Hats for Sale

SOOOOOOOOOO,

I just started my brand new ETSY site. Not a ton of things up yet, but just give me some time! There will be a florish of handmade pablojane goodness. Which brings me to my next point.. My Etsy website is..

drum roll please..

etsy.com/shop/pablojane

so please, view, shop, and be merry! Long live crafting!

jane out

Spicy Chicken Stir-Fry

So Stir-fry is Stir-fry, right? Nothing exciting here...or is it!?
Last weekend the fiance and I made a chicken stir-fry that was spiced to perfection. SO of course I must share.

But first a side-note: We were both vegetarians for a long time and recently began eating chicken and fish again. And boy is it yummy. But we still like to do so sparingly and consciously. We often buy organic and in the case of chicken we are able to find local free range at times. If this sounds silly to care about such matters and you wonder why you should pay a couple extra bucks for such food...we just saw a really good film everyone should see.

Okay anyways...

Ingredients:
1/2 tsp ground turmeric
1/2 tsp ground ginger
pinch kosher salt and course ground black pepper
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tbsp ground coriander
1 tbsp powder sugar
1 lb organic chicken breast

Your choice of at least 4 different veggies. We used:
1 red pepper sliced
1 green pepper sliced
1 zucchini sliced
handful of snow peas
1 onion sliced

squirt of lime juice and honey

1. Mix spices and sugar in bowl.
2. Cut chicken into equal sized strips
3. Coat chicken with spices
4. Heat some oil in pan or wok
5. Cook chicken in pan
6. Remove chicken from pan and cook veggies. Add a little splash of water so spices coat veggies too.
7. Return chicken to pan once veggies are 90% done. Cook for a few more minutes then remove from heat.
6. Add lime juice and honey into pan and stir.

Grab your chopsticks and enjoy!

Love, Jean

p.s. Just made Pesto Stromboli from scratch tonight. YUM. Will share recipe soon!

p.p.s. Monday night craft night is going well! I have headbands to share!

Music is food, to me.

So, I am a hugely huge musically fanatical person. Meaning.. I pretty much have a song stuck in my head all of the f-ing time.. whether i like it or not.. I have played a musical instrument as far back as my memories remember. And even before I could get my sweaty little paws on an instrument.. I used to make up songs while sitting on the toilet (or so I am told) wahaha.

Every once in a while I play out and about( although not as of late) and I still have the perhaps somewhat crazy notion that I will play for a living some fine day. Go out and tour this great land of rolling grain via the style of Woody Guthrie. Since that is not happening anytime in the near and present future.. Ya'll are going to have to bear with me as I rattle on about artists that inspire me and make me want to quit my day job. (just kidding, mom :)) (but, not really.. :)

So if any of that made any sense whatsoever and if there is another person in cyberland who can relate to whatever the hell i am talking about.. please for the LOVE OF GOD let me know. Just the justification that I am not a LUNATIC would be nice. har de har har.

Anyways, back to the serious matter of telling you about music I have stumbled upon in my journeys. Everyone who knows and loves me can already guess what musician I am going to name first.. because, well... i love him and we are going to run away together and have violin playing children.

I am speaking of course of the one and only ANDREW BIRD. He is by far one of my all time favorite musicians of all time. So if and when you read this, cyber people, check out his website andrewbird.net and check out the av/iary section..(videos of his performances.. Anonanimal (the Pitchfork Cemetary Gates performance), Lull, and Section 8 City are my top three favorite) SO GOOD!

Watching it feeds me better then the best food on this planet.

Once I figure out how this whole blogging thing works.. I will post some videos, but for now you are going to have to venture there on your accord. IT IS WORTH IT!

Forget Lady Montanas and Hannah Gagas! Jane knows best!

peace and of course, love.

jane

Craft Mondays

Like I mentioned before I want to start doing a small craft or piece of art every Monday. Next week I'm going to make headbands. Here is one Jane made last year that I love. It makes a bad hair day into a cute headband day!

Love, Jean

Felted Flower Brooches

Here a few of my latest little crafts.

Pinwheel Felt Brooch

Blue Flower Felt Brooch

Felt Flower Hat Clip
(Hat handmade by a friend)

Love, Jean

Peace OUT '09! Heeeelllooo 2010!!

So 2009 WAS a great year...don't get me wrong! I mean this was the last thing I did in '09....


So if that picture says ANYTHING, I think it says '09 was a fun year! ha!

...but 2010 just has a nice ring to it, don't you think? I think it is going to be a great year. Many things I want accomplish this year. I'm not big into resolutions (people's resolutions is the cause of my gym being filled to the brim this time of year...hate that!) but I do like accomplishments. So that's the word I'm going to stick too. Here a few things I plan on accomplishing this year:

1. Get MARRIED! 07-17-10

2. Save some mulah/pay off the rest of my school loan.

3. Run the Salt Lake City Marathon

4. Write on the BLOG more often. I have so many ideas running through my skull I want to share!!

5. Start Monday Night Craft Night for all my crafty people and me. Next Monday I am going to make headbands. Maybe something like this lovely one by Spotted Lobes:


6. And of course continue to LOVE LOVE LOVE all my fabulous friends, my wacky fiance and my super family!

Yay 2010!

Love, Jean

www.mccluresorchard.blogspot.com

Wow!
I just found this fun new blog. Its brand new, but I think it has a lot of potential.
hugs and kisses
marie