Shans Simple Things

A little Cargo Largo crafty haul 🥰✨

My obsession with saving scraps and what other people might ✨throw away✨ obviously extends to the kitchen. Food was the art I fell in love with first and from a really early age. These days, it’s still one of my favorites.

As a part of my culinary training, I was taught to save the bones and other scraps when cooking with chicken and beef to make stock for sauces, soups, etc. A few years ago, I learned people do the same thing with their veggie scraps and I was sold. It’s something I started doing immediately after and haven’t stopped doing since.

We save all of our clean veggie scraps in a bag in the freezer until it’s full. Next, we dump the scraps in a pot and cover with water. I cook it low and slow for 2-4 hours depending on how much time I have. Once ready, I double strain the stock and store in the fridge to use within a week or freeze it to use later! This time I used about half for a soup base the same night and froze the rest. As I was prepping veggies to add to my soup, I was able to start the scrap bag alllll over again. 😊 Is this something you do too?? If not, would you try it?? In the last year we started doing this with fruit scraps -> juice, and I’m also hooked.

Happy birthday, Mom 💙💙💙💙 if I had a say, I would choose you as my mom in every life time

Yay the May collage 🥰✨ I’m getting over a cold, so much voice is doing its best. 🤪 Every month I tell you how much I am enjoying this little challenge for myself and this month is no different 💖

I took a lot of time off creating in April and May because my mental health controls my creative capacity (working on it though 🤞). Doing the monthly collages was such a gentle welcome back into the world of crafting. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do ❤️

Tbh I love all trash, it doesn’t have to be pretty 😩😩💗💗

Cutting up packaging for future projects so I was def focused on the patterned pieces this time tho 🤪

Thank you to my friends and family for your trash donations as always 💖💖💖