans and sauté until hot. Transfer to a bowl; sprinkle with sesame seeds and green onions.


    Recipe from Compliments.

Spinach Dip


1 pkg. frozen chopped spinach, cooked
1 1/2 c. sour cream
1 c. mayonnaise
1 pkg. Knorr vegetable soup mix
Sourdough Bread
Raw bite sized veggies

In medium bowl, stir together drained spinach, sour cream, mayonnaise and soup mix.

Cover and refrigerate 2 hours or overnight. Cut slice from top of round loaf of bread, hollow out loaf to leave shell to contain dip. Use bread removed from shell and top slice to cut into bite size pieces. Butter inside of bread shell, fill loaf with dip and place on platter and surround with bread pieces and variety of raw vegetables.
After the dip is eaten, enjoy the dip soaked bread shell as well.

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Bell Pepper Salad

Corn Salad

Sesame Garlic Shrimp & Noodle Salad


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28.3.09

Chicken soup for the Scrapbooker's Soul

"If you love someone, put their name in a circle, not a heart, because a heart can be broken, but a circle goes on forever."

- Author:Brian Littrell

I recently read “Chicken Soup for the Scrapbooker's Soul: Stories to Remember . . . by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Allison Connors and Debbie Haas

If you have read any of the “Chicken Soup” series of books, you will love this book. I found it inspiring, you laugh one moment and cry the next. It is beautifully illustrated, it will motivate you and explain why we scrapbook.

Have you read the book and if so, what did you think ?

Sketches

I found this inspiring blog: Sketches-Aussie Style, which features different artists using scrapbook sketches for layouts.

They also feature sketches from “Little book of sketches”.
Most of the sketches and examples are in the galleries.

Heidi Swapp's
"
Clock Overlay" (see her gallery-3 Years Young) should work nicely.

More sketches: ( Blueprints & Floorplans)

Pencil Lines

Scrapbook.com







Creative Organizing


Craft Supplies
I love this idea from Heidi Swapp.


Use a pretty tray, add a set of matching glasses and sort supplies into groups:Colored Pencils, pencils, scissors, gel-pens, paint brushes, etc. I use it for Scrap-booking, but it is also great for kids, just add paper and enjoy. I use a Lazy Susan instead of a tray for my Scrapbooking supplies.
I also wrap an elastic band around my special pens, so that I can identify them quickly.

25.3.09

Genealogy Links

Painted Scrapbook Pages


I found the book "Painted Scrapbook Pages" by Mylinda van Zee very inspiring.
She also has a motivating Blog and website.

"My "Scrapbook with Passion Tip of the Day"...

Go "Do SOME scrapbooking today."
-Mylinda van Zee

I found some interesting ideas to make background papers and clever hints.
The book is easy to read and well illustrated. The materials used are mostly inexpensive.
I tried the design concept " magic of three"
, painted some card-stock and it worked well.






Scrapbooking Sources



"To crop or not to crop ?'

About.com CD/DVD covers, Envelopes, etc.
Alphabets ( fonts) Art by Sheryl Snowgirl
Art by Sheryl Alphabets
Art e Zine Emphera
a sketchy place
Sketches
Aussie! Sketches, gallery, tutorials, etc.
Ballet Shoe Dulemba
Betsy Vintage Vintage Clip art
Bluegardenia Vintage patterns
Blueprint sketches See toolbar on Right

Blue Vinyl Fonts

Fonts


Canadian Craft Supply Depot Supplies
Clip art Sam’s Mom’s Victorian Traditions

Dulemba Computerscrapbooking

Betsy Vintage Freeclipartnow
CD/DVD covers About.com
(Envelopes)

Coloring Pages Dulemba Sam’s Mom’s
Computerscrapbooking Clip art
Dafont.com Fonts
Dings (fonts)

Blue Vinyl Fonts


Duck Sam’s Mom’s
Dulemba clip art
Emphera Art e Zine
Envelopes/Templates Chippscheerleading About.com

House of Stirfry Scrapbooklayoutideas
Family Shopping Bag
Calendars, coloring, etc.

