It's a holiday, the unofficial start of summer. I have nothing spectacular to do. For about two months or so, I have been wanting to try to make a new recipe. As you can imagine, I haven't been able to because of the rigors of school. I wanted to make a proscuitto/chicken dish. I've been pseudo-scouring around for some good recipes, nothing really catching my eye. To the rescue - the Italian and Pasta cookbook Suzer got me a while back. It had something really good, but I didn't like the entire recipe. So I cut out the part that really didn't rock my boat and tried my hand at it this evening. It turned out superbly. I really do enjoy cooking - I think maybe I missed my calling. I feel so good while I'm doing it...and then getting to eat it afterwards. Ah, heaven. Oh maybe you want the recipe:
Proscuitto Wrapped Chicken
1/2 cup frozen spinach, defrosted (next time I might try it fresh) and chopped up a bit (don't get the creamed or with butter sauce kind :oP is the response I think you will get if you do this)
1/2 cup Ricotta cheese (I didn't use whole milk)
4 boneless chicken breasts
4-8 thin slices of proscuitto
2 tbsp butter
1 tbsp olive oil
parmesan cheese
pecorino remano cheese
salt & pepper
Mix spinach and Ricotta cheese. Add a bit of the two other cheeses for some flavoring along with a bit of salt and pepper. In each chicken breast make a slit in the chicken to form a pocket. Then fill the pocket with the spinach mixture. Reshape the chicken and wrap the breast with a slice (or 2) of proscuitto. Secure the proscuitto to the chicken with a toothpick. Heat the butter and oil in a skillet. Brown each chicken breast for 2 minutes on each side. Transfer the chicken to a baking dish (I like to drizzle what is left of the butter and olive oil over the chicken to keep the flavor in). Now cook uncovered in a preheated oven at 400 degrees F for 20 minutes. Can serve with side of green beans...or maybe carrots...or rice or whatever tickles your fancy.
On a happy note as well - I got my final class grade. I did well. So I am a happy camper.
Just one week to go to total relaxation time. :o)
Been a while...
Well, I haven't been posted in a while. I might as well now.
My trip home to Jersey was good. Got the new-fangled license...and can you believe it only took me 15 minutes at the DMV? I know it was a fantastic experience. I met up with the cousin for lunch. That was yummy and delicious. Also met up with Beckie for some Corner Confectionary ice cream. It doesn't get much better than corner confectionary ice cream, lemme tell ya.
I'm back in Columbia though. Just chilling out. I try to do a little bit of math work everyday. Actually I just finished up a study guide from one of my first semester classes. Yes, I'm making study guides so that I have all the important theorems in one spot and don't have to spend hours on end trying to hunt them down. I only have one more study guide to make. Go me. I did really well on my Numerical Linear Algebra final exam. I'm still waiting on a grade for my PDE class though. The professor still hasn't graded the exams yet. :o(
Other than that, I'm just biding my time - less than two weeks now until Andrew is home. You can not believe how excited I am about it. Can you imagine it...we've already made it over 6 months, actually almost 7 months. I think for the first time since I've been in SC I'll finally be able to relax a bit.
Umm.. I'm going to go play nintendo- I have no desire to watch who wins American Idol tonight - cause America was stupid when they kicked off Melinda last week. She was the best. There is my two cents.
My trip home to Jersey was good. Got the new-fangled license...and can you believe it only took me 15 minutes at the DMV? I know it was a fantastic experience. I met up with the cousin for lunch. That was yummy and delicious. Also met up with Beckie for some Corner Confectionary ice cream. It doesn't get much better than corner confectionary ice cream, lemme tell ya.
I'm back in Columbia though. Just chilling out. I try to do a little bit of math work everyday. Actually I just finished up a study guide from one of my first semester classes. Yes, I'm making study guides so that I have all the important theorems in one spot and don't have to spend hours on end trying to hunt them down. I only have one more study guide to make. Go me. I did really well on my Numerical Linear Algebra final exam. I'm still waiting on a grade for my PDE class though. The professor still hasn't graded the exams yet. :o(
Other than that, I'm just biding my time - less than two weeks now until Andrew is home. You can not believe how excited I am about it. Can you imagine it...we've already made it over 6 months, actually almost 7 months. I think for the first time since I've been in SC I'll finally be able to relax a bit.
Umm.. I'm going to go play nintendo- I have no desire to watch who wins American Idol tonight - cause America was stupid when they kicked off Melinda last week. She was the best. There is my two cents.
Finally!
I managed to finish it all up today. Yep, all of my exams. Last Thursday I completed my Algebra final exam. Not too terribly difficult. Today, I finally sat down and just wrote some piece of crap answer to this one question that has been bugging me on my take home final. So now I am officially done. I feel great. Even better I did really well overall in my Analysis class. I totally surprised myself. I just need to keep it up through the summer. Not let my brain become inactive.
