Pot & Cover

g.i jane is on the tv...its sunday nite, wine in my glass and I SMELL BACON. does it get any better? no. we're making, collectively, the two of us, seafood pasta primavera. we have a bunch of great vegies in the fridge that need to be used, then add delicious crab and shrimp from Costco, and a homemade cream sauce...viola...pasta primavera ala the works'. i don't even have the sunday nite blues...life is too good tonight for that. how can anything be "blue" when it smells this good? i have freshly planted flowers on my deck, chimes singing in the cool (almost) spring breeze and a handsome hubby cooking my dinner! life is good, God is Good. I just asked my honey if he needed any help..and amidst the sounds of him stirring his sauce he replied "nope, actually I'm in cooking heaven"...oh what a precious reply...like I said...life is good. p.s. i smell bacon because Scott declared that it was blasphamous to not have a little bacon in our sauce...oh so...

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 ...

Finally we've actually made it to August! We've recently had a new appreciation for bell peppers. My parents love them...raw, grilled, any way....i didn't see the point. Neither did Scott. We finally added some to a batch of Marriage Chili(which Emeril's original recipe calls for, and we arogantly dismissed) a few months ago and noticed a difference...and we've been becoming bell pepper converts. I always 'wanted' to like them...they are healthy right!? But never cared....until now... Scott found some at the local Kroger...4 for $.79...they were VERY 'ripe'...still good, but on their last leg...but they are normally like 1.79 each! These were the highly prized yellow and orange...not those 'common' green ones... So he brought them home...not knowing what we'd do with them...just knowing they were somehow 'important'...(where's Madison to make sure I'm using my italics correctly!) anyway...inspired by shows like "Chop...