Salmon and Wild Rice

Just a quick post since the plane should be arriving soon for me to fly up to my sister's house. Next few posts might just be photos during the trip of my nieces and nephew.

Dinner Monday night: Salmon with a glaze and wild rice with edamame.

This was a recipe from Everyday with Rachael Ray magazine for March in the weekly menu plan. We both really enjoyed it.



Glaze: brown sugar, Dijon mustard, lemon juice, and pepper
Rice: lemon juice and zest

Healthy Dinner

Tonight for dinner I went healthy. We had taco salad with chips, Caprese salad, and fruit. Jason's not a huge fan of Caprese so he ate more of the taco salad than I did.

Sorry I don't have a longer post, but I'm in the middle of transferring photos from old to new laptop. It's working on 1 file right now that is 1 GB!! I can't believe there are so many photos and videos in it!

Yummy food though. I may snack on some angel food cake in a little bit for my something extra sweet. Fruit salad had white flesh peaches, bananas, and clementines.

New Computer!!

Yay! My new laptop is here and I'm having so much fun with it. Jason has installed and updated quite a bit, but there is still a bit more to go. I'm not really looking forward to the moving of all my files from my old laptop and Jason's computer on to mine, but once that is done I will be strictly on my new one. I love the keyboard because it's a full sized one. I really wanted the number pad because I do use it quite a bit. Here's some photos of Jason taking it out of the box and then once it's open.

It's name is Bronze, because it is bronze!! That was one of the main things I wanted for it, to be a fun color! Oh, and it has a remote too! Fun!

T.G.I.M. ???

Well for most today it's a TGIF, Thank Goodness It's Friday, but for us it's a Monday. Jason had the last two days "off." I say it that way because yesterday he actually worked from 7 am - 2 pm for the big Fire Weather Conference at the office. He has worked so hard on the presentations and having everything all ready to go. He came home very happy that it went well and everyone that was able to go from around the Valley and Corpus Christi area were happy with how it went. I'm so proud of him! We got to cap off the lovely day with a dinner among friends. The Pyke's, Johnson's, and ourselves had a wonderful time of catching up from the holidays and yummy food at The Longhorn Cattle Company. (Honestly, I go for the banana pudding!) We got to see 2 of their 3 kids (all adults mind you) before they headed either back off to college (Whoop!) or on to see what God has planned for them to work in Dallas. Oh and of course the Pyke's little guy, Isaiah, was a blast to have around, although he just about chewed my thumb knuckle off! We missed you McAngus', we'll do something with you this next week.

So my Friday, Jason's Monday, was spent actually getting to relax and read some. I had a tough night sleeping for some reason. Here's some of the latest books I have read and enjoyed very much. Check them out sometime, especially Marley & Me. Jason and I have both read it so now we can go see the movie.

(Finishing this one tonight.)

LOVED this one, laugh out loud funny. Just found out there are 2 more after it! Sadly our library doesn't have them, so I'll have to be patient while they do inter-library loan.

What good books have you read recently?

Growing Basil

Ok, now I'm usually very good at keeping things alive and growing. My snapdragons outside the front door survived our very hot summer and bloomed through the cold days too. So, when I decided to start keeping fresh basil I didn't think it would pose a problem. I have figured out that when I need basil it was cheaper to still get the large live plant for $3.99. It was much more cost effective than a small package that was about a third of the plant and $2.19. The live plant is also hydroponic basil grown here in Texas. Now, this is my 3rd plant. I'm not terribly proud that the others didn't make it, but for good reason, usually we were heading out of town and they didn't get watered enough.

We shall see how this one does, it's 5 days old.
(From when I bought it of course.)