You request and I shall fulfill. I have a great salad and salad dressing to go with said Strawberry Pasta. I bring this salad to many o parties too.
If I may be a salad snob for a moment, I rarely buy bottled dressings I really do prefer to make them. Eh gads have you read what's in most bottled dressings!!!! Many of them have the what I call "evil stuff" high fructose corn syrup, I try very hard not to have that in any foods that my family but that is a personal choice but I am kinda freaky that way!
Ok now I am off my soap box, for now, on to the "salad of heaven".
Strawberry Avocado Salad
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup raspberry vinegar
1 1/2 Tbl sugar
1/4 tsp. hot sauce
1/4 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp/ pepper
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 head romaine, torn into bite-size pieces
1/2 (11 0z) can mandarin oranges, drained ( I have used the whole can because that's how I roll)
1 cup strawberries, stemmed and quartered
1/2 cup sliced read onion (I forget this a lot)
1/4 cup coarsely chopped toasted pecans (yes you do need to toast them)
1/2 avocado, sliced (I use the whole thing b/c really when you love avocado like do, who the hell can leave a half of avocado on the counter)
Combine the olive oil, vinegar, sugar, hot sauce, salt, pepper and cinnamon in a jar. Shake well and refrigerate for 2 hours. Combine the romaine, oranges, strawberries, onion, pecans, and avocado in a large bowl. Top w/half the dressing; toss well. Serve w/the remaining dressing on the side.
Hope you enjoy it,
k-
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Lessons Learned Today
So it's the usual "when life gives you lemons you make lemon aid" right? So when a lovely friend gives me a 4lb box of strawberries I make Strawberry Pasta!!! Yes PASTA, don't be scared try it you sissy!
Strawberry Pasta
1 pint fresh strawberries
1/2 pound spaghetti
1/4 cu grated pecorino or parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup heavy cream
mint sprigs for garnish
Puree the strawberries in a blender. Strain to remove seeds ( I never strain as I have a life). Cook the spaghetti using the package direction; drain and toss with the cheese. Heat the butter and cream in a small saucepan. Move the pasta to a serving bowl, cover with strawberries, and then the butter sauce. Toss well. Serve with additional cheese and garnish with mint, is desired.
I know what I am having for dinner tonight, how about you?
-k
Strawberry Pasta
1 pint fresh strawberries
1/2 pound spaghetti
1/4 cu grated pecorino or parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup heavy cream
mint sprigs for garnish
Puree the strawberries in a blender. Strain to remove seeds ( I never strain as I have a life). Cook the spaghetti using the package direction; drain and toss with the cheese. Heat the butter and cream in a small saucepan. Move the pasta to a serving bowl, cover with strawberries, and then the butter sauce. Toss well. Serve with additional cheese and garnish with mint, is desired.
I know what I am having for dinner tonight, how about you?
-k
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Ode to the Cupcake
Why on earth do I have an obsession for cupcakes? I love those little suckers. I want to make them all the time. I call friends up and beg them to make them for them or their kids parties. I know I have an unhealthy love of the cupcake. I should probably be medicated but what to take?
When people ask me that lame arse question about "If you could do any job what would it be". Well I would go to work for a cupcake bakery, for free, just to learn how to make amazing cupcakes.
I have one problem when I make cupcakes, just that, I have cupcakes around me. I don't want to eat them, I just want to give them away! If they are around me I might eat said cupcakes and then said arse can't fit in the door, and trust me nobody wants to see that.
So unfortunately each kidlet birthday party I set myself up. I keep setting the bar higher and higher darn it! I even start doing the research over 6 months in advance...SOMEBODY STOP ME!!!! I have another party coming up in August and I am already stressing about how or more like what type of cupcakes to make for my little princess.
If Jessie James can get treatment for being "an asshole" is there any treatment for cupcake making addiction?
Food Byte: Another way to kill bacteria on sponges (besides the micro for 2 minutes) you can boil your sponge for a full 5 minutes.
Live Laugh Love!
Kristin
When people ask me that lame arse question about "If you could do any job what would it be". Well I would go to work for a cupcake bakery, for free, just to learn how to make amazing cupcakes.
I have one problem when I make cupcakes, just that, I have cupcakes around me. I don't want to eat them, I just want to give them away! If they are around me I might eat said cupcakes and then said arse can't fit in the door, and trust me nobody wants to see that.
