Spending time in North Dakota

Thursday afternoon we picked Marissa up from school and headed up to Sutton to see Bruce's family. Of course that put us in the cities at rush hour. yuck......set us back about 50 minutes.

I have a dip recipe that you can try that is awesome.

TX Caviar
1 can of pinto beans, drained
1 cup celery, diced fine
jalapenos to taste
1 can blackeyed peas, drained
1 cup green peppers, diced fine
1 cup shoepeg corn

Marinade
Bring the following to a boil.
3/4 c cider vinegar
1/2 c. oil
3 tsp pepper
3/4 c sugar

Mix with other ingredients and marinade 4-6 hours. Serve with tortilla chips.

New recipe!!!!

http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1850,136188-236203,00.html

This is for Zucchini squash casserole.  My sister in law said it tasted like macaroni and cheese.  It was yummy!

Wow!

Its been almost a year since I posted on here. I guess I have been kind of busy huh? So last night Bruce and I were invited to Signatures in Winona to do a menu tasting for the spring menu.
Awesome food! If anyone gets a chance to go eat there, do it. The food that we tried was so good. The executive chef, Doug came out and gave us an explanation of what we were eating and what he was thinking when he created the dish. We drank wine that Bruce provided. There was five couples total. I hope we get invited back for the summer menu. yummy!

Link

http://swirlsmellslurp.com/

Check out this link - its another blog. Good stuff.
Wine and food.

Good morning!

So I got this email from the Blogger team that if I link some of the products I talk about on my blog to their websites, and someone visits and buys, I can make money! Suhweet!!!!! Now, I just need to figure out how to do it.

I am starting a new book of Patricia Cornwells. Its called The Front. Will let you know how that goes. More later, gotta see if I can figure this out.

You know...................

March 26th I had surgery on my arm. I had a ganglion cyst removed in my wrist and and ulner tunnel release with the funny bone nerve being moved to the inside of my arm. I was in a cast from my knuckles of my right hand to my armpit. Bent at a 45 degree angle. I still can't straighten my arm all the way out, nor can I bend my wrist completely. So, when it was suggested that I go to rowing class at the gym on Tuesday morning, I had my doubts, but I thought what the heck....I will try it. WRONG MOVE!!! I can do alot of things at the gym, rowing isn't one of them, yet. Then last night I made a baby quilt for one of Jordyn's friends that is having a baby. When I started tying it, whew....there goes the arm again. Needless to say........today, I am hurtin' for certain.
Oh well, some ibuprofen and that should help a bunch. Out for lunch to Olive Garden today. Love their zupa! mmm mmm good.
Broke open a bottle of wine last night....a spanish Shiraz...Manyana. It was tasty. I have to get food bought for my graduation party, get cards for the open houses we have this weekend, and get some money to shove in them. Yikes. Anybody got some money to lend me? hahahahaha! tis that time of the year.
Might have company this weekend, Bruce's dad and brother might come down for his cousins son's open house on SAturday and then my graduation on Sunday. Wow! Hard to believe that I am done with school. It will hit me once the loans start coming due. ugh! It's also my 23rd wedding anniversary on Sunday. That's even harder to believe.

Here is a new recipe to try. It was really good. Chicken LoMein.....
http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/chicken-lo-mein-107768.aspx

Even Bruce ate it. I couldn't find frozen onions and peppers, so I used a bag of frozen stir fry veggies and sliced up a fresh red pepper to add to it.

Weather

How can we go from 50 degrees to 92 in less than two weeks? Crazy MN weather.

We are so close to being done with the basement, now maybe I can get some sort of organization done upstairs again. It's been in disarray since Alicia moved home in September. All will be quiet once again. Ha!!

Renee and I had a garage sale this past weekend. The girls made a ton of money......I guess if you say it was all under me, we made almost $100 bucks. Got rid of a bunch of stuff, but still brought home a bunch. We will have to have another one soon. This time in Rochester. Then anything that is left goes to the Goodwill.

I finished another Janet Evanovich book. Another good short read.

I made a good recipe this past weekend, as long as you like Chipotle flavored food.
I got it from a Pampered Chef party that I went to. I will post it this week some time.