7 posts from September 2008

I felt for stuffed peppers, but not the regular beef with tomato sauce peppers..  I made mine with garlic romano pork sausage, which I sauteed with additional garlic, french mustard, lemon zest, white wine, red onions, and carrots. The sauce that was rendered from that I hit with a little cream, fresh thyme and rosemary.

I combine that with jasmine rice and stuffed my red and green peppers..   boy topped each pepper with his champagne Dijonaise sauce and we popped them in the oven for 20 minutes at 350...  I made garlic toasts and whoa..  what a Thursday..   yea, I know, I'm behind on posting =)

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yea.. I had quite the post all ready, mentally of course - I'm not in the mood, it's been a long week..

so, here's my drink of the week.

table grape margarita.

holy shit, so good..

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Ok, so.. I called it. My boss asked me Friday if I had plans for the weekend.. I said ohhh, well I have an idea this is going to be a chaotic weekend and I will be flying by the seat of my britches..     lord, did I call it. Between family matters, more family matters and one loosely minded individual imposing theirself into our lives, this has been a hell of a weekend, and I swear not the good way..

Oddly enough, we found time to laugh, love and...  get tipsy =)     We also actually rested quite a bit..  and should the DRAMA been removed, it would have been a perfect weekend. Oh well, I've got the next, and the next to look forward to.

Enjoy my weekend photos, sans the drama. =)

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after work on friday, i headed over to the market to pick up some herb plants ive been swearing to start planting.

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thai basil

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my not behaving very well puppy enjoying one of her many naps.

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the entrance to my home.. my porch is warm, sunny and i love going thru that door.

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my heavenly falling place..  where i take my sunday naps...

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i also found time to make cookies - chocolate chocolate chip espresso to be exact..   yum, yum.

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vanilla bean to accompany said yummy cookies.

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nothing better than an empty, coated ice cream scoop cause you know where the ice cream is..

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boy's incredible boule..    ah, sunday nights - a love hate relationship..

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What is possibly more homey.. and comforting than breakfast? What makes it eveeen better? Having it at night..  To be quite honest I always had a distaste for breakfast at dinner time, partially in part of my growing up, you ate lunch at noon and dinner no later than 5:00... so, breakfast for dinner? Right..

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Boy has definitely shown me the light, and with that brought some goodies to the table. Well, in this case.. the couch.

After a long day at the office, nothing is better than a hot breakfast for dinner, paired with a cute movie and ...love, yea.. love is in breakfast.

The smell of bacon takes you to the countryside, perhaps a log cabin you stayed at..or a roadside cafe on route 12....

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Yea, breakfast is love.

Enjoy..

What Every Omnivore Should Eat -- According to Andrew

The title says it all, these things make it worth, the while.

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a wonderful pic of boy, spontaneous.

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my one legged noise maker at the beach.

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nature, water, trees, moose & boy. who could ask for more?

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my sweet girl.

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sand key beach.

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palm trees in pre-hurricane wind.  =)

So... I've been delinquent.. I know. Well, I've got good reasons! Mostly..

Family from Boy's side has been in from the great north, so we've been entertaining, and shopping, and eating, and swimming, and going out on the ocean...   =)    Of course, I don't have pics of any of that..  I always forget my camera in the rush out the door..   But I do have pics of whats been going on pre-family and post..   You know how I like to throw a week together in pictures, so here you have it:

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if you know me at all, just even read me every other month then you'd know i love rain, i could live my life to the sound of rain..  so on a rainy day, i am of course jumping at the chance to photograph something, anything..  on that particular day i caught a nice glimpse of the downpour from my porch and then a candle's flame burning in the rain drop laden window screen - it looked so cute, so cottage-esq that I just had to..

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before heading out the door to pick up said family at the airport last sunday, i was complaining that i was hungry,so of course the endearing boy of mine decided to make bagels and cream cheese - hah. half hour later i was feasting on literally one of the best things i have ever put in my mouth - crisped salami, perfectly poached soft egg, swiss, fresh basil plucked from the plant, a red chili tarragon sour cream - oh my lord, can i have another? or three?

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an actually well thought out meal submerged from our kitchen last week, a slow simmered fresh basil garlic tomato sauce topped boy's FABULOUS gnocchi's and was paired with girl's bread salad.. oh it was perfect, luscious sausages in the heavenly garlic/basil richness that was the sauce - boys crisped gnocchi's and the perfect combination of cucumber, buffalo mozz, crunchy french bread and balsamic..  ahhhhhh...

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on another particularly rainy day last week i caught this while tooling around the beach...

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homemade chocolate chip cookies, coffee ice cream - not much else to say..

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my new oil burner from bath and body works, hit that with a little spiced pumpkin and it smells like a fall bakery throughout my house...   heeaaaveennn....