Next time Ill order pizza

     So its Saturday night, the boyfriend is busy studying for finals, and I am hungry. So I decided to make something from my Rachel Ray Look and Cook book. 9/10 a Rachel Ray recipe is great so it was a safe gamble. Flipping through the book backwards (see the recipes you don't usually get to cause you found something better at the beginning of the book) I decide on Pork Chops with Balsamic Strawberry salad and Orzo. It looked like this:

Some words about this recipe.

     Its very complicated. I chose this recipe cause I already had orzo and wanted strawberries. So while chopping the strawberries the balsamic vinegar when from liquid, to syrup to a tar looking substance. I was able to salvage a lot of the balsamic though I am pretty sure it did not taste quite as good as it was supposed to. 

     Next the orzo. First my measuring cup spilled dumping orzo everywhere, luckily I still had enough not on the floor for the recipe. I think I overcooked it cause I was focus on the rest of the recipe. It was salvaged because you mix it with butter, and season with nutmeg and cinnamon. It gave an interesting flavor and saved the dish if that was possible. 

     I have never had prosciutto. Tastes sorta like bacon and sorta like ham. Its pretty good but it was more a garnish in this dish than a main flavor. The pork is simply seasoned with salt and pepper and turned out okay. My only complaint is that you are supposed to use bone in, so on top of the already challenging task of cutting the fat off the meat (someday I will buy better knives) but you also have to cut around the awkward shaped bone. 

   The dog ate the pork bones out of the trash. I had to sweep the kitchen cause of the orzo spill. And then came the moment of truth. After dirtying 4 pans and burning myself twice. I got to eat the meal.  It was okay but next time I should just order the pizza.  Luckily I had enough foresight to buy a bottle of wine so the night won't be a total lost. 

Thanks for reading

Ktbug

Spring Time

Good Morning Blog,
     Its been awhile. Not much profound has happed in a few weeks. Its just been me and Boom hanging out. I'd say he is living the easy life these days. Laying around my house and getting petted by everyone who comes over. He pushed the pillows into a little craddle for himself one morning. Funny puppy.

I love spring time in Columbus mostly because of this tree. I am unsure what its called but its is my absolute favorite. Its pretty, pink, large, and screams spring time. I want one of these at my future house. The sad part is all the flowers bloom and then the flowers fall off all by May, so the pretty-ness doesn't last long.

 This is my boyfriend Alex (light blue) and my little brother Blaine (not light blue) standing in front of the little church we went to for easter sunday. Its a 2 minute walk from Alex's house. Alex's mom told me when they first starting going there it did not even have running water. A cute little methodist church that could not hold more than 50 people (give or take). Very nice easter Sunday.

 Unfortunately my parents were in Canada for Easter Sunday so as you may have guessed we spent easter at Alex's family's house. Its was a good day all things considered and was polished off with this chocolate heaven. Chocolate ganache frosting over chocolate cake with a layer of chocolate mouse and a layer of vanilla ice cream with sprinkles and jelly beans. I wanted to take it home with me.

 This is all that has really happened as of late. Just a lot of candy, procrastinating and walking the dog. I have never been so aware of my homes lawn care in my life (I have never walked around outside this much).

Thanks for reading, have a nice day.
Ktbug

Acrostic Poems

P – Proactively

R – Refocusing

O – On

C – Creative

R – Relaxing

A – Activities.

S – Sustained

T – Thinking

I –is

N – Not

A – Amusing.

T – There

I – is

O – Other

N – Necessities.

That is my poem about procrastination. I think I have seniorities. 

KTbug

Thanks to Pam Hussen these peculiar words caught my eye. This is what they mean.

Nouns

Pedagogue: a teacher, schoolteacher or a person who is pedantic, dogmatic, and formal

Ennui: a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom

Guile: insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception

Paragon: a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence (verb: to compare, parallel, to be a match for, rival)

Vicissitude: a chance or variation occurring in the course of something

Acumen: keen insidet, shrewdness

Fusillade: a general discharge or outpouring of anything

Platitude: a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.

Festoon: a fabric suspended, draped, a bound at intervals to form graceful loops or scall open folds

Temerity: reckless boldness, rashness

Adjectives

Impecunious: having little or no money; penniless; poor

Salient: prominent or conspicuous OR projecting or pointing outward

Vapid: lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat OR without liveliness or spirit; dull or tedious

Kafkaesque: of pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of Franz Kafka OR marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity

Munificent: extremely liberal in giving; very generous

Crass: without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity, gross, obtuse, stupid

Trenchant: clearly or sharply defined

Mellifluous: sweetly or smoothly flowing: sweet-sounding

Obdurate: stubbornly resistant to moral influence

Obsequious: obedient

Sedulous: persistently or carefully maintained

Deft: dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever

Profligate: utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute

Pithy: brief, forceful and meaningful in expression; full or vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible

Turgid: swollen, distended, tumid OR inflated overblown or pompous; bombastic

Tantamount: equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification

Ersatz: serving as a substitute; synthetic; artificial

Fecund: very productive or creative intellectually

Nefarious: extremely wicked or villainous: iniquitous

Miscreant: depraved, villainous, or base

Torpid: inactive or sluggish

Sanguine: cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident

Verbs

Usurp: to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc) by force or without legal right

Abscond: to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoud capture and legal prosecution

Ameliorate: to make or become better, more bearable or more satisfactory; improve

Enervate: to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken

Expatiate: to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion

 Enjoy

Ktbug