LUNCH!

Sauteed mushrooms and red peppers with black beans, turkey bacon and cucumbers. In a pita.

• Sautee turkey bacon in evoo until crisp.
• In the turkey bacon evoo, sautee mushrooms and peppers. Add a little balsamic.
• Drain beans, chop cukes.
• Mix together and plop in pita.

I have to say, the cucumbers made this fantastic. Fantastic, I say! Next time, I'm adding cheese. Experiment and enjoy!

C

Puggalina and Scoobalina.

Scoobie had a visit from her cousin Lily the puggle this week!

It simply exhausted her....

Cork Dork.

Working at a restaurant yields many things: sore feet, appreciation of wine and food, late nights and many, many, many unwanted corks. The upside of this is that corks are fantastic for crafting!

Cork is super easy to cut, a simple kitchen knife will suffice. Using a hot glue gun, you can cork your face off. My HGG can basically do or fix anything. Seriously. I'm pretty sure hot glue guns cure cancer.

This is about one quarter of my cork collection. I am not proud of this.

I corked my lazy susan! Now she's a trivet, too!

Cork coasters. Soon to be sold on my etsy page!

Apron Preview...

Only because you asked so nicely...

...And many more to come! Stay tuned!

Aprons on the Way!

BOYFRIEND is the best and just took a million photos for me of all my new aprons. Seriously, I've been on a rampage. Four aprons in a day and a half. That's got to be some kind of record. Expect some fantastic cooking clothing in your future....

Save Cardboard!

As the summer months melt on, we're quick to give up our hot coffee and pay double for a wonderful cup of iced coffee. In need of a coozie idea? Well look what I made!

Isn't she adorable? Save cardboard this year and make yourself reusable and washable coffee mug sleeves! Patterns located at your nearest Starbucks, just add seam allowance! My next coozie will be made from an old towel to soak up all the condensation from those extra sweaty iced coffees.

Threadbanger has some great knitted tutorials, if you're interested. I wish so badly that I was a competent knitter.

A Collaborative Effort

Ladies and Gentleman,

Please welcome to Dog On Lap the one, the only, Miss Jennifer Lampa:

As I move forward with Dog On Lap, Jenn will add her input, sass and recipes to my little blogspot. She is a wonderful lady and my best friend in the whole world. A history buff and a fantastic cook, Jenn oozes wisdom and class. I mean, she's Sammy Davis!

Here's to you, roommie. Welcome to the blogspot.