Another Win From MBR!

Happy Monday, Kitschies!  Can you believe it's August already?  While I can believe it because it's been so freakin hot, I can't believe it's actually that time of the year again.  In just two weeks, my baby is going to be in Kindergarten!  KINDERGARTEN!!  *sigh*  I'm super excited and super sad all at the same time.  How is it even possible my little boy is in school?!

I have a super YUM recipe to share with you today.  I snagged this recipe from the most beautiful and talented Mrs Bettie Rocker.  I've made this recipe twice and BOTH times I wish I had made more!  Consider yourself warned...

Stuffed Pizza Rolls

1 roll of refrigerated pizza dough

2 Tablespoons Parmesan cheese

1 Tablespoon olive oil (or melted butter)

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1 teaspoon Italian seasoning

mozzarella cheese

your favorite pizza toppings, chopped

marinara sauce for dipping

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Roll pizza dough out to about 12in by 8in, then cut into 24 squares. Fill each square with mozzarella cheese and your favorite pizza toppings toppings.

2. Bring ends together and pinch to form a ball. Place seam side down in a greased pie pan.

3. Brush tops with butter/oil and season with garlic and Italian seasonings.

4. Bake 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and serve with marinara sauce for dipping. 

 

What I really love about these is you can fill them with whatever you want!  The hubs does NOT do olives, so I made his with pepperoni and green chile.  And the boys had some cheese and some pepperoni and cheese.

I hate my oven.  It cooks very unevenly, so part of the batch got super dark - the other, not cooked enough.  If you check out Becky's post, you can see that her pizza rolls look better.

See what I mean?  *sigh*  I don't care, though...they ALL got eaten.  And I could've easily made another batch and they would've all disappeared, too.

If you haven't already, go check out From the Kitchen of: Mrs Bettie Rocker...she posts some AWESOME recipes and she shares her little boys with us from time to time, also.  She was one of my first blog loves - and my love affair with her continues.

A Rant and a Red

TGIF!!!  We made it!  We're at the end of the work week!  I'm excited, can you tell?  It's been another long week and no week would be complete without at least one call from daycare.  I was graced with two calls from daycare this week, both about Mason.  The first was Tuesday when Armageddon was attempting to start at the clinic.  They were calling to tell me that Mason bumped his head on a table while rocking out in the music room.  They said it wasn't bad and I asked if he was bleeding.  Nope.  No bleeding.  I told them it was probably because he's got a gigantic head (which he kinda does) and it wasn't a big deal.  The second was Thursday afternoon because Mason had had 3 BMs (What?  He has a daily limit?!) and a "fever of 101* and we had to pick him up ASAP.  Luckily it was the end of the day and it wasn't too busy so it wasn't that big of an issue to leave work.  But...I get there and he's running around the room - obviously not sick.  I asked how the BMs were and she (the worker) said they were fine but it was "concerning because he'd had 3 over the course of the day".  Really?  You're concerned because a toddler has 3 poops in a day.  Really?  As for the fever...he wasn't even warm!  He was actually a little on the cool side, and not like clammy cool, either.  So, I loaded him and Nate in the car and we headed home.  Nate's been pretty good on the drives to and from home lately.  Mason?  Well, he's in that toddler everything-is-mine phase and it's really grating on my nerves.  For a bit of comic relief, this is what he and his little daycare buddies remind me of...



Anyway...the "fever"...yeah.  Mason didn't have a fever.  He wasn't even at 98*!  Ugh.  I know daycare is trying to be super vigilant and don't want to spread whatever sickness whatever kid has, but c'mon!  3 poops and a below-average does not a sickness make!

Enough of the rant.  And that reminds me...I really need to put together a post for Nate's 5th birthday.  My little guy is growing up so fast and time just slips by.  I will put that together some time this weekend.

I know my last couple posts have been about nails - and this one is no different.  Only, instead of it being about a polish I don't like or a water marble fail, this one is full of WIN.

I picked up ChG Ravishing, Dahling at Sally Beauty during their buy 2, get 1 promotion (in April?) and I am so glad I did.  I *is* ravishing!

Indoors flash.  Ravishing Dahling is a gorgeous brick red creme that wants to be a jelly.  It's just a touch more opaque than a true jelly but OMG this color is so hot.

What I love about this color is it changes depending on the amount of light you're in.  It doesn't change actual color, but it looks lighter with more light, darker in less light...like this.  It's vampy.  It's sexy.  It's gorgeous!

Here she is in indirect light (partial shade).  I got lots of compliments on this polish.  It's so shiny!  It looks like it could drip off my nails!  I believe I could've gotten away with two coats, but I used 3 to make sure and hide any thin spots.  I have some really bad ridging on my ring finger and if you make this picture bigger and look closely at the second pic, you can see the ridges a bit.  Oh!  And another good thing about this polish?  It didn't stain AND clean up was pretty easy.

So run, don't walk, and pick this stunner up for yourself!  It was early July when I wore this, but I can definitely see wearing this in the fall.  It's one of those colors that are good no matter what the season.  It would make a good pedi color, too!

That's it for me today!  Have a good weekend.  Stay cool and don't do anything I wish I could!

They Can't All Be Winners

Good day, Kitschies!  We've almost made it through another week.  And I'm not *really* complaining because it could be worse, but holy hell I'm over this heat!  And, for some reason, the summer monsoons are skipping right over my house, so we don't even get the afternoon break like we usually do.  THIS SUCKS and I'm OVER it!  Sad thing is...we have at least another 6-8 weeks of heat.  Ugh!

Enough complaining.  Let's get to something better, shall we?

