Evernote Challenge~Notes 1 and 2 (Food)

I decided I need to declutter my Evernote account just as much as my house this year...considering that I have almost 800 notes of information in it...and, yes, that is more than I had in it when I did the original post. "Sigh"...   Is there a program for people with an information gathering addiction?


Today I'm trying out 2 food category notes.


Todays dinner is coming from the cdkitchen.  It called What's On Hand Soup.  The recipe is just the way it sounds. I had some leftover chicken, frozen veggies in the freezer that need to be used up for my Pantry Challenge, an excess of stewed tomatoes I've been trying to figure out how to use up, plus the many potatoes also needed to used before they start to sprout.  It's all in the crockpot and making the kitchen smell wonderful.

Note number 2 is a recipe for Masonades.  I found this recipe over at the  Cold Antler Farm blog. I've made these before so I can give then official thumbs up! Nothing like fresh lemonade....

Masonades are soda-can sized servings of hand-squeezed lemonade or iced tea. 

Ingredients


Box of pint mason jars (with lids)
Fresh organic lemons
Water
Ice cubes
Natural sugar
Natural lemon juice
Organic black tea bags
Fresh mint or lemon verbena from the garden


Take your jars and fill them up halfway with cold water. Cut half a lemon and squeeze its juice into the jar, and then plop the whole half into the jar as well, making the water tart and filled with little bits of pulp and flavor. If you really want to kick the tartness up - add some fresh lemon juice (about a teaspoon) to the mix. Then add as much sugar as you feel appropriate (depending on mood and heat it could be as little as a teaspoon or as much as 2 tablespoons) and then top it off with ice till it's nearly overflowing. Seal the lid and shake the hell out of it untill it's one big, frothy, delight. There you have it. Farm fresh, all natural, and ready for travel.
Masonades can also be made into iced tea - which is a healthier alternative. Pour hot water from a kettle into room-temperature jars with an organic black tea-bag and let it cool on the kitchen counter. Then add in a little lemon slice and a pinch of sugar, some ice, and a sprig of lemon verbena or mint and let it sit in the fridge alongside the jars of lemonade. When it's cold enough to condense water off the sides, it's manna from the still. (Taken from the Cold Antler Farm site.)

Evernote Challenge

A few months ago I found Evernote...a wonderful free resource for saving and organizing all of the information that can found on the web.  I have used this to help me save all of the great ideas I see on other peoples blogs but don't have time to get to right at that moment.


Well, just like ideas scratched on paper can get out of control, so can ideas saved on the web.  I have over 700 pieces of information saved in my Evernote account ranging from recipes to try to preschool activities to ideas to improve my marriage. 


I think it's about time I actually tried them out, don't you?


So, my own personal challenge to myself is going to be that this year I'm going to try the recipes (and write them down in a notebook if they're keepers), do the activities with dd2 and kids in my classroom, and bless my dh with the wonderful ways of improving my marriage...along with the many other categories I have in my Evernote account.


I have come to terms with the fact that I'm an information gatherer...now it's time to use it or lose it... :)