Yay! It’s Monday!  That means it’s time for another Happy List.
Here, in no particular order, are five things that make me happy.

We close on our house on the 29th.  Yay!
Packing nearing completion.
A clean kitchen
Doggies who are good boys and listen to me when I tell them to stop barking at every damn thing [...]

Yum!
I have been experimenting with my new mixer, and it dawned on me that I could make homemade pizza crusts. Sure, I could have made them before I got the mixer, but I’ve been looking at what kinds of things I cam make to justify the cost of the darn thing. Pizza sounded [...]

I’ve been asked to post my recipe for potato soup, so here goes.

6 medium/large red potatoes, diced
1/2 lb bacon (diced) or breakfast sausage
4 tbls flour
butter
milk
salt, pepper, garlic powder to taste.

Cook diced potatoes in water until tender, drain.
Meanwhile, cook bacon or sausage in a large saucepan until done. Remove meat from [...]

I decided to put my mixer to use today, and have managed to produce two slightly misshapen loaves of sourdough bread.

This is really good bread… I decided to buy some sourdough starter online after I kept screwing mine up, and located a great place to buy San Francisco Sourdough starter. I need to get [...]