Sunday, January 28, 2007

It's Friday... I'm in love

Menu:

French Lentil Soup
Caesar Salad
Creamy Pumpkin Risotto
Saute of Chicken with Dried Cherry and Balsamic Reduction
Chocolate Souffle with Raspberries and Ice Cream



The food:
French Lentil Soup

Croutons

Chocolate Souffle


The family:


The dining room:

The kitchen afterwards:


It's Friday... I'm in love.


Friday day

Friday night was a wonderful experience.

Friday day was an adventure. I spent the morning wandering around Y-lots looking at all of the Hondas and clicking the panic button on JB's key ring. I found it only after careful phone coaching after she got out of class. I showed up in Lindon two hours late and, thankfully, my brother's landlord was still there to let me into his apartment. I spent the afternoon chopping and cleaning and measuring and made it back to Provo with 30 minutes to shower, get ready, turn in my stats homework, and return JB's keys.

The layout for the rest of the evening was as follows:
5:15--Arrive in Lindon with my brother and sister-in-law
6:45--Send them on an errand so that I could finish the setup
7:15--Welcome them back, along with my sister and her husband, and start the meal.

What actually ended up happening was this:
5:35--Leave Provo.
5:50--Arrive at apartment
5:55--Discover that they don't have a key for the lock that I used on my way out.
6:00--Call landlord and his two children
6:05--Start the trek back to Provo to get a key
6:25--Pick up key and check oil (?)
6:35--Leave Provo again
7:00--Arrive in Lindon, again.
8:00--Send everyone away and hope that the evening isn't at all like the day was.

In fact, the evening was utterly fabulous.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Happy Chili Chooseday!


This is why my job used to be awesome.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

My Brother's 27th Birthday

Dear J-Dawgs,
I am happy to report that our gift of 24 polish J-Dawgs was WILDLY successful! Thank you for your help and generosity! His face lit up like a Christmas tree. The 24 hot dogs and the J-Dawgs t-shirt were easily his favorite gifts this year. And probably ever, actually. So thank you! You made a boy in Colorado VERY happy.
--Photogenic

Friday, January 19, 2007

Coulibiac

From The Gourmet Cookbook:

This ultimate one-dish meal, a fabulous mosaic of salmon, rice, and minced mushrooms, is the pinnacle of Russian cuisine, perhaps best described by the court secretary in Chekhov's "The Siren": "The kulebyaka should be appetizing, shameless in its nakedness, a temptation to sin."

Layers: Pastry, breadcrumbs, rice/mushroom mixture, salmon, hardboiled eggs, rice/mushroom mixture

And then pastry


It was fabulous.

Sunday, May 14, 2006

My problem?

I go for inaccessible men.



Coming soon: Philmont, my problem part 2, and reasons I'm happy to be home

Saturday, April 22, 2006

My new obsessions

Country Dance (please note the belt buckle and cowboy boots)




Russian Literature (it's wonderful. Anna Karenina is by far my favorite book)



Chocolate ice cream from the Creamery on 9th (I don't even like chocolate ice cream! This is amazing)



The color green



And, by the way, what's up with Provo weather?

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

My little town

This is a little story about two girls named Christin and Jenny. Who lived in the little town of White Rock.

THE BEGINNING

The day before our photo tour Christin informed Jenny that she was going to get ready before they left… hair, shower, the whole shebang. And so Jenny (who had been planning to show up in her sweats) woke up and actually got dressed. She grabbed her breakfast (a glass of water) and ran out the door to pick Christin up at 5:30. Here is a picture on her way out the door:

Jenny and her breakfast. Delish.

Jenny arrived at Christin's house...

...and found Christin dressed like a hobo, huddled in a blanket, eating her breakfast which consisted of red peppers. She was dressed in flip-flops, plaid pajama pants and a rugby sweatshirt. Yikes. And she was really grumpy. Jenny refrained from saying anything, just straightening her super-cute and stylish outfit before she pulled out.

They drove to a lightly populated part of White Rock and waited for the sunrise.

They waited and while they waited they climbed on the guardrail which Christin promptly fell off of, thoroughly bruising her right shin and knee. If you look closely you can see her huddled on the ground, nursing her injured limb.

Here are some more shots of Christin's pain for your enjoyment.


NOTE: This photo tour took place on May 28, 2005 and Christin still has a lump and a scar. Continuing on...

These are while they are waiting.

Jenny was the panoramic genius. Christin was still crying at that point.
So they waited and waited…look at how happy they are!

But, alas, the sun was not rising there. So they went off in search for another place to see the sun rise.

They went to Overlook Park but someone had already beat them there. It was a boy and a girl and they were sitting awfully close. Good thing Jenny and Christin don’t pick up on subtle hints. So they took pictures anyway.


Some enterprising soul made a cross out of rocks on the bottom of the canyon. It looks like it is under water but don’t worry, it’s not.

Here comes the sun!





Next Jenny and Christin decided to go and see the sights of White Rock. Here they are:

The day care center Jenny works at

The giant cactus that a girl Christin was baby-sitting fell into. Let's be honest, that was a bad day.

Jenny’s elementary school

Its bitter rival where Christin spent her formative years.

The bank. The entire bank is in the picture.

Christin’s backyard, complete with creepy stray cat.

The only elevator:

The two stoplights:

According to Jenny, the funnest (she said it, not me) street and an explanatory diagram:

The church (please note Jenny's schnozz):

Smiths:

Inside of Smiths Jenny and Christin revisited some of their guilty pleasures.

Exhibit A: Coconut popsicles. There aren't any in the picture but I did color a fake box of them. These have accurately been described as heaven on a stick. Hallelujah, amen. Jenny and Christin spent a lot of time eating these little beauties.


Exhibit B: Jenny and Christin discovered during their high school years that shoe polish + cars = fun had by all.

After seeing the sights they left White Rock and went to Los Alamos. Here are some pictures of the view:

Why, you may ask, were they going to Los Alamos? White Rock is the best. Los Alamos has just one thing that is irreplacable:

The greatest breakfast burrito place in the world.

Here are the culinary geniuses that made this experience possible:

The burrito itself:

And the life cycle of such a burrito:


I highly recommend it. It is so choice.


The end.