Monday-lots of Planning & New Challenge

Good morning everyone!! Hope you all had a great wekend. Ours wasn't too bad. My daughter performed in her dance school's first Spring concert, so it was busy but fun all at the same time. I will write about that in another post.
Today is Monday and I would try to have a menu plan for the week, but I don't. With everything we've had to do this weekend, I didn't have time to even think about it. When I was on the laptop, I was trying to blog hop for the Ultimate Blog Party. I love participating in this since its a great way to meet new people and discover great blogs! While I was looking around, I remembered that I wanted to join Cook, Clean, Craft's Great 2013 Cookbook Challenge. I'm a bit late in joining....but better late than never, right!

I love looking up recipes and buying cookbooks, but I tend to flip through them and put them away and forget about them. The result? A pile of books and papers taking up space and collecting dirt.
Here is my stack of books:

This doesn't include another stack of food magazines that I need to dig out of the closet! Here is the challenge as stated on Cook, Clean, Crafts : Must cook at least 3 recipes from them and like the meals. The deadline for this challenge is the end of the year......so its time to get cooking!!!

Comments

Taking a Detour!!!!

So we are up & out of my dad's house by 7am. It was hard and I tried to leave quickly, my poor baby girl even cried-I felt soooo bad for her. Usually I'm the only one crying, but she really didn't want to leave :( So, we said goodbye-hope to be back soon (permanently) and we drove off!
About an hour out, we stopped for breakfast and had to practically make a run for it, LOL! There were like 20 buses full of kids!! By the time we got inside, the Dunkin Doughnuts line was like a mile long-ugh, there goes my coffee! So we had no other choice but to eat burgers at Wendy's, everything else had super long lines that we didn't want to wait on!
We grabbed our burgers and left. A little while later Laz asks me if I want to stop at Clearwater Aquarium. At this point, I'm not 100% sure-I was sad about leaving & felt like just being home to calculate & come up with good, concrete reasons to move to Florida. On the other hand, I really wasn't looking…

Weekend Trip to Niagara Falls, Canada~Part 2

Here is our 2nd day in Niagara Falls. We started our morning with breakfast in the hotel restaurant. After breakfast we headed over to Marineland. This park was nothing spectacular, but it was a nice little trip. We saw a dolphin show, saw several other animals, killer whales, fed Beluga whales and rode 1 or 2 rides. Again, nothing spectacular but it was fun. A lot of walking, and our favorite part was feeding the beluga whales - they were so cute!
The dolphin show was also fun! Its been a long time since we've seen dolphins in action.

After all the walking, we were run down and hungry. We headed back to the hotel to shower and prepare for our dinner at Massimmo's Italian restaurant. The view was beautiful! I enjoyed dinner, but hubby and baby girl didn't. I like to try new things and unfortunately the other 2 don't - and there wasn't much on the menu that they liked. Baby girl had Ceasar Salad, hubby had Minestrone soup and I had Linguine Carbonara.

Cooking Corner: Cookbook Challenge Day 1

Hi everyone! I'm starting April with a little challenge for myself. You are all welcome to join if you choose. I have a rather large collection of recipes that I've never tried and since I started to declutter my life of things I don't need, this is one area that needs help. What do I need so many cookbooks and binders of recipes for? I don't know - it just takes up space and it's another thing for me to clean. So, I decided that if I can't find good recipes that we love, there is no point in keeping the book or recipe. I attempted this challenge a few years ago but never followed through. This time, I intend to stick with it.
Here's my challenge:
Pick a book a month and try some recipes.
Decide what we like and what we don't.
If I have at least 15 recipes that we like, the book stays. If not, I'll just copy the few recipes we liked and get rid of the book.
Not sure what I'll do with the book yet. I'll figure it out at the end of th…

Living Life 2 Its Fullest

Search This Blog