Sigh…
Not just for furniture
…and, no, I don’t mean the tasty little hamburgers. Those would be much preferred…with a side of sweet fries…but I digress.
So, this week, I ramped up this whole working out “thing”. Two 1:1 sessions plus a total body fitness class today. Methinks that I will not be too mobile tomorrow.
Anyhow, back to sliders. Yes, furniture sliders. They have a whole new use in the gym.
Get into a push-up position, slide (no pun intended) your feet under them, and, boom! you’ve got instant mountain climbers. Lie on your tummy, place some weights on them, and now you’re doing some weighted butterfly swim stroke.
Most of the fixin's...
Yeah. You KNOW exactly what I’m talking about! Those (toaster-oven) broiled hors d’oeuvres that mom made when you were young!
I had always thought this was one of my mom’s recipes that handed from friend-to-friend, until I saw a similar recipe published in my hors d’oeuvres book. (Side note: I am so glad that I have some knowledge of the French language, because spelling hors d’oeuvres now is so much easier!) They actually published another cheesy canape she made right alongside it – which she actually got from one of the SF Junior League cookbooks.
Anyhow, the holiday season came and went without these cheesy canapes. So, I took it upon myself, after an especially tough week at work, to make some last Friday.
My mom’s recipe differs slightly – she adds curry powder to the mix – which makes it all that much better. With this batch I forewent the Best Foods and substituted it with a vegenaise of some sort and it turned out just as I remembered.
These were fully enjoyed (maybe enjoyed a little too much) with a glass (or two) of Coppola Diamond Merlot.
Yum!
All ready for pancakes!
Oh man, two posts in one week – somebody better stop me before I actually maintain this blog!
Years ago, I was a bit perturbed that my Cooking with Julia blog idea was taken. Two years, too late.
Oh well. In no way am I trying to do that now with GP’s cookbook. But, I am trying to put more effort into cooking, baking and blogging more. I enjoy it so why deny myself something I enjoy? Plus, I have plenty of cookbooks to choose from and blog about.
Anyhow, this pancake recipe is named, “Bruce Paltrow’s World Famous Pancakes”. You’re pretty sure of yourself or those must be some bad-ass pancakes!
These are some bad-ass pancakes!
I’ll admit to using Bisquick and other mixes in the past – they were quick, they were easy – but so is this recipe. I’ve made them a few times already. They’re based on the basic pancake recipe in the Joy of Cooking, but with the late Mr. Paltrow’s twist.
Let me tell ya, they’re pretty damn good pancakes. My kids inhale them – I think this morning they had three pancakes, EACH. Even The Husband had a couple, even though he had a protein shake this morning.
I won’t share the recipe here but it’s in GP’s cookbook and I also saw it in an older issue of Self Magazine.
Minutes away from pancake goodness
Note: if you do make these for a small family, half the recipe, you’ll have more than enough for everyone.
This is my laptop wallpaper- a lavender field in Provence. I’ve been spending a lot of time with my laptop so far this year – and it’s only the first week of January – and the most of the last couple months of 2011. Without going into detail – work has been adequately kicking my ass and then some.
I was hoping to relax over the holiday break – but alas, Ringo brought home the stomach flu for Christmas and it slowly knocked us out, one by one. Did I tell you we also had family arriving that night? So much for an uneventful evening of gingerbread house decorating.
We all recovered just in time for Christmas and I was on a cooking & baking frenzy Christmas Eve. That evening, we had my family’s Christmas gathering, or as I remember it, when gifts threw up on my kids. Seriously. Watching them open present after present after present, I was just mortified. Where the heck are we going put all this stuff?! Ringo just had a birthday, too. Thomas the Train and Cars had literally taken over our house. Along with Barbie, Ken, horses, and Disney princesses. I was hoping for more 529 contributions, alas, there were none. Memo to family: acceptable future gifts will only be 529 contributions.
So the New Year is here and, writing out loud, here are some of my proposed goals for 2012:
1. Take better care of myself – physically, mentally, emotionally
2. Be the best wife, mother, daughter, sister, cousin, friend I can be – not too difficult, I am pretty rad already….JOKE!
3. Actually weigh the weight that’s on my driver’s license – this keeps rolling over from year to year and has morphed from wedding day weight – which would require me to really just starve myself – to driver’s license weight
4. Uh, finish the mud run this year sans injury
5. Rethink the job situation – what this would include, I don’t know just yet. Door-to-door, I work 38 miles from home. 38! In the event of a zombie apocalypse or other disaster, I am the only one in the family down in Silly Valley. 38 miles is a long way to evade zombies and, sadly, I don’t keep a cross bow under my desk.
6. Take more photos with a real camera – not a smart phone camera. This will be challenging as I am slightly addicted to Instagram. See photo above.
7. Blog more? Well, we saw how well that went last time.