I was just reading a few blog posts back, and just had to mention this. My sister got me a subscription to Cooks Illustrated and to the Cook's Illustrated Entertaining magazines for my birthday last year, and it's been like the gift that keeps on giving. I love it! What I love is the write up that goes into how they came about getting their recipe, and how they tested it out. I've shared some of the recipes with a few people, including a pie crust recipe with my mom, who has been making pies forever, and she now uses a crust from Cooks Illustrated!
Matt's family recently moved away from the good 'ol USA, and for one last get-together Matt and I decided to host a dinner. In that dinner we used many recipes from CI - including garlic roasted potatoes, roasted pear and blue cheese salad, and a cranberry pecan tart...all of which were AMAZING and delicious...It was so fun. Anyways, if you have't already, check out their website and grab yourself a free recipe or two - they have a few posted. The blueberry muffins are delicious!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
It's a virus.
I don't know how many times I've heard the phrase "It's a virus" this past year. Ever since we enrolled littlest-one into day care we've been to the doctor countless times to just be told that there's nothing that can be done - it's just a virus and we have to let it run its course. And how frustrating as a parent to think, "gosh, she's coughing a lot she sounds very congested...what if it's pneumonia again?!" A $15 copay later, we're back in the car with nothing to show for it!
And it's been more noticeable as of late, but today I've realized that my baby girl is no longer a baby, but a full on toddler. Little Miss Independent wants to do NOTHING that I ask of her, but will get around to doing it on her own time...so frustrating for mama who just wants her to get IN the car so we can go home after day car, or leave the exam room after seeing the doctor, or sit on mama's lap so the doctor can examine her. Ugh....so starts the terrible-twos? I've heard it also is the terrible 3's...we're in for a long haul.
And it's been more noticeable as of late, but today I've realized that my baby girl is no longer a baby, but a full on toddler. Little Miss Independent wants to do NOTHING that I ask of her, but will get around to doing it on her own time...so frustrating for mama who just wants her to get IN the car so we can go home after day car, or leave the exam room after seeing the doctor, or sit on mama's lap so the doctor can examine her. Ugh....so starts the terrible-twos? I've heard it also is the terrible 3's...we're in for a long haul.
Friday, February 4, 2011
What's wrong with me?
I don't mean to sound like Debbie Downer, but I haven't touched this blog in forever! The funny thing is, I can think of interesting things that I'd like to write about when I'm falling asleep at night, but by the morning the idea has left me and I can't remember for the LIFE of me what it was that I wanted to write. So the cycle goes, and my poor blog goes untouched.
Our life is pretty quiet right now. Baby girl seems to be getting healthier, although she still has a cough that sounds terrible. I said I wasn't going to do it, but I am...I'm watching this season of biggest loser. There's a 5'8" man on the show that weighs like 400 pounds...but the thing is, he's hard to root for. He has a MAJOR addiction to food, so I'm not convinced that 3 months on the ranch is going to save his life. I think the MOMENT he gets voted off and goes home he will fall back into the situation that got him to 400 pounds to begin with. I could be wrong, let's hope that I am.
I am also in a rut. Since my diet last year at this time, I have gained back 6 pounds and I hate those 6 pounds but I'm having a very hard time losing them. At the beginning of the year I decided to actually use the P90X videos that I had bought a while back. I did the 1st workout, caught a cold and didn't work out again for 2 weeks. Since then, I've been trying to do a video every other night - although sometimes I still don't get it done and skip an extra night in between. It's such an intense workout and makes me so sore that there's no way I could do it every night...not to mention my knees feel like they get so swollen that my knee caps are going to explode off.
It's super-bowl Sunday this weekend, and last year I had a JC meal during super-bowl...I hope I can keep from gaining 5 pounds at this one, since we are the ones hosting a party and offering up terrible things for people to eat!!
Our life is pretty quiet right now. Baby girl seems to be getting healthier, although she still has a cough that sounds terrible. I said I wasn't going to do it, but I am...I'm watching this season of biggest loser. There's a 5'8" man on the show that weighs like 400 pounds...but the thing is, he's hard to root for. He has a MAJOR addiction to food, so I'm not convinced that 3 months on the ranch is going to save his life. I think the MOMENT he gets voted off and goes home he will fall back into the situation that got him to 400 pounds to begin with. I could be wrong, let's hope that I am.
I am also in a rut. Since my diet last year at this time, I have gained back 6 pounds and I hate those 6 pounds but I'm having a very hard time losing them. At the beginning of the year I decided to actually use the P90X videos that I had bought a while back. I did the 1st workout, caught a cold and didn't work out again for 2 weeks. Since then, I've been trying to do a video every other night - although sometimes I still don't get it done and skip an extra night in between. It's such an intense workout and makes me so sore that there's no way I could do it every night...not to mention my knees feel like they get so swollen that my knee caps are going to explode off.
It's super-bowl Sunday this weekend, and last year I had a JC meal during super-bowl...I hope I can keep from gaining 5 pounds at this one, since we are the ones hosting a party and offering up terrible things for people to eat!!
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