Other Things to Try...Yes!

Here are some other things I tried over the weekend:

Pickled Quail Eggs

Caviar

Assorted Cheeses

And a few different vodkas (some were plain and others were flavor infused) from around the world:

I also met new people without peeing my pants or making a complete ass out of myself...but I didn't try the pickled herring or pickled lemons...I had to draw the line somewhere!

~The MFP

Who's in Your Head?

I was reading the Barefoot Foodie the other day and came across this post:  Introducing

I've been thinking about her post off and on, trying to figure out 'who's inside my head' but I wasn't really coming up with a great answer, until today:

Kathleen Turner, as Joan Wilder, in Romancing the Stone - Mostly I'm her in the opening scene where she's finishing her book.  She's crying hysterically and way too happy with her own writing.  I've totally written blog posts where I am entirely too proud of myself.

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http://www.hairdye-colors.com

Obviously I am part punk princess!  And I would looooove to do my hair like this, but I have crinkly hair....and I don't know if something like this would work on me.

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http://www.mtcoffinz.com

My punk princess has a huge romantic side.  As a full-time wife and homeschool mom I *really* need to figure out how to incorporate tutus in my everyday life.

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The Muppets Swedish Chef, because really...no one can take my cooking too seriously and I have a damn good time whipping out a crazy dish or two.

How about you?  Who's inside your head?

~The MFP

Cooking Klass

I keep thinking that I'd really like to take some cooking classes, but then I make a dinner like the one I made tonight and I figure there really isn't any thing they could teach me.  Here's the run down of me cooking dinner tonight:

Me thinking about how ingenious I am that I'll be using the rest of the spaghetti sauce from a previous night to make hamburger pizza for the kids' dinner.  

Me spreading the spaghetti sauce on the pizza crust only to find out that I didn't have *quite* enough sauce for the pizza.

Me wondering what the heck I was going to do now.  I certainly don't want to open a new jar of sauce when I needed less then a half cup...

Me squirting the pizza with ketchup, mixing the spaghetti sauce and ketchup around on the crust, and then sprinkling the 'new' sauce with garlic, onion powder, and oregano.

Me excusing myself from the dinner table to take a picture of this fancy pizza.

The kids wondering out loud why I am taking a picture of their dinner. 

Me laughing hysterically while I tell them I'll be blogging about their dinner later.

The whole family playing the game "Guess what mom made our pizza out of?"

Me ending dinner thinking that not only am I a genius, but I'm pretty freakin' funny too :)

I posted the recipe in case you wanted to recreate this dish for your own family:

"Cheeseburger Pizza"

1 Pre-made store bought pizza crust
Small amount of left over spaghetti sauce (that contains ground beef)
Generous squirt of ketchup
Sprinkle of garlic powder, onion powder, and oregano
Hand fulls of mozzarella cheese

Pre-heat oven to 350 (or what ever the package of pizza crust calls for)
Place ingredients on the pizza crust in the order listed above.
Bake for the recommended time listed on the pizza crust wrapper.
Turn oven up to 450 when you get impatient to make the pizza cook quicker.
Cut into squares and enjoy!

~The MFP

Going Out vs. Staying In

One of the things I really enjoy doing is going out for dinner.  I love looking at the menu and having a glass of wine while deciding what to eat.  I enjoy the fact that someone else set the table and will bring me my food.  I especially like someone else cleaning up the mess.  We used to go out quite often, but over the last few years it has been harder and harder for me to go out to eat.

First off, (as with a lot of people right now) we're on a pretty tight budget.  We're making conscious decisions on how/where to put our financial energy.  We've decided that good, healthy food is towards the top - going out to eat is at the bottom.

Then there's the fact that I love to cook and I mean I LOVE TO COOK!  So this weekend we stayed home for date night.  Nathan and I cooked a fantastic meal of shrimp cocktail ($5.45 + sauce we had on hand), scallops with basil oil & bacon ($8.06), and lamb/feta fatayer ($18.21).  We spent hours cooking, laughing, drinking a couple glasses of boxed wine, and eating awesome food.  Not only did we spend less then $35 on a great meal, there's enough left overs to make the fatayers again today :)

*cheers* to at home date nights and if there are any other foodies out there, I'd love to have you over for dinner!