Pot & Cover

Oak Leaf Pinot Grigio homemade, homegrown pesto for the sauce 2 TBS garlic, 1 cup shallots, 1/2 can tomatoes all sauteed in olive oil.  Pesto and wine(about a cup) added and finished with fresh basil after mussels opened (about 5 min with lid on) mussels "spitted" with handful of flour for 30 min then rinsed about 1.5 lbs of mussels...plenty served with pesto bread...baguette from M.Street (yum), spread with butter & pesto and baked Berry lime margaritas were flowing before this...so it was REALLY good :)

We had our PFS Team over for team training today ....breakfast and $mart training....helping people get out of debt and food! Hello...does it get any better? We had banana nut bread, which I baked the night before, (recipe from Mark Bittman's how to cook everything, it was good, but not good enough to go to the trouble to type), fresh cantelope and strawberries, coffee, juice and pigs n blankets....we all just the love the little pigs n blankets! 1 package cocktail sausages, 2 rolls cresent roll dough...oven 375, cut each roll dough into 3 triangle, roll each weinie up in the dough, bake about 12-15 min. Later in the day.... Scott surprised me with a yummy cocktail while I was working on here. ..a tropical fruit martini...equal parts apple juice, orange/pineapple/banana juice & vodka, with a lime wedge. So delicious and so fun:) Just as his valentines shirt says, he's my "Captain Love"! We also had a wine tasting...comparing ...

We made this back in December...the 12 th . We were jonesing for a great lasagna and after perusing food network site settled on Paula Deen's . I remember watching her make it on her show years back... how can you forget someone putting cream cheese in their lasagna?! Well, we made it together and it does really have 7 cheeses in it...although that's not her name for it. We made the full recipe which is enough to feed an army...can I say "leftovers". We shared some with dad and "e" a few days later and then did indeed have decadent leftovers. This would be great with a simple green salad with my balsamic dressing...and of course a glass of wine. We have discovered a wine that we enjoy so much it has been deemed our "house wine". We aren't really wine aficionados to say the least...we are about as ignorant about wine as can be...but we know what we like... and its all for 2.97 a bottle! Oak Leaf...we've only tried the Merlot and Cabernet a...