CALZONE..FRUGAL MOM STYLE

my freezer decided to misbehave and completely ice over..this led to
1.clean out freezer
2. Hey look we have more cheese in here
3. Omg is that pepperoni?
4.wow my hand is numb from the cold
5. Stupid dog just threw up
6. I need a nap
7. I want a cookie
8.

9.yep I made calzones for dinner..and sometimes it goes just like that...heart healthy and frugal...anyone want the recipe?

LIFE GOES ON WHEN I AM NOT AT HOME? WTF??

I guess I generally don't think about it but when I am not home...life goes on...people do things..I know this happens because no one is in the spot where I left them when I get home, food has been eaten, laundry has been left unattended, children are dirty from a hard day playing..but I still sometimes find it hard to believe..myopic thinking YES OF COURSE it is!! why do I bring this up? well.....
I worked the day shift ...blech and gag!  I started work at 7am, I sold my first alcholoic beverage at 9am and my first cigarello (aka blunt..double blech) by 9am...my nice city is a den of alcoholic pot heads!!!ARGH!

anywho got home after 3pm and saw this

only the cutest fairy house ever!! and done frugally with found objects, including bamboo that we "find" up the road...whoo hoo !! YAY!
which spurned the creation of this toad/hobbit house...another frugal creation...we are budget gardeners and frugal crafters...have any tips for us?

Nerdpression ..sigh

so yes it has been awhile since I posted...a long while...DON'T JUDGE ME!  I have been suffering nerdpression....my new job I started was a fail..not because of me but the owner of the company turned out to be an idiot and had to get rid of pretty much all his staff and the ones who did not get fired eventually quit...so was out of work again.so now I work part time at a convenient store until something better comes along...which it hasn't yet...so .....sigh....

   Oh my Michele what have the other nerds in the house been doing ?
I am so glad you asked that because it is garden season and our Nerd King and Commander in Chief has been busy with his Nerdoge (like protege but I don't know how to do the things that accent on my keyboard) making a super beautiful garden!  

first to the nerd stuff

the sign is out in the front garden area...we have had people stop and become our new besties just from this sign alone...apparently in Palm Coast we are rare to find...
 I was going to post pics of the veggie gardens and what not but I will leave that to the oldest and her up and coming blog which I will of course talk about here until everyone tires of me and decides to look at it for themselves....shameless promotion will occur.

YORKSHIRE PUDDING CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

I sometimes take breaks from being a full on nerd to my part time culinary nerd self.  Of course I wear a Star Wars apron while I am doing it so I don't step to far away from full nerd.  We watch Alton, Bizarre Foods, we watch Restaurant Impossible, and we watch Gordon...I love Gordon !  there I said it.  My mind stumbled across yorkshire pudding the other day, it just popped in there.  I don't know what we were doing or talking about but there it was...yorkshire pudding.  The big guy tells me that it is one of the most difficult things to make right and that Gordon frequently turns chefs into whining piles of goo when they make it poorly.  Well, my mind set is that if Gordon Ramsay can do it then why can't I? right? I mean he is only a world renowned chef with hit tv series and I ...well I can make waffles from scratch so we are almost equal.  I set to my task, I studied the greats, I looked up dozens of versions of the recipes (Rocky theme song in the background please it will help with the mood of my story), I trained for days whisking and letting things rest.  Okay, truth is I watched one you tube video and looked up one recipe and ...
see for yourself they were perfect!!! IN YOUR FACE GORDON!!!