Yay Fall

I love the summer. It's always been my favorite season and it will most likely forever hold that title. However, lately fall has been "growing on me" (in the words of my friend Kelly). It's not the cold weather or leaves either... as I HATE being cold and leaves get stuck everywhere. It's the apple picking, pies and halloween. Anthony and I recently went apple picking this Saturday and tonight I made the first pie of the season. So now that I have my yummy treat.... bring on the cold... my uggs are patiently waiting :)

MMM Meat

So my man decided to call into work yesterday.... and I was kind of annoyed mainly because he got to sleep in and watch TV all day while I was at work. But, he redeemed himself with the meal below.

you ask why I don't know how to cook? Who needs to when your guy does it!!



It makes the macaroni and cheese I made the night before look pitiful. Oh well.

Anyway - tonight we are going to see John Mayer in Manchester! 5TH ROW SEATS!!! I cannot wait... i'm sure i'll blog about my night as we can bring a camera in!!

Love is Sweet

Tonight while driving around, Anthony decided he wanted to make a fruit salad.

I have never made a fruit salad before.

yes. I am serious.

So if you don't know Anthony then you do not know that he works at Shaw's Supermarkets... and not only is he a manager but he is the PRODUCE manager. Yes, the ruler of fruit (and veggies, and weird dips). Anyway, he claims while picking out a "perfect" pineapple that he is the best fruit cutter in his department and that he would show me how to make a great fruit salad. So we got home and got to work - I think it turned out pretty nice.

NOTE: he just HAD to buy a new tupperware container for the salad and I warned him it wouldn't be big enough - needless to say it barely fit. I may not know how to cook or make fruit salad - but I totally excel at spacial situations.

Anthony said you grab the pineapple by the top and rip it off... then you slice it!



Next we did the melons - and um... well.... yea






Anyways I think that I took quite the initiative when I volunteered (on my own!) to cut the strawberries... and even though I managed to get the top of one still in the salad (that Anthony pointed out to me while he was watching me like a hawk)... I think that I could quite possibly be the BEST strawberry cutter ever.... alive.



And finally - our salad... and a fun pic to end the post with!

Dinner for my loves...

I am cooking challenged. I can't make anything that isn't frozen first or comes from some sort of mix. However, I can totally do baked chicken (note: it took me a while to finally agree to touch the uncooked chicken breast) with a rice mix and frozen vegetables. I love making poptarts, toaster strudels, frozen pizza... oh, that's not cooking? Crap.

In January my friend and bridesmaid Stefanie came over to watch a movie and we kind of blew up the microwave making popcorn. It really wasn't either of our fault - the microwave just happened to die this day and even though it looks like I can't even make microwave popcorn, it is entirely not my fault - it could have happened to Anthony. It just didn't. I have proof that while I have not mastered cooking, I have mastered fire safety:




I even made sure I showed Stefanie the importance of fire safety:


So needless to say - we don't have a microwave... and we haven't gotten one yet. I figure we've gone this long, why not just wait until we register. See the thing is, I don't really have emotion for food (at least anything that isn't dessert) and so it's not a big loss to me. However, when I realized that 90% of what I cook is made in the microwave, I knew I was in trouble.

That is why - in my first major attempt at becoming more wife-like when it comes to cooking... I made stuffed shells last night!!! Now, Stefanie said I cheated because I didn't make my own sauce, but baby steps please!!

Here are the results:



YAY it was a success!!