I am in super babble mode right now. I don't know WHY I get like that, but let's face it, I do. I do indeed. :) Usually when I'm tired or sick, or both. I even know I'm babbling, and yet I can't stop myself. The past two nights or so I even had a hard time sleeping. My mind goes nuts as soon as my head hits the pillow! And my thoughts have no particular rhythem. They can go from vanilla ice cream, to weeding the garden to school lessons the next day. Last night it was my hair. I cut it short. Think Jamie what's her name.....Curtis? The Halloween and yogurt girl. Short. Now I'm letting it grow out and it. is. driving.me.NUTS!!
I'm also working on getting the house all ready for the going away luau Saturday. Lots to do. Lots to do. Cleaning. Cooking. Baking. Oh my. And Jason. Oh lawdy. He wants all the decorations up like a week ago. Still can't believe my kids, well, two of them, will be in Hawaii this time next week. I'll miss them but I am super excited for them. What an awesome assignment.
I also was saddened to learn Chipper is retiring. I mean, I think he should have retired a couple years ago, but still I'm going to miss him. He's the last "face" of the Braves we came to love. The great and mighty Braves. I suppose we'll learn to love whatever they bring us in the future, but I can't help but miss the days of Glavine, Maddux and Smoltz. Chipper and Bobby Cox. Even Giles and Furcal.
Now I've rambled on about a gazillion different things and I have a headache. Time to put this blog to bed.
March 22, 2012
March 18, 2012
Our St. Patrick's Day weekend....
We did wear green yesterday! Yep. While wearing said green attire, we braved Walmart(I hate shopping)and Kevin and Jason got the oil changed in the Nissan. I was smart and put dinner in the crockpot beFORE we left for our morning of errands/shopping. Traditional Irish Lamb Stew. YUM. Oh my it was good. I was a bit skeptical of it as I'm used to regular beef stew with the beef stew seasoning packets you get from the store! This had no such seasoning packet.....
We went for a walk after lunch but it was cool, not cold, and super windy so it really wasn't very pleasant, but hey, at least we went out and got some excercise!
I made Irish Colcannon to go with the stew and the dinner all turned out amazing!! I'll post the recipes on here. So good.
Friday night we finally watched the Tin Tin movie and it was really, really good. We all enjoyed it. :)
This morning Jason woke up sick. Tummy ache, queasy and fever. :( With the morning free, I decided to make a tart which I'd found the recipe for. Aspargus-prosciuto and fintina cheese on puff pasty. YUM!!! Poor baby is still laying around on the couch. Not feeling well at all. We're even still in our jammies.
Hope everyone enjoyed their St. Patrick's Day weekend. :)
Traditional Irish Lamb Stew:
Put 1 1/2 lbs chopped in bite size pieces, lamb(I had to end up using 3 shoulder chops)and 2lbs little carrots and 1 chopped/large chop, onion in your crockpot. Add about a half cup chopped cabbage, a cup of beef stock, 1/2 to 1 cup dark lager, and plenty of salt and pepper. Cook on low for 10 hours. About half hour before it's done, check to see how soupy it is. If it's a bit too much liquid, add some corn starch to cold water, mix well and mix in the stew for the last half hour.
Irish Colcannon:
Peel and chop 2lbs of russet potatoes and boil with 1 head of finely chopped green caggabe until tender. Add plenty of salt while it's boiling. Drain well and put in food processer with 1/4 cup of butter, pepper, and a 1/2 cup of half and half and 1 tsp onion powder.
Tart:
defrost one piece of frozen puff pastry for 40 mins. Roll out to a 10x16" rectangle, roll slightly and crimp edges. Brush 1/4 cup mustard and sprinkle with pepper. Boil 1lb asparagus for 5ish minutes til crisp tender. Drain. Spread evenly 2oz prosciuto(sp?) and arrange asparagus. Bake in preheated 400 oven for 20 minutes.
Now it's time for me to check on the wee one again and see how he's feeling.
We went for a walk after lunch but it was cool, not cold, and super windy so it really wasn't very pleasant, but hey, at least we went out and got some excercise!
I made Irish Colcannon to go with the stew and the dinner all turned out amazing!! I'll post the recipes on here. So good.
Friday night we finally watched the Tin Tin movie and it was really, really good. We all enjoyed it. :)
This morning Jason woke up sick. Tummy ache, queasy and fever. :( With the morning free, I decided to make a tart which I'd found the recipe for. Aspargus-prosciuto and fintina cheese on puff pasty. YUM!!! Poor baby is still laying around on the couch. Not feeling well at all. We're even still in our jammies.
Hope everyone enjoyed their St. Patrick's Day weekend. :)
Traditional Irish Lamb Stew:
Put 1 1/2 lbs chopped in bite size pieces, lamb(I had to end up using 3 shoulder chops)and 2lbs little carrots and 1 chopped/large chop, onion in your crockpot. Add about a half cup chopped cabbage, a cup of beef stock, 1/2 to 1 cup dark lager, and plenty of salt and pepper. Cook on low for 10 hours. About half hour before it's done, check to see how soupy it is. If it's a bit too much liquid, add some corn starch to cold water, mix well and mix in the stew for the last half hour.
