Life gave me Lemons
Well, our friend Steve did. The Santa Ana winds knocked a bunch of lemons off his lemon tree, so he brought in bags and bags of them. Josh took a bag and I made lemonade. I also zested a few lemons and used it as air freshener in my car. Mmmm smells awesome in there!
Fresh peach pie!
I attempted to make this pie because peach season is almost over at the Farmer’s market. I picked up 5 peaches and made this pie… A day and 3 hours of my life later it’s done. It was sooo involved. I know I’ll never make it again. But it tasted pretty good… just not 3 hours of baking good 
Good bye cheez-its, hello bunnies!
These little bunnies are my new favorite snack! I used to be a fan of low sodium cheez-its (the regular ones were a bit too salty for me). But I recently heard someone raving about Annie’s Cheddar Bunnies. They were right! They’re delicious. Way better than cheez-its. AND on top of the taste… they’re 100% organic, no trans fat and no preservatives or additives. Maybe that’s why they taste better
potatoes with a side of onion
I found my new favorite way to eat potatoes… even better than garlic mashed! Josh sliced potatoes, chopped some onions and green peppers and fried them in butter on a skillet. It was so good! Even the green peppers were pretty good and I hate green peppers. They just absorbed the rest of the flavor. That has me thinking… potatoes with my fresh rosemary from the garden…. yum!
I would have taken a photo, but I was too hungry and just ate them
On a cooking kick…
So I’ve been trying some new things as far as cooking goes. I’m more of a baker (”I am the baker! I bake the cakes! Make no mistake! I like to bake…”). I made sausage cacciatore last night with the chicken sausage I bought at the Farmer’s market and it was delicious! I got a recipe from Lauren that I slightly tweaked for my needs.
I also made some bruschetta which we had tonight as an appetizer. It also turned out awesome. I’m not a huge fan of raw onions and this bruschetta was just tomatoes, basil, olive oil and garlic cloves. It was perfect. Of course you could always add some mozarella cheese to the top as well.
Here’s the sausage cacciatore:
Farmer’s Market
So, I’ve decided to get most of my fruits and vegetables and eggs at the Farmer’s market on Sundays now. They cost the same price as what I pay at Albertsons and they are way fresher and support local markets. With the way gas prices are now… I would expect produce prices to go up. Diesel is so much now!
While I was at the Farmer’s market I picked up my favorite, some purple Irises. $3 for a bunch of 5, not too bad. The seller even mentioned that you should put ice in the water and they will last longer because they like it cooler!
Healthy eating out!
I don’t eat out too often, everyday I go home for lunch and probably 2 to 3 times a month we go to a restaurant.. which isn’t too often from what I hear from my friends! But when we do I tend to eat waay too many calories, sodium, etc. So I found this article really interesting!
Crumbs in LA
Josh and I went down to LA on Saturday to check out Crumbs, a famous bakery of New York City. This is their first location outside of Manhattan. Most famous for the Artie Lange cupcake. Artie Lange loves the place so much and goes there so frequently that they named a special cupcake after him that he himself created.
These cupcakes are seriously jumbo muffin size. We picked up 6 of them for Josh’s Mom’s birthday (she has a major sweet tooth) and 4 of them for ourselves. Flavors? Reese’s Peanut Butter Cupcake, Oreo Cupcake, Caramel Apple Cupcake and Fudge Brownie Cupcake. Yum! The frosting is like an inch thick on them! I can only eat 1/2 a cupcake at a time.
Buffalo Wing Festival
This weekend is the Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo! I was thinking we should have some sort of homage to it here in LA.. maybe Sunday when Ruben & Neeka come by?
A taste of Southern culture?
Miss the warm (but don’t miss the muggy) nights on the East coast. Sat with LoriBeth by her pool after the expo today until dinner time and then we went to the Flying Biscuit.
It’s in a really cool part of town. Very artsy. I had “herb crusted chicken” it was delicious. The salad before was especially delicious- lots of leafy greens and a really good dressing, but I couldn’t figure out what it was. Salad came with a big biscuit (which looks like one, but tastes like 3- sooo filling) and some cranberry apple butter (kinda spicy but delish).
Then the meal came - I forgot what it came with and couldn’t figure it out. There was a cube of about rice-crispie-treat-size in orangish color, my chicken and what looked like wilted romaine lettuce cut up? Then I remember it came with “grilled” mac&cheese. It tasted ok, but sat like a brick in me.. so I moved back to the chicken and salad. The wilted lettuce thing- that was “collard greens”, a Southern thing. It didn’t look remotely appetizing but I had to try it.. I paid for it after all. I tasted it with water ready… and it tasted about as appetizing as it looked. Tasted like canned (yea that gross preservative taste) green beans (I hate green beans) but of course texture of wilted lettuce. Yuck. I don’t recommend it unless any of my description sounded good. Rest of the food was pretty good though, very filling.
I wish I had photos of the food, because I know at least Amritz would appreciate it.
