Okay, this was a big accomplishment for me. I meant to finish this project almost a year ago! I was re-decorating our bedroom. No, let me take that back. I was decorating out bedroom for the first time EVER, and decided to make a headboard because I could not fathom settling on a cheap one. I was in-love with button-tufted headboards…but with a very small budget it wasn’t going to happen. It was actually pretty easy to make and cost me less than $100.
So anyways, I didn’t have time to finish it one night and so I hung it in our room to have some where to put it until the next day…mistake!! It never came back off. It only had one button for a year!? Really?
So, I’m relieved it’s done and it looks great….now I need to finish decorating our room.
Finish anything this week? Send me a photo or link and I’ll post it next week!
Promise me something. Promise that you won’t give up on the idea of whole food, that’s delicious, homemade and made in a quarter of the time. Promise you won’t get scared and run off after your read these two words…
Pressure Cooker.
It’s really not a scary thing! Maybe I can convince you. Are you interested? Would you read more? I have been meaning to write a pressure cooker series. We bought ours a couple of years ago when we completly failed at trying to cook beans at a high elevation. We reasearched and found out that the only way to do it was to use a pressure cooker. It’s is now hard for me to eat canned refried beans because they are so very yummy homemade and so very easy.
I planned to start with beans but here is an impromptu session. We’ve been experimenting a little bit with the pressure cooker and tonight we made some pulled pork that was delicious and made it in less than an hour. I thought I would share the experience.
Pulled Pork with a Pressure Cooker
1. First, I seared a pork roast in the pressure cooker for a couple of minutes on each side and then added two cups of beef broth to the pot. Next, I popped on the lid and locked it in place. I brought the pressure cooker up to pressure over high heat. The pressure builds up inside and then starts to regulate it self by releasing some steam out the regulator. This is when I knew it was up to pressure I could turn it down to medium-low heat and step back for 40 minutes.
2. After 40 minutes I turned the heat off, released the steam that was built up inside (lifting the regulator with a fork), and removed the lid after it unlocked. I pulled the roast apart into medium sized pieces and then locked the lid back into place.
3. Next, I brought the pressure cooker back up to pressure for 10 more minutes. Then released the pressure again and dumped everything, meat and meat juice, into a bowl. Now you can pull the pork with two forks. Ta Da! It was delicious and so fast.
While I was pulling the pork I had added some potatoes to the pressure cooker with some water to see if I could make some fast mashed potatoes. Seven minutes later, the potatoes were almost too mushy. I’m loving this.
What do you guys think? Anyone willing to try? Questions?
Rating: 4 Stars
( 1=Hate 2=Pretty Bad 3=Okay 4=Really liked it 5=In love )
Genre:
Memoir/Humor
First off, I had to read this because it’s Tina Fey, and she wrote a book. Done.
This book is just funny, perfectly awkward in a Tina Fey kind of way and even insightful. I enjoyed learning Tina’s back story and I’m now positive that she is Liz Lemon in real life+a husband+a daughter. She covers everything. If you want some practical feminist tips….this is the book for you. Want some honest and hilarious tips on how to successfully navigate a career? This is the book for you. But I know what is going to be the kicker for all you ladies, Tina dishes out all of her beauty secrets! WHAT?! It’s true.
I admire Tina Fey. She is a cool lady with some crazy drive. So go read her book, because you need to read about her outing the boys at Saturday Night Live (*whisper* they pee in jars).
Favorite quote:
One of my favorite finds in this book is that Tina Fey loves Amy Poehler. They had been friends on a touring sketch comedy group in their early days. There is a short blurb where she writes about some pre-meeting banter between Amy and Seth Meyers when Amy first joined the crew of Saturday Night Live. Amy was getting vulgar and Jimmy Fallon (jokingly) says in a funny voice “Stop that! It’s not cute! I don’t like it!” Tina goes on to describe the fallout…”[Amy] went black in the eyes for a second, wheeled on him and stated ‘I don’t fu*$ing care if you like it’…A cosmic shift took place. She wasn’t there to play wives and girlfriends in boy’s scenes. She was there to do what she wanted to do and she did not fu*$ing care if you liked it.” And here is my favorite quote of the book….”I was so happy.”
You can Buy Bossypants here
Any one read this already? What did you think?
I’m still liking this resolution I have to finish something I started every week. I keep battling with myself because I want to start projects that I have been wanting to do for a long time (creating another project I probably won’t finish) vs. actually finishing something I have already started! Does anyone else have this problem?
This week I worked on finishing reading The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by the Toltec Healer, Don Miguel Ruiz. Don Miguel Ruiz is a physician who had near-death experience and decided to leave the medical field for his family tradition to pass on ancient teachings for one generation to the next and become Toltec Healers.
As far as a book review, this is a very cooky but awesome book. It feels archetypal and pokes my primitive unconscious. In summary, he talks about how we are all dreaming the worlds dream and as we get older, we build agreements with ourselves that are based on this dream. In order to escape a dream of hell we need to create new agreements based on our own dream. Living in our own personal heaven is freedom. The language may be dreamy, but the principles you can apply to your life are spot on. They are principlies that I would like to work on and plan to use as a psychoeductional tool during therapy sessions.
I do have to note that there are a few points made that I do not agree with from a therapeutic point of view, but for the most part this is a great book for personal reflection. I’ve been wanting to finish it forever…and I did. Hooray, Hooray!
You can buy The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) HERE
This coming week I’m hoping to finish a couple sewing projects and maybe a tutorial!
Husband also finished something he started this week! He has been telling the girls he would build them a stage in their room forever, and even bought some legs at IKEA….but never got around to it. So this week he borrowed a saw, pulled out a big slab of butcher block we had hanging around and attached the feet. Super easy, and they love it!!
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