Cream Cheese Ball

I really didn't feel like making dinner tonight so, I made a snack for dinner. Pete was excited when I told him that we were going to have Miso soup (from a package) and my "famous" cream cheese ball for dinner. (I figure it was healthy enough. It was certainly filling as we polished off the entire box of Triscuits!)  I had been planning on making the ball sometime this week after purchasing the needed ingredients yesterday. I should have looked at the recipe before shopping as I thought it called for only one block of cream cheese, not two. Good thing I had an 8 oz. container of cream cheese in the fridge! Too bad for my bagels later this week though.

Cream Cheese Ball

• 2  8 oz. packages cream cheese
• 1 small can crushed pineapple (drained)
• 1/4 cup chopped red bell pepper
• 1/4 cup chopped green bell pepper
• 1/4 cup chopped red or yellow onion

Blend all ingredients and form into a ball.  Serve with crackers of your choice.

I added a little bit of garnish to my ball and served it on a bamboo cheese board.
Pete enjoying his dinner.

Another Busy Day!

It feels good to finally sit down!  We started off this morning by going to the Transfer Station in town to dump off our garbage and recycling. (I am proud to say that we recycle more than we throw away!)  After that we drove the truck to Pete's mom's house to set up the pool.  After finding that it was still too muddy back there (I sank down about 3"), we poked around a bit in Phil's room and headed out to Lowe's. At Lowe's we picked up a pretty fancy motion sensing spotlight. We need to aim it on our woodpile so that if any shmucks try to steal our wood, the light will be trained on them. With fuel prices the way they are, we wouldn't put it past someone to park next door and load our wood up onto their truck (or trunk!). We've worked too hard to let that happen -- not to mention we don't want to use our furnace this winter! While at Lowe's I also picked out another cacti to add to my other two on my kitchen windowsill.  Once home, we had a quick bite to eat and then I was off to the grocery store. We needed a lot of stuff although I was expecting the bill to be much higher than it was. It still was $152! I did get some ground beef for hamburgers tonight (for Pete) and some chicken for myself (and some Jack Daniel's BBQ -- yummy!).  Tomorrow for dinner I'm going to grill some flounder.  When I got home, Pete was in the process of clearing a path in our back woods for the lawn mower. That's where our compost pile is and it was quite hard to access. Now it's all cleared out and raked. I gave Pete a hand once the cold groceries were put away. I had a blast picking out all of the worms and throwing them into my compost pile. I got about 20 or so really juicy ones! After that, Pete started to mow the lawn (where he is currently) and I did some trimming with the shears. Now I'm in sitting a bit before I put away the dry groceries and start making the hamburger patties.  So, that's my day in a nutshell!