Category: Keeper of the Home

Granny’s Red Beans and Rice

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Mr. Awesome loves his Momma’s Red Beans and Rice, This is the recipe, as she wrote it down for us. I know I have a DIY version of the boxed mix but I’ll have to look it up later and edit this post when I find it. This is one of those meals that is even better the next day.

Granny’s Red Beans & rice

As written down by Granny 😊

Ingredients:

  • 1 box of Zatarain’s Red Bean Mix
  • 3 bouillon + 6 cups water
  • 1 pound Jimmy Dean ground sausage, cooked and crumbled
  • 2-3 links Nettles sausages, cooked and sliced into rounds
  • (1 c. rice)**

Directions:

Add to crockpot. Cook on low until done.

 (high for 4-6 hours or low 6-8 hours)

**I use 1 cup (uncooked) rice to fill crock pot up.

I also like to use a little onion and Bell or sweet peppers.

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Shared Bedroom Makeovers… Two become three

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As many of you already know, we bought this house and it has already been well-loved. It was definitely in need of some TLC… a bit more than we had realized at the time but we’ve been making improvements as time and budget have allowed.

We had a lot of hopes and dreams for this house when we first moved in but there were so many issues that happened and had to be dealt with that we just had to focus on those. Plus the pandemic had just started, we were dealing with an unexpected high-risk pregnancy and then a stressful premature birth with a NICU stay and other complications, and then when we thought things were getting better we were sidelined by an unexpected leukemia diagnosis.

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Easy Pulled Pork

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This recipe is so easy to put together and it is one of my oldest daughter’s favorites.

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Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

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I love that WordPress offers some writing prompts for those days when you just can’t think of where to start. Today’s prompt was one that I can actually think of a million ways to answer but the truth is that you can probably reduce clutter all around you.

We love this quote as we recently read it in our Laying Down the Rails handbook:

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris

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Twice Baked Potatoes

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Twice Baked Potatoes

These might seem like a lot of extra work, but they are so worth it and they can make any meal feel a little more special. They can also be good topped with some leftover shredded meat or just about anything you want to put on them!

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