My new goal in life is to open a bar just like this. It will be called "Cheerio...where everybody knows the words!"
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Weekend eating tour
Last night Laura made a great three course dinner. First there was a caprese salad with balsamic vinegar followed by gorgonzola pasta and veal meatballs. For dessert she made some fantastic chocolate covered strawberries. The whole meal was incredible, so she will definitely have to make it again.
This morning I made us belgian waffles with strawberries, whip cream and powdered sugar. They came out very fluffy and delicious. All in all, it has a been a great weekend full of food, snow, and relaxation.
This morning I made us belgian waffles with strawberries, whip cream and powdered sugar. They came out very fluffy and delicious. All in all, it has a been a great weekend full of food, snow, and relaxation.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Lamb sliders with Sweet potato fries
This meal came out great! The whole thing was super easy to make!
Here is the link to the sweet potato fries. You should definitely try these, they were spectacular!
http://www.ourbestbites.com/2009/01/baked-sweet-potato-fries.html
This is the recipe for the lamb sliders. I was worried about over cooking them and drying them out. But, even cooking them for two extra minutes, they came out very juicy and extra tasty!
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1949747
sorry the links dont work, google blogs kinda suck. Anyway, just copy and paste them into your interweb browser.
Here is the link to the sweet potato fries. You should definitely try these, they were spectacular!
http://www.ourbestbites.com/2009/01/baked-sweet-potato-fries.html
This is the recipe for the lamb sliders. I was worried about over cooking them and drying them out. But, even cooking them for two extra minutes, they came out very juicy and extra tasty!
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1949747
sorry the links dont work, google blogs kinda suck. Anyway, just copy and paste them into your interweb browser.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Publix vs. Whole Foods
This weekend Laura and I are gunna do a lot of cooking. Tonight we are going to make lamb sliders with baked sweet potato fries. On Saturday Laura is going to make veal meatballs with Gorgonzola pasta and caprese salad. To follow that up she is making some chocolate covered strawberries which should be awesome. On Sunday morning I'm gunna make some homemade Belgian waffles with whip cream and powder sugar. I'll post the recipes for these dishes next week if they turn out good. Sometimes you never know and I don't want to promote something that tastes crappy.
So we went out last night to get all of the stuff for these three meals and it ended up costing us somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 bucks. This is more than we spent on lunches and dinners all week. But what the hell, if we didn't cook at home we would easily be spending that much money going out.
We had to make a couple stops at Publix and Whole Foods, the latter for the ground veal and lamb. Surprisingly, ground veal and lamb aren't too expensive, like 5 to 6 bucks a pound. Another thing that caught me off guard was the price of spices. At Publix you can get small containers of whatever spice you want for $2.50 to $4. To me that is pretty expensive for what you are getting. I mean, there is not a lot of spice in those little containers, but you suck it up and buy them. However, at whole foods it's a different story. I walked down the spice aisle (almost wrote isle) to see how much I saved buying the stuff at publix and realized it was cheaper at whole foods! I got a pretty big thing of coriander for $1.75 which was almost half the price of the stuff at publix, and a lot more of it. The difference was the packaging. The whole foods packaging was in something like a thinner glad-ware while the publix version was in a glass bottle.
This got me to thinking, how much different are the prices between Publix and whole foods? This would be a good science fair experiment for the kids out there. Laura and I looked around, and there really wasn't too much of a difference between the two. Whole foods will charge you a lot more for frozen meals that are claimed to be gourmet. Note to all readers, there is nothing gourmet about frozen meals! Publix also has sales and coupons which greatly lower the prices of some of their products, so on whole you are going to save money going there. Publix also has lower produce prices probably because of the volume they buy it in, and perhaps they go after a slightly lower grade. In this case I will stick with publix because I can always get exactly what I want there. However, for those pantry items like spices I will go to whole foods.
Publix generally beats the meat of Whole Foods.....on price that is. Hahaha, that was super awesome of me. Anyway, publix prices are not far and away better than whole foods on meats and seafood, but like I said before, they go on sale which makes it a much better deal. However, I think you get a better selection of quality meats at whole foods. You are not subjected to crappy scraps they lay out. Obviously you can go to the guy behind the counter and have him cut you a piece, but most of the time I pick up the already wrapped slices. And at publix, you are definitely NOT guaranteed to get a good piece.
Publix and Whole Foods each have significant positives and negatives which sucks for me because now I will feel inclined to go to both stores to do my grocery shopping. Oh well. I guess the only consolation in this is that both places sell beer, so I guess I will double my beer supply. (chugalug!)
God bless this great Country, and death to all her enemies!
So we went out last night to get all of the stuff for these three meals and it ended up costing us somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 bucks. This is more than we spent on lunches and dinners all week. But what the hell, if we didn't cook at home we would easily be spending that much money going out.
We had to make a couple stops at Publix and Whole Foods, the latter for the ground veal and lamb. Surprisingly, ground veal and lamb aren't too expensive, like 5 to 6 bucks a pound. Another thing that caught me off guard was the price of spices. At Publix you can get small containers of whatever spice you want for $2.50 to $4. To me that is pretty expensive for what you are getting. I mean, there is not a lot of spice in those little containers, but you suck it up and buy them. However, at whole foods it's a different story. I walked down the spice aisle (almost wrote isle) to see how much I saved buying the stuff at publix and realized it was cheaper at whole foods! I got a pretty big thing of coriander for $1.75 which was almost half the price of the stuff at publix, and a lot more of it. The difference was the packaging. The whole foods packaging was in something like a thinner glad-ware while the publix version was in a glass bottle.