Irish Colcannon:
Peel and chop 2lbs of russet potatoes and boil with 1 head of finely chopped green caggabe until tender. Add plenty of salt while it's boiling. Drain well and put in food processer with 1/4 cup of butter, pepper, and a 1/2 cup of half and half and 1 tsp onion powder.
Tart:
defrost one piece of frozen puff pastry for 40 mins. Roll out to a 10x16" rectangle, roll slightly and crimp edges. Brush 1/4 cup mustard and sprinkle with pepper. Boil 1lb asparagus for 5ish minutes til crisp tender. Drain. Spread evenly 2oz prosciuto(sp?) and arrange asparagus. Bake in preheated 400 oven for 20 minutes.
Now it's time for me to check on the wee one again and see how he's feeling.
March 12, 2012
Weekend in CO.....
We started our weekend Friday evening with some pretty kickin Thai chicken burgers! YUM. We were lazy the rest of the evening and only watched some tv. We had some shows adding up on dvr that we needed to catch up on. It was an enjoyable, and relaxing evening.
A glimpse into our weekend: I made some yummy cornmeal pancakes that were gobbled up rather quickly! Pancakes in general, aren't very pt friendly, but these were "manageable". Did some shoe shopping, running shoe to be exact, for Kevin. Finally found some in the mall. Managed a trip to Starbucks......tall nonfat latte DOES count as a dairy serving....=o) We watched some movies we'd put onto DVD, including the one sent to Michelle from her Grandpa Eric of Chris when he was 2 months old. We ate at Hu Hot Saturday for dinner and as always it was awesome! It is always nice when we can spend time with all 4 of our kids. After we ate, we had time to kill so we drove over to Culver's and got a couple of drinks and waited there. Eventually we made our way to the Cinemark for our movie, "The Lorax" and we really enjoyed it! And yep, we did have a wee bit of popcorn. ;) We took Sable on a walk this weekend which was fun. Ended up eating at Applebee's as well which was pretty good. And did a lot of visiting and just basically rested and were lazy.
Now this week we have two birthdays Wednesday! Chris and Jason, which you all know were both born on March 14th, 14 years apart! We have things planned for that and look forward to being with said 4 kids again. :)
And now, since it is Monday morning and all, I should probably get dressed and look at today's school lesson.
A glimpse into our weekend: I made some yummy cornmeal pancakes that were gobbled up rather quickly! Pancakes in general, aren't very pt friendly, but these were "manageable". Did some shoe shopping, running shoe to be exact, for Kevin. Finally found some in the mall. Managed a trip to Starbucks......tall nonfat latte DOES count as a dairy serving....=o) We watched some movies we'd put onto DVD, including the one sent to Michelle from her Grandpa Eric of Chris when he was 2 months old. We ate at Hu Hot Saturday for dinner and as always it was awesome! It is always nice when we can spend time with all 4 of our kids. After we ate, we had time to kill so we drove over to Culver's and got a couple of drinks and waited there. Eventually we made our way to the Cinemark for our movie, "The Lorax" and we really enjoyed it! And yep, we did have a wee bit of popcorn. ;) We took Sable on a walk this weekend which was fun. Ended up eating at Applebee's as well which was pretty good. And did a lot of visiting and just basically rested and were lazy.
Now this week we have two birthdays Wednesday! Chris and Jason, which you all know were both born on March 14th, 14 years apart! We have things planned for that and look forward to being with said 4 kids again. :)
And now, since it is Monday morning and all, I should probably get dressed and look at today's school lesson.
March 04, 2012
Running, Dr. Seuss and smoothies....
Our week went rather smoothly with both work and school. This makes for happy, smiling faces. :) Kevin did run his last snowshoe race of the season, but he's going to try running again on the treadmill or outside. We'll keep our fingers crossed his back allows this to happen! Friday we celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday. Jason enjoyed that a lot. I must say I liked it as well. :) I mean come on, who doesn't like Dr. Seuss?
We've had some pretty nice weather here and there. Getting up around 60. Giving everyone the same false sense of spring that it gives every single year. But it's still early March, and we all know this month and next month are prime snow months in CO! I however, am itching to get started planting and doing yard work.
Not a long blog this time but it is ending with a rather scrumptious smoothie recipe:
Berrylicious Smoothie:
Blend in blender a good handful of ice, a small container of vanilla nonfat yogurt(the once I had measured approx 4.90 oz)1tsp honey, 1/4 cup orange juice, 1/2 cup strawberries/chopped, 1/4 cup raspberries and blueberries which OMGosh I just realized I forgot to put the blueberries in it today....and blend until smooth. Delish! And pt friendly also giving some dairy and fruit to your day. :)
We've had some pretty nice weather here and there. Getting up around 60. Giving everyone the same false sense of spring that it gives every single year. But it's still early March, and we all know this month and next month are prime snow months in CO! I however, am itching to get started planting and doing yard work.
Not a long blog this time but it is ending with a rather scrumptious smoothie recipe:
Berrylicious Smoothie:
Blend in blender a good handful of ice, a small container of vanilla nonfat yogurt(the once I had measured approx 4.90 oz)1tsp honey, 1/4 cup orange juice, 1/2 cup strawberries/chopped, 1/4 cup raspberries and blueberries which OMGosh I just realized I forgot to put the blueberries in it today....and blend until smooth. Delish! And pt friendly also giving some dairy and fruit to your day. :)
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