Argyle

Dallin: "What's that?"



Uncle Mikey: "It's an argyle sweater"



Dallin: "It's your gyle?"



Uncle Mikey: "No, ARgyle. A bunch of diamond shaped patterns."



Dallin: "My gyle sweater at home."

strawberries

dear strawberries,

you are yummy.

i like to eat you.

i like to cover you in chocolate.

i like to pour sugar all over you.

i like to put you on bread.

i like you indeed.

i really like it when you go on sale because you feel lonely and threaten to grow mold.

i like to make jam with you.

love, me

p.s. making jam with a 3 year old boy requires a lot of patience and a lot more clean up.

vinaigrette

Hard word to spell, isn't it? Thank goodness for spell check!

Paul is not a fan. I, on the other hand, am a ceiling fan.

Lame joke, please feel free to roll your eyes.

In the last month, I have been fortunate enough to receive 2 great recipes for vinaigrettes.

One from scratch, the other from a mix.

Both delicious!

First-- Balsamic Vinaigrette (I had this amazing salad dressing on an amazing salad at our Relief Society B-day party last month.)
Buy an Italian Dressing packet at the store and follow all of the directions exactly, except substitute Balsamic vinegar for your regular vinegar. Delish!

Second-- Honey Mustard Dressing (A long two years ago, I had lunch with friends. Renee served this super salad. Then Renee moved and I thought I had lost this salad forever. I am so glad I have the recipe now! Thanks! Maybe she will post her lasagna recipe...;))

Here is the whole salad recipe, thank me (and Renee) later:

Renee's Salad is a Meal:


1 bag mixed salad greens
crumbled blue cheese or feta
2 handfuls of craisins (Ocean Spray is the best)
3-4 chopped green onions
sweet and spicy walnuts
honey mustard dressing

-Layer and enjoy.


Sugared walnuts:

-Make a simple syrup (water and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat) and add a pinch of dried red pepper. Stir in walnuts and stir until the liquid is gone and the walnuts are coated with white sugar. Then put them on a cookie sheet and bake for just a few minutes at 350. Cool.

Honey Mustard Dressing:

1/2 C apple cider vinegar
2 TBSP of coarse ground Dijon mustard
5 TBSP of honey
2 cloves of garlic, crushed and minced
1 green onion minced
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1 C extra virgin olive oil

-Shake it up really well or put it in a food processor. Chill and pour over your salad. This is really good served with crispy chicken strips too! I hope you all try it and like it.

Old and Responsible

I just finished writing my very first letter of recommendation.

It was easy to write, seeing as the person who I was writing it for is pretty darn cool in my book.

(I did look up a template. It was my first, after all.)

It made me feel old and responsible.

It made me feel like I should start acting my actual age.

Appreciation

We try hard to teach our kids at an early age to appreciate the finer things in life.

Rendezvous

Today I got a babysitter
I went to a secret lunch
With my not-so-secret lover
To a sort-of-secret place

It was adventurous
And romantic
Just because no one knew
But the two of us

fat/sugar free double chocolate mint brownies

Edit: Okay---lame April Fool's Joke--I struggle sometimes!

I am not sure that a brownie of this caliber exists in a fat free/sugar free form! I would really like to share with you my recipe for fat/sugar free double chocolate mint brownies

...BUT...

It's a top secret formula that I just can't bare to leak.