Festisite Party Printer, Poems, etc.
Fifties Fifties Web Loti's
Flowers Victorian Traditions X mission (Vintage)
Fonts ( Alphabets) limelogo1 Font Diner

Dafont.com Art by Sheryl

Web Font List

Blue Vinyl Fonts

Garden Digest Quotes
Hints Inkadinkadoo
limelogo1 Fonts
Inkadinkadoo Projects, techniques, hints & tips
Library Pocket: About.com
Loti's Fifties
Mel Stampz

Mirkwood Designs
Templates, techniques, etc.

Templates

My favorites

Needle Packets Seesaw
Paper Dolls Funorama.com Gail's Paperdolls
Pagemaps Sketches
Patterns (templates) Betsy Vintage prestostore.com

Bluegardenia
prestostore.com Patterns
Projects Inkadinkadoo
Quotes Garden Digest Quote Garden

Quote Lady Scrapsayings

Quote UBR
Record Labels Wang Dang Dula
Ruler Vendian.org.
Scrapbookscrapbook.com

Scrapfreebies.com

Scrapsayings

Seesaw Needle Packets
Sewing Needle Packets, Patterns Seesaw

Betsy Vintage
Sketches Sketches-Aussie Style Ozzie style

My scrapblog.scrapbookworm Pencil Lines

Scrapbook.com (scroll down) Scrapbook.com

Pagemaps Blueprint sketches
Snowgirl Alphabets
Supplies Canadian Craft Supply Depot
Tag Template: Scrapbook Scrapbook.com
Techniques Mel Stampz ( Big list)
Templates ScrapbookScrapbook.com Mel Stampz

House of Stirfry
Tips/Tricks Hints Inkadinkadoo
Tutorials Techniques
Victorian clip art Victorian Traditions
Victorian Traditions Victorian clip art
Vintage Betsy Vintage X mission

prestostore.com
Wang Dang Dula Record Labels
X mission Vintage






Do you have any sources to share?

My apologies if some of the links don't work, at the time I did the post they did.


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Less fleeting


"One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting,
so that the most memorable, interesting, and important events
are not lost forever a few hours after they occurred."


- Mihaly Cxikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention.

I saw this quote at Wendy Smedley’s Blog the possibilities are endless under the post "why we take the time".

Take the time to read her article and make experiences less fleeting.








Ciao, America!


"A delightful read, full of wonderful anecdotes that capture the eye-opening absurdity
of life in the United States."
-Chicago Tribune



I read “Ciao, America!”.” by Beppe Severgnini, which I found a little bit like Bill Bryson’s books.

I could relate very well with the book and found some comparisons with our life in Canada, especially things like shopping, parking, telemarketers, etc.

Have you read the book? What did you think of the book?


Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul


“The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people,
rather than the form of its government.”

- Thomas C. Halliburton -Canadian Writer, 1796-1865

I recently read the book “Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul”. Which was coauthored by Janet Matthews and Raymond Aaron.

If you have read any of the “Chicken Soup” series of books or would like to know more about Canada and her people, I suggest you read this book.

You can read some samples form the book here.

I am Canadian.




Chrissie


Chrissie




Chrissie
My Great Grandmother
Scrapbooked November 2008
12 x 12

Patterned paper : Fiskars Photo Memories Vellum Paper Set - Family Legacy.

Fiskars


Sticker on envelope Time 4 Crafts kit.
Envelope Template see Sources.
scraplift
Inspiration
Mary Malinda Everett Parish

Digital Scrapbooking

Gargoyles
Created 2007
Background made from one of the photos
Adobe Photoshop filter - Artistic -
Watercolor -
Layer white screen


Our Dogs

Font: Copperplate

Our Dogs

Font: Copperplate


Beachcombing
Vancouver Island
May 2006
Created 2007
Font: Coronet




Savanna
Created 2007
My first Digital Layout
Title Font: Curlz MT



Ballet


























Ballet shoe Clip Art from dulemba.com
Please see Sources.
Ballet shoe opens for journaling
Paper: Slab V by Prova Craft
Font: Monotype Corsiva


“Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.”

- Martha Graham

texture
Details: Plastic Canvas Texture.
“Plastic canvas is a craft material of lightweight plastic with regularly spaced holes in imitation of embroidery canvas.
It is also commonly known as vinyl weave.” -Wikipedia
Put card-stock over Plastic canvas, secure with removable tape. Using an embossing tool, rub over the texture.


