It's ALWAYS on my mind!!

FOOD!!!

Seriously, I spend OH, TOO MUCH time thinking about the food I'm going to eat (and not because I'm just trying to be more aware of it!) I literally think about dinner while I'm eating breakfast, sad? Yes! Nonetheless, I love it and although I'm really picky, I do like to experiment a little bit. I also like to buy new things that let me do that :)

While pinteresting, I was lead to the amazing blog that is Siggy Spice and fell in love with this...

http://siggyspice.blogspot.com/2010/03/drunken-pork-chops-absolutely.html

Last night I made those delicious "drunken pork chops" with yeingling beer...when I read the recipe I was thinking "humm, beer brown sugar and ketchup? really?" but it totally worked and I was sooooo surprised! I can NOT wait to try more of her stuff!  Tonight (because I'm ALREADY planning dinner) I'm going back to a family classic and my personal favorite meal baked chicken and stuffing, and I'm going to attempt my first from scratch three cheese mac n cheese bake.  I'm not huge on mac n cheese at all, and I REFUSE to eat that Kraft stuff because it's just soo awful, but PJ's brother Skyler doesn't eat much other than the before mentioned, hot dogs, and plain chicken drenched in ketchup.  He's been pretty open about trying the foods I've made since he's been here but I figured I'd meet him in the middle and hope he likes my random noodle/cheese combination that I come up with tonight.  ((Even HE liked the drunken pork chops!)

A classic meal for dinner tonight deserves something new and shiny too though, like these new Bobby Flay stoneware dishes I picked up at Kohl's today! 20% off, $10 Kohl's cash and a little merchandise credit from a purchase that didn't work out... GREAT deals on Bobby Flay! I am such an addict but I love Bobby Flay, Rachel Ray, annnnnd Paula Dean (of course) so thankfully they all make items in RED! I can't wait to test these babies out tonight.

You might notice a little piece of paper on that chair back there...let me tell ya, it says "this is broken, sit at your own risk"... It has a twin chair sitting right next to it.  Our table is OUT OF CONTROL hillbilly.  About 6 months ago PJ's friend tilted back in one of the chairs and we heard a loud "pop" it's all been going downhill since then! The chairs are still sitable (yes, I made sit-able a word) but man, are they risky!  Another friend of ours then slung himself across the table in an intense game of spoons thus splitting a table leg.  It's a hot mess, to say the least. I put the signs on the chairs for a heads up since it was hard to tell which was wobbling and which were okay, but now it's just an on going joke.  To add to it, I made this purty little centerpiece...

just for the idea that now PJ's friend should be paying a security deposit before sitting. haha table hunting is to resume very shortly.

Thanks for reading my rambling!!

<3 JD