… mug? Or teacup? Or your preferred container for hot beverages? This is my favorite. Some of you may remember that I have a habit of over-buying mugs/cups. I don’t know what it is. But I have found my favorite and I think my mug-buying days are over. (Unless this one breaks. But I know where to get another one of them.) I love the size of this, the weight of it, the feel of it, and the colors. (Mine came from here. I love their work and have purchased several things from them.) Since I’m so attached to this mug, it made me wonder if others of you have a favorite? Tell us about it in the comments below for this month’s blog contest. We’ll randomly draw the winners from the comments and will announce them next Friday.
Today’s recipe is one of those comfort food types of things. (Good taste plus pasta = comfort.) It makes a lot and there are all kinds of things in there. Just add some fresh fruit or a big salad to the menu and you have a meal.
Pasta and Cabbage Casserole
1 pound spaghetti noodles, cooked al dente
3 cups shredded frozen hash browns, thawed
1 lb. sausage (or 3 chicken breasts, cooked and cubed)
2 Tbl. olive oil
1 bag of shredded cabbage slaw (or 1/2 head cabbage, shredded)
1 large onion, chopped
3 cloves of garlic, minced
1 cup (or can) of chicken broth
4 Tbl. butter
2 cups Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese, shredded
1 cup sharp cheddar, shredded
(Want more color? Add broccoli to the recipe. Yum!)
Brown sausage in skillet and drain. Add olive oil to the pan and stir in onion, garlic and cabbage, cooking until tender (about 10 minutes). Add chicken broth and heat through.
In large bowl, combine cooked noodles, hash browns, butter, 1 cup cheddar, 1 cup Parmigiano Reggiano, and cabbage/sausage mixture and mix well. Turn into a 9 x 13 pan and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Add the last cup of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese to the top and bake for 5 more minutes.
Because I don’t have quite enough knitting projects “in progress”, I picked up a book last night and have decided to make a Noro Chevron Sleeve Cardigan from Knitting Noro. Just for fun. (Although I’m not sure why I just admitted that to you. I ought to have kept quiet about it until I was almost finished. One day I’ll learn.)
People were eating chocolate here today. How do I know? There’s evidence on the floor. And just because there were kisses by my favorite mug in the photo, don’t be fooled. It was totally for eating scale so that you could get an idea of the mug size. (The carpeting looks a little ugly close up, don’t you think? It’s a good thing that there is a lot of beautiful yarn and chocolate around here to distract people from looking down.)
Sheri whoadvisesyoutostartanewprojectsothatI’mnotaloneinthisWIPabundance
My favouritemugs are the ones that my kids have given me. They both have cats on them and are totally goofy but I love them just the same! I also love my Loopy Ewe mug although it is also very popular with a certain daughter!
My favorite mug is a heavy plastic souvenir mug I got at a conference at UC Berkeley. It hold the exact right amount of coffee to wake me up in the morning, the handle is perfect for gripping, and the plastic keeps the coffee warmer longer than any of my ceramic mugs. It’s not especially pretty, but I use it more than my gorgeous Laurel Burch mugs.
My favorite mug is one I drink tea out of all day long. It has my name on it so
I don’t forget who I am. Seriously, it’s painted in all bright colors so it lifts your
spirits all day.
My favorite mug was stolen from my husband. 🙂 It’s a hand thrown ceramic mug. It’s around 8 inches tall and holds exactly a half a pot of tea. I don’t know why I love it so much, but I can’t imagine mornings without it.
And don’t feel too bad about the WIPs. I’m running low, as I only have three active projects. Normally it’s around 8.
I definitely prefer a mug for everyday use. Though I have some gorgeous teacups that I’ve collected over the years. I think my favorite mug would be one that I got at a sale held by our local university’s ceramics department. It’s round and squat but holds a large cup of tea, has a very comfortable handle, and is glazed in a creamy-pinky-bluey almost opalescent sort of glaze.
My favorite teacup is harder to choose. I have a gorgeous Limoges teacup in an Art Nouveau flower pattern…and a Norwegian teacup with a wedding procession marching around the inside of the cup — complete with drunken guest! — and I have some lovely Shelley teacups…too hard to choose!
I don’t have a favorite cup. I quit using mugs years ago for coffee and now use them only for tea or ice cream. Every morning when I open the cupboard, I let the two different cups I have “speak” to me as to which one to choose.
My favorite mug is pink and has the Beast from Beauty and the Beast on it.
My favorite mug has a logo on it and says, “My kid and my money go to the University of Delaware.” Neither statement is true anymore – he’s long since graduated, and the tuition bills are paid. But I remember him coming home for a visit during his first semester away and bringing it to me.
My favorite is a mug my mil brought back from Ireland with raised sheep jumping around over fences saying “Baa.” A friend’s 5 year old told me one day I had a “ba ba” cup – I couldn’t figure out why a 7 year old was calling my cup baba, till I looked and realized he was reading it. 🙂
My favorite was a gift from my little sister when she was in college. It holds nearly 24 ounces and has a giant gold eagle on the side (Boston College). It’s almost enough coffee to get me going in the morning!
