Redecorating

Some hints on my "redecorate the cave!" project

Still have to look smexy with your painting clothes LOL!

Any guesses about the colors?!

Bare fridge

Guess we have to go grocery shopping. Damn it.

Chicken Fried Rice

I LOVE CHINESE FOOD!

Really and truly, I  think junky, not-even-really-chinese food is my favorite food of all time. I love it all! My all time favorite is fried rice :)

So of course I would share a great mock up of fried rice I made up a few days ago!

Serves 6 at 406 calories per serving
(I'd serves this along steamed broccoli and green beans for some extra healthiness ;P

Ingredients:
2 boneless skinless chicken thighs- chopped very finely and cooked through
2 eggs- cooked
2 cups brown rice- cooked
1 chopped onion
2 carrots chopped finely
1 cup peas
2 green onions
1 tbsp sesame oil
2 tablespoons reduced sodium soy sauce
1 tablespoon minced garlic
and pepper to taste

 Pam spray your pan, cook chicken in the spray until browned. remove chicken and cook eggs in pan like you would an omelet or really heavily cooked scrambled eggs, remove from pan. Respray pan, cook onion and carrots in pan. Add the rice, stiry fry a bit, then add the rest of the ingredients. Done :) Also, if you're wondering how awesome my weekend is going, I haven't gotten out of my pajamas at all today LOL!

Happy Memorial Weekend!

I was just informed that this is memorial weekend! WHAT?! I kind of got stuck in a time warp I think!

Look at my sunburn! LOL! It's just a little pink, I swear that Aldi sunscreen doesn't work :( It is the spray on kind, in a blue bottle. At least it hasn't worked that well for me!

Guess how many pounds I lost this week... I'll give you a hint!

Too bad they are pounds I've unfortunately had to "re-lose" but finals week will do that to you I guess! I went and saw Dictator to celebrate, it was funny but not as good as Borat. :)

My life is good, I love summer!!!

Happy Memorial Weekend, do you have any plans to celebrate?

A Lovely Walk

Pictures from a nice relaxing walk :)

Outfit is from my mother in law for my birthday :)

As my friend Heather would say: "Ryan Goslings!"

AWW!

So much more purple in real life!

They were so pretty, and smelled very fragrant.

Me and my girl!

One happy family!

Chili Recipeeee

So for the past few days I have been eating, sleeping, breathing my garden! I'll be taking pictures when I'm all done, which really should be soon!

My sunburn hurts really bad though, I swear I have put SO much suncreen but it doesn't matter! I think my sunscreen is too generic (from Aldi)

Yesterday I told my sister I was making chili for dinner and she told me to blog about it, so here it goes...

This is the easiest chili recipe folks!

 Easy Vegetarian Chili (serves 4):
1/4 cup minced celery
1/4 cup minced onion
1 can kidney beans (rinsed, drained)
1/2 can black beans (rinsed, drained)
10 ounces corn (drained)
1 can diced tomatoes and chilis
10 ounces tomato sauce
1 TBSP chili powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
cayenne to taste
pepper to taste

put all in a pot, simmer for as long as you want. Add water for a thinner consistancy if you'd like. We put cheese and plain yogurt as toppings.

This was my serving, so tiny! My eyes wanted more but I actually only needed this much. Beans are filling.

This was the consistancy after about an hour of simmering and having added about 1/2 cup of water during the simmering process, exactly how I like it :)

Do you like Chili?

Freakin Hot!

It is soo hot out, oh my! The temperature thing says 81 but I'm not buying it, it has to be like 90 LOL!

I decided that today I would finish gardening, but I got way too hot.... Yogurt with apples and cinnamon for fuel.

This is what I accomplished today! Who knows I might go back out there, but not right now! You can see where I just mulched since it is darker haha! You can also see where I ran out of mulch by the black trach bag poking out. I'm still proud of it. Plus I like those old destressed boards, they're neat :) You see all those large weeds by the chain link fence? I'm pulling those after I get the rest of the garden done and I'm planting seeds! There will be lupine, and peas down by the vegetable end! Great way to get a little more privacy maybe?!

So in addition to the flowers yesterday, now we have our herbs planted! From left to right, Basil, Dill, Cilantro, Jalepeno (not an herb but it'll work there lol), and mint. YUM! I can't wait for them to grow, I hope they grow!!! It's so crazy how such a little space can take up so much time. Weeding was the longest, but this took me about 3 hours to accomplish.

I'm off to take a shower and cool off!