Food Fun Friday-Tuna Salad with grapes and pistachios

It has been hot here and I was looking for a HEALTHY and quick and cool thing to fix for dinner. This literally FELL out of my book. It was just a little square, 2x2inch paper and YUM YUM it filled the bill.

Tuna Salad with grapes and pistachios
Mix
packet of tuna
2tsp low fat Italian dressing
1/4 cup pistachios
3/4 cup grapes, halved

spoon over bed of mixed greens.
(now you can be REAL creative with this recipe, and add tomatoes, or avocados or ANY kind of fruit (raisins-apples) and ANY kind of nuts (almonds,-walnuts) and I liked it better with balsamic dressing.
hmmm, Think I'll go make me a container for lunch today!

Wednesday Wisdom

Hands that work are more blessed than Lips that pray

Howard W Hunter

I love Vinyl

I love a good Vinyl! I got this off of Etsy, and it's from householdwords:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5842289
pretty cool. This is the wall I painted during the cold winter months, never did find a picture (s) to go on it.. and thought that this would make a great display... maybe I would add family pictures around the name. SO COOL
They really have stunning things, I also got 2 other vinyl's and I'm sure I'll take pic's of that too.

To answer Sue’s question….

I am not so good at “eyeballing” things so…
I used a lazer level and put a couple of medium pieces of tape on the wall where the black horizontal lines should go .
I measured the wall in half and put a piece of tape in the middle. I measured the vinyl and put a piece of tape in the exact middle.
When you peal off the backing paper, the vinyl is a little sticky so that holds it in place, making sure I got the horizontal lines straight against my medium pieces of tape. Pull the tape off and start rubbing the vinyl lettering… starting in the middle working out on one end then the other.

Ta da.

Food Fun Friday- Coconutty Breakfast Bars

This is something I have been working on for several weeks now. "perfecting"

We have eaten a "bar" around here that is yummy with nuts and coconut and oats etc. Although it has TONS of sugar and syrup... I have "perfected" my own healthy recipe... AND for the first time ever... entered it into the Better Homes & Gardens Contest... cross your fingers and wish me luck.

In the mean time

Here's my FAMOUS (cough cough) recipe for...(ta da)

Coconutty Breakfast Bars
2tbs softened butter
1C applesauce
3/4C loose pack brown sugar
1C old fashioned oats
1C whole wheat flour
1C ground Flax cereal like Fiber One
3/4C egg beaters (or 3 eggs)
1C chopped pecans
3/4C flaked coconut

Preheat oven to 300º
Spray 9X13 glass pan with Pam.
Cream butter, sugar and applesauce.
Combine oats, w/w flour and cereal.
Add to creamed mixture.
Spread and press into the prepared 9X13 glass pan.
In small bowl mix egg beaters with pecans and coconut.
Spread evenly over flour mixture.Cook for 30 minutes.

Let cool and cut into 6 large bars for a healthy quick grab&go breakfast bar

Wednesday Wisdom

...Making the most of what we have turns it into more.

Melody Beattie

Pictures part ..3

For every beach that you hike down to, you have to cross, traverse, climb over, along top, under and thru a ton of logs.

logs logs logs.. and for some reason I was not very good at balancing on top of them.

Kalaloch lodge where we stayed.

So I told 'em I had a new camera could i take their picture, and... ummm I didn't even get there name OR email address to send it to them. cute family

The view from our room.

Good night.

Obviously this day was not sunny. This is the typical overcast weather of the Pacific Northwest. La Push La Push

sea life, there is a starfish lower left.

How about this as the cliff Bella jumped off of? (second beach)

Our trip to Ruby Beach

This is a little slide show of our trip last weekend. Remember I told you I took over 244 pictures.. So I had to really cut out a lot. (last Monday was Forks) So we started out on our drive and came to Lake Crescent. The water was like glass.
Lake Crescent

Then after about an hour and a half (after Forks) we came to Ruby Beach. The is the view hiking down.

And after we hiked down we had to cross over all the logs to get to the beach. It was a beautiful sunny day with no wind (those days at the beach in the Pacific Northwest don't happen often)

self portrait... the rock i set the camera on was crooked

There were these 2 little girls playing in the muddy sand, so cute, ah youth.

There is a light house WAY out there.

Of course more logs... could this be the cliff that Bella jumps off of... no that's at second beach, that picture will be here on tomorrow's blog.