Thoughts on everything but POOP.: 2013

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Happy Halloween

Hot pepper.

Princess.

Zombie. (From plants vs zombies but he wouldn't wear the collard shirt and tie). He did his own paint.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

I was just tidying up Chio's room for company when I relized this is the last week it will look like this. Next week Chio and Xela will officially be roommates. So here are some pictures. Alex and I made the bed so I'm pretty proud of it, but even without that I think this is my favorite room in the house.

Under the stairs play area.

Closet and all the hair stuff.

Her cape and all the wall stickers they insist look best all bunched up in the same spot.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Fat chubby legs

The only one the leg fat rolls were documented were Alex. Here are Xela's

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Spider clip

Chios is double this size. The whole time it was in Xela's hair Ryan said, "eww eww eww."

Sunday, October 06, 2013

Xela

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Dion's Pastrami and Provolone

I miss these sandwiches from home so every time we go through NM we make sure to get one.... but sometimes I just can't wait so I picked these for my day. (In case you didn't notice these are essentially our notes on the sandwiches of the week so next year we can improve on them.)

We got Sam's french bread and cut off however long each person wanted cut them in half and put Greek dressing on side and spicy brown mustard on the other side. Put as much meat as you want on the bread- half on each side and top with cheese. Then we put it in the oven until toasted or warm. We haven't decided between broiling or baking at 450. Both were good, but baking seems to work best when we're making a lot. We sliced the onions and tomatoes really thin, which I liked a lot, and basically shredded the lettus and topped with more Greek dressing.

I accidentally got turkey pastrami instead of beef but it was still okay.

little alex didn't like it warmed and hatted the pastrami- he said it was too spicy. SOMEONE also mentioned wanted bacon for their sandwich.

we all agreed dill spears would work better than the good pickles and we should save those for hogis.

Perhaps my favorite part of these is the grrek dressing, but since we always forget to bring some home from Dion's we make our own. This time I think it was pretty perfect.

1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon Dijon-style mustard
2/3 cup red wine vinegar

Second Day of sandwich week

Tuesday is the second day of sandwich week and we forgot that we needed to blog about this.

We decided that we needed to do more traditions in our family and besides all the spiritual ones we are doing, we are starting a tradition of gluttony the week after fathers day. Since I the father am a glutton of sandwiches, I came up with this plan. Monday was a great day and we learned how to make a great hamburger. We decided the griddle indoors is much better than outside on the grill when you want a nice juicy (leaking with fat and blood), hamburger. Preparation of the hamburger consisted of pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, worchestershierer sauce, that instead of pressing to mix in, the beef ground beef was shredded and lightly balled. Salt is only added after they are placed on the grill. On the grill they were pressed only once and the edges are smashed to round the jagged edges and make sure edges were touching the grill. 5 minutes on one side and then turned for 3 minutes gives the patty a nice crusty edge. We decided to grill mushrooms, jalapenos, and onions to go with texas toast for the parents burgers. For the children they love the hamburgers with thinly diced onions, ketchup, mustard and bacon on regular toasted buns. A boy in the family who wishes to remain anonymous said "We should cook bacon everyday!" Chio thinks they were "great!" I thought it was a wonderful tasting burger with plenty of juice. Next time I will avoid all toppings to just taste the wonderful meat inside.