Salad!!!!

I bought lettuce this week because it was on sale, and I have ate (eaten?) a salad every single day.
I am addicted!
I guess that is a great thing to be addicted to though.
I think it's mostly because I have found the most delicious salad dressing. and shockingly enough it is not caesar - formerly the ONLY dressing I ate.
Wishbone Creamy Italian = delicious.

and I made homemade pizza the other day.
the last time I made homemade dough it didn't rise enough this time it raised too much!
well Lee thought so anyway, I like a nice thick pizza dough

lots of randomness

yesterday I went Cactus Hunting.... haha. read about the adventure on my other blog.
but I now have a cute little family of cacti on my table... I might decorate the cans they're in.

Frozen pizzas... they only cost $5EC & if you microwave on a low power setting & then put in the skillet for a couple minutes the bottom gets crunchy and tastes like it was baked in an oven!

plantain chips again!! I took my sister Mandy & my friend Alfonso's advice & after they had cooked for a tiny bit I smashed them & then fried them some more & they were so good!!

I love my husband!

yesterday Lee and I celebrated Valentine's Day because he had his unified exams yesterday morning and was studying the eeeeentire weekend. so after his exams in the morning we headed for the beach! more about that on my other blog kelseycoghill.blogspot.com
after our beach excursion we came home and washed alllllll the sand and salt off and I headed to the orphanage.  Every Monday I go to Queen Elizabeth's Home and play with the kids there for a couple hours. Lee stayed home to study and prepare for a presentation he has to do in lab tomorrow (the studying NEVER ends!)
and when I got back we got ready to go out to eat for Valentine's Day.
I really wanted to go watch the sunset together... and I really wanted pizza (because like I said, I love it!!) and I've gotten pretty good at making most of our other favorite meals... so why pay for it in a restaurant, right?
and Lee really wanted to watch Star Trek... because we haven't watched a movie together in a while and we hadn't seen it and my friend Sherry gave us a  ton of movies to watch! and Sylar from Heroes is Spock!
so we went and watched the sunset, it was beautiful as always, and we just walked down the hill and got pizza from the restaurant on campus... haha even though we had full intentions of going out.
it doesn't take a whole lot to make us happy.
Pizza, popcorn, pop, and a movie! :)

but even better than that.... while I was at the orphanage Lee washed the dishes!!!!!!!!!!! hooray!!!! he knows how much I detest the dishes... that is true love :)\

My Lee.

microwavin

I've been experimenting with baking in the microwave... I've made brownies and pizza crust so far and they have turned out really well!
I'm debating about making cookies. chocolate chips are $16EC and then you need all the other ingredients too! and peanut butter is really expensive too.... and they don't sell premade cookie dough, or I would buy it and just eat it. and I haven't seen any pre-made mix either.  Brownie mix and pizza dough mix are only about $5EC, so we'll stick with that I guess.
I may make peanut butter fudge sometime soon, I've been craving it... but for now jello and pudding are our desserts.

Here is how I made the stuff in the microwave....

Pizza
- got the Martha White mix that you just add water and oil to.
- mixed it up and let it sit covered up for 5minutes
- made two balls of dough
- pressed one down on a plate to form a mini pizza
- poked holes all over it
- put it in the microwave on 20% power setting and let cook for about 4-5 minutes... I watched it until I saw it was rising
- took it out and it had baked pretty well, it just didn't get brown.
- so I stuck it in the frying pan to brown and crisp it up!
- and it worked!!
- I then added our toppings..... which saddly consisted of the following. spaghetti sauce (beacuse I was too cheap to buy pizza sauce for an experimental pizza) adobo powder seasoning (because I use it for everything!!! salt, pepper, garlic... and other stuff all in one!) parmesan cheese, and really thinly sliced cheddar-ish cheese (sliced b/c we don't have a grater, and cheddar-ish because it says cheddar but is really light orange and doesn't taste like cheddar, but it's good! and once again I didn't want to buy mozzarella cheese for an experiment)
and it was GOOD! we loved it. I want to make it again soon to cure my pizza cravings!

skillet pizza? haha

actually quite delicious!

and for the brownies... I just followed directions and poured half the batter into a plastic microwavable storage container, because that's all we have besides bowls and plates, and microwaved it on about a 20% power setting until the top didn't look wet anymore!

it makes a really fudgey brownie, not cake-like at all... but still good.
the first batch I made I cooked it on about a 50% power setting and they were good for the first 15 minutes while tHey were hot... and then turned to BRICKS! so cook them slooooooow.

and sorry no pictures. we ate them quickly :)