happy new year 2010!

happy new year everyone...where did this past yr go if feels like yesterday it was just going to be 2009 and now it is 2010! well i have been m.i.a for a bit life gets busy and work has been crazy as well. i have done a bit of cooking here and there. i have had some deaths in the family recently so that has kept me away and my comp died too...which is always fun! anyway i wanted to come and say hello and i will update this as much as possible i mean more frequnetly lol have a gr8 day...and keep warm mother nature needs to be shot another snowstorm 3rd one in 3 days in ny! peace and hairgrease see ya l8ter!

been m.i.a!

I have not posted in a while, life in my world has been busy. I have had a family member that was sick. work has been crazy all the different things happening around there. I have been is a rush at the gym also because I am on a quest to loose the few lbs I put on and get finally back on my gym schedule and I have been doing fine but it is coming off slowly, which is fine and I also have to try and not focus on it so much...sometimes it is hard to do while other times it is not. I have been having a minor health issue that I need to get iron infusions and the weekly appts. but I take it in stride. In about 2 weeks or so, i have an engagement celebration/party to go to for a girlfriend of mine, and i have to find a dress which is a black tie kind of thing...and I am dreading this to a tee! I have no idea what to get I know I want a dark color style I am not sure something that makes me look cute and hot and amazing! My body i have my flaws but it will be a challenge to find the right dress, then in Jan my same friend will be getting married and I will have to find a dress for that as well! I have time to worry about that. I got to work fast lol to find a dress before July 18Th lol! The whole financial times right now sucks big time, I am in the process to get things together but it is slow and sometimes you take 2 steps forward and one step back lol,why does living in NY have to cost so much? Why does gas have to go up and why can't the gas stations and companies not raise the prices...they make billions a day from the gas being bought why not help us out since we need the gas cause you need a car to get anywhere in NY! My birthday past in April...the 23rd to be exact and it was a good day! I had fun. I got into cooking and baking again...I truly love and enjoy cooking and baking and really creating something for family and friends to enjoy! maybe i will go to culinary school to become a chef...who knows, but I do plan to get my certificate in personal training I plan to hopefully start this in Sept! The end of Aug early September I am taking a real vacation out of NY and going to San Fran, ca to visit my brother and my niece and my new baby niece...I so can not wait for this!!! I need to just get away for a bit! well I am signing off here for now, but I will update more soon, and regularly...life happens and keep you busy! peace and hair grease see ya l8ter ;op

happy easter everyone!!!

I hope everyone had a good Easter holiday today? I did not do anything, I had to work,and my parents were just chilling at home. It was a nice day in ny today, It was sunny 50's and a tad windy lol but I will take that. The past few days have been busy for me i took wed, Thursday off of last week because it is passover and the first nite of the sedar...( i know that is probably spelled wrong). It was nice...it is a tad long and after one drink of wine i was gone...I was ready to go! and i got my grove back as far as working out and watching my diet better i kind of got into a rut, that got aggravated by being sick at the beginning of the yr, but all is better and well now, i am back on the wagon as it were lol. I have 4 more days then I will be on vacation!!! I am not going anywhere, because there are things here that are up in the air and I am going to totally relax, not do any cooking/baking I am going to even try and not look at food or foodnetwork I will relax and just take a breathe. I will have fun hang with friends and enjoy my days off, I hope the weather is nice while I am on vacation? we will have to see about that! I will still be at the gym everyday...at least 5 days, sweating like a pig lol...no pain no gain...lol but i love it! I will post more later. have a good nite :o)

see ya l8ter peace and hairgrease ;op

is spring finally here?

today it is 62 ish in ny and sunny and windy but it is a very nice day out in ny today, friday and saturday were yucky with rain and such and wind. sunday turned out to be a nice day. I think it is too nice to be inside or stuck at work...lol, I have 11 days til my vacation no work for me!!! I am happy about that, I am not going to do any cooking/baking I am just going to enjoy it I am not going anywhere but i will hang with friends and do stuff like that. The peanutbutter brownies I made last week are gone my co workers loved them and so did i lol i love peanut butter! I do enjoy cooking/baking but I do get sick of it so on my vacation I will not be doing any of it!!! I am at work right now working and I had a free minute to come blog for a second...I will post again later!

peace and hairgrease...see ya l8ter ;op

Kraft Dessert Scale

my saturday at home on my day off!

