Recipe Review: Mushroom Risotto

Some friends recently directed me to new (to me) recipe website/blog called Gina's Skinny Recipes.  Last night we tried the Turkey Stuffed Zucchini - delish even without the cheese - and tonight we tried the Mushroom Risotto - really yummy!


Just thought I'd pass that along!

Fluff Stuff

It has been a while since I've updated this blog, mainly due to this project.  While there are things I would post here that I would not post there, frankly I don't have enough blogging energy to do more than one post a day.  I am not sure what I will do once we finish with 2011 - whether I continue to blog here or there - but I know I will write somewhere.


I have been meaning to do a blog post on how we do the cloth diaper thing, but since it was nothing something that fit into the daily blog, I have yet to do it.  One of my favorite blogs, The Crafty Nest, is doing a whole week of cloth diaper posts, which spurred me to finally get to this post.  


Back in January, I wrote this post for the daily blog, basically showing our stash of diapers.  The stash has changed a bit since then - some diapers have left our home, new ones have arrived.  Perhaps I will write a new post at some point giving a review of the various diapers we have tried, but not today.  

 This is Michal's dresser, which doubles as her changing area.  Mickey is hanging out on her changing pad, to the right of which are two wipes containers.  We are in the process of switching from disposable wipes to cloth wipes, but for now, we are still using the sposies.  To the right of that is all of her "stuff" - we have lots of stuff.

 One of the drawers in Michal's dresser holds her fluff.  I try to keep it organized, and it is a constantly evolving system.  On the left side of the drawer is the majority of her diapers - all pocket diapers or AI2s (all-in-twos) - definitions can be found here.  To the right of that are the wet bags and extra pail liner and her nighttime diaper (a fitted) and covers.  To the far right are all of the extra inserts (microfiber, bamboo, and hemp), as well as her AFFFs - the best hemp insert ever! - and fleece liners.

To the left of her dresser are the receptacles.  For her diapers we use a regular, plastic trash can we purchased at Ta.rget, lined with a pail liner.  A pail liner is just like a garbage bag you would line your trash can with, except it is reusable.  When we go to wash the diapers, we pull that out, walk to the machine, dump everything in, including the liner, and wash.  It's great.  To the left of the trash can is the diaper champ we received as a gift.  We tried to use it to hold used diapers, except it holds only about 3 cloth diapers.  Now it holds used disposable wipes and other assorted trash (the better for keeping out a curious dog!)