A Concert, Dublin, and a Wedding

The past few days have been FULL of activity!

Last week, Laura A and I went to see Regina Spektor. Jupiter One opened for her and they had some pretty catchy music and were funny to watch. Regina was great as always! Here's a picture of her... (not the best but it'll do!)

Over the weekend, Mike and I piled into the car with Mitzi and Danny to meet Jon and Shellie for Amy and Ogden's wedding. We stopped in Dublin on our way for some Dublin Dr. Pepper and to stop in an antique shop.

In Dublin about to enjoy some Dr. Pepper floats!

Congrats to Amy & Ogden! We all had such a good time at the wedding!

Lemon Shrimp Scampi

On Sunday I made this lemon shrimp scampi by Melissa d'Arabian of the Food Network. I made only small changes... medium sized shrimp weren't available so I had to go with small ones and I didn't make my own seafood stock (I swapped in vegetable stock instead). Pretty good... I think the olive oil could be decreased... depending on how much you like. I used 4 tablespoons to marinate and cook. Four are necessary to coat all the shrimp when marinating but I think I will decrease it by another tablespoon (using only 3) for the cooking part. We ate the pasta with salad and Italian bread.

Baby Grace

Baby Grace has finally made her debut! She arrived Tuesday, November 3 at 6:40 p.m. She's adorable!

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Stephanie is already working on imparting her fashion wisdom to the little one by dressing her all in pink on day 2.

I can't wait to see the new mom and little bug next month!

Neglected Kitchen and Buttermilk Biscuits

Since I have spent the past few weeks in Virginia, my kitchen has been completely neglected. There has been no time for cooking. I had to make up for it so I attempted buttermilk biscuits over the weekend using Ina Garten's recipe. I left the cheddar out since they were for breakfast.

They turned out really good! I need some practice on the timing and kneading but I'm sure Mike won't object to more fresh biscuits!

I also made salsa and beef and spinach quesadillas over the weekend. Here's the salsa recipe:

Salsa
2 cans Rotel (drained)
1 can crushed tomato (if needed)
1 jalapeno
cilantro
garlic salt

Put drained Rotel, jalapeno (seeded if you want it less spicy), cilantro and garlic salt (as much as you want, depends on your taste) into a food processor or blender. Blend to desired consistency, I make mine totally smooth. Taste. If its too spicy or thick, add some of the crushed tomatoes until you reach the desired taste and consistency.

Maria visits

Mike's mom (Maria) visited over the weekend and brought with her the following yummy things from Hawaii...

The picture isn't very clear but we've got guava juice, coffee, pink salt, teri burger seasonings and guava jam.

Really excited to make the teri-burgers! Thanks Maria!