This Is The Life

I don't know why I LOVE Irish Punk. Maybe it's my roots coming out? Who knows. This is LOVELY.

Brandon Flowers - Crossfire

LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT

Carly Simon "Blackbird"

I really hope I get to see this artist live someone. I really need to make a list of "MUST SEE" people and work on it. :)

She and Him? CHECK! lol

hmmm....

I've been thinking on one of my favorite conversations I've ever had and I thought I'd share if with the world here.... :)

Me: Man! I"m really excited for tonight!
Bonnie: Really? Whats going to happen?
Me: Well, I'm ready for all the magic that's gonna happen in my bedroom.
Bonnie: Magic? You mean the magic of you sleeping?
Me: YUP!! (said with a huge cheshire'ish grin). :D

Sigh. I mean.... yeah. This was soooo stinking funny at the time. And it still sooo true. Man, I love sleeping.

Salsa take 2

Tab... making crepes...

Deb Making Salsa....


Salsa recipe

23 to 25 med tomatoes
3 lrg onions
2 lrg green peppers
2 lrg red peppers
1 jalapeno pepper
1 c white vinegar
4 t black pepper
4 t garlic salt
4 t salt
3 T corn starch
1 12oz can tomato paste

1. Blanch and peel tomatoes
2. Cut the stem off and squeeze the juices out of the tomatoes (wait for them to cool down first)
3. Rough chop onions (place in large pot of cooking)
4. For the jalapeno- remove all the seeds and chop up
5. Rough chop and add in other ingredients
6. Cook all together in a big pot about 20 min until its all cooked together
7. Use a hand blender or a traditional bender to mix and refine
8. Pour into wide mouth pint jars
9. Can (put in large pot, with water an inch over the jars and boil for 20 min- water should be cool when jars are placed within

For PEACH salsa- Blanch and add in 3 Peaches

How to Blanch:

Bring a pot of water to boil
Drop item into water
Boil for 3 minutes
Remove from water, let item cool

I'm soooo done cooking. I'll be doing nothing more than chilling, getting back into the gym and getting back to my bike.. sigh. :)

CupCakes!

It's so hard to make chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting w/out making them appear to be poo-swirls, but I think I did OK here. :)

It's Kim's last day (she's over RAs at DishOne) so I brought in some cupcakes! it's super exciting and fun. I think I especially like the off center gummy candy- makes it look a little drunk. you know- a la Charlie Chaplin.

Speaking of cooking- I've got several zucchini's about to ripen up. Who wants them? Comment on here if you want me to bring one by (only if you live in Provo, I'm not delivering one to Idaho. :P ).

I"m going to be spending the weekend canning- so that's exciting. I'm going to see if I can't can peaches as pie filling and make some home made salsa. I've posted the recipe before but let me know if I need to post it again so it's fresh. It IS that time of year, Tomatoes are ripe and the sun is out!!

FYI:

These are out of a box cupcakes w/ chocolate cream cheese frosting.

There's a gummy treat on top............ and yellow sprinkles as well.

Cream Cheese Chocolate Frosting:

1 stick butter

1 stick cream cheese

1 pound powdered sugar

2 tsp milk

1/2 cup powdered coco

Mix all ingredients and whip until smooth.

Add more powdered sugar to make stiff if you so desire.

Eat.

Lady Gaga - Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)

Considering that this is a Lady Gaga video, it'll probably be taken down in 2 seconds.. but whatever. I was really surprised to find this- it's just a light hearted video and more.. fun... than the rest of her stuff. it really reminds me of spice girl era music through... like it belongs back in the 90's. Meh. it works.

Matt Costa - Sunshine

I absolutely love this artist!! He's coming to Utah this October and i'm gonna go see him! :)

Mission Accomplished

SOOOO.... there has been this photo floating around my family for over a decade now. Its of my two oldest sisters posing with a scantily clad actor at universal studios. We've all known about it and thought that it was HILARIOUS this entire time- we'll thanks to facebook it resurfaced. I thought it would be AMAZING to submit it to Awkward Family Photos.com because I thought it would be worthy of the attention.. and you know what?? THEY AGREED!! it totally made it onto the website! LOL... GOOD TIMES. I did want to show me asking permission to send it in. (See above?). SO... i'm not in trouble for doing this... RIGHT?? RIGHT? Uh oh. (runs away and hides)....

My sisters are officially AWKWARD. LOVES IT. (look on awkwardfamilyphotos.com on the July13th postings).

Florence + The Machine - Cosmic Love

This singer is SOOO amazing.. she's epic. I'm really glad she's nominated for a VMA. :)

Regina Spektor - Blue Lips @ Barnes & Noble

Oh my gosh.. I think i'm in love with this song. I LOVE artists.. that really ARE artists. I think we should as a group make a bigger effort to ignore and refuse the britney spears types of the world. Sigh. Just so lovely.

First Aid Kit - Hard Believer

this is an intersting group. I don't know how I feel about them completely yet. I'm waiting to see how large their range is.... the first few songs i've listened to are pretty similiar and I really prefer musicians with a large range of styles... hmmm.....