Our fun weekend, plus I made a stinky meal

                             So this weekend the Waz and I went up to Cochem castle.

Besides the fact that it was bomb, Waz and I got a tour of the city and got a medieval dinner IN the castle. It was so delicious and fun and I couldnt stop smiling. I love getting a chance to just be married and fun and young in love. Sometimes you just need a day to remember you like being married to your spouse. He is seriously my best friend. Some days I want to choke him, but 99.8% of the time I look at him and think happy thoughts. I am so glad that I found a man who will put me on his back and carry me up that mountain even though I couldve walked it myself. He made everyone jealous and all the ladies made him feel like he was a boss by the time we got up to the castle. He showed out and wanted to prove he was the ultimate husband.


Anywho enough gushing. So dinner was rolls with lard ( it had herbs in it and it was delicious), veggie broth soup, a giant turkey leg, and two mugs of free wine. Ya'll know I loves me some wine. It had to have been like 40% considering after two SMALL glasses I was giggling like a school girl. Anywho we had a blast and Waz got carried out of the room on a bear skin since he ate all his food and some of mine.

I love traveling and vacationing and I especially love doing it with my hubs. He is sorta the only person who likes to travel as much as I do, as long as it isnt for work.

Food I destroyed this week.

It was supposed to be stuffed bell peppers with ground beef (or turkey in our case) with corn, vermicelli rice, onions, and other peppers cut up. I followed the recipe exactly and it still tasted horrible. I think had I precooked the rice it 1) wouldnt have been crunchy and 2) all the liquid from the green peppers being cooked might have actually absorbed into the food instead of seperating (picture two). So this was a big fat stinker. But since I am cheap and I do not like to waste food I made it better!

When you've got a whole mess of nasty, make nachos!!! I just took the veggies and ground meat threw it in a pan to cook longer and made nachos covered in moozzarella and pepperjack cheese. Yummies. Then we popped in the Muppet show and a good time was had by all.



So much organization! Plus foods we ate this week.

I am in super OCD mode at the moment. I've recently taken a position as part of our units FRG. I get to organize events and get people together and problem solve and I LOVE it. Im planning at the moment some surprises for the good people of the unit and Im so excited! I am quite sure when I get a few weeks in I will be exhausted but as always, organized. Can I also just say how much I love Robert's rules of order. Its like being in a real board meeting like when I was growing up and my Mom was on the school board and I had to go to EVERY meeting.

Anywho I forgot to post the foods we ate this week. A few days this week we had leftovers because I made the biggest lasagne ever which I have officially eaten it for lunch for the last 4 days...and I'll be eating it for the rest of the week.

 Even though it looks like it is boiling over and gross, its a chicken pot pie with a corn bread top. It was so delicious and the perfect mixture of creamy and just enough crust to mean something.

 Peas, slow cooker dijon chicken with garlicy noodles. This was the beginning of our eating healthier with new groceries plan. So far so good, everything we eat MUST have more veggy and carb than meat. Its not for weight loss so please do not freak out on me.

A beautiful fajita. Had I not already covered it in brown rice you would see that there are cut up red, yellow, and green peppers as well as onions. I think we added too many onions because I had to air out the house two days later from the intense eye burning. All in all adding the brown rice instead of spanish rice made it healthier and it was still delicious.

Foods I made/ ate this week

Ive been making food recipes that I found this week and some of the pictures actually look edible. Other ones I threw away quickly and burned (the recipe, not the food). Im trying to also add more fruits and now that it is melon season (wooooooo!) I have found my love of cantalope once again. I wish I lived somewhere tropical so I could eat beautifully colored fruit every day.

This is the beautiful cream cheese pound cake I made for a bake sale this week. It tasted pretty legit.

Yummms. I love fresh fruit. The pictures appear stuck together but we made our own kabobs this week! Wazi got to mix together his special recipe of sauces for the meat and then we added a bunch of colorful veggies to make it pretty as well as taste delicious.

And this was our dinner tonight. It was chicken parmesan. We took three chicken breasts (Wazi wouldnt wait for me to take the picture before he snatched it), floured and egged them and cooked them in the deep fryer. Then I added some ham slices, mozzarella cheese, and pasta sauce. We had garlic bread and a side salad to make it healthy. Absolutely nom nom.


Hopefully I will keep going on my picture taking of my food. It helps me to see if I am actually eating as healthy as I think I am. Or I can at least remember what foods I ate all week so I dont just drink wine for every meal.

Cant stop my impulsive recipe collecting!

So I don't really like to cook. I really enjoy eating and the smells my house makes when I cook, the sound of the mixers, and good music like Stevie Wonder or oldies in the kitchen. I am super OCD so I actually hate creating a mess. Cooking is all about destroying your kitchen 3-4 times a day in the hopes that you can eat a nice meal before you have to start sweating again cleaning up your mess. If cooking was possible without the mess I'd be all over that in a heart beat. But until that crazy invention begins (get going scientists) I have started a folder on my desktop all about cooking foods I could maybe possibly do if no one was to come over for a few days.

1. 3- ingredient pulled pork recipe. All you need is a slow cooker, Pork tenderloin, a can of cola or root beer and BBQ sauce. I made it last saturday and it was beautiful. I made 2 pounds yet there was no left overs...Someone in my house must have a tape worm lol.

Thanks to: http://www.tablespoon.com/recipes/3-ingredient-pulled-pork-recipe/1/

2. Baked Chicken Parm. I have been trying to keep my figure beautiful (Spain!) so I went with the low cal option. Its amazingly delicious and Wazi loves cheese so we both were happy.


Thanks to: http://www.skinnytaste.com/2009/04/baked-chicken-parmesan.html

3. Rolo Cookies. I love Rolos so much it might be a sin. I hope that I can maybe have nice friends one day who can send me some rolos since Germany refuses to make me happy by providing me with fattening foods.


Thanks to: http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2011/07/rolo-cookies.html

These are just a few things that I am really into eating. Of course I have yet to write down a recipe for things that I make myself from scratch but maybe one day I can write it down. I make a really delicious cheesecake where I make my own topping based on what is left in my cupboards. Last time it was homemade reese's. If working at the Cheesecake factory has taught me anything it is that there are no short cuts to a beautiful cheesecake.