In about a week, I get to take a trip home. I am happy about that. Sometimes I miss just being around the hustle and bustle of a full house. I don't know if I am excited or happy or what...but I need to get a new license while I am home. So for the first time in my life, I'll have a license....that actually looks like a license, and not like somebody laminated two pieces of paper back to back in the trunk of their car. A brand spankin' new license. I keep constantly being surprised why no one here has ever actually said you know I think this license is a fake. I guess that is a good thing.
Oh and I can't leave without saying.....4 weeks til Andrew comes home.
:::does happy dance:::
In about a week, I get to take a trip home. I am happy about that. Sometimes I miss just being around the hustle and bustle of a full house. I don't know if I am excited or happy or what...but I need to get a new license while I am home. So for the first time in my life, I'll have a license....that actually looks like a license, and not like somebody laminated two pieces of paper back to back in the trunk of their car. A brand spankin' new license. I keep constantly being surprised why no one here has ever actually said you know I think this license is a fake. I guess that is a good thing.
Oh and I can't leave without saying.....4 weeks til Andrew comes home.
:::does happy dance:::
As if you can't get enough of me today...
I just feel the need to share a couple of quick recipes, which are yummy and delicious.
Sour Cream/Cheesey Rolls- I swear they taste so close to the Cheese biscuits at Red Lobster, it's amazing.
2 cups Bisquick
1 Stick Butter, room temperature
1 cup Sour Cream
1 Cup Sharp Cheddar Cheese grated
Preheat oven to 425. Grease muffin tins. Mix all ingredients until well blended. Fill muffin tins about 2/3's full. Bake between 12 - 15 minutes, or until the biscuits start to get golden.
Orzo Pilaf - I'm always sort of weary about the recipes printed on the back of a pasta box, or any sort of box really. But I tried this one this evening, and god is it great.
1 tablespoon of butter
some fresh pressed garlic
8 ounces of Orzo pasta (about half a package)
2 cups of water
1/2 teaspoon of steak seasoning
parsley
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
Add butter and garlic to saucepan on medium high heat. Melt the butter somewhat, and stir in the orzo. Cook orzo for about 3 minutes stirring frequently. Stir in water and steak seasoning. Cover and bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat to medium and cook for 10 minutes with a cover. Stir when it strikes your fancy. Remove pan from heat and stir in salt, pepper and parsley. Cover and let stand for 4 minutes before serving.
Happy cooking everyone.
Sour Cream/Cheesey Rolls- I swear they taste so close to the Cheese biscuits at Red Lobster, it's amazing.
2 cups Bisquick
1 Stick Butter, room temperature
1 cup Sour Cream
1 Cup Sharp Cheddar Cheese grated
Preheat oven to 425. Grease muffin tins. Mix all ingredients until well blended. Fill muffin tins about 2/3's full. Bake between 12 - 15 minutes, or until the biscuits start to get golden.
Orzo Pilaf - I'm always sort of weary about the recipes printed on the back of a pasta box, or any sort of box really. But I tried this one this evening, and god is it great.
1 tablespoon of butter
some fresh pressed garlic
8 ounces of Orzo pasta (about half a package)
2 cups of water
1/2 teaspoon of steak seasoning
parsley
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
Add butter and garlic to saucepan on medium high heat. Melt the butter somewhat, and stir in the orzo. Cook orzo for about 3 minutes stirring frequently. Stir in water and steak seasoning. Cover and bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat to medium and cook for 10 minutes with a cover. Stir when it strikes your fancy. Remove pan from heat and stir in salt, pepper and parsley. Cover and let stand for 4 minutes before serving.
Happy cooking everyone.
Feeling...More Relaxed
I believe that I have made it through the major trying part of school. I have no more classes, hurray. I took my Analysis final exam and I finished most of take home final exam. So I decided to take today off from studying of any nature. Yes, I do have one more exam on Thursday but the class and previous exams were not so terribly bad in my opinion. So I am safe in taking a bit of time to relax.
So all the relaxing...well I start thinking that I haven't cleaned in about 4 weeks, nor have I really gone food shopping. You know it's bad when the freezer has food in it, but not the fridge. But I feel better now because although it took me 3 hours, I did get my apartment into a state that is acceptable, and I now have the essentials in my fridge : beer, soda, meat, eggs, and milk. Definitely needed milk.
I'm not quite sure I know what I am going to be doing the next month or so while I wait for Andy to come home - I don't have homework sets, or exams, or even calculus quizzes to grade. I am really really really excited about it everything though. It will be nice to have a visitor. I don't get to many of them actually. Maybe I'll take some walks around Columbia - although it is getting to be really warm - 80 -90 degrees warm...so I may not be walking to far.
I felt like I had more to say...but I guess I don't. Anyone know where I can watch the Sopranos online?
