Memorial Day Feasting!

Santana gets grumpy if we sit down to dinner and she hasn’t eaten yet.  She also gets grumpy if we do anything throughout the day that doesn’t involve feeding her or laying on the couch with her, but especially grumpy if she thinks we’re forgetting her dinner! In fact, if we say the word “Dinner” her ears perk up and she runs towards her food/water mat.  It’s adorable.  Matt got some cute shots of her wolfing down her dinner in celebration of Memorial Day. 

To celebrate the holiday and the extra day together at home, we got lots of chores done, had a bagel topped with scrambled eggs for breakfast (along with Daniel’s Banana Latte…SO good and super easy.  You have to try it!), grabbed soup from the market across the street for lunch, and tested our new grill pan on some burgers for dinner!

The burgers were made from:

• Ground Beef
• Finely chopped red onion and red bell pepper
• Cayenne
• Ground sage
• Ground thyme
• Salt & Pepper
• Paprika
• Cumin

We topped our burgers with bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, cheese and condiments.  Yum!  We had some onion rolls from the store that were perfect and complimented the spicy, flavorful kick of the burgers! As you can see, I’m a fan of pickles 🙂

On the side we had Grandma Brown’s Baked Beans (who else has had these?? I can only get them when my mom sends them from home!), corn on the cob (from the freezer, sub par, but fitting for the occasion), and sweet potato shoestrings.  Our CSA box called these “yams”, but "yam shoestrings” sounds funny, so we’re going with sweet potato! Julienne, toss with a tiny bit of olive oil, bake and then salt! SO tasty!

Matt had a Red Hook Slim Chance and I went with a Berry Nectar + Vodka to wrap up the day.  I love long weekends…and this one was much much needed!

In other news, our car is ready to pick up this week AND take a look at my new hair cut! Matt likes the flash on the camera that makes me look like my chest is exploding with an energy ball and says he needs to look at me some more to get used to the hair. Hopefully he will recognize me tomorrow 🙂

Ooh ooh! I meant to direct you over to Erin at I Walk In This World.  She won some nut butter cups a while ago and I was SUPER delinquent in getting them to her because of some crazy life things.  However, they arrived across the country in pretty good shape (better than the ones I sent to Angelea for sure) and she seems to love my experimental flavors:

• Puppy Love Cups (I have actually made a version of these before): Carob heart-shaped cups with peanut butter filling.  Carob is the puppy’s friend…if you’re doing special baking for your pup, carob is a safe alternative to chocolate! And what pup doesn’t love peanut butter??
• Peanut Butter Scotchies: Butterscotch Cups filled with Peanut Butter
• Nutty Nut Butters: Peanut Butter Candy Coating filled with Almond Butter
• Dark Chocolate Cashew Bites: Pretty self-explanatory. Some yummy Whole Foods Dark chocolate filled with cashew butter. 

These turn my entire kitchen into a sticky mess for at least a couple days anytime I make them, so it is usually not a super-common occurrence.  However, I have some white chocolate chips looming in the cupboard and am tempted to take them for a test drive with some nut butters.  I love sending yummy treats to excited bake sale winners, but these babies are easy to make for yourself too!

Ok, Santana just started making adorable half-wimpering/half-growling dreaming noises on the couch behind me (I’m hoping she never grows out of this), so I have to go squeeze her and head to bed!  Hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend and is excited that tomorrow is Tuesday already!

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