So unfortunately each kidlet birthday party I set myself up. I keep setting the bar higher and higher darn it! I even start doing the research over 6 months in advance...SOMEBODY STOP ME!!!! I have another party coming up in August and I am already stressing about how or more like what type of cupcakes to make for my little princess.
If Jessie James can get treatment for being "an asshole" is there any treatment for cupcake making addiction?
Food Byte: Another way to kill bacteria on sponges (besides the micro for 2 minutes) you can boil your sponge for a full 5 minutes.
Live Laugh Love!
Kristin
Friday, January 1, 2010
Something I Usually Don't Talk About
When I woke up this morning and my very challenging son used a method to climb up the beg only to give me a sleepy smile then to crawl on my stomach to snuggle me I thought about a day that feels like it happened on another planet.
Please let's go back in time (insert wooshing here), Elyas' pregnancy was a total surprise (long story don't let me bore you w/it). I was totally terrified that some medication that Tarik was taking would jack up my baby or my sugars being out of control so early in the pregnancy would jack up my baby etc... so yes I had an amino on our wedding anniversary no less!
Well I can't tell you how amazing it was to find out we were having a boy, I mean really I didn't care, I thought I was having another girl because, well because I already had one so that ment I was having another one right? NOPE IT WAS A BOY!!! So now we had our girl and now I was being given this gift of a boy. I thought the universe was being kind for once, oh the irony at that alone sends me into my best evil laugh!
It was an ordinary OB visit, I had tons of them. I got to have another scan and in my thinking all was good. That was until my sweet OB got to tell me that usual bit of, "We don't want to worry but we seem to think he has some extra fluid on the brain". WTF? How do you not worry, I mean I didn't at the office because I didn't have time for the words to sink in. Then the sun sets and your alone w/your thoughts...and then your up at 1 am w/Dr. Google. That helped TONS let me tell you!
I had to go to a special office w/a high powered machine thingy, and they, not really assholes but because they made me wait a week, yes a whole week to get in I call them assholes. The very same people that told me I was having a boy, were fully and completely assholes according to me and that's all that mattered...so for over a week I had to contemplate the idea that there was something wrong w/my son even though the amino said "it's all good lady", see assholes, all of them.
I didn't many people, I didn't want anyone to feel like I did at that moment, esp. if there was nothing wrong in the end. That was just stupid to do that to people I loved.
In the end my son didn't have any fluid on his brain, he just had a big ass head! Well that alone brought up new fears and I think I started demanding a c-section cause there was no way I was gonna have my lady business trashed up again!
As a Mom I need remember when I get frustrated at his little arse I need to think back about the time when I almost lost him. I think I will go hug him right now.
Kristin
Please let's go back in time (insert wooshing here), Elyas' pregnancy was a total surprise (long story don't let me bore you w/it). I was totally terrified that some medication that Tarik was taking would jack up my baby or my sugars being out of control so early in the pregnancy would jack up my baby etc... so yes I had an amino on our wedding anniversary no less!
Well I can't tell you how amazing it was to find out we were having a boy, I mean really I didn't care, I thought I was having another girl because, well because I already had one so that ment I was having another one right? NOPE IT WAS A BOY!!! So now we had our girl and now I was being given this gift of a boy. I thought the universe was being kind for once, oh the irony at that alone sends me into my best evil laugh!
It was an ordinary OB visit, I had tons of them. I got to have another scan and in my thinking all was good. That was until my sweet OB got to tell me that usual bit of, "We don't want to worry but we seem to think he has some extra fluid on the brain". WTF? How do you not worry, I mean I didn't at the office because I didn't have time for the words to sink in. Then the sun sets and your alone w/your thoughts...and then your up at 1 am w/Dr. Google. That helped TONS let me tell you!
I had to go to a special office w/a high powered machine thingy, and they, not really assholes but because they made me wait a week, yes a whole week to get in I call them assholes. The very same people that told me I was having a boy, were fully and completely assholes according to me and that's all that mattered...so for over a week I had to contemplate the idea that there was something wrong w/my son even though the amino said "it's all good lady", see assholes, all of them.
I didn't many people, I didn't want anyone to feel like I did at that moment, esp. if there was nothing wrong in the end. That was just stupid to do that to people I loved.
In the end my son didn't have any fluid on his brain, he just had a big ass head! Well that alone brought up new fears and I think I started demanding a c-section cause there was no way I was gonna have my lady business trashed up again!
As a Mom I need remember when I get frustrated at his little arse I need to think back about the time when I almost lost him. I think I will go hug him right now.
Kristin
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