Welcome to a new year of life...

I'm here, really! A person does need to eat after all...

My recent efforts in the kitchen have been more on the level of 'arranging.' There has been very little, if any actual cooking. I arrange mixed greens on a plate, sprinkle on some matchstick carrots, red onion, sugar snap peas and call that my salad. On the side I've heated up pre-made frozen turkey burgers. Awful, I know!

Well yesterday was my birthday and if you know me at all that is a big day. In my mind every one's birthday should be treated as a personal holiday. My Hubs is the best about my birthday and lets me be the self-proclaimed Princess I want to be. As usual, I was scheduled to take the day off from work with ambitions to treat myself even with him gone.

May 3, 2010 - The weather was pretty threatening, making for a very gray morning. Beginning with our daily walk, Pups and I tried some new sections of the town's bike path. The walk was very enjoyable and nicely different, it happened to include views of my most favorite golf course!

As we walked parallel to the long 16th fairway, my phone rang. It was Hubs, up early to be my first birthday call!! It was great timing, the 16th hole is his favorite hole on the course and it was nice to be out there sharing the morning with him.

As we neared the end of our walk we passed by a run down vacant house. Perched in each of the two second story windows were enormous vultures! Their red heads looked at each other then turn and stared me. This was one of those instances, you wished you had a camera on you. Darn!!

The giant birds perfectly filled the window frames and intimidated me the observant passer by...who was then stopped dead in my tracks. I've never seen such beastly birds in town/the city...but there they were, it was pretty amazing and I couldn't help but think what a great shot that would be for a book cover. Anyway...

After our walk, I decided to head to the grocery store to find me some bday brunch!

This is how my 2010 bday 'arrangement' went...

Atop freshly sliced seeded baguette we have...

triple cream cheese & fig sauce

some of the store's specially made chicken liver mousse

(acquired taste I know...)

and smoked salmon with onions, capers and crème fraiche.

So another year of life begins...
Happy Birthday Brunch to Me!

Cooler Full-o-Lisai's: Part II

I am off and running folks!

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I've been on the road all week and as a result have been sadly ignoring my blogger duties.

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Turns out I am headed out again today for another 3 days away, but this time for coaching some hockey! The trip should be a great time and we've been working hard all month for it...but what is just as exciting is that it marks the end to my March Madness!!

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After this weekend life should resume as normal, with nightly meals being cranked out of my recently neglected kitchen :O)

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Cooler Full-o-Lisai's Continued

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For me patty sausage is the ultimate breakfast meat and I will always choose it over bacon, ham, etc. On Day II of Cooler Full-o-Lisai's we tried their breakfast sausage patties alongside some scrambled cheddar-n-steak eggs.

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When the breakfast cooking first began, the intention was to make a cheddar-n-steak omelet from my leftover rib eye and cook up the butcher made sausage. I have never been very good at making omelets, mostly because of my poor technique. Relying on Hubs' help, we tried to 'flip' the egg over with a swift wrist movement...but all we managed to do was splatter egg all over the kitchen. Haha, it was pretty funny!!

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To salvage what was left, we turned it into a scramble.

Cheesy-onion-beefy goodness!

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As for the sausage...it was okay.

I felt the seasonings were a bit off and the texture was a bit too coarse for my preference.

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The best part of this meal was not actually the food. What was so amazing about this meal was that this was the first Saturday morning in months where Hubs and I were both home with no where we had to be :o)