Another New Recipe

As a side dish to go with our bbq pulled pork sandwiches, I made roasted garlic and parmesan angel hair pasta.  This recipe will work with any pasta but I had angel hair on hand.  It was pretty easy, very tasty and best of all, the whole family loved it!

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

1 lb. your choice of pasta

4 heads of garlic

Drizzle olive oil

2 Tbsp parmesan cheese

Pinchful of oregano leaves

Salt and Pepper to taste

 

Directions

Cook the pasta noodles as directed on the package.

Preheat oven to 400.

Cut off the tops of the garlic heads and place them in a small baking dish. Drizzle with olive oil, and place a small piece of foil over the top, so the tops don’t burn.

Roast for 20-25 minutes.

Remove from oven and let cool until you can handle them, about 5 minutes.

Squeeze the roasted garlic into a small bowl or chopper/food processor.

Add another drizzle of olive oil, the parmesan cheese, oregano leaves, salt and pepper.

Mash well, or chop until “paste” forms.

Once the noodles are cooked and drained, add the paste and toss together.

Stuffed

On Sundays, I usually try to make a nice big dinner for us but this past Sunday, I was still really tired from the wedding/reception the night before that I ended up just reheated some leftovers.  Well, I think I made up for it tonight.  We had bbq grilled chicken breasts, corn on the cob on the grill, linguine oil and garlic and ciabatta bread drizzled with extra virgin olive oil, grilled and rubbed with a clove of garlic.  YUMMY!  Rubbing the bread with garlic is my new favorite way of making garlic bread.  It's so easy and so tasty!  I am still stuffed!

Lauryn was a tad fussier than usual today.  My poor girl :(  I wish her teeth would just come in already.  This is how it went with the first two though so I should have expected it to go this way when more started coming in.  It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't take them so long to break through.  Once they've actually started to come through she seems to be a lot happier but until they do, she seems so miserable.

Between yesterday and today I got most of the laundry done.  I still have  a load of whites to put in but it's not much of a load at all so I didn't bother with it today.

I'm making more progress on that blanket.  I so wish I wouldn't have forgotten about it before so I wouldn't have to crochet until my fingers fall every night!  It's turning out really cute though.  I'll have to post a picture of it when I'm done.

A New Woman

Okay, maybe not a new woman but a woman with pretty blond highlights and healthier looking hair :)  Thank you very much Wendy!  Lauryn seemed to have a good time hanging out with Kristin, Ross, Nikki and Willow while I was getting my hair done.  I love that she has a baby her age to play with and we need to get them together more...which means I get to hang out with Kristin, Nikki and Wendy more too :)

We had steaks, red potatoes, ciabatta bread on the grill tonight and a salad on the side.  I've become a huge fan of drizzling the bread with extra virgin olive oil, grilling it and then rubbing it with a cut clove of garlic.  It is so tasty!

Jo, my old coworker is coming over to visit and meet Lauryn on Tuesday and Cary, my very dear friend is coming over to visit on Wednesday.  This is going to be a great week!  I have some cleaning to do tomorrow though!  We also have another wedding to go to on Saturday but this one is just outside of town so there won't be a two-ish hour drive like last time.  I'm getting better at leaving Lauryn to go have some grown up time and I think it's really good for her too!  She probably gets sick of being with Mama all day, every day :P

Well, I should really get my butt to bed...G'night to everyone and pleasant dreams! :)

Busy Day

This morning I've already run a couple of errands, started another load of the never-ending laundry, and I have quite a bit of cleaning to do around the house. I've got to sweep and mop the kitchen, de-hair the bathroom floor (it's tiled and cold so Cloz'r lays there all of the time), wash the bedding, I still need to get out to weed that garden, and pick up in the living room. We're supposed to go out to Kathye's tonight for "workout Wednesday" some time this afternoon.

Last night's dinner was so yummy!  I made burgers on the grill and linguine oil and garlic.  I saw on one of the cooking shows that to make sure your burgers don't shrink up, put a dent in the middle of the patty before you put it on the grill.  It worked!  I tend to make the burgers really big because by the time they're done, they're smaller than the bun.  Last night they were perfect.  I also put some garlic juice (from the minced garlic I had in the fridge) and some Worcestershire sauce in the beef before I pattied them.  I think linguine oil and garlic is my new favorite pasta dish.  And after I cook it, my kitchen smells like yummy garlic.

Linguine Oil and Garlic (for two)

1/2 lb. linguine, cooked as directed on the box

3-4 cloves of garlic, minced

3 Tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil

3 Tbsp. Parsley

Pepper to taste

Parmesan to top.

Cook linguine.  Heat olive oil in a sauce pan on medium heat.  Add garlic and saute for about 30 seconds, until garlic gets lightly browned. *Don't over cook the garlic because it will get bitter*  Take off heat and add linguine, parsley and pepper.  Stir together.  Add Parmesan on top.