April 1- Sheet pan supper and BEDA

Hello everyone 

It’s April 1st and my goal is to blog everyday in April- or BEDA

It may not happen but I’m going to try.  

I had some errands in the afternoon so I planned ahead for a supper that would be easy to complete.  

I decided to make a sheet pan meal like I see everywhere.  

I peeled and diced  the sweet potatoes and cut the asparagus into 2 inch pieces.  

For seasoning, I mixed together 

 2 t paprika

 1 t onion powder

 1 t sugar

 a few shakes of red pepper and garlic powder

 Salt and pepper to taste 

When I got home, I preheated the oven to 425. 

Then I mixed the sweet potato cubes with a tablespoon of olive oil and a small amount of purple onion and put them on a baking sheet and sprinkled with part of the seasoning,  

The potatoes baked for almost 20 minutes. 

I tossed the asparagus with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and sliced a package of Turkey smoked sausage.  

I added them to the potatoes and more seasoning and baked for 20 more minutes.  

It turned out so good! 

Most sheet pan recipes say put all the ingredients on the pan and cook all ingredients for the same length of time.  But sweet potatoes take longer to cook than asparagus and turkey sausage.  

And for these ingredients, I think it was best.  

Melanie  we are having an Easter gathering of some of our family.  The adults all have had Covid vaccines and I’m hopeful we can do it outside.  This will be our first family gathering since the  party back in Feb. 2020 

Valentines Gingerbread House

❤️Rhonda 

Messy purse and some Easter things

Hello everyone,  

I’ve kind of been on the go for the last 2 weeks and my purse was sure showing it.  

So I dumped everything out and went from there.....

Below is after I sorted and threw some stuff away - at the top is a Bill that needed paid and to the left is my phone and kindle

All the other stuff went back in my purse 

Inside my purse now 

This bag is bigger than I really prefer for everyday use but with all the going I’ve been doing, it’s been handy as it is also plenty big enough to add a drink bottle, a magazine and my iPad. 

After I did my purse,  I gave that big dining table a good cleaning and then put out a few Easter decorations- none are new, just things we’ve used at least a year, maybe more. 

I think 5 of the grands will be here for some cousin fun and an egg hunt so I filled some eggs

Some have a few coins in them and some have chocolate 

My plastic eggs are almost vintage -they’ve been collected and kept over the years and are sturdy.  

It seems to me that the new plastic eggs for sale now are so thin and cheaply made- they are just strong enough to use 1 time.  

Plastic eggs aren’t really green but I like that mine get re-used.  

More Parsimony   Those orange things are part of the watering system- if you look close you’ll see they are attached to black tubing.  My husband set them up and he can gently water all his beds at the same time 

The water sprays out of the orange things in a fine mist. 

And speaking of my husband,  he is doing great with his new knee replacement.  

He is so gung-ho  to get better.  He even rode a mile on our home stationary bike today and shopped at Lowe’s (for plants of course) 

Hope you’ve all had a good Tuesday 

❤️ Rhonda