Ok, I realized I have been an absolute horrible blogger but I am going to try to change that. My super busy time is now over so I am here to do a couple nights of food in one post. Side note, my little brother got married this weekend and the wedding was AMAZING!!
Alright, so a few nights before this big day Matt and I whipped up a new DELICIOUS dinner. It is a recipe that Alton made to use leftover garlic shrimp, but he also gave a recipe for his own garlic shrimp. His Garlic Shrimp Casserole is pretty simple to make, and remotely quick with not a lot of ingredients.
Please take my advice and make this and LOVE it. We will be making it again in the very near future. So now this takes me to tonight's recipe. I am thinking I need to have a Asian inspired dinner party. Although this recipe is more of an intermediate recipe, I can promise you that it is well worth the extra effort. So my dinner party idea is to have these Perfect Potstickers for an appetizer and then make the shrimp casserole for dinner and then i need to come up with some kind of asian desert, but I haven't gotten that far yet. I will take this idea and make it happen at some point in my life. Until then I will make both of these yummy recipes over and over again.
Our landscaping project is still coming along nicely, just sort of a long process. We went and checked on the garden today and it is mostly looking great. Unfortunately we have a few causalities to mention, no more watermelon, eggplant (super sad about this) and no more onions. We did add some peppers today, those took a bit longer to grow up from the seeds. Matt also tried to harvest a radish today.....but no radish was found at the bottom. Lets hope this isn't a trend.
Please be prepared for a slightly cheesy posting, and I don't mean cheddar, fontina or any other kind. This posting is going to be dedicated to the boyfriend. We have a foreclosed house, as already mentioned, and nothing would get done on this house without him. Well in the past week we have had alot of progress, although it might not really look like it.
Let's start with the stump. When we first moved in to this house we had a big tree in the corner of the yard. After the move in we had a slew of issues, starting with a leak in a pipe that was between the house and sidewalk, causing us to dig a five foot trench in the front lawn to fix the leak.
This was not an easy task with tree roots everywhere, in fact I would go as far as saying that it sucked. After that fiasco we found out that the tree roots were growing in our sewer system causing it to back up into the basement. This was the result, and the concrete you see is a section of our driveway. This was the last straw, we had to end the relationship with the tree.
This lead to a stump in the middle of our front yard....and it has been there for about a year and a half. Which leads me to the present. Last week Matt had some time off work, and he rented a stump grinder and turned our weedy stump filled portion of a white trash front yard, into the beginning of an actual complete front yard!
Like I said earlier, it might not seem like alot but it is a huge step for us. So again Matt, THANKS!
Ok moving on to the next big project. As you can see in the previous picture, we started landscaping with the blocks last year, again another unfinished project. In order to finish we need to get some cement blocks set in the back so the dirt won't all fall out. Well today I can say blocks, cement, mortar, rocks and tools all purchased. He even started on the project! I can see progress and a beautiful planter in the near future!!
So today I just want to say THANKS to a wonderful boyfriend for working so hard to make our house a home. I wouldn't be able to do this without you, literally I can hardly work power tools let alone shovel gravel. I might not say thanks enough but I am extremely grateful for everything you do!! I know laundry and dishes don't add up to all the things you accomplish, but it is all I am good at. Hopefully I can learn so I can help out more. LOVE YOU!! (I warned you about the cheesyness)
Unfortunately I have no recipes or garden updates (but the garden is doing AMAZING) but I promise to change that this week!!
