Happy Canada Day!



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Happy Birthday Canada!

Today I am spending the day helping my parents renovate their laundry room. I will be on paint detail. It will be a good way to help stir my creative juices.

How are you celebrating Canada Day?

Yesterday I took some photos of Emma and I. Allen has been sitting in Fort Mac wanting a photo of the two of us. I was having a good hair day (hehe) and it was nice out, so I tried to do a photo shoot with the pooch and I. She doesn't sit still...

So that was our slobbery photo shoot. Don't you just love my green pants? Allen loves them...NOT!

Anyways I need to get myself together to head on down to the parents house in Nanaimo.

Have a good Canada Day!

B

PS. My bestie Court has started her own blog, My Life in a Designer Bag. Check it out!

100th Post

Hooray! Its my 100th post! For my post today I have a yummy recipe to show you.

I made seafood spinach curry last night! I played with things and created this one without an actual recipe!

I had halibut, spinach and some curry paste so I got creative. Here's what I did:

Seafood and Spinach Curry

1. In a sauce pan I heated up olive oil and added garlic powder, onion powder and fresh garlic.

2. Meanwhile I bbq'd some halibut up and made some brown rice

3. Once the pan was good and warm I added some curry paste. I stirred it around in the pan, then added some milk. I whisked them all together. I added the  milk till I got the consistency I wanted.

4. After the sauce had come to a good simmer I added prawns, and added the bbq'd halibut. I let this simmer till the prawns were cooked through then I wilted some spinach into the pan. (I let the spinach wilt for a couple minutes)

5. Remove from heat and serve with some rice! :)

It was pretty good. I did add some cornstarch to the mix to try and thicken the sauce. I would try cream or even half and half rather than skim milk next time as the sauce was a little thin for my liking. I would also add more spinach. Overall this was a pretty tasty dish!



So since this is my 100th post, I thought I would take this time to set some goals for this blog. I have some things that I would like to try for my next 100 posts.

• I want to learn more about photoshop. I want to explore photo editing and all that jazz.
• I would like to figure out how to have photos situated right next to each other. Right now I can only do one photo per "line" (if that makes sense). I want to be able to have multiples of photos all together (collage-like). 
• I would like to try and start posting more clothing posts.. "what I am wearing" as well as more photos with my family and friends! I want to personalize this blog a bit more.
• More recipes...
• More fitness (attempts)

Those are my goals for now...

Happy Thursday!

B

Green monster...sort of?

After seeing so many amazing bloggers talking about Green Monsters, I thought I would give one a try. I don't have kale, but I had spinach so I don't know if this smoothie was a "real" green monster.

Here is what I added in my "Green Monster":

• handful of spinach
• 4 strawberries
• 1/2 cup frozen blueberries
• 1/2 cup yogurt
• banana
• splash of water

Once I blended it up... I drank up! This recipe (sans spinach) is my usual mix, but I gotta say that I really enjoyed it with spinach. I want to start adding flax seed or some bran to beef it up some more.

Now that I have breakfast done...my day is shaping up to look like this:

• Taking Emma to a nearby trail for a walk/jog
• Catch up on my reading of "The Help"
• Put oil in my car
• Organize my teaching stuff and office
• Go to tutoring..last session of the school year!
• Head over to the library

What else happens...we will see!?!? My next post will be my 100th post! I'm thinking I will chat about some goals...blog related...life related...
B

Flowers and salmon!

Before I go off about what I ate for dinner...check out my flowers...these are blooming in my backyard right now. Heavenly!

Anyways, back to food. I went grocery shopping today. I have been on the hunt for salmon burgers. I would love to do fresh salmon burgers, but I don't always have fresh salmon...and I hate buying fresh salmon ($$$$), so I found some great ones from Costco. I bbq'd one up for dinner tonight... it was delicious!

They work for quick and easy dinners, especially when I am cooking for one! :)

Some other things to update you on... I discovered this group yesterday and I'm kinda loving their sound. I downloaded their whole album yesterday.



