a little bit about our adventures in the kitchen lately.

i'm home alone this evening, so i decided to bake. jamie (one of my awesome bosses) talks about his mama's million dollar pie, so i thought i'd at least look at the recipe. well it looked pretty easy and tasty! i had to go buy a 9x13 pan which i am assured i will use again in the future (quite debatable). so far i have chopped pecans and made homemade whipped cream! all i can say is i'll never buy cool whip again. that stuff is good y'all! i just got the crust out of the oven and it's cooling. so far, so good.

the other night i baked chicken. you think "okay, no big deal" but for a girl who can only boil water, it was kind of a challenge. i wasn't aware you had to cover it in foil. it came out pretty dry but rylan seemed to love it. and then i tackled giada's lemon pasta. holy cow thats so good! i was quite pleased with myself.

rylan made awesome chicken parmesan the other night. and when i say awesome, that word doesnt even begin to describe how good it was! i've been begging him to make it again, but alas, he is quite content with hamburgers and tacos. 

although im not always a fan of sweets, since i tend to crave salty foods when i'm hungry, i do prefer baking desserts over making dinner.  my mother has been so proud of me lately that she offered to buy me a food processor. now what the heck am i supposed to do with that?! i really want a mixer. a pretty red kitchenaid one. it would look so awesome on my kitchen counter!

eating well... well, maybe.

so i'm sitting here watching oprah talk about living her best life and i'm getting all inspired and stuff. i take notes! i write down what we should not be eating and what kind of vitamins we should be taking. that dr. oz knows his shit, y'all! i start looking into getting a juicer and the benefits of drinking green tea vs. rooibos (red) tea. i make a healthy shopping list consisting of walnuts and blueberries and salmon and multivitamins (make sure its got iron in it!) 

and then rylan comes home from school and says he wants to go get burgers for dinner.

well there goes that idea out the window! maybe i'll start the healthy thing tomorrow... but i'm still thinking i want a juicer! that stupid infomercial gets me every time! 

our new years was a quiet one. we're not big party people (i'm sure you've figured that out by now) so we spent a nice quiet evening on the couch in our jammies with champagne.  so heres my soapbox about new years resolutions: why do you have to give stuff up for new years?! you have 365 days a year to kick your dirty habits. january first is just one of many days when you can start anew.  so i'm going to try to do more! i'm going to embrace my vices and then some. like, instead of lose weight, i'm saying eat more dessert! HA! i realize i sound like a total hypocrite after going on my oprah health kick, i have no excuse :)

we went ice skating on new years day. well, okay, I went ice skating. rylan crawled along the wall and then sat down the rest of the time. i hadnt ice skated since high school. i had a blast. i wasnt good but neither was anyone else. it was nice to get out with friends and do something totally different. and the best part: they played hangin' tough! we walked over to five guys burgers afterwards and had yummy yummy burgers!