Karaoke Love

I love karaoke! Those who know me, know this about me...those who know me a little bit, probably know this about me...those who don't know me and are reading this, well now you do.  People always tell me when I ask them to sing karaoke.."but I'm not a good singer"...isn't that the joy of karaoke...you don't have to be good but still get to feel like a super star?? I'm fortunate to have a husband who likes it as well (notice I did not put love).  When we moved into our house in White Bear Lake we bought our first karaoke machine and sang in our basement ALL the time!  When we met our neighbors across the street they mentioned they saw us through the window singing which led us to explain that no we were not professional singers practicing, we were karaoke addicts! My friend Sarah shares my love of karaoke...it's awesome!
So if you ever want someone to sing karaoke with I'm your gal.  I have my own machine and a pretty good array of music as well... now I'm in the mood to sing...guess what I'll be doing tonight=D

So for our sporadic pescatarian (eats seafood but no other meat) month I caught a few images of some of the things I made:
note: yes the plates are old and I purposely look for them at thrift stores cause I LOVE them!..Grant not so much...he says to stop bringing in that 70's stuff=D

So just because you eat vegetarian doesn't mean that you eat healthy...which is true for us more than we would like.  This here is a recipe from my friend Sharon.  On an egg roll wrap set in front of you diamond shaped you lay down piece of havarti cheese, a pickle spear on top of that and sprinkle with a lil dill weed. Roll up like the pictures on the package tell you and seal seams with beaten egg around the edges.  Fry up and serve with ranch...DELICIOUS!  

This is the soup I mentioned in an earlier blog.  Vegetable broth, carrots, celery and cheese tortellini to add volume...mmmm=)

I heart stir fry!  I put like every vegetable imaginable...Broccoli, cauliflower, pea pods, onion, celery, carrots, peppers, chestnuts, bamboo shoots... and I use a stir fry mix.  If you out there in blog land have a good stir fry sauce recipe please let me know! My friend Janet turned me onto Quinoa and that's what I use instead of rice now.  I don't like brown rice so this is my "healthy" alternative to white rice.

Special K bars...yep, vegetarian=)

Pet peeve

Probably one of my biggest pet peeves is when your standing in line, a cashier comes to a register and says "I can help the next person" and someone who just got there runs over leaving the person who is next in line and been waiting to wait longer.  It happened at noodles and company the other day and it happens all the time.  To me it's budging and childish.  What makes your time more valuable than mine?  When I go up to cashier I always purposely grab the next person in line so this doesn't happen and boy do I get looks...REALLY? I did have a gentleman at kwik trip tell me "your next you can go" so there are good people who understand what next in line means.
 

Gnomie Love

Many know of my love for gnomies and I came across this picture and fell in love with it...ahhhhh:)

Becoming a vegetarian part II

  We ate meat.  Although for me I did reduce the amount of meat I ate significantly, Grant loves his McDonalds and quite simply he's a meat and potatoes boy.  I'm going to continue to eat a lot less meat but believe it will still be in my diet occasionally which I feel good about.  One recipe I made meatless was a soup.  I make chicken noodle soup frequently.  Instead I made a vegetarian soup:
Vegetable broth
Carrots
Celery
Cheese tortellini

We also did more with shrimp which is technically pescotarian, not vegetarian.  I have not got my self to buy a 5.50 box of hemp milk to retry it so I've just been drinking cows milk but not as much. 

So with that I'm a girl that dreams of being a pescotarian and but will be an occasional meat eating girl instead=)