Hash Browns

Terrance LOVES hash browns, and being in Idaho we get a lot of potatoes all the time. We love the dehydrated instant hash browns. But with all the fresh potatoes we get Terrance decided to experiment on how to make instant hash browns ourselves and be able to store them so he can have fresh hash browns all year around. He start taking raw potatoes grating them, and freezing them which turned them purple. Then grating them dipping them in lemon water and freezing them, they still turned a little purple and were watery. Then finally he decided to go back to his original way of making hash browns where he would bake the potatoes, refrigerate them, grate them and then just fry them up. Instead of frying them up right then he put them in zip locks and froze them, we pulled them out a few days later, thawed them, fried them up and ate them. They were great!!

This is what I spent doing for a few hours the day before I turned 24.

~A few days before I baked about 20 LBS of potatoes for 1.5 hours.

~Then threw them in the refrigerator to cool for a couple of days. (While Potatoes are warm or hot they are too soft to shred with out becoming mush. Mush makes great mashed potatoes but not hash browns. We learned this in the beginning of learning to make hash browns).

~I started to shred the potatoes.

~And I kept shredding all the potatoes...it took a long time but I considered it a great work out for my arms.
~About 2 big shredded russet potatoes fit in a sandwich sized zip lock. I had to "fluff " them in the bag. If they are stuffed in then they get mushy and the shredds stick to each other.
~ Filling up the zip locks was my break from shredding. There were so many potatoes that i even ran out of room in one of our freezers that is why my bags are piling up behind my shredder.

~ While I am implementing my husbands way of making and storing hash browns, he was behind me playing with the disposal and getting rid of the many potato peals in multiple different ways.

So that was our adventure for the day.

The summary:
Terrance comes up with ideas and I make them happen. This is really similar to all the stories his mom tells from his childhood businesses. He came up with the ideas and his mom would make it happen and do the hard work in the back ground while he got the money from customers. Lol, Just kidding honey I know you would have done it I just wanted to help you out since you help me all the time.

Halloween

I found our Halloween Pics. they aren't the greatest pictures. Even though my Grandpa and uncle are excellent photographers (my cousin Crystal even takes excellent pics with out even trying) unfortunately the photographer gene skipped me and I am lucky if my pictures aren't blurry let alone creative at all. So sorry for the bland shots.

Anyways believe it or not we did not plan on dressing up at all. Right before our apartment complexes Halloween party I asked Terrance if he was going to dress up (so I knew if I should dress up). He said I don't know and then a few minuets later we were all dressed up for the party. Haha. He dressed up as a motorcycle dude, using his helmet as a candy bucket, but I did have to convince him not to bring his bike.

I dressed up as a hippie. Completely opposite but fun non the less. This was my sixth picture pose after begging Terrance to take the picture all ready on three not a few seconds after or before when I was not ready. He is apparently not a photographer either.

Maybe next year we will match and go themed!!! We will have to see...

Tutu's

The woman in my ward always talk about baby's and I love the baby talk since I don't have a baby of my own yet. I guess you could call it living vicariously through others story's. They talk about blankets, food, and clothes all the time but the more recent hot topic is TUTU'S!!! I decided instead of just listening to all of them talk about all the cute things that they make I wanted to make some myself, so I made some super cute tutu's for fun a little while ago. They were really easy pretty much the steps are:

1. Cut a strip of elastic (that looked about the size of a child's waste to me) and sewed it into a loop.

2. Cut 6X24 inch strip of tulle. ( My tulle is all leftover from my wedding, I have been wondering what to do with it.)

3. Fold tulle in half and tie in a knot or loop tie around the elastic, just continue doing until all the way around the elastic.

4. Embellish with flowers or bows as you please.

And that is it. It was so easy and turned out so cute!!

This is my end result...





I think that I did pretty good.