Well it has been a few days since I last posted, but there has been alot going on around here...I did not have a chance to get here and post. Well yesterday friday april 3rd i went to the gym to train and meet with my trainer, I thought we were meeting at 10 am it was actually 8 am lol it was crazy yesterday so i worked out with her, she punished me good! lol I stopped by the store to get the last few things I needed to make my dinner. I made lentil soup, this is a different take on my moms lentil soup and I love hers too and i wanted to make lentil soup and this was my first time. I got the recipe curtesy of food network barefoot contessa ina gartner! It was so yummy and I was impressed that it was so good and it came out perfect the first time around. the barefoot contessa lentil soup is made with green lentils and has leeks in it to give it a different flavor kind of like a tart flavor...I saw her make it on the foodnetwork show, and I was drooling...lol. I have some lentils left over and I will make a salad out of the lentils. Today saturday I chilled out around the house and I did my dinner for tonight, it was beef sirlion kabobs with parmesan orzo. I did not kabob it, I took one elephant garlic and chopped it up and put it in a ziplock bag and I put the meat in as well and then I took kraft greek vinegrette salad dressing and pour some in the ziplock bag and mixed it around and put in the fridge to marinate for about an hr and a half, while that was doing it's thing I did the orzo I did the orzo to the box directions and drianed it and put it back in the same pot with a tsbp of olive oil and i chopped fresh basil and some oregano and shredded parmesan chesse until it will well bleneded and I tasted to see if it needed anything and it was perfect there was enough salt in the cheese to salt the dish and when I put my water pot on to do the orzo pasta I salted it very well. and then I took the marinating meat out of the fridge and let it sit for a bit, it is good to cook meat room temp so it cooks the same all the way threw, i learned that on foodnetwork shows. I heated my pan and put like a tsbp and a half of olive oil and put my meat in and cooked it on one side and then turned it...the smell that was comming out was yummy, the garlic and olive oil...boy I wished I had smell-o-vision...lol! when I was done with that i made pumpkin chocoalte-chip muffins i wanted to make bfast items for the week and to take to work I used a mix that is for make loafs of bread...I love pumpkin...also when I get a box of cake or cookie or whatever it is I like to do the other recipe or not the ordinary recipe, becuase it is different and special and you will get the oohh and ahhh factor! they were good, by accident I did not start the timer which I thought I did but some how i knew they were ready. I then made finally the last baked good of the day was authenic enhglish scones...they were plain but I sprinkled cinn-sugar on top of them and i used a cookie cutter to make the shapes...they scones were my first try too and they came out good...I imed my good friend laurie in london and told her the good news...it was my first try and it was perfect! I have found recently that the recipes I have been doing have come out the way they are supposed to and i am still practicing and getting better with my cooking, I enjoy it so much and it is relaxing for me and I love creating food and new and different foods to eat. I would say i am still level one chef wannabe! I watch food network all the time...fave channel and I read magazine for the recipe and articles whether it be my fitness magazine or a regular magazine sometimes there is good info in there. I like to also create and cook meals that are healthier and low cal low fat and find ways to make it better in those areas. I think to be a good chef or cook is learning everything you can, and I have learned alot of "tricks" from watching my fave foodnetwork shows...I pass them on to friends and they are like really I am likes "yes" lol it is a hobby with me right now but maybe during the summer I will go to the local bakery and ask if I can watch them for a day to see what it is like...who knows we will see, well I am tired and it is about my bedtime...I want to get an early start on tomr days since I will be working, get the few errands I have before work and such. have a good night and as I always say...

peace and hairgrease...see ya l8ter ;op

yahoo pingbox!

yahoo has something new for your blogs and facebook too! yahoo pingbox, all you have to do is go to the yahoo messenger screen webpage and at the top right click on yahoo pingbox and it gives you instructions to add it to facebook and your blog. what it is really if you are blogging you can im privately with the person it seems kind of cool. I will try it out for a bit, but i wanted to put that out there in the universe to everybody...lol, i am tired i am going to bed now way past my bedtime...i did my nails they look cute...i have a broken nail and i could not leave it it was snagging on EVERYTHING so i had to fix it and then might as well do them now. i will take a pic and post it here on the blog for anyone that is interested! nitey-nite all see you later!

peace and hairgrease...see ya l8ter ;op