carson Carson Grilling Salmon for Dinner For his Cub Scout badge, Carson needed to plan, prepare, and cleanup dinner for the family. So we had rice, grilled salmon, and rolls. It was a delicious meal. We used a You Tube technique of removing the skin from the salmon while flipping it with the spatula. It turned
Daddy Daughter Day I took the day off of work about a week ago and spent the day with Savannah. We had breakfast together, then went to the store and looked at toys and dresses. She loved the flowers, so we bought some flowers and stopped in the make-up area and bought
Date Night at Peter Chang's Tasty China 2 We had heard good things about Peter Chang's Tasty China 2 in Atlanta, so we decided to try it out. The area was beautiful and part of the restaurant was directly on top of a pond. It appeared to be very authentic Chinese food, although they had an
Exploring the Orchards in Ellijay, GA We drove up to Ellijay, GA and explored a bit. We ended up at R&A Orchards. While there we rode on a trailer behind a tractor through the orchards, picked our own apples, and had some goodies. The area was beautiful and it was nice to get away
Knights at Medieval Times When we found at that there was a Medieval Times here, we decided that we needed to go. It didn't hurt that in a few weeks Savannah will require her own ticket and tickets were on sale for the weekend. The green knight rode for us and won
Foods We Miss We've found that since we've been here, we CAN'T find some of the foods we really liked and ate regularly while living in Sparks, NV. Tri-tip: I guess Tri-tip just isn't a big deal down here in the south. We
carson Carson's City Since each of kids has a city named after them, we figured we should visit each of them. So before leaving Sparks, we wanted to get some pictures with Carson and his city. We had a great time on our little trip. We started it out by hitting Doughboy Doughnuts
New Restaurants We've been exploring our new restaurant choices. One was a Mexican food near our new home. The have live music, which sounded good (to most of us).
Fountain Fun We went to the rib cookoff a couple weeks ago and went to the fountains after eating a couple of ribs. Savannah loved it, she just wanted to crawl all over, but I didn't want her soaked, so I was holding on to her the whole time. And
family Not so good times We decided to go out to dinner tonight, so we head over to a place called Austin's, in Reno. We get there and it's now 'Jack's Cafe'. So we go from there to Bajio - there are signs in the windows that say,
angela Good Food This is a recipe I made recently and want to share it on the blog cause it is YUMMAY. It's basically breaded chicken stuffed with a spinach-cheese mixture. I got the recipe off of Kraftfoods.com. It's called "Chicken Parmesan Bundles". All I
tucker A Bad Seed: The Cashew 'Nut' Did you know that cashews are technically seeds? "Although a nut in the culinary sense, in the botanical sense the nut of the cashew is a seed.", says Wikipedia. Thought I'd enlighten you on that little bit of information, so you could understand my title for
recipes Wholesome Junk food Here's another recipe idea: whole wheat treats. I wanted to make rice-krispie treats, but had no rice krispie cereal, so I mashed up some shredded wheat cereal I had that no one was eating. Not the frosted shredded wheat, just the plain kind. So now we can
recipes Some Really Cool, Easy Recipes I like recipes that are really easy to prepare and that taste super yummy. Who doesn't? This last week, I made Baked Ziti and Creamy Chicken Enchiladas. I took parts from a few different recipes I found online and omitted things I didn't have or didn&
family Apple Hill Going to Apple Hill was an interesting experience for all of us. Carson got sick on the way there cause of the windy roads. Luckily I brought an extra shirt.......for Tucker. Carson had to wear one of Tucker's shirts, and some old pants too short for him.
carson Baking Italian Pugliese I love baking bread -- I just don't do it often or well. Hopefully a little practice will help. Carson helped me bake an Italian Pugliese with black olives. It was fun to make, but a little rushed. I didn't have time to let it rise enough.
Boulevard Pizza Promotion -- Free Monster Jam Tickers Boulevard Pizza makes some of the best pizza in Sparks. So when they sent an email (yes, we are on their email list) about their newest promotion, free Monster Jam tickets, we were pretty excited. The first twelve people to redeem coupons would be awarded tickets. We had thought about
carson Carson's Newest Creation: Chocolate Chip Cookie Brownies Carson and I created a new dessert fom dinner at Grandma & Grandpa Knight's house tonight -- chocolate chip cookie brownies. You scoop chocolate chip cookie dough on top of brownie dough (thanks Betty Crocker). It was really good.
tucker Finger-Lickin' Good We really want to get Tucker used to eating solids now, including ribs and pulled-pork sandwiches, so we started him out with some spoonfuls of KC Masterpiece bbq sauce. He loved it! Just kidding.......but he does love the pureed prunes!
family Thanksgiving Dinner We enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiving dinner at home, featuring herb-roasted turkey, stuffing, homemade red mashed potatoes, homemade pumpkin pie, and an apple pie. It was nice to celebrate the holiday just by ourselves.
carson Our Little Pastry Chef Carson has inherited a sweet tooth from both his Mom and Dad. So he loved his opportunity to make a yummy dessert for dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Knight's house today. He did a great job.
carson Sparks Firefighters Pancake Breakfast Firefighters have got fund-raising figured out. For the second year in a row, we attended the Sparks Firefighters Pancake Breakfast. It had been a rough night, so Angela stayed home with Tucker while Carson and I went to the firehouse. Community leaders cook and serve the food while firefighters
Dinner Discovery at Costco This blog entry will reinforce my in-laws belief that we live and die by Costco: Our most recent Costco discovery (thanks for the tip, Kate!): uncooked tortillas -- delicious! Angela made ground turkey tacos for dinner tonight. The are really good alone; but add hot tortillas directly off of the
family Anniversary Dinner Tonight we celebrated our seventh anniversary at Applebees. We had relatively low expectations and they were almost met. It's always rough going to a restaurant with a three year old and a one month old -- tonight was no exception. Tucker was a handful and difficult to console -- Angela