So all the relaxing...well I start thinking that I haven't cleaned in about 4 weeks, nor have I really gone food shopping. You know it's bad when the freezer has food in it, but not the fridge. But I feel better now because although it took me 3 hours, I did get my apartment into a state that is acceptable, and I now have the essentials in my fridge : beer, soda, meat, eggs, and milk. Definitely needed milk.
I'm not quite sure I know what I am going to be doing the next month or so while I wait for Andy to come home - I don't have homework sets, or exams, or even calculus quizzes to grade. I am really really really excited about it everything though. It will be nice to have a visitor. I don't get to many of them actually. Maybe I'll take some walks around Columbia - although it is getting to be really warm - 80 -90 degrees warm...so I may not be walking to far.
I felt like I had more to say...but I guess I don't. Anyone know where I can watch the Sopranos online?
Copying from Suzer....
Golden Compass movie fun-ness!!! Rate my daemon, pretty please?
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Better entry due to come later....
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Better entry due to come later....
Before I have to go teach
I just wanted to let everyone know that Matt's friend is out of surgery and they say she should be alright.
Now I have to get ready seeing as I didn't do much of anything yesterday.
Now I have to get ready seeing as I didn't do much of anything yesterday.
Update
One of Matt's friends...a gal on the crew team, was shot this morning and is in surgery.
Here's to hoping she pulls through.
Here's to hoping she pulls through.
Scared
So I am not studying this afternoon.
My parents are stuck in Jersey without phone or internet access because of the huge storm.
I called them to let them know there was a shooting at Virginia Tech. While I was on the phone with them, Matthew called from Switzerland. Thank god he was in Switzerland and not at school. Last semester he was living in the dorm West Ambler Johnston with a sophomore engineering student. If he hadn't gone to the land of the Swiss, he would still have been living there. It is the first place the shooter decided to hit at 7 this morning. The next place they hit was a class in the Engineering building at around 9. I feel absolutely horrible. My parents feels worse because they aren't so much connected to anything.
Thank goodness Matt has been able to get in touch with most of his friends. A good majority of the novice crew team (freshies and soph's that Matt had coached in a couple of races) lived in the same dorm. The only person we hadn't heard anything about is Matt's roommate from last semester. We hope he is alright.
The worst university shooting since 1966 when that crazy dude went up to the Tower of University of Texas and shot like 20 some odd people.
I know this isn't exactly on the same level - but my first reaction was that of Junior year, walking out from Adams Hall on a snowy morning and seeing the police tape around a mound of snow - only to find out one of our own had gone out the 4th floor bathroom window of Drayer.
Now tell me how the hell am I supposed to do any sort of work today.
My parents are stuck in Jersey without phone or internet access because of the huge storm.
I called them to let them know there was a shooting at Virginia Tech. While I was on the phone with them, Matthew called from Switzerland. Thank god he was in Switzerland and not at school. Last semester he was living in the dorm West Ambler Johnston with a sophomore engineering student. If he hadn't gone to the land of the Swiss, he would still have been living there. It is the first place the shooter decided to hit at 7 this morning. The next place they hit was a class in the Engineering building at around 9. I feel absolutely horrible. My parents feels worse because they aren't so much connected to anything.
Thank goodness Matt has been able to get in touch with most of his friends. A good majority of the novice crew team (freshies and soph's that Matt had coached in a couple of races) lived in the same dorm. The only person we hadn't heard anything about is Matt's roommate from last semester. We hope he is alright.
The worst university shooting since 1966 when that crazy dude went up to the Tower of University of Texas and shot like 20 some odd people.
I know this isn't exactly on the same level - but my first reaction was that of Junior year, walking out from Adams Hall on a snowy morning and seeing the police tape around a mound of snow - only to find out one of our own had gone out the 4th floor bathroom window of Drayer.
Now tell me how the hell am I supposed to do any sort of work today.
Quickie
A quick note: We are pretty sure, although not technically confirmed, that Andrew's tour is extended to 15 months. It probably is being confirmed as I type this though.
But on a happier note- Andrew will be on leave Iraq round-about June 2nd. Just thought you all would like to know.
These last two weeks of the semester are going to be the biggest pain in my ass ever. Now is when all the prof's have decided, lets end early...so we are going to have to fit about 9 more hours of class in to make up for everything that we are missing. It doesn't help when parts of those hours are exams ...so when do you find time to study for the damn things if you have to be in class?? Ah, I guess the only good thing is April 27th is it...no more classes, no more insanity.
I should get started on some studying. Catch you later
But on a happier note- Andrew will be on leave Iraq round-about June 2nd. Just thought you all would like to know.
These last two weeks of the semester are going to be the biggest pain in my ass ever. Now is when all the prof's have decided, lets end early...so we are going to have to fit about 9 more hours of class in to make up for everything that we are missing. It doesn't help when parts of those hours are exams ...so when do you find time to study for the damn things if you have to be in class?? Ah, I guess the only good thing is April 27th is it...no more classes, no more insanity.
I should get started on some studying. Catch you later
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