February 2014 – The Adventures of a Calamari Queen

Food This Week!

Another great week of yummy food for us! I wasn’t able to follow my meal plan/menu this week. I’ll probably prepare some this week like the calamari salad (I already have all of the ingredients). Hubby made Soufflé pancakes this morning, and it was good! No left overs (we’re little pigs when we like a certain dish!). He found the recipe from the Food network website and he’ll make it again in the near future (probably next weekend again). It’s been a great weekend for us, we watched Toby Mac’s Hit Deep Tour concert yesterday at the Key Arena and it was awesome! I will probably post about it later this week. Today we just stayed home and relaxed,hubby watched his favorite tv shows and I’ve been reading most of the day! I finally got a library card and rented books and downloaded ebooks. Anyways, here’s what we ate this week:

Hubs requested chicken wings this week. I also made caprese salad

made a big pot of chili! half is already in the freezer for future use

Souffle Pancake with banana and blueberries (hubs made this morning)

Riley checking out the books I got from the Library

Food This Week!

We are watching The Walking Dead and the NBA all star game this weekend while I’m writing this quick post. Just having a relaxing Sunday evening with the hubs and Riley (our puppy). We had a good meal this week, especially yesterday because we had a nice dinner at this fancy Seattle restaurant (Il Terrazzo Carmine) and all of the food was delicious! I wish I had a decent camera with me because all of the pictures I took were pathetic! Here’s the food we had this week (these are pictures of just some of our meals, sometimes when I’m too hungry I forgot to take pics!)

Mac and cheese,salad,mushroom and blue cheese crostini (macandcheese from Costco)

breakfast I prepared for Hubs (sausage,eggs,hot chocolate)

kimchi,filipino beef steak,cantaloupe juice

VDAY dinner:chicken cordon blue,mac and cheese,roasted brussels sprouts

Our DInner last night (IL Terrazzo Carmine):

Hubby's food:duck something — Hubby’s food:roasted duck in wild cherry sauce

menu this week (i hope I can stick to this)

Happy Valentines Day 2014!

I hope everybody had a good Valentines today, spending time with your favorite people! We had a simple Valentines day at home. This will be our 5th Valentines as a married couple, and the last 2 Valentines we spent it at home. We will have dinner tomorrow in Seattle though, so it will be a late celebration. I didn’t ask for any gifts or flowers from my hubs today because I don’t want any of that (reading too many frugal books is rubbing off on me!). We got some Starbucks (BOGO!) and my favorite french fries this afternoon so that was my Valentine “treat” from him! I’d rather have coffee than flowers! For dinner we had chicken cordon blue(we got from our local meat shop) and I roasted brussels sprouts for our side dish. It was good!

blueberry,orange,mango smoothie I made this morning for my hubs!

Food This Week!

Happy Weekend family and friends! We had a snowy weekend here in the Pacific Northwest! It’s all melting now so we are good this week. The weather forecast says we’ll have rain this week. Hubs and I are sick so we stayed home the whole day and watch our church’s service online. I read and nap most of the day while Hubby played video games and did some work. Just wanted to share what I cooked and our food this week:

Coconut Shrimp Curry(recipe:tastefoodblog.com)

Sunday dinner:fried snapper,kimchi,kalua pork(leftover)

salad:chicken,avocado,cranberry,pumpkin seeds,feta cheese

We also went out and had dinner at Chipotle,Jollibee(for me)Hawaiian Grill(for Hubby where he had kalua pork)

We went to Seattle last wednesday and had lunch at Pot Belly Sandwich:

He really liked their sandwich;while I don't care for it! — He really liked their sandwich;while I don’t care for it!

I also just want to include my savings this week:

safeway:I paid $21,saved$65! all the spam will be ship to my family back in the Philippines! Spam is not healthy but every once in a while is fine(in my opinion!) this will last them for a year or two!

Some of our pics this week!

nap time! I'm using his dog bed too! — nap time! I’m using his dog bed too!

watched the Winter Olympics ceremony!GO USA!!

dessert! — dessert tonight while watching the winter games!

Books!

One of my goals this year is to read more books. I gave my hubby a kindle last Christmas and we’ve been enjoying it so far and putting it to good use. I do read a lot of Christian homemakers blogs, frugal blogs, couponing blogs. It’s fun learning how others save money, share their homemaking skills, recipes, fashion, time management and home decorating( just about anything under the sun). The month of January these are the books I’ve read:

I totally enjoyed this book,lots of great information!

SUPERBOWL!

Congratulations to the Seattle Seahawks for winning Superbowl 48! We are from the PNW so we support the Seahawks all the way. We’re not big football fans (I prefer the NBA, while hubby is not a big sports fan) but we still watch and enjoy football every now and then. This season though we watched all of the Seahawks games, I’m still not over their game 2 weeks ago against the niners(that game was intense!). So tonight as they won their first Superbowl, we can’t help but get so excited and happy for Seattle/WA state. One of my favorites is Russell Wilson our QB. He is a strong Christian and never fails to give Glory to God. He surely deserves the championship. We watched the game at our friends house. They had a huge TV(65 inches),my goodness it was so much fun. Yummy food, great company, Superbowl Championship! What a crazy weekend!

hubby and 12thman cupcake! — hubby and 12 cupcake!

someone's enjoying chicken wings! — someone’s enjoying chicken wings!

Food this week!

Hello family and friends! I hope you had a great Saturday:) A quick post of what we ate for the last week of January. I’m really sticking to my meal plans and it’s such a big help to me. It does save us time and money. I already have my meal plan for next week( I got some of the ingredients after my Zumba class). It’s such a pain to go grocery shopping during weekends and with the Superbowl tomorrow (GO HAWKS!) I swear everybody is in the store. Anyways, food we had this week:

Slow cook chicken adobo — Slow cooker chicken adobo,roasted brussels sprout,boiled eggs,thai iced tea

artichoke ravioli(trader joe's),left over gyro,bean dip and chips — artichoke ravioli(trader joe’s),left over gyro,bean dip and chips

bean dip,grilled chicken,watermelon-cucumber-feta salad

ribs,mashed potato,roasted brussels sprouts (my fave lately)

Midnight snack last thursday night while watching a tagalog movie:

Miss you like crazy!(excuse the mess my husband is adding some sound system this week)

my cuddle buddy,not interested to watch Bea Alonzo and John Lloyd!

Savings!

Late night run to Target and Walgreens tonight! I really didn’t have plans to shop tonight but my Starbucks coupons expire today and my hubby really likes their frappuccinos.

Walgreens: Before sale and coupons:$18, I paid $9 (they are the big bottles)

I’m running low on my coffee creamer and Target has them for 2/$3. I drink coffee everyday so I always take advantage if they’re on sale.

Target: I paid $13 (after sales,coupons and gift card)