Oh Saturdays, how I love you!
Friday nights are seriously our laziest nights of the week. We usually get home and then realize we don't have the food, so we go to the store. At said store, we usually buy just about anything that looks good, and my dinner plans promptly fly out the window. Last night was, by that definition, a typical Friday night :)
After the store visit we made margarita-daquiri things:
And while we waited for the bbq sauce finish, we made another round of
bruschetta. I loved the recipe so much last time, and we had a ton of leftover tomatoes!
I used the two ends of the bread loaf to make little bruschetta pockets for myself...so cute, and I loved biting into the pocket-o-goodness!
Nate went out and fired up the grill to cook some turkey smoked sausage. Once that was done, we cut the links in half and used them on our sandwiches with the homemade bbq sauce:
BBQ Sauce Take 1 recipe (based on
Neely's BBQ Sauce):
- 1 cup ketchup
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- 2 Tbsp brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp white sugar
- 1/2 Tbsp ground black pepper
- 1 Tbsp ground mustard
- 1 Tbsp dried minced onions
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 Tbsp Worchestershire sauce
Just mix it all together, bring to a simmer, then reduce the heat and simmer for 20-30 minutes (or until desired thickness is achieved). It's SO GOOD, and I'm very excited about making variations of this in the future!
You might now be asking yourself (if you read my post from yesterday afternoon), "What happened to the oven fries and the spaghetti squash salad?" Yeah, well, after our long visit to the store that just didn't happen. Oh well! I did end up baking the squash to be used for lunch today though!
We decided at the store (because that's where all truly enlightened decisions are made) to get some ice cream for dessert. The winner? This Haagen-Dazs 5 Ingredient Coffee delight!
I mean, the ingredient list is
5 ingredients long!! It's not like I even had a choice, you know? PLUS, the milk that was used was skim - even better! I served them up in our miniature Anthropologie bowls, and it was the
creamiest, most
amazing ice cream!
While we were out we rented
Duplicity, but as soon as we put it in the DVD player and sat on the couch, we fell asleep and missed the entire thing. OOPS. So, there will be another
Duplicity viewing at our house later today...hehe :)
Fast forward to this morning, I threw together a huge dish of the spaghetti squash (which I mixed with a packet of Italian dressing seasoning) and marinara for lunch today:
It's likely I'll eat this entire thing for lunch by myself. I mean, it's squash and marinara! That's healthy, right?
And
Nate made us breakfast smoothies (~16 oz or so) with frozen strawberries, a sliced banana, 1/2 cup vanilla nonfat yogurt, and 1/3 cup nonfat milk. SO GOOD! It tasted like ice cream :)
Since we were working this morning, we brought some cinnamon rolls to share. I might have eaten 2.75 of these. I mean, it's Saturday! I thought it would be slightly appropriate :)
So, turns out we're not working as long as I thought, but it also turns out that we likely won't go hiking as I had hoped. The snow's been melting all week, and hiking in mud isn't as fun as hiking on dry ground. So sad :( I love that Colorado has definitive seasons, but winter isn't nearly as short as I'd like! I'm definitely a spring + fall kinda gal :)
What's your favorite season? Why?
We all stuck around and talked for a while. I mentioned that now that the snow has melted I was going to go pick up the dog stuff in the yard...buuuuuuuuut, when I got home I just looked at it and then went upstairs for a nap. Oh well, it's fertilizer right?.jpg)
Which, by the way, are one of my absolute favorite snacks EVER. The problem is I just want more and more and more! A little later we each got a cookie; I got the outrageous oatmeal one:
(please excuse the shakey iPhone pic) It was perfect...just the right amount of sweet I needed!
While the chicken was warming in the sauce, I also made some hummus for the week in the food processor!
Roasted Red Pepper + Garlic Hummus
Last night we worked on taking pictures for the new blog head and I finished the rest of the medical notes. We were up pretty darn late, and only got 4 hours of sleep. Yikes! Not healthy, but that doesn't happen often!
I followed her recipe with the exception of flour instead of protein powder, I added dried cranberries, and did the sliced banana on top with PB. SOOO good! I'm thinking I might use this recipe to make a series on the new blog!
Next time you see this blog it will have the link to the new one! EEEK! I'm so excited, and thank you all so much for your input, suggestions, and kind words. I hope to see more of all of y'all at the new one soon!
We vowed to only use them for occasions when people come over and our dogs are being outrageously annoying, so they haven't had one yet. But they will...oooooh, they will.
