Big Holiday SU! Sale

Stampin' Up!'s Online Extravaganza

Calling All Card Makers And Scrapbookers!

This Is A Stampin' Up! Sale You Don't Want To Miss!

Make sure you check out my ONLINE STORE for the annual ONLINE EXTRAVAGANZA from Stampin' Up! This sale is a perfect way to kick off your holiday shopping and best of all, you can shop from the comfort of your own home.

The sale is from now until Wednesday Nov. 30th and you can take advantage of it by shopping through my store at http://www.cindykemna.stampinup.net or just email or call me with your order!

There are some Christmas fabrics at 60% off, several stamp sets at 50% off including the great set, On Your Birthday ($16.98), and lots more.

Here is a link to a .pdf list of the sale prices:

http://www.stampinup.com/us/documents/Online_X_flyer_US.pdf

Sweet Potato Casserole

Here's a good recipe that our family usually has on Thanksgiving. Bill's brother Jim is always hinting about wanting one of my Sweet Potato Pies and I've never made one, but I figured out that he must mean this! We'll find out Thurs.!

I'll probably be doing another blog post later today re: a Stampin' Up! sale - Online Extravaganza - that's going on as of yesterday. See details on my web site (above) and click on Promotions! Now through Nov. 30th.

Sweet Potato Casserole

1/2 c. milk
1 1/4 c. white sugar
2 eggs
3/4 stick butter, melted
46 oz. canned sweet potatoes
1/2 t. nutmeg
1/2 t. cinnamon

Blend together in a blender or food processor. Bake at 350 for 30 min.

Topping

3/4 c. crushed corn flakes
1/2 c. chopped pecans
1/2 c. brown sugar
3/4 stick butter

Melt butter and combine with above. Spread over mixture and bake 10 min.

They're on!

Update on the little cowboy boots that Glenn brought for the girls - Camry is now wearing them! She hasn't been walking too long and had just gotten used to wearing her Nikes when she got the boots. She didn't want them on. Diane says that Lacey put them on her this weekend and now she likes stomping around being loud!

Butter Braids

Many of you have probably bought a Butter Braid or two from a school or group fundraiser? We're lucky to live near West Bend where the Butter Braid company is. We can buy seconds for $6 in a couple of stores in that town, which I think is about half what they cost through a fundraiser.

When Glenn was here, he wanted a cream cheese one so I picked up a couple. Bill likes apple of course and my favorite is cinnamon (it has gooey cinnamon inside). They have a bunch of flavors now. Per their web site, their newest flavor is almond creme.


You buy them frozen (first picture), lay them out covered with plastic wrap overnight and then they're ready to bake in the morning! They come with an icing packet.

Lacey was here one day recently and watched me bake one and was hesitant to try it, but I think she's starting to realize that baked things in this house are usually pretty good (and she's been having fun learning how to bake too). So she tried it and was soon back for a second piece!

We're finally having a little mist this morning and HOPE it turns into RAIN but the temp. is 31 and there's nothing showing for rain on the radar.

The Word Cafe

Last Saturday I went to our NW Iowa Women's Conference at our church. The theme was The Word Cafe - so lots of coffee was available! For lunch, we were served our minister's wife's yummy potato or vegetable soup in the big coffee mugs you see in the second picture and then we got to take one home. Along with the soup, we had turkey sandwiches with a special sauce and bacon and a delicious dark apple cake with cinnamon sauce for dessert.

The speaker was Vicki Tiede and worship music was led by Jill Pearson. Our church's puppeteers performed doing sign language for a song. There were lots of nice door prizes. This is the conference we were to have last year at this time but it had to be cancelled after food was prepared due to a snow storm! This year the weather and day was great (still no rain!). We're lucky to have something like this to go to in our area!

Norwegian Dinner

There are quite a few Norwegian people in this area, and every year I read in the newspaper about a Norwegian supper that the Badger Lutheran Church has been doing since 1906. I've always wanted to go.

This year my friend Terri and I finally went. We got there when they started serving at 4:30 and were given numbers 400 and 401! We were seated 2 hours later at 6:30. They told us they usually serve 600-700 people.

It's all very organized. You wait in the sanctuary where they have a big screen showing pictures of their work days making all the food. They call numbers on a speaker. Then you're taken to a smaller room until your table is cleared and ready.

The menu consists of lutefisk which means lyefish, potato lefse (round and thin almost like a crepe), boiled potatoes and melted butter, meatballs and gravy, green beans, cranberries, flotbrod, brown bread, gumma, fruit soup, spritz, rosettes (I've made these before), kringla, krumkake and coffee served family style, all you can eat for $20. The recipes have been passed down through generations.

We didn't care for the lutefisk. They say you either love it or hate it. We were very lucky to have Norwegian people sitting around us and could ask them questions. The couple across from us mainly has this meal at Christmas time although she bakes kringla all year round. Many people in this area still make kringla and you can buy it in some of the groceries.

The couple next to me were born in Norway and still have the accent.

The fruit soup was thick, cooked fruit like prunes, raisins, apples and sometimes lemon and orange rind. It was cold and the color of prunes. I liked it but Terri didn't. The lefse is eaten different ways. The people with us spread soft butter on it, sprinkle with sugar and either fold it or roll it up and eat it. Some spread it with jam. The woman across from us ate one with butter and sugar but also puts one on her plate, then potatoes, then fish and then pours melted butter over all. There were 2 kind of big pitchers of melted butter on the table. She also very highly recommended that we put butter on our kringla which we had not heard of! It was better that way! We observed that they eat a LOT of butter evidently! (maybe Paula Deen is Norwegian?)

As we left, the woman at the ticket table asked us if we liked the fish and we honestly said "not really". She said that younger people seem to not like it so we asked if she thought the tradition would continue. She said that they have about 7 work days/nights to prepare for this and the young people as well as the old come to work and learn. They say that the lutefisk is tricky to cook just right. Could be that it will eventually be a meatball dinner? We both said that we probably won't go again but it was fun, and we're very glad we went went this year!

Next is a German meal in Humboldt on Dec. 3rd!