Avacado Salad

I love, love, love avocados! But don't always remember to eat them. Mainly because when I get them I usually forget about them till they are bad. 

I do a lot of my grocery shopping at Trader Joes lately and have found that the bundles are cheaper than buying them individually.  So, I've started to just eat them as the main component in a dish.

My favorite go to dish is what I like to call an avocado salad. It's so simple and takes just minutes to throw together but is so delicious and full of flavor!

Ingredients:

One avocado

One hand full of spinach (or so)

One hand full of cherry tomatoes (or so)

Lemon pepper

Lemon or lime juice

Parmesan cheese (or a blend)

Directions: 

Add spinach to a salad bowl.

Slice up avocado and cherry tomatoes and add to bowl.

Drizzle a small amount of lemon or lime juice over. 

(to taste, but a little goes a long way)

Sprinkle with lemon pepper.

Top with a small handful of cheese.

Enjoy!

Summer Spaghetti

I may have found my new favorite go to pasta recipe!!!

This was SO delicious! 

A must try!

I mean you don't have to take my word for it... but you should.

I saw some recipe on Pinterest (of course) that had some ingredients I hadn't thought of using in pasta (namely the lemon), and thought it sounded yummy.

I also bought a basil plant a few weeks ago from Trader Joe's, because I love basil, and hadn't even used it yet. It seemed like a good time to finally use it. 

Any who, it seems I may be beginning a ramble here so I'll just get to the recipe.

Ingredients:

Olive Oil

Garlic- about 3 cloves

Cherry Tomatoes

Salt

Pepper

Fresh Basil

Bread Crumbs

Whole Wheat Spaghetti

Lemon

Parm. Asigo. cheese blend (I got mine at Trader Joe's)

Directions:

Coat bottom of sauce pan with olive oil.

Dice up garlic and add to oil.

Add desired amount of salt and pepper 

(remember you can always add more later if needed, I'm still learning this)

Cut tomatoes in half and add to pan.

Cook on medium heat for about 6 minutes.

Meanwhile, cook pasta as directed on package.

After cooking oil for 6 minutes, add about 3 tablespoons of breadcrumbs.

Add pasta to oil, mix together.

Put pasta in a bowl.

Squeeze 1/2 lemon over pasta (keep the seeds out).

Sprinkle with cheese.

Enjoy!

  

Please feel free to leave me any opinions, changes, likes/dislikes... anything!

Father's Day 2013

Hello All!

I don't know about you, but my father is probably one of the most difficult people I have ever tired shopping for.

He doesn't like any of the "normal" Father's Day type stuff like fishing or golfing or any of that cliche stuff. And if he finds something he likes he doesn't stop and think "hey, I'll tell people about this so they can get it for me as a gift", he just buys it. No second thought. He also does not appreciate useless or sentimental gifts. I have tried many of these over the years.

Long story short, I usually just ask him and he already knows what he's getting.

For Father's Day this year I sort of came up with a genius idea! (well I think it's genius) 

The idea started with from one of my super crafty friends who had made those bottle caps at Hobby Lobby into magnets and the other half came from wondering around Michael's trying to find those bottle caps (which I couldn't).

I made him Gear Magnets.

I used little plastic gears I found, glue, and magnets. 

So easy! And I really like how they turned out!

 

 Love you Daddy, Happy Father's Day!

Hope everyone has a great Father's Day weekend!