Yum!

I know it's not Friday yet, but I will be at my parent's house and don't know if I'll be able to blog. Today I made some really yummy peanut butter cookies that are only 1 point! The recipe said it would make 3 dozen, but it only made 18 cookies. Those would have been some teeny tiny cookies if there were supposed to be 36.

1 cup reduced fat peanut butter

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

1 large egg (I used 1/4 c. egg beaters)

1 tsp vanilla extract

Heat oven to 325*

Roll dough into small balls and place on cookie sheet

Bake for 10 mins (cookies are VERY chewy, so if you like them crispy, bake for longer)

Neato

I know I posted pics from last month where my dad and I made concrete countertops... but they didn't work out, so here are our new and improved countertops. We changed our technique and color and they came out beautifully! We are halfway done with my parent's kitchen, and we will finish it this coming week with the help of Jordan. Don't worry, they will take down the awful wallpaper. My mom is also going to distress the cabinets so they aren't so stark against the dark counters. I can't wait to see the finished product!!

Fun Food Friday Tribute

This is Weird Al's version of "Beat It" and it's all about food!

RIP Michael Jackson

I love Bill Cosby!

It's a little long, but I know my dental friends will appreciate it.



Also please check out my new gadget on the right hand side that gives a new random dentist joke each time you look at my page. Don't get your hopes up, they aren't very good. Sorry!

Movie Time

In our time off, Jordan and I have gone to see or rented TONS of movies. We don't really have the chance during the school year because the only time we can go is on the weekends, and all the annoying teenagers that Jordan is trying to escape from are at the movies. So, here is my new list from the last couple of weeks:

Up 3D- eehhhh... I love me some cartoon kiddy movies, but this is not one of them. Kind of depressing and boring.

Henry Poole is Here- super depressing. Do NOT see it unless you like extremely dark comedies. Ones with very little comedy...

Star Trek- amazing!! I absolutely loved it! Growing up, my brother loved Star Trek and he was older and bigger than me, so we always watched what he wanted to, and so I grew up on Star Trek: the Next Generation. When I was sick I would watch the old movies, so I actually knew all the characters and such- I know, what a nerd.

X-Men: Wolverine- another great action movie. Who doesn't like Hugh Jackman?!? I wasn't a huge fan of the first 3 X-Men movies b/c they were really hokey, but this one isn't at all. I made Jordan go see it and he ended up really liking it.

The Proposal- LOVED it!! It is the cutest movie I've seen in a really long time. It takes a lot for me to laugh out loud, especially in the theater, but I was cracking up. Jordan and I have a list of our celebrity crushes and Sandra Bullock has always been on his. I used to not really have any, but after Blade:Trinity, Just Friends, and now The Proposal, Ryan Reynolds is definitely on my list!

Terminators 1 & 2- we rented these in order to prepare for Terminator Salvation. There's not a whole lot I can say b/c they are classics. Super corny, but if you're into action at all, must sees.

Terminator Salvation- very good action sequences. Jordan didn't like it as much as I did, but I thougth it was great. The CGI is amazing, as are the stunts and action! I'm not a huge Christian Bale fan (well, not at all), but there's another character that I could add to my "list"- Sam Worthington.

Next on our list: Transformers, Public Enemy, Wolfman, Sherlock Holmes, Hope Floats (Jordan has never seen it and he loves Harry Conick, Jr.)

Fun Food (the day after) Friday

Sorry I haven't blogged at all this week. I was at my parents' house all week making concrete countertops- again. Our last batch was a complete failure, so we had to re-think our strategy, techique, color, etc. and start from scratch. It took us a day just to get the color right, so you can imagine how frustrating it was. Anyway, I didn't get home until late last night, and I had to wait for my mom to send me this recipe. For a long time, some of my parents' really close friends have been promising to make me a watermelon margarita. I was a little hesitant because, well, it doesn't sound all that great... but let me tell you, it was delicious! It is not overwhelming watermelony, just enough!

Watermelon Margarita

½ can each of frozen limeaid and lemonaide
½ cup (4oz.) tequila
1 oz cointreau
Frozen (solid) watermelon in place of ice

If it needs more ice for texture and temperature, use Sonic ice

Mix in blender. And serve the yumminess!

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This cake is for you, Lauren- aka Knitty Needles! I found it and immediately thought of you!

Food Friday

You may have noticed that my title is not "Fun Food Friday." This is because this week's food was NOT fun. It was an absolute disaster. Last Friday night Jordan and I celebrated our nephew, Briggs', 2nd birthday. As his "cake," Jaime and her brother-in-law made little cake pops in the shape of pigs. They were sooo cute!

