Cute Animal Videos

I am a sucker for cute animal videos.  Luckily, Today's Big Thing dedicates a whole section to this awesomeness.  Here are my two favorites:

Herbs and Veggies

My first pepper!!!  Look at it, its so cute.  Nothing better eat it except me!  Pretty sure this is an Anaheim, banana pepper plant did not survive the crazy hale and wind we had earlier this summer.  Now we've reached the severe heat part of the season, and I am watering twice a day.

 And, my okra is looking promising too.

 And, my mint!  I want that whole bed full of mint.  It smells amazing and ants hate it.  David is keeping watch over the mint and he steals things when you aren't looking.  Also, a friend to the bunnies.

Grilling.

We grilled greek chicken kebabs tonight. I love Martha Stewart and I subscribe to her food magazine Everyday Food.  We almost always find at least one thing (normally many) in each magazine that we love.  And, its one of the few magazines I actually read.

Here is our action shot.

Here is the finished product. Very romantic with the soft focus...

I made some rice on the side with butter and paprika, which goes well with these.  The yogurt mint sauce is really good too.

Adventures in Cooking

Kris and I cook a lot.  We try to cook at least three times a week.  I was thinking about sharing our adventures here.  The other morning we made some really awesome biscuits and gravy... I have a pretty blurry photo.  We're new at taking food photos, so bear with us.

Biscuits and Sausage Gravy

Sorry for the bad photo.  I got the biscuit recipe out of Cook's Country.  They have cake flour, regular flour, and cream cheese.  They are amazing, we love them.  Plus, I get to pretend I'm back in ceramics class when I kneed the dough.  Kris normally handles the gravy and I make the biscuits, we make a good team.


Buffalo and Brie Burgers

This picture is better, thank you to Kris' iphone.  These are made with buffalo from the Oklahoma Food Coop (YUM), brie, and pickled onions (minus the onions on mine).  On the side, we made a tomato and mozzarella salad with pineapple basil from our backyard, and topped with fig balsamic vinaigrette.  Which, despite the name pineapple basil is spicy but good.  We took the recipe from Graham Elliot, in the recent magazine, MasterChef (which Kris is obsessed about), and tweaked it for us.  These were awesome!

My Best Friend's Wedding

My best friend (Ande) is getting married and I am the maid, (ahem) I mean Matron of Honor.  Why does that sound so old.  Matron, ugh.  Anyway, I'm really excited for her and we've ordered the dresses and ordered the shoes, and everything is coming along grandly. Ande's wedding is going to be in December of this year and the wedding colors are navy, silver, and white.  Check out our awesome shoes!

These are Cailyn by rsvp from Zappos.com

Speaking of awesome shoes, look at these others I treated myself to recently.

These are from Poetic License, and I don't know what they are called.

And, recently I came across this on the Pioneer Woman's website.  Iced Coffee!  Looks delicious.  I'm going to try it next week, and I'll let you know how it turns out.

Photo taken from the Pioneer Woman.

Weekend Wedding

This past weekend was a really busy one for me.  My sister is visiting from LA, and has a couple weddings and a movie to shoot here in Oklahoma.  I was her assistant on a wedding this weekend from 9am to 10pm!  Long wedding, but the couple was really great and sweet and I had a great time taking photos!  (Well, until my battery ran down!)  I was using an extra camera my sister had.  She is going to edit the photos for my since I don't have a decent edit program.  I'll post some of my shots when I get them!

Oh, and as a side project I am doing a painting with a friend for her house.  She picked the subject and were painting the whole thing together, its a lot of fun and she said she is learning a lot about painting!  I'll post that when we finish it!