New Knives!

Let the cooking begin!!

I am the proud owner of a set of Wusthof knives and I need to find something to cook with them to "Christen" them.  Any suggestions?

Where is the rest of my appetizer?

The food at Canyon Ranch is delicious.  And I mean it.  I didn't have a single bad thing to eat the entire trip, and I tried quite a few things.  Our only complaint was that the appetizers were TINY!  There were baked jalapeno poppers on the menu one night...sounds awesome!  And IT was.  Yes, a single jalapeno stuffed with a little bit of cheese and baked.  I know, it's to help teach about portions and all that, but really?  ONE?  We had a similar experience with the Fig salad.  Lovely figs, almost no salad.  The tomato soup I order one lunch though was amazing.  I don't know what they do to tomatoes in their kitchen but everything with tomatoes was top notch this past weekend.

 So the menu highlights for me were the morning egg white omelettes and yogurt parfait at breakfast.  For lunch, I had a sundried tomato and farmers cheese flatbread that was great and Erin had Mac & Cheese one day that was really yummy and a good sized portion.  Dinner was great each night.  I had a lobster tail the first night, Zahtar crusted lamb chops with pomegranate couscous on Friday and Saturday night was fish (the type escapes me right now) over a yummy chickpea and celery salad.  All 3 were under 350 calories and wonderful.  The fish was an expecially filling dinner which I love.


We received copies of the Canyon Ranch cookbook, Nourish while we were there.  I am looking forward to trying some of the recipes and reporting out.  I bought parsnips on a whim yesterday so those will be on the menu soon.  Could be interesting...and very possibly disastrous.

Safe and sound

Sarge has traveled a long way around the world and has arrived, somewhere close to where he'll be finally, safely.  I got a call at 1am for about 35 seconds to let me know they'd made it to Germany and a voice mail earlier today that he was doing well.  I was so excited to hear his voice and so MAD that I missed the call.  Lesson learned: the phone never leaves my side from now until he gets home.  I don't know exactly where he is but I know he's safe and that's what matters most.

Last night's dinner was a success.  Everything came out pretty well and the girls were happy.  Design star was great...my least favorite person got sent home!!  Yay!! I'm sorry if you liked her but I thought Cathy was just annoying.  I was surprised she was let go but I will not miss her at all.  Here are some photos from last night's dinner, just in case you were interested in my culinary talents.  The menu was grilled chicken breasts, zucchini munchies, ratatouille and herbed quinoa with a lite strawberry shortcake pie for dessert.

No joke, this recipe says it's 4 servings!

Zucchini munchies, grilled chicken breast and ratatouille

All of the above and some herbed quinoa....a perfect dinner!

I was in school today, more on that later this week as some things get ironed out.  Tonight is movie night with the girls and tomorrow we're going to a wine tasting.  So...tomorrow's post should be funny at the very least.