I know, I know. I'm ALL over getting back to blogging and then...it just stops.
I HAVE A LIFE, people! hahaha
Honestly, between school, Mr. Man being out of work (waaah!), Little Miss, and just, BLAH! I've found finding the time for ME that I want/need to get things like blogging, reading, crafting, whatever (even checking my TWITTER has gone to the wayside - it's SO SAD! hahaha) difficult to find.
Which isn't to say that I'm NOT taking time for me. I'm just, doing different things with it, maybe? Like I painted my kitchen cabinets (white) and half the walls (I need Mr. Man to do some repairs on the other half before I can paint the rest...but the finished section looks amazing, so the whole finished kitchen is going to look FABULOUS, too). I nixed Little Miss' playroom, moved all her toys and movies and everything to the basement which I turned into a 'family room,' and the 'play room' is now my massage treatment area! AND in anticipation of starting my massage practice later in the year I joined Scentsy so I have full access to their amazing products - I have a warmer going in my treatment room and LOVE LOVE LOVE it (not to mention two in my living room, one in the kitchen, a scent pack in the bathroom.... my house always smells AMAZING.) And kickboxing, of course.
Anyway, here I am today. HOPEFULLY, as my family works out this...weird/difficult time in our lives I'll figure THIS little part of mine out and YES be here regularly. Because I LIKE posting and rambling on about nothing. I just have a place to dump my brain out without making my poor Mr. Man wish he could bash his head through the wall because my motor mouth won't stop running and running and running.... ;) (don't worry -he's never said that's how he feels....I just imagine that's how I'D feel sometimes if I were stuck married to me! hahaha)
So, all that blah de blah blah aside, guess what day it IS today? That's right! It's MENU MONDAY!
Today, I cooked for my bud, who turns a whopping FOURTEEN YEARS OLD tomorrow. She rocks my socks, and usually crashes at our place for dinner and FHE (family home evening - we hang out as a family + extras) on Monday nights. She loves it when we have steak because she and her mom don't get around to steak very often. So we had steak, with fried onions, mushrooms, and green peppers, steamed cauliflower, and then these FABULOUS potatoes that my mom gave me the recipe for YEARS ago that I never got around to actually trying until sometime last year - I think I thought they were outside my skill-set...which they totally aren't.
And so, without further ado.... GARLIC ROASTED POTATO WEDGES
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| FRESH out of the oven - YUM! |
4 large red potatoes *
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
2 tsp fresh garlic, minced
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
Directions
Heat oven to 425 degrees. Cut potatoes in half lengthwise, and then each half in four, lengthwise. Place in pot and cover with water. Bring potatoes to a boil and cook until just tender. Drain.
Melt butter and mix with other ingredients. Add potatoes and coat. Put in a 13x9" pan. Bake for 10 minutes, turn and bake another 10-15 minutes, until brown.
*I never use large or red potatoes - I'm too lazy to bother with large potatoes, so always just grab a bag of smallish potatoes, and then cut them lengthwise in quarters. Also...I don't bother to turn them.... O:-)
THESE. ARE. SO. GOOD. And a wonderful, natural source of carbs instead of some crazy processed whatever. Just, you know, don't eat ALL of them yourself 'cause there's a whole whack load of butter in there....
Okay, that's that! Between massaging yesterday, kickboxing today, and now typing on my lap my forearms have HAD it, so I'm....going to fold some laundry... hahaha
Cheers, all!