Journaling in Ballet-shoe: I was very fortunate that I was able to take ballet lessons since I was about 6 years old.
My first teachers were the Gardner Sisters who taught Royal Academy of dancing at the Masonic Hall, which was on the corner of First avenue and 7th street, in Springs.
We wore white tunics with a pink belt and black ballet shoes.
I still remember the day we bought my first pair of leather ballet shoes.
I still have my first pair of satin ballet shoes, which are in my
My Memory Box.


Plie
Pronunciation: \ple-a\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from past participle of plier to bend
Date:1892
: a bending of the knees outward by a ballet dancer with the back held straight



My inspiration: Dance Studio - Mumsie 23



Tokoloshe ©

Decorating


Laundry Room Rona


Bathroom
diy-laundry

Laundry Room
Do it yourself
debbie-travis-laundry1
Laundry Room
Debbie Travis

Graphics

13.3.09

Scrapbooking Links

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” - Bertrand Russell
Alphabets

Artezine.
Emphera

Canadian Craft Supply Depot
Supplies

Computer Scrapbooking
Tuts, galleries, etc.

Computerscrapbooking
Clipart: 50’s

Corvette Corner
Links

Cottagearts
Galleries, Tutorials, etc.

Creating Keepsakes
Gallery

Dafont.com
Fonts

Digi Shoppe
Digital

Digital Scrapbook Place
Digital

Designer Digitals
Digital

D.I.Y Scrapbooking
Themes, Techniques. etc.

Donkey Smiles
Blog

E Scrappers
Digital, Tutorials. etc.

Festisite
Tools e.g. Party Printer, Poems, etc.

Fifties Web
Fifties

Fotoscrapix
Tutorials

Garden Digest
Gardening quotes

Gauchogirl.com
Digital Goodies: Tags, wax seals, etc.

House of lime
Fonts

Inkadinkadoo
Projects, techniques, hints & tips

Inkstains
Techniques

Lindsayjanedesigns
Blog- Digital

Linkagogo
Links, Tutorials, etc.

Loti’s
Clipart: 50’s

My scrapblog.scrapbookworm
Sketches

Ozzie style
Sketches

Pencil Lines
Sketches

Quote Garden
Quotes

Quote Lady
Quotes

Quote UBR
Quotes

Scrapblogs
Scrapbook Blogs

Scrapfreebies.com
Ideas, layouts, qoutes, fonts, sayings, heritage, etc.

Sketches-Aussie Style

Sketches-Aussie style Galleries

Scrapablity

Scrap Artist

Scrapblog

Scrapbooking 101

Scrapbook Bytes
Digital, Tutorials, galleries, etc.

Scrapbook.com
Galleries, Titles, Quotes, poems, tips, sketches, etc.

Scrapbook-Elements
Digital

Scrapgirls
Galleries

Scrapjazz
Gallery, learning, etc.

Scrapsayings
Titles and sayings

Simple Scrapbook Mag

Snowgirl
Alphabets

Stampmania
Cards, tags, etc.

SusanWhite
Tutorials, Digital and recipes

Take great pictures
Hand made vellum pockets, etc.

Top Digi Blogs

Two Peas in a bucket
Galleries

Web Font List
Fonts

Writers Digest
Journaling



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12.3.09

Scrapbook Tutorials


Inspiring Links


I come across so many good links, that I have decided to make short notes about them, I hope you like them too and let me know if they inspire you too.


Scrapbook planner from Scrapvillage.

Ali Edwards
Be inspired by her craft-room "Around the room."

Inspire me Thursday
"Simply visit the site each week, join in the challenges, browse the recommended books or websites, be inspired to create some art."

How about Orange
Tutorials, downloads, etc.
I love her Heart shaped paperclips, Origami heart bookmarks, etc.

Which led me to Origami Club

Scrapbooking top 50
"Lists the companies that make Scrapbooking happen."

Delightful Blogs
"Edited directory of 3200 blogs that are personal, passionate and stylish." See scrapbooking

Scrapvillage

Articles, fonts, links, sketches, gallery, ( the museum) etc.

Vickichrisman
Special of the week?


Are you inspired?

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