In which I improvise….

I had planned Bang Bang Shrimp Pasta for tonight’s dinner. Well what I hadn’t really clocked was that the sauce calls for hot sauce AND ketchup – both containing nightshade.

So…

I improvised.

Instead of the ketchup, I substituted horseradish sauce. You can get some that do not have nightshade in them [at least as far as I can tell]. I tasted it at that point and had hubby do so as well. He said it needed some onion powder… so we added onion powder and WOW.

He had me write down what I did because he wants us to make the sauce for other meals.

We used zucchini noodles [zoodles] as the base. Really good!

Now I want to try the bang bang shrimp tacos

I got my photo blanket and magical weekend.

I received my photo blanket earlier today. Already have it washed and I have it across my lap as I’m writing this :D. The autographed hardcover copy of DiAnn Mills’ new book also came today!

We had to take my car to the shop yesterday. I got it back today [YAY]. And they think they’ve fixed what’s causing it to just cut off. The mirror that fell off was also put back on and the turn signal that was underneath and burnt out was replaced. I like our car guy.

Saturday one of my sister in laws got married. It’s a good thing she wanted a family only wedding as the family is rather large as is 😛 but that’s what they wanted. They’re planning a drop in reception next month that will allow friends to come and congratulate them and so forth.

Now Thursday evening on a long drive, I complained to my husband that I had nothing new to wear for the wedding. For weeks, he’s been saying we had time. At this point, we were kinda out of time. So Friday night, we went by Walmart and found it. It was a black dress with white flowers on it. The dress had straps but it worked great to put a shirt over it and then it appeared to be a shirt/skirt combo. I think it looked pretty good on me. It also twirls.

Current read – Girl on a Wire by Libby Phelps. It’s written by someone who left the Westboro Church.

Just finished – Spymistress: The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II by William Stevenson

Also Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin’s Sniper by Lyudmila Pavlichenko

So apparently on a biography kick.

I won!

So I entered a giveaway sponsored by an author I enjoy – DiAnn Mills and I won!

I won a Sherpa photo blanket from Collage.com. It’s 50×60 and looks soooo pretty! You upload your own photos and get a wonderful blanket with your photos! We spent several hours going through photos and figuring out what we wanted on it. [Hubby has a good eye for the photos].

I also get an autographed hardcover of her latest book Airborne! Yay!