The King's Speech

The King's Speech was amazing! I highly recommend it. I am a fan of Colin Firth.

Girl's Night

Tomorrow night I am going out with my friend Becky (that I work with) for a girl's night. Dinner, a movie and a trip to the bookstore. We both love to hang out at the bookstore. We are going to see The King's Speech. I like Colin Firth and Becky is a speech pathologist (currently working as an ESOL teacher) so I think she will like the film even more since it is about a speech problem the king has (as well as other story plots I'm sure).

I am looking forward to a big girl movie and some adult conversation, especially since Alea and I might be home together some next week with another snow and ice storm coming our way.

Snow days 2 and 3

Snow day today and tomorrow. This makes the 2nd and 3rd snow days of the year. Alea and I are spending our days sleeping in and watching movies on download. Good times.

Devil's Food Rollo Candy Cookies

I made these tasty cookies today for us to enjoy. Davin's parents are here this evening and are staying the night to stay home with Alea tomorrow. I have an inservice day and Alea does not have school. Yummy.

I also made an apple crisp and orange rolls along with fridge mashed pototoes and the sirloin and mushroom main dish from last weeks OAMC day.

Pics to follow.

Potato soup pizzazz

Tonight at dinner I realized I forgot to add the salt and pepper to the potato soup, so I added it everyones soup bowl. Alea tasted her soup and said that the salt and pepper "did add that certain pizzazz". My goodness, what a goofy girl! Pics of the soup are below.

Snow day and cookies

Today Alea and I both were blessed with snow days (everyone needs an unexpected day off now and again). Alea was invited to play next door with her BFF and has been there for several hours. I have called and checked in but they are doing wonderful, so I guess they are staying there and playing a while longer.

I did the typical house cleaning that I think most moms do on snow days but then I busted out the cookbooks and made two different batches of cookies. I made chewy chocolate chip cookies and easy sugar cookies. The chocolate chip cookies have oats in them. They look a lot like the cookies I made last week one day after work. The sugar cookies did seem easier than my moms recipe (I'm not sure what the difference is right off the top of my head though) and they seemed more flavorable as well...don't tell my mom!

Yummy! Pics below.

pictures of food

I heard from one of my faithful followers (you know who you are) that the pictures made the cooking blog more exciting, so below you will find the picture of our ravioli that was dinner tonight. I forgot to take the picture until after I had made up our plates but hopefully you get the idea. We also had parmesan knots and corn.

What's for dinner?

The freezer is full. Pic below.

OAMC day

Here is a list of what I cooked today. I was too busy and too tired to take pictures this time.

veggie lasagna-2 meals
chicken puffs-3 meals
cheesy ravioli-2 meals (with homemade spaghetti sauce)
homeade spaghetti and meatballs-2 meals
sirloin tips with mushroom gravy-2 meals
chicken and dumplings-2 meals
baked honey mustard chicken-3 meals
low fat BBQ pork chops-2 meals
cheesy bacon and potato soup-2meals
BBQ onion burgers-3 meals
ranch burgers-2 meals
cheeseburger cups-a lot of meals--we ate them for dinner tonight and I sent about 12 cups to the neighbors. I will use this as an after school snack for Alea this week and probably won't freeze them.
chicken tenders-2 meals
parmesan crusted pork chops-2 meals

Needless to say the freezer if FULL!!!

Paula Dean Stock Pot

I treated myself to a new Paula Dean stock pot for my cooking efforts. It is red with black speckles. It is huge. I can double my spaghetti and meatball recipe now.

And the winner is...

Cheesy vegetable soup! Tonight I made the cheesy vegetable soup from my OAMC stash and it was a huge hit. Davin and I really enjoyed it. Alea even said it was good and that is saying something. I think it might be the best dish so far from the OAMC escapades.

New Cookbooks

The three new cookbooks I ordered from Amazon arrived tonight. I plan to start studying them tomorrow. I'll let you know what good things I find.

Actually, Davin is watching the Arkansas vs. Ohio State Sugar Bowl game so I might start studying them right now. :)

Princeton, NJ

I booked my flights for my trip to Princeton, New Jersey today. The company I will be working for takes care of all the details so I just had to call and talk to a travel agent who booked everything for me. I will be flying into Philly. I thought I'd fly into Newark but the agent said they were both the same distance from Princeton University where I'll be working. I will be staying the night Friday night and not flying out until Saturday afternoon so I will at least get to walk around the campus and take in the sites of Princeton which I am very happy about. A few years ago I got to experience Harvard's campus and MIT's campus so I'm excited about seeing Princeton...even if it is in February.

New Jersey

I have been selected to work on a multi-state committee for a teacher test that many states use. The committee work will take place in Princeton, New Jersey over two days in February. I would really like to extend my time there and enjoy some culture and sights of the area but with the weather being so cold in February I'm not sure what I would want to do and could do. Davin won't go with me because he hates big cities. I don't mind traveling and experiencing things alone but I don't know what I want to do. New York City, Philedelpia and Lancaster, PA are only 2 hours away.