Jordan's mom, his sisters, and I were at a wedding reception the next day discussing the cake pops, and I asked where the idea came from. Bakerella.com That's all you need to know people. I went to the site Saturday afternoon and spent an hour looking at all of the amazing creations this woman has made. She is spectacular!! One of my friends had a hard week, so I wanted to cheer her up. I'm not much of a cook, but I thought I'd give baking a try- how hard can it be, right? I'll show you how hard it can be....

This is the look I was going for:

And this is what I got:

After many tries at making the cupcakes, I decided to try another approach. She is a fellow dental student, and I have cookie cutters in the shape of a tooth and a toothbrush, so I thought I had the perfect idea. Wrong again.

Hideous, I know. I had already used up all my white candy melts and had made them pink, but the pink turned out looking gross. I couldn't get the candy melted enough to where it would make a smooth finish, and they cooled way too quickly, and that's what I got. I had some red candy melts and some food coloring, so I thought I would try from scratch to make more coating. My bright idea was to mix the yellow into the red and get orange- - right? That's what you're supposed to get, right?

That's when I gave up. I just threw it all away and texted my friend and told her I was sorry that I couldn't bring her yummy goodness. At least Jordan didn't mind cleaning up some of the screw-ups for me!

The moral of the story is: go to Bakerella.com. And don't expect my kids to have really cute birthday cakes.

Choices, Choices

There is nothing Paisley loves more than a pin light. If Jordan or I so much as go near the counter where it is, she flips out. I also love playing with a toy with her b/c she is so cute when she tries to tug at it. For some reason I decided halfway through our toy-playing that I wanted to switch over to the pin light. I thought she would just drop the toy and go after the light, but instead she chased the light with the toy still in her mouth. It was SO cute!! She just couldn't choose between the two, so why not both?

Fun Food Friday!!

Welcome to my second post of Fun Food Friday! I'm posting really early so it will remind you to do it later- that means you Jaime, Jill, and Lauren! And anyone else who wants of course! I'm going to start off with a marinade I made for some pork loin chops I baked this week.

1/4 c. honey
1/4 c. brown sugar
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 cloves garlic

It was amazing!!

The second is a random idea to spice up oatmeal, which is hard to do. I eat plain oatmeal in the morning, usually with Splenda to give it flavor. I recently heard the idea to put yogurt in it from a family friend, and I love it! I use the WW yogurt and use about 1/4 of the container. It gives the oatmeal just enough flavor to make it oh so yummy. Then I eat the rest of the yogurt. 2 points for breakfast, you can't beat that!

Lastly I'm going to share our dinner for tomorrow night. I get the Kraft magazine quarterly, which has tons of good recipes in it, but usually super fatening. I'm going to make meatloaf, but a much healthier way. I never had meatloaf as a kid. Literally- I've only had it maybe twice in my life. Jordan, however, loves it, so I'm going to try it.

2 lb ground turkey breast (99/1)
1 pkg (6oz) Stove Top Stuffing Mix for Chicken
1 c. water
1/2 c. egg beaters (equals 2 eggs)
1/2 cup Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce

I'm excited to see how it turns out!

New Moon Trailer

Last night, the MTV Movie Awards premiered the New Moon trailer. It wouldn't fit in the space here, so if you want to see it, scroll all the way to the bottom of my page and it is down there. It makes me really excited for November! I know, I'm a dork. But apparently I'm not the only one. Twilight won Best Kiss, Best Fight, Best Male Performance, Best Female Performance AND Best Movie!


Speaking of movies, here is a list of all the movies I've seen lately and my opinion:

Taken- amazing. Disturbing, but amazing.
Yes, Man- Jordan and I thought it was hilarious!
Bedtime Stories- cute, but still sub-par.
Miss Pedigrue Lives for a Day- soo cute! I had never heard of it, but I saw it with Traci and loved it!
The Sentinel- very good. The ending is a little anti-climatic, but it was still good.
New in Town- SO cute! Jordan and I love Harry Conick, Jr and he didn't disappoint.
Paul Blart: Mail Cop- stupid. It is PG and I just don't think Jordan and I are in that stage. I think if you've been watching PG movies with your kids, you'd like it. We just thought it was creepy that his g/f is half his age...
Stranger than Fiction- very good dark comedy. Don't go into it thinking Will Ferrell is going to be his usual hilarious self. It is more serious, but so good.
Eye See You- my mom picked out this serial killer thriller starring Sylvester Stallone. I was very defiant at first, but it actually ending up being really good. If you like that kind of thing...