I have so many, it’s hard to pick a favorite. But I would probably have to give that honor to a mug I bought at an art show called the “Sawdust Festival” in Laguna Beach, CA. I got it when I was in college. It’s a hand thrown mug, nice graceful shape, and has designs to look like the beach and palm trees. Just reminds me of earlier carefree times, since I grew up at the beaches of Southern California.
**sigh**
My favorite mug is from a really old mug from Iron Mountain Stoneware. It looks very similar to yours.
I have a white mug with silver polka dots that I received as a gift a few years ago. I love it because it’s a little larger than an average mug, but it’s tall instead of round so I don’t feel like I’m drinking from a soup bowl. Nothing wrong with wide mugs, I just have a tendency to spill them!
My favorite is the Loopy Ewe mug (no brownnosing intended) which I use each morning for my cuppa joe.
“My mug” is a stoneware custom mug that has my name on it and my Alma mater’s seal on it.. it was a gift when I graduated from College…
My favorite mug is from the fair in my hometown the year the theme was “There’s No Place Like Home”. I’ve spent the last decade moving all over the world, and that mug has gone with me to each new country to help me connect to my roots each morning.
I love Mugs for my coffee…big, oversized, monstrous ones that only coffee can do them justice.
Tea however I love dainty cup & saucer sets. I aspire to collect single serving cup & saucer sets to decorate with and use. I also love those Tea pots for one. My mother has a few of them.
My favourite mug is stoneware and I got it for $1.50 at CVS. Which is odd for me. Because I usually like to buy handmade mugs. But I find that this one suits me perfectly. It is huge, has a few nice design features and it is bright green & chocolate brown. So perfect. *sigh*
I must admit I love the style of your mug Sheri. Too cute.
My favorite mug is more about the feel of it, than the look. I got is in San Fransico at the Boudin Bakery. Oh, I like the look, too, it just feels so nice in my hands.
I LOVE my blue Loopy Ewe mug from the 2nd(?) anniversary kit. (The one from last year…) It’s the perfect size – I love that’s taller than most mugs. Plus the color – and Loopy! Love it! And – the best part – the mouth is the perfect size to hold my tea leaf strainer.
I used to LOVE my hand made mug which is much like yours. And then Starbucks ruined me. I’ve discovered their double walled mugs and love, love LOVE them even more. I’m trying to get one in every color.
My favorite mug is a discontuned pattern sold through Tiffany years ago – Bennett’s Bridge. It is pottery – so not the usual fine china from Tiffany – with a rustic brown/yellow background with blue morning glories. This is my all time favorite.
My favorite mug is a green Moomin mug — my brother and I grew up reading the Moomin books and dearly loved the expolits of all the characters as well as the illustrations. I ran across one of these mugs a few years ago, and it cheers me up every time I look at it. Don’t have any idea what I’m talking about? View a Moomin mug here:
http://www.finnstyle.com/moominmugs.html
and check out the books here:
http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781894937801-0
My previous favorite mug was a handmade ceramic mug featuring the Santa Fe Opera logo — I purchased it the summer I worked for the opera company, and the mug always reminded me of the glorious sunsets they have in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Sigh. I don’t know whether the mug broke or whether I lost it in a move. (Wollmeise would offer some consolation! Seriously, you need a contest for people who have never actually been in the same room with a skein of Wollmeise, much less had the pleasure of knitting with it. Lots of us are pining for the Wollmeise experience.) Happy March!
My favorite coffee mug is one that I got in our annual family White Elephant Christmas swap (it stopped being a bad gift swap years ago). It came with two mugs and I very stupidly gave one to my then rommate. It’s a metal travel mug that never travels!
i definitely do have a favorite coffee mug (in fact, I’m drinking from it right now!). It’s from Peet’s coffee (my favorite coffee place), and it’s a lovely warm off-white stonewear type of mug, just the perfect size for me to be able to drink all of the coffee in it before it gets cold. I’m going to be pretty upset if anything ever happens to it…
My favorite mug is large and has the statement “Happily Dying of Chocolate” – There is artwork done by Erika Oiler – a favorite needlepoint canvas artist.
My favorite mug was a birthday present that I received last year, before I went to college. It’s a big mug, holding about 4 cups of tea, and is perfect for times when I’m studying or working on a paper and need some warm motivation. It’s a hand-painted mug with motifs of Inuit birds and whales, and was a present from a friend a year ahead of me in school, who had already experienced the joy of a huge college mug. Right now I’m drinking lemon-ginger tea out of it and working on an essay for my Freshman writing seminar. =D
My favorite mug is a gigantic orange mug that holds about twice as much tea as your average mug! I like it because I don’t need to refill it so often, and also the color is so cheerful. It’s a very nice way to get going in the morning!