Upcoming posts:

• Lemon Poppy Seed Oatmeal Cookies
• TV shows I'm loving
• A healthy night of eating
• Rio the movie in an open air theatre

Have a good evening! I am off to go watch some tv, relax and have some tea! (I don't know what I would do without tea!)
B

Strolling along the beach..

Took the poochie for a stroll today... my posted photo isn't from today... today was overcast. I didn't have my camera...but I was at the beach. Emma ran in the water..and listened really well. She was a good dog today...phew!

Thats all I have for a post for now... hopefully I will be back with dinner...ipod updates and tv updates!

B

 

Experimenting

Check out my flowers! :)

Today was a pretty productive day. My amazing parents came and saved me from major stresses. My parents helped me build a fence around my garden!

Along with my new garden fence, I cut the lawns. The front and back lawns are nicely cut now! Allen's lawn mower scares me so I was lucky to use my dads. My dad also managed to give Allen's lawn mower some TLC so now I can start it no problem!

I gotta brag for a second now. I made some delicious chicken today. I had some leftover spinach and some chicken. I ended up making a yummy spinach chicken roll up. I researched different ideas online, then looked at what ingredients I had in my kitchen and voila!

Ingredients:

Chicken
Spinach
1/8 or 1/4 cup of Herb and Garlic cream cheese
Spices of your choice

Firstly, beat the snot out of your chicken. Just kidding! Hit it a bit with a meat tenderizer so that the pieces are thinner. I microwaved the spinach. I then mixed the warm spinach with the cream cheese so that it melted. I rubbed the chicken with spices. Then I spooned the cream cheese mixture onto the chicken, then I rolled the chicken up. I secured them with toothpicks then popped 'em on the bbq till they were all done.

Easy as pie and super delicious!

I feel pretty good about my chicken masterpiece. I made rice and carrots to go along with it, but they were overshadowed by the delicious chicken! I kind of love myself for this creation.

Now I am going to relax. Might go for a stroll as I havent done that; however I should add cutting the front and back yard was a good bit of exericse!!
B

Turkey lurkey...

I have been busy baking, cooking and painting! :) Friday night after TOCing and taking the pooch to the dog park, I came home to make my version of turkey spinach burgers.

For my turkey burgers I threw some spinach, spices, and bread crumbs together. Then added some bbq sauce and an egg. I bbq'd them and them enjoyed!

After work on Saturday, I decided to paint the master bath in our house. I used leftover paint from our living room and changed up my shower curtain. The verdict? I love my bathroom! A change in color was exactly what the room needed. Now I want to continue with the rest of the house.

I have been busy baking already this morning. My parents are coming up this afternoon to help me with some yard work...so I am going to bribe...or I mean repay them with cookies! I made these cookie bars from Two Peas & Their Pod.

All I gotta say is "YUM". So delicious and really easy to make. My only comment would be that I wouldn't add the sea salt. They give the option of putting sea salt on top of the cookie bar. Too much salt. I was hoping it would add a bit of crunch...not so. Rookie mistake. Too much salt, but still good. Anyways I would definately give the recipe a try if you are looking for something sweet!

My plan for the day:

• Yard work with the parental units. This consists of putting chicken wire up around my garden. I am hoping this is only temporary to teach Emma to stay out of the garden. She likes to do her high speed laps around the backyard through my garden, crushing them. Not impressed. Oh the other reason...so she stops digging in my garden! ;) Oh how I love dogs! We are also going to cut the lawn. I am nervous to cut the front lawn after all our hydroseeding...I don't want to be the one to wreck the yard!
• Meet with a co-worker for some Booster Juice. We have some epicure and summer work stuff to discuss.
• Walk, walk, walk! (Or a jog if I can get my butt moving)
• Making chicken with stuffed spinach for dinner. I have some leftover spinach so I thought I'd use it up with chicken. I am going to fly by the seat of my pants to figure this one out!

What are your Sunday plans?
B