Margie Pie

Most of you know this girl, she's a frequent on Taste Buds. She's my roomie, partner in crime, and best of all...GIRLFRIEND (along with Beauty)!!  We are taking Birmingham by storm...gradually.  But one thing we don't let stop us is a small bump in the road.  That being said, Margo this summer is going to be exciting.  Love you so much dear.  Oh and the Franzia is not only in the pic but there's some in the fridge :)  Can't wait for May 3rd this year!  Chuck's ISN'T ready!

St. Patty's recap!!

Mags and Loberry came for a visit!!! Of course, they were just breezing through B'ham for the night and had to leave very early the next morning to catch a flight to the big D.C. for a spring break vacay with Maren (I'm jealous...)  Anyways, we take what we can get!  Margo and I made a little dinner which had to be in the spirit of things, which meant green.  I decided to go with Baked Chicken Pesto.  Very easy, very good.

Boneless, skinless chicken breasts

Pre-made pesto

Plum tomatoes

Mozzarella

S & P

Spread pesto over chicken.  Bake in oven at 400 for around 30 min.  Top chicken with sliced tomatoes and mozzarella.  Bake for another 5-10 min.  Your done!

It was good, but not as good as dessert.  Margo made her strawberry shortcake which I failed to get a pic of.  However, I did manage to capture the special dessert which was made for our guests who don't prefer fruit :)   Lo, I'm not sure if you were able to finish this off, but if you did I applaud you... this pic doesn't even begin to do it justice, the amount of ice cream, chocolate syrup and mini chocolate chips cookies Margo managed to pack in this little dessert bowl, it was impressive. 

Almost Spring!

I'm pretty sure these trees are Bradford pears and they have blossomed overnight all over Mountain Brook~ so pretty and just a little reminder that spring is very close (along with all our warm weather...it was 80 degrees yesterday)!!

Last night as I was browsing in the grocery store trying to find some inspiration for a really great dinner, I stumbled upon some very delicious looking salmon.  It was different from the usually chicken so I was happy.  I also decided I wouldn't buy anything else but just try to use any other ingredients we had lying around the apt.  Well, I lucked out and found this recipe in the newest Birmingham Junior League's cookbook and I already had everything!

Salmon Fillet bathed in Soy and Lemon

1lb fresh salmon fillet

1 tsp dried basil

1/4 tsp pepper

1 clove garlic, minced

3 tbsp lemon juice

1 tbsp soy sauce

1 tbsp veggie oil

1 tsp Worcestershire sauce

Rinse salmon, pat dry, combine ingredients, pour sauce over salmon.  Place in broiler until salmon flakes easily (mine took about 10 min).  So very easy.  Then I added some angel hair pasta with pesto (this sauce came from a Knoor's packet and was so good!) and a salad.  

Later Margo and I watched the movie Rachel Getting Married, we had been forewarned by multiple people that it was a pretty intense movie and oh was it.  We had to take frequent pause breaks and talk about other things to lighten our moods a little bit.  

It's back to work tomorrow night and I'm trying to find any way to distract myself from this fact, we'll see what else I can come up with!

A few highlights...

I know I've been a slacker about updating lately...anyways these last two weeks have been jam packed and flown by way too quickly, where does the time go?!  Last weekend I headed up with J to his hometown of Oneonta, AL.  You may not have heard of it, I certainly hadn't until I met him and now I feel like I hear about it everywhere, funny how that happens.  We had a lot of fun and I got the first class tour of the little town :)  And on Sunday we got to do a little four-wheeling in the snow!! (You know, all two inches of it.)   

Yes, that is me driving, of course all that was going through my head in addition to trying to figure out how to shift gears, was wondering why the heck I was on this thing when my job is taking care of people who wreck these all the time!  I just began to imagine all the possible injuries we could get if this went wrong (I know, it's very cynical of me, but I just can't help it, it's the way my brain works now working in trauma.)    

But what I was really excited about most of all was seeing these covered bridges that Oneonta has.  They have three and I got to see all of them.

They've been there since the 1800's or something and people actually still drive over them.  That's about all the history I can remember about them, pretty cool, right?!

This past weekend it was back up to the the lake to finish those windows and on Saturday I got to drive in to Auburn to have a belated birthday lunch date with Lo!!  Lo, Mags, and I got a little Jimmy John's and ate it at Samford.  It was an absolutely beautiful day and I was glad they both got to take a little study break!  We also got to debating which one of our friends complains about eating Jimmy John's but then eats it anyway when we all decide to go there.  I said it was Margo, Mags said it might be Maren because she hates shredded lettuce, but I recall Maren loving a Slim 4.  ANYWAYS.... 

And guess what?  The windows are done.  Finally.  Bring on summer at the lake!!  I can't wait.

To wrap up the weekend, margaritas at Hacienda to catch up with my roomie... as you can tell they were a little sour.  We were just glad to high tail it out of there before the live music started, if you heard them, you would be too.