Beans, Skirts and Baking

More projects from Monday

I made a huge batch of crockpot refried beans.

I soaked 6 cups of pinto beans overnight,  then put them in a 6 quart crockpot and covered them with water.  

You can cook 1 cup of beans for each quart capacity of your crockpot.  

Seasoned them with 

2 T chili powder

2 t cumin

1/2 t garlic powder

about a dozen jalapeno slices

and about 1 cup chopped onion.

Let them cook high - about 5 hours or so- until tender.

Then add salt to pepper to taste

Get out the food processor and process the beans in batches, adding 6 T of butter for the whole batch and enough bean juice to keep them smooth and with a soft consistency.

You can leave out the butter but they won't be creamy like we like them.  

These are so much tastier than canned refried beans!  

cheaper and less salty too.  

Refried beans freeze beautifully too!  We ate some for supper last night and then I froze the rest in meal size containers.

Sewing project

My daughter had both this striped maxi skirt that she likes and a strapless dress she did not like.  

She asked if I could make the dress into a skirt.

No problem!

I used the striped skirt as a guide and cut off the top the dress.

Then I used part of that to make a  new waistband and inserted some elastic.  

The striped skirt has a wider fold-over waistband but I could not copy it as the purple fabric is softer and stretchier and would not have the same support. 

Now daughter have 2 maxi skirts!

My husband put on this shirt to wear to church on Sunday but it had a bad grease stain down the front. I rewashed it but it did not come clean.
It was really faded and worn in spots so it needed discarded anyway.

Before I threw it out,  I cut off all the buttons.
I sew blouses for my self and this is enough buttons for 2 blouses.

I have a drawer full of buttons but finding matching buttons for a blouse is a trick sometimes.
So put all these on a safety pin
now they are ready when I make some fall blouses.  

Baking 

 I made some small yeast buns, filled them with sausage patties and froze for future breakfasts.
A store in my town had sausage on sale last week,  I stocked up- got 28 pounds at $1.99 a pound for Potters whichs is a very good brand.

And I baked 3 small loaves of bread.  

I used a bread machine to mix and knead both batches.  

I don't always do quite this many things in one day but I had lots of accomplish Monday as I expected to have 3 of my grandchildren here today.  

But plans changed and just one is here.

She is watching some TV and I am catching on some blogs.  

We will do some crafts and cooking later. 

what are you doing today?  -I would love to know

^{1 Peter 1}  

²² Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. ²³ For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. ²⁴ For,

“All people are like grass,

    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;

the grass withers and the flowers fall,

²⁵ 

    but the word of the Lord endures forever.”

And this is the word that was preached to you.

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