Weekend Review: The Long weekend Edition

I didn't do much of anything noteworthy this weekend. Honestly, the highlight of the weekend was the two hour de-Christmasfication of my house. Tree is finally down and stowed for another year. Well, the big tree is. The little tree in my room is still standing proud and sparkly. The closet is blocked where I store that little bit-o-Christmas and I'm too lazy/tired/uninspired to move the stuff. So the little tree can stay until I gather the energy.

But yeah, other than the big tree and all the decorations going away I didn't do much. Nothing worth blogging about, anyway.

Then yesterday I was off work again. This time for an actual holiday. I swear I'm getting SO SPOILED. Between Christmas, illness, snow and MLK Day, I haven't worked a full week in over a month.

Not that I'm complaining. ;)

I used my MLK Day off to futz around with some things around the house. Crafty stuff (no photo yet--it's currently a mess). Cooking. Napping. Reading.

I finally got around to trying out two of my favorite Christmas presents--A cookbook stand and ramekins.

While I solved the whole single page recipe delimma with my magnetic white board, I still had a hard time trying to read out of actual cookbooks while trying recipes. During the Christmas open house event downtown, though, Mama and I spied the most perfect cookbook stand ever and I told her that's all I wanted for Christmas.

So ain't I glad she got it for me?!

Sis1 got my a set of ramekins and they are just the cutest things ever.

Anyway, yesterday I had everything I needed to finally try a recipe from Joy the Baker Cookbook that I've been drooling over since I got the book several months ago. I mean, look at it! Doesn't it look scrumptious? It's like a chocolate lava cake for one. PERFECT.

She has a few "single girl" recipes in here, btw, which is kinda awesome.

I was so excited for this treat. The bookstand was a lifesaver--worked like a charm and get a load of this stuff--

I mean, COME ON. Yum!

Until I inverted it on a plate as instructed.

 

Womp, womp, womp!

Not sure what went wrong except for maybe my slight mistake in the amount of sugar I added. I was three tablespoons in before I realized the recipe called for four TEAspoons. *sigh* But if anything, that should have just made it better, right?

Needless to say, failure or not, I still ate it. haha

I'm going to try it again soon, I swearz. Maybe tonight if I feel like it. :-D

You'd think after this mess I'd have sworn off cooking the rest of the day. But alas, I had a new recipe to try at supper.

Seriously, ya'll. I have GOT to stop reading food blogs. *dramatic sigh*

I printed out the recipe from Heather's Dish for Creamy Enchilada Bake which is basically a veggie and turkey burger enchilada casserole. It looked SO GOOD on her site and seemed so EASY and healthy. So I bought the stuff for it and made it for supper last night.

Mine was just...meh. For one thing, I guess when a recipe calls for CORN tortillas, one should use corn instead of whole wheat. In my defense, I was trying to be healthy AND the one time I tried corn tortillas I didn't like them. But I can see where they may have stood up better in this kind of casserole than whole wheat did.

Don't get me wrong--it still had awesome flavor but was a little mushier than I expected.

It was actually better at lunch today--which is what I love about cooking casseroles and the like...Leftovers!

If that weren't enough, though, while the casserole was baking I went ahead and cooked up the sloppy joes I'm having for supper tonight. It made sense even if it all that cooking did wear me out.

See, I buy turkey burger in the 1lb roll package and split it to get two meals out of it--meaning I only  used half a pound in the enchilada recipe and half the pound for the Sloppy Joes--which is a quartered version of Jen's recipe--which I LOVE. So easy and delicious.  So, while I had the turkey burger out and halved, it made sense to go ahead and cook it. Which means I don't have to cook more than a side or two tonight when I get home. SCORE! haha

Anyway, I still recommend the Enchilada Bake recipe. It's chock full of good veggies like squash and zuchinni and I added some diced onion to it because I love onions and basically think onions make good things better. ;-)

OH! One other thing I did...I bought a lime and squeezed a couple of wedges into the sour cream I topped the enchilada with. I hadn't ever tried lime before but ya'll...it's soooooo good.

Ugh. Okay, I'm done talking about food. Promise. 

Actually, I'm done, period. Off to finish out a day's work. "See" ya'll tomorrow.

xoxo