He put a little flour on them so they'd resemble "real" pizzeria pizza - apparently that's something he really like about those! Guess you still learn things about one another even after 3 years of marriage, eh? :)
It's the hazelnut candy my pen pal, Jackie, in France sent me! SOOOOOOO terrific, and it totally hit the spot. I also made a bowl of pumpkin oats with peanut buttah:
In the mix: 1/3 cup oats, 1 cup water, 1 Tbsp cranberries, 1 banana, 1 Tbsp flax, 1 packet Truvia, 1/3 cup pumpkin, 1 Tbsp peanut butter. SO GOOD. I really think I love peanut butter way more than almond butter; however, if left alone I would eat a whole thing of PB, so I stick with AB as a means of portion control. Weird?
And while we waited for the bbq sauce finish, we made another round of bruschetta. I loved the recipe so much last time, and we had a ton of leftover tomatoes!
I used the two ends of the bread loaf to make little bruschetta pockets for myself...so cute, and I loved biting into the pocket-o-goodness!
Nate went out and fired up the grill to cook some turkey smoked sausage. Once that was done, we cut the links in half and used them on our sandwiches with the homemade bbq sauce:
BBQ Sauce Take 1 recipe (based on Neely's BBQ Sauce):
I mean, the ingredient list is 5 ingredients long!! It's not like I even had a choice, you know? PLUS, the milk that was used was skim - even better! I served them up in our miniature Anthropologie bowls, and it was the creamiest, most amazing ice cream!
While we were out we rented Duplicity, but as soon as we put it in the DVD player and sat on the couch, we fell asleep and missed the entire thing. OOPS. So, there will be another Duplicity viewing at our house later today...hehe :)
It's likely I'll eat this entire thing for lunch by myself. I mean, it's squash and marinara! That's healthy, right?
And Nate made us breakfast smoothies (~16 oz or so) with frozen strawberries, a sliced banana, 1/2 cup vanilla nonfat yogurt, and 1/3 cup nonfat milk. SO GOOD! It tasted like ice cream :)
Since we were working this morning, we brought some cinnamon rolls to share. I might have eaten 2.75 of these. I mean, it's Saturday! I thought it would be slightly appropriate :)
So, turns out we're not working as long as I thought, but it also turns out that we likely won't go hiking as I had hoped. The snow's been melting all week, and hiking in mud isn't as fun as hiking on dry ground. So sad :( I love that Colorado has definitive seasons, but winter isn't nearly as short as I'd like! I'm definitely a spring + fall kinda gal :)
I had to show y'all my ghetto-rigged water cup:
I got a cup for water from the kitchen because I forgot my bottle at home, and it leaked! I put it in my tea cup to keep it from getting all over my desk - and that, kids, is what we call ghetto. Or smart...one of the two anyway!
This is the most colorful part of my day today :)
And, well, I had a little bit of the banana bread, but no pumpkin...it was feeling left out...I HAD to try it too! I swear!
Pretty good for being from a box mix! I have a good recipe for homemade pumpkin bread using whole wheat flour, which makes is SUPER dense and moist...YUM! Speaking of pumpkin, I also snacked on a little thing of pumpkin yogurt:
1/3 cup yogurt, 1/3 cup pumpkin, 1 Truvia, lots o'cinnamon! I love the texture the pumpkin gives it...I feel healthier just eating it!
Lime calls itself an American cantina - not really sure what that means - but it was very good! I maintain that you can always tell a good Mexican/cantina by the salsa:
I wasn't the biggest fan of the chips; they were flour tortilla chips rather than corn chips. The salsa was very good though!
The burrito was pretty basic:
We both had shredded chicken, rice, beans, smothered in green chili with melted cheese on top. Not sure healthy, but since it's the $5 special one it wasn't that big. I would have liked some garlic or salt (or both), but otherwise 'twas delish!
We said goodbye to all of our new-found friends and business partners with NAASF, then promptly climbed in the Jeep to head home. On the way to I-70 the road was really windy and made me a tad bit sick to my stomach, but once we got on I-70 it was much better! We got the puppers from Amy (such a great friend!) and came home so that Nate could get to work!
But I made it with ground turkey instead of chicken:
Once I got that simmering away, I made myself a yummy chicken sandwich with leftovers from the other night - whole wheat bun, grilled chicken breast, tomato, lettuce, Mango-Ginger-Habanero sauce, and some gorgonzola!
I also made some pumpkin bread from a Pillsbury quick bread mix:
And banana bread (sorry, it wasn't ready for it's photo op) using this recipe. The only difference is that I didn't use nuts (not everyone at the office likes them) and sprinkled the top with raw sugar. That's a fair trade, right?
