Favorite Snack

I know everyone has a favorite snack, be it Pringles, or cookies, or carrots, etc. Me, I love tomatoes. I'm particularly fond of home grown ones, but if I can find good ones in the store I'll go for those too: little cherry tomatoes, big tomatoes the size of your fist, the smaller roma tomato. Recently I've begun using them as a little snack. I feel a bit peckish I grab a tomato (usually roma cause they're not tiny like the cherries or hug like the other ones) cut out the little bit of green at the top toss some crazy salt on it and munch away. ^_^

Truly with all my recent cooking and such I've found I'm digging less and less into those things that I was binging on before because I wasn't eating properly. But this semester I've been able to keep up on it. I eat when I'm hungry and I've been able to keep my eating out down to a minimum by cooking as much as possible. And this has helped. I've made stir fries, fish, soups, and lots of other things. Though tonight I think I'm gonna go out. I'm too tired to cook and there's a little mongolian grill down the street from work that makes really good food.

Lately I've also collected the supplies necessary for me to start growing herbs again. When I lived in Tennessee I used to have a little herb garden out back of the house and boy did the Basil make sitting out there a joy. And good lord was the food mom cooked with those herbs delicious. We had enough parsley alive to use it fresh in the stuffing at Thanksgiving. Unfortunately I was never able to recreate my results because since then I haven't had an outdoor area where I could plant my herbs. And I still don't, but I'm gonna try to grow some in pots here in my apartment, I have two windowsills that are perfect for it since I'm on the third floor and there's no way anyone can get up to the windows in the back unless they have climbing gear.

Food is to be Savored

So tonight for dinner I made one of the best meals I have ever made. I had talapia with a Creole Seasoning Blend that I found the recipe for online, and linguine with alfredo sauce. The sauce recipe came from the same website as the seasoning blend recipe. And let me tell you, after the first bite I was gone. I had to sit there for a few minutes just to taste. It was so good! I mean sit back and have a beer good. And I honestly don't care that alfredo isn't exactly the healthiest food, but I love it, and I wanted to try this recipe.

Yeah I think I may have outdone my mother, and she's a great cook. The only problem I had with the meal is that the sauce and the seasoning were too rich side by side. Next time I will either have alfredo sauce or talapia with creole seasoning. Having both is a bit much for the stomach and taste buds.

Finished the Pretties!

So I finished my first quilt today. Well as much as I can finish it myself, I have to send it off to my mother or aunt to get it quilted, they are after all the ones with access to a long arm quilting machine.

But this quilt is going to be a late Christmas gift for my boyfriend. I made it specifically with him in mind, so the colors aren't too girly, but it still looks pretty!

Stuck in the Middle

So I'm stuck in the middle of what may turn out to be a messy divorce. My friend and her husband (my boyfriends brother) have recently been having trouble. Mostly because of her. She got it in her head that she doesn't love him and wants a divorce. He's talked her into finishing her schooling (basically till after this semester) before actually divorcing, but she refuses to even try to work it out. And this makes me so mad because I think she's making a huge mistake. Her husband is a great guy and he's bending over backwards trying to find a way to fix things. And she keeps pointing out his 'flaws' to him and saying he refuses to change, well she refuses to change! She refuses to go out and find new friends in a new town. She refuses to go out and join a group where she might meet people. Which in turn makes her miserable, and she gets snippy with him and then he gets snippy right back, which makes her mad and so she goes all bitchy on him.

Ugh, and honestly I want to side with him because I think she's making a mistake and jumping the gun. Oh and did I mention that for the last 4 months he's been in Iraq? So they got married in the summer just before he got shipped out and now she wants a divorce. Somehow I think she's just lonely and misses him.

GRRR! I'm so mad about all this because they're both my friends and I hate seeing them in this kind of place in their lives! I feel bad for her hubby because he's the one getting the short end of the stick with all this, but I don't want to not be friends with her. I care about them both equally but it's hard when you see one hurting the other so much over something that may not even be real but something that only she perceives as real.

And I'm probably not making much sense. I'm frustrated and upset that I'm in the middle of this, but because of my position as a friend to both parties is stretching me a bit thin.

Yum! Food!

So I'm cooking a good soup and dumplings recipe I found in the bisquick cookbook. At least it looks and smells good. And by good I mean tasty. And of course being 21 means I get actually cook something like this because the recipe calls for wine. ^_^ Ah so nice being 21.

Anyway I'm intending to cook bread either today or tomorrow. My mother sent me her recipe after a week of asking her about it. But I love my moms homemade bread. It's sooooo good. It's hard to find bread that's comparable to hers. Of course I'm hoping I can make a passable loaf as she has 20 or more years on me in the bread making arena.

So yes I am attempting to keep up with the cooking and baking that I started when I came back from Iowa. Because it's a lot better for me health wise to make things from scratch than to buy boxed items and such. That and so many of the recipes my mother has are a lot better then what you can buy premade or boxed in the store.

Horrible Horrible Site, Horrible Horrible Owner

I just saw this news clip about how a dating site as booted 5,000 people based on their pictures. Beautifulpeople.com booted these people after they uploaded new photos after the holidays and the owner thought they were too fat. He is quoted in saying that fatties shouldn't even look at the site much less try to join. I seriously hope this guys 'business' goes under.

Such people should not be allowed to start their own businesses if they're going to discriminate against possible clients based on weight. Someone needs to cry foul on this guy, because what he's doing is no different than someone not hiring you because you're white/mexican/black/whatever. If I were to talk to this person I'd probably tell him how much of an ass he is, that or slap him.

While I honestly think the dating sites are a load of crap, this is unacceptable. It's not fair and it's not something anyone should be allowed to do.

Grrrrr this makes me so mad I could just scream.