What I've been up to

I hate leaving my blog out here un-updated but can't seem to make myself make time to post or just give up on the blog. It's mostly Twitter these days (@sbcvandy) but here's what I've been up to as you can see tonight. :)

*watching my fave fall sports of hockey and football
*restarting fall crafts - in this case learning to crochet and making a pink and green scarf Ethidium Bromide helped me design the pattern for
*getting ready for my fiend L to visit this weekend when the Preds come to play the caps
*went to New Orleans/MS for work the beginning of the month
*making myself make time for PT

So as you can see things are pretty much just going along. Feel free to follow on Twitter if you want to see more of what I'm up to when I'm not posting here!

Pork Chop deliciousness!

So I posted about my dinner tonight and one of my grad school friends on twitter wanted the recipe. So here goes. :)
It is the simplest easy yummy recipe. Not HORRIDLY bad for you either. :) Here's the finished product.

You sear each porkchop 5 min on each side,

[I overcooked mine tonight as you can see and so they were a tidge dry]
then mix together in a fry pan with a lid, [You can use one pan throughout, I just couldn't find the lid in time :)] 1 can Campbell's french onion soup, half a can of water, and a 1/2 c of chopped celery. Add the pork chops and cook covered for 20-25 minutes, and then add 3/4 c. plain rice. Bake another 25 minutes covered and then enjoy! I did :)

Pretty flowers

I'm going to act like it's fall even if it's 85 outside! I had to turn back on the AC today which annoyed the bejesus out of me. But maybe that'll help my allergies or sinuses or whatever has me feeling so icky! I came home from work and slept and worked on excel here so hopefully I can do a full day tomorrow. Hope y'all are good!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins!

So I had an awesome weekend. Did some gardening, saw a WAY too exciting Auburn game, and then baked the most awesome pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. I looked at about five hundred recipes online and ended up making one of my own, by combining several.

My favorite part was the addition of vanilla.
I of course wore my favorite apron :)
About to mix in the Ghiradelli 60% cocoa chips
All ready to cook!

And of COURSE I overstirred and they ended up really dense and short, but boy are they yummy! According to Lisagh posted this weekend, stirring less is the way to make fluffier muffins. I've managed to give away (or eat!) all but three of this batch so I'm looking forward to trying some pumpkin cranberry muffins this weekend or maybe tomorrow night. I'll post some picks of my latest fall fans tomorrow or Thursday. But considering it's going to be in the 80's both days, it sure won't feel like fall!

Amazing giveaway!

Mrs. Newlywed is hosting an awesome giveaway on her blog! Go check it out :) I'll post some pics of the weekend in a couple minutes. I'm in NCIS land!

http://www.misadventuresofanewlywed.com/2009/09/giveaway-alert.html

Saturday morning at Home Dept

I'll post the results later! :)