This got me to thinking, how much different are the prices between Publix and whole foods? This would be a good science fair experiment for the kids out there. Laura and I looked around, and there really wasn't too much of a difference between the two. Whole foods will charge you a lot more for frozen meals that are claimed to be gourmet. Note to all readers, there is nothing gourmet about frozen meals! Publix also has sales and coupons which greatly lower the prices of some of their products, so on whole you are going to save money going there. Publix also has lower produce prices probably because of the volume they buy it in, and perhaps they go after a slightly lower grade. In this case I will stick with publix because I can always get exactly what I want there. However, for those pantry items like spices I will go to whole foods.
Publix generally beats the meat of Whole Foods.....on price that is. Hahaha, that was super awesome of me. Anyway, publix prices are not far and away better than whole foods on meats and seafood, but like I said before, they go on sale which makes it a much better deal. However, I think you get a better selection of quality meats at whole foods. You are not subjected to crappy scraps they lay out. Obviously you can go to the guy behind the counter and have him cut you a piece, but most of the time I pick up the already wrapped slices. And at publix, you are definitely NOT guaranteed to get a good piece.
Publix and Whole Foods each have significant positives and negatives which sucks for me because now I will feel inclined to go to both stores to do my grocery shopping. Oh well. I guess the only consolation in this is that both places sell beer, so I guess I will double my beer supply. (chugalug!)
God bless this great Country, and death to all her enemies!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Olympic size update
Just to let all of you patriots out there know the Olympics start this Friday. Well, the opening ceremony is on Friday and the games start on Saturday. The opening ceremony should be cool because I have heard rumors flying around about some of the performances. You see, the Olympic ceremonies always center around the history and culture of the particular country. They used crazy imagery to convey messages of how their people are hard-working, multicultural, and of the land. Also, props are used to show the beauty of the land and creatures that inhabit it.
In this case, Canada will have a lot of people, land, and animals from which to draw inspiration. What I have been reading online is that it will be narrated by Mike Myers (star power, check!). O'Canada will be sung by Celine Dion accompanied by the rock band Rush. This should be pretty awesome. Also, a lumberjack (may or may not be played by John Hamm) is going to come on stage and chop down an honest to gosh tree! The torch lighting should also be pretty sweet. Word on the street is, Wayne Gretzky is going to hit slapshots of flaming pancakes into the Olympic cauldron. And instead of snow, the Canadian Olympic committee will rain down dipping dots of mayonnaise. Like I said, this is all rumor at this point. We'll know for sure on Friday.
In this case, Canada will have a lot of people, land, and animals from which to draw inspiration. What I have been reading online is that it will be narrated by Mike Myers (star power, check!). O'Canada will be sung by Celine Dion accompanied by the rock band Rush. This should be pretty awesome. Also, a lumberjack (may or may not be played by John Hamm) is going to come on stage and chop down an honest to gosh tree! The torch lighting should also be pretty sweet. Word on the street is, Wayne Gretzky is going to hit slapshots of flaming pancakes into the Olympic cauldron. And instead of snow, the Canadian Olympic committee will rain down dipping dots of mayonnaise. Like I said, this is all rumor at this point. We'll know for sure on Friday.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Weekend Plans
Laura and I are going to a wedding this weekend. Should be a fun time. And in preparation for the wedding, and other weddings this season (we have three) I have been practicing my dance moves. Laura can vouche for me on this, but I have been practicing the moonwalk and can actually do it pretty well. The problem is I dont have any moves to lead into the moonwalk and nothing to do after the moonwalk. So I came up with a plan and here is my plan:
When people start dancing, I play it cool and just nod my head and sip my drink. I will maintain this level of secrecy for a decent amount of time. Once some of the dancing dies down and the DJ call for the bride and father of the bride to do their dance I continue to hold. At the time when the father twirls his daughter and people start clapping, I know it will be my time. I will bolt onto the dance floor and moonwalk the hell out of it. No intro move or warm up. I'm gunna moonwalk cold turkey. Cold f-ing Turkey! At the end of my 30 yards of moonwalk I will do a 360 spin, or ever more like a 450 or 500, and then start doing some power crotch grabs while my sidekick (taking volunteers) shoots roman candles into the crowd.
I'll let everybody know how that goes next week with some video (hopefully). However if that plan doesnt work, I'm gunna try and hire these guys to make an appearance.
Happy Wedding Season!!
When people start dancing, I play it cool and just nod my head and sip my drink. I will maintain this level of secrecy for a decent amount of time. Once some of the dancing dies down and the DJ call for the bride and father of the bride to do their dance I continue to hold. At the time when the father twirls his daughter and people start clapping, I know it will be my time. I will bolt onto the dance floor and moonwalk the hell out of it. No intro move or warm up. I'm gunna moonwalk cold turkey. Cold f-ing Turkey! At the end of my 30 yards of moonwalk I will do a 360 spin, or ever more like a 450 or 500, and then start doing some power crotch grabs while my sidekick (taking volunteers) shoots roman candles into the crowd.
I'll let everybody know how that goes next week with some video (hopefully). However if that plan doesnt work, I'm gunna try and hire these guys to make an appearance.
Happy Wedding Season!!
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