My favorite mug has a picture of unicorns on it. I’ve had the mug since I was a teenager!
I drink coffee out of smallish mugs, but love a BIG mug for tea. My current faves are my Batman mug my husband go me, and an artisan mug from a pottery in Vermont.
I love your mug!! My favorite mug is a Longaberger mug that I have had for years. It keeps my coffee or tea hot twice as long as other mugs I have used. Everyone in this house knows not to touch my mug!!!
Generally, I prefer mugs. BIG mugs. In fact, I just ordered one — a knitting themed mug in purple (!!!) that says “Knit one, sip one” — a 24 ouncer!!! Lots of my mugs are 14 to16 oz. I have one Danoon mug that I ordered from Britain called “Dogs Frolics” that has dogs all over it chasing a string of sausages. It’s porcelain, holds about 16 oz., and even though it’s really thin, it holds the heat in quite well. I’ve collected quite a few mugs myself, but have been trying to cut back. I have 8 mugs at work. 😀
I really don’t have a favorite mug…I work for a housewares store so I have TONS of them. But I do have a favorite teacup (that holds a mugful of tea!). It is from the pattern Davenport originally made by Burleigh (I think). It is creamy colored and has embossed strawberry leaves, flowers and fruit on it; I only bought the cup and saucer in my younger poorer days. Of course, now that I can afford it, the company is out of business and I can’t get any more. But at least I have one cup and saucer!
I rarely drink out of a mug, but when I do it is ALWAYS Longaberger. I’m a fanatic for longaberger. I always say as long as I have my knitting and my longaberger, I’m good!! Even though I’m not big on mugs, I’m desperate for Wollmiese!!!
My favorite is a big big mug from The Efteling, there is a picture on it from the fairytale Little Red Ridinghood. I fill it with lots of tea or hot choco with wipcream, jammmmmie!
My favorite mug is my starbucks giant coffee mug with a cute little dot design on it. I make sure to have one clean (I have 2!) for work each week so that I don’t have to use the plastic cups at the water cooler!
I am so a mug person. I just LOVE the Loopy Mug from the last Anniversary Kit!
My favorite mug is Mary Engelbreit one with a girl holding her hands up to her face saying “OH, NO”. It just sort of captures my usual work day.
my favorite mug is my Duke Gardens mug. wonderful vacation, beautiful garden. Plus the mug looks like a flower pot!
Mugs….I have quite a few but my favorite (and the one I use most) is my Loopy Ewe mug. It (and the caffeine in it) gets me through the busy days at the office (well, that and the times when my friends from the mailroom bring me another box – YAY!!!! more yarn…..).
In general, I prefer a mug to a teacup. My favorite mug is one that I painted that says “Joan’s Java” and then the rest looks sorta like a circus tent to me. It’s silly, but man, it has a great shape and heft to it.
My favorite mug is of “Fine Bone China” made in Staffordshire England and sports a portrait of HM Elizabeth II. The mug supports the theme of my office’s decor: English Tourist. 🙂
My favorite mug has a moose on the front and it is big! I looove, Mooses.
My favorite coffee drinking mug is purple and I got in a Kahlua gift set. It fits my hand and has the perfect “weight”. My other favorite mug sits in my curio cabinet; it is brown, short, doesn’t hold much. One of those childhood memory/souveniers.
My favorite mug was given to me by my hubby for Christmas a few years ago. It has a wrap-around lime green and white cow with big red lips on a hot pink background. It makes me laugh whenever I turn the cup around to see the cow’s face.
Easily entertained in Colorado,
Chris
I really like my 10oz kids travel mug from starbucks… as I do not drink much at a time and I like it to stay hot.
My favorite mug is my blue Longaberger mug. It is a good size and is stoneware so it holds the heat well. A second favorite is one I got in New York at Rhinebeck. It has two of my favorite things on it – a corgi and a spinning wheel.
My favorite mugs to drink out of currently are my Longaberger mugs – I have them in cornflower (blue) and the yellow color (buttercream? I can’t remember)
However, I totally want a mug from June of Rising Sun Earthwear – I’d love it in a blue glaze with the sheep decal on it – sooo pretty – and always reminds me of Loopy. 😉
My favorite mug has a picture of my grandson, Jaxon on it. He was about two years old at the time and is now 4. Nothing like being a Grammie.
My favorite mug is a Tigger mug I got so long ago I don’t even remember when I got it or where I got it from. I like it because it’s taller than your average coffee mug (taller = more coffee!) but not so tall as to feel like a beer stein.
Also – am I the only one who can’t bring myself to drink cold drinks from a mug? If it’s a ceramic mug, it needs to have warm liquid in it. Otherwise it just seems wrong.
My favorite mugs are the ones I have from Waechtersbach. They are a good size, heavy weight (so drinks stay warm), and the designs are glazed into the ceramic, so they go through the dishwasher without fading. I also love my mug from Sheep Meadow in Central Park — probably because of the little sheep logo.