dancing chezburger

Kitty ♥

I miss the kitty~

Glancing at the Friskies kitty food at the end of an aisle at Vons as I was picking up my butter yesterday, I thought how empty it felt not having Kitty around. She was quite a task with all the poo, but she still made me happy. Brian and I talked about the kitty like we would a child...updating each other on the new and cute things that she did. Good thing we didn't keep her another week becuase I would have really gotten attached to her. But she is in better hands now so I don't worry. She is probably bouncing her way around our neighbor's home, hopefully not pooping all over the place though.

What I made of my last day of vacation

(bruschetta with tomato-mango salsa and mozarella with basil)



Today is officially my last day of vacation, so I wanted to make it something more memorable than a day just sitting at home, watching TV. Last night I watched the movie Julie and Julia and I just about fell in love with the movie. It will definitely be one of those movies that I watch over and over when I feel down or want to snuggle on a cold rainy day. Anyways, watching the movie got me motivated to cook and blog. I was really into that a few years ago, but life got in the way. I guess that is good that I didn't feel like I needed to write in a blog to take up my time. So what am I doing now? Not too sure. I hope to keep this going though. I remember printing a whole book of my old xanga entries when I was living in LA. I wonder where it is...perhaps I will reprint them. In case anyone is interested, here is my old blog.

I really have a problem with tangents...

Back to what I did today.. So I made Chicken pot pie today. I got the recipe from simplyrecipes.com. I was just about to make boeuf bourguignon with Ina Garten's recipe, but I decided not to after I saw that the recipe called for cognac and whole bottle of wine. Maybe later. Well after a whole morning of looking up recipes, I left the house around 11:30 to go to Vons to get my ingredients. I tried Bed Bath to see if they had some ramekins, but they didn't have any that were big enough. Target didn't have big ones either. So I went to Ross, hoping for some good luck. That place is just great. I will have to go back there to decorate my home. Anywhoo, I found exactly what I needed. It always seems like I get the last ones they have! But it really was the last two sets they had...I think.

I had spent waaaay too much time walking around at Ross and it was already 6 pm. I needed to get started on this pie pronto! Well, all I will say is that we ate dinner around 8:45 pm...but I did learn to make my own pie crust from scratch!! I'm glad that I did it. I feel slightly accomplished~

(chicken pot pies~)

Brian and Steven enjoyed the pies. The pie top was nice and flaky~ ^_^