Although, not *much* better.  I did this water marble a while back and it didn't turned out how I'd hoped.  I started off wanting to do a green and blue marble but the colors I had were too close and just didn't show up well together.  So, instead of closing up shop, I decided to go with blue and purple.  I should've just closed up shop because I'm not rally happy with how it turned out.

I started off with Zoya Diem as underwear then I marbled Orly Royal Navy and ChG Coconut Kisses.  I don't know if it's because I didn't use the purple as the base color or what, but I just wasn't happy with this one.  And no matter what I did to this pic, my skin has this weird zombie-ish blue hue to it.  Nice, right?

I must not've been feeling this one at all because even my clean up wasn't very good.  I love marbling, but sometimes you should just walk away when it's not working well.  This is one of those times.

I even had bubbling and that usually never happens!  Sheesh!  I can't believe I actually left this one on more than a day or two.

AND...I even had a bald spot!  Man...this was NOT my best work.  *sigh*  They can't all be winners, right?

OK.  I feel better now that I got that out of my "pending blog stuffs" folder.  See...even a practiced nail arter (farter?) makes their share of fails from time to time.

WWtKW: Queso Edition

Good morning, Kitschies!  It's Wednesday and you know what that means, right?  It's time to turn a blind eye to all your adult duties and play along with Mamarazzi and Queso for We Want To Know Wednesdays!!

This week's questions come from the lovely and talented Queso!



{1} Who would you call if you had to get bailed out of jail?
{2} If you were a superhero what would your hero name be?
{3} What do you think is one of your best qualities?
{4} What song would you pick to be your own personal theme song?
{5} What celebrity do you think is most over rated?

1.  Who would you call if you had to get bailed out of jail?

That's easy!  I would call my work bestie, Brandi.  She's got connections. 

2.  If you were a superhero, what would your hero name be?

That's no so easy.  I'd say Captain America or Super Woman, but those are both taken.  So...I guess I'll go with Super Smeg.  Remember that "nickname" hubs? 

3.  What do you think is one of your best qualities?

What is this, some kind of interview?  *sigh*  This is one of those trick/impossible questions.  I guess I'll have to say I'm a quick learner.  Show me once, let me do something once and I've got it.  And if it's something I like doing, I'll become a master in no time flat!

4.  What song would you pick to be your own personal theme song?

That's an ever-changing answers.  It depends on my mood.  Right now, I'm gonna go with Future Foe Scenarios by Silversun Pickups.  I like what it says.  And it's got a beat you can dance to.  I'd post a video, but YT won't let me embed it.  As for an overall piece that would cover me from day one to The End, I definitely have to go with an oldie but a goodie: Symphony No 7 in A Major (Beethoven).  I could listen to that piece on an endless loop forever and ever, Amen.   

5.  What celebrity do you think is overrated?

There's a lot of them, but since you asked for one, I'm going to have to say Angelina Jolie.  Sure, she's pretty, but she annoys the holy hell out of me.  And she needs to put some meet on her bones!  She was much hotter circa Hackers.  And you can't go wrong with the short hair.

Mexico Can Bite My Arse

Good morning, Kitschies!  It's been quite the day already and it's barely 9:00!  Apparently nobody told the computer system here at the clinic that it's no longer Monday.  *whew*  I hope this means the rest of the day will be smooth sailing!  *fingerscrossed*

I have a mani for you that's been sitting in my prepped folder for quite a while.  It's not one of my favorite colors so there it sat.  Until today.

This is OPI Magnifico Mexico.  It's not quite so red IRL, it's definitely a lot more orange.  This was taken indoors with flash.   

Indoors in direct light from a window.  You can see just a little more orange in this picture.  I tried to add a couple decals to my ring and thumbs, but I still didn't care for this mani.

Indoors, indirect light.  You can see in the upper pic that it's a little more orange there.  See...I just didn't care for this one.  It didn't photograph well and it was just a meh color.  Not really any shimmer on the nail (there's very slight shimmer in the bottle) and just not my color.  I could definitely see this as a pedi color, though.

I think I remember this mani lasting a day...if that.  I got this polish from my mom at Christmas because she didn't like it, either.  I figured...why not?...I'll give it a good home.  Yeah.  I haven't picked it up since!  So, Mexico can bite my shiny metal arse.  LMAO  Obviously I've been watching too much Futurama.

photo credit

It's settled down a little bit here in the clinic.  Let's hope that the rest of the day mellows out because I've had about as much drama as I care to deal with in one day.  Happy Tuesday!!

I Was Pushin' It

Happy Monday, Kitschies!  I hope you enjoyed your weekend.  Our weekend was HOT without a drop of rain.  I was hopeful it would rain because I saw some really big banks of thunderheads building to the east and north but we got nuthin!  Most of Albuquerque got rain, and quite a bit of it at that, but Rio Rancho was left out.  It's looking promising for rain again this afternoon but RR will probably get skipped over.  Again.

I have an absolutely delish and easy recipe to share with you today.  I made this the first time a while back and I wasn't sure if the hubs would go for it because there's some stuff in it he refuses to eat.  Well, refused to eat.  So, when I made it, I told him he had to come to the dinner table with an open mind.  In other words: I was pushing it.  LOL  Both he and the boys ate this without fuss - especially when I made it a couple weeks ago.

No-Time Pesto Pasta

1/2 (16-oz.) pkg. penne rigate pasta (3 cups), uncooked

1/2 cup pesto

1/2 cup chopped roasted red peppers

1/2 cup crumbled Feta cheese

 

Cook pasta as directed on package, omitting salt. Drain; return to pan.  

Add pesto and peppers; cook and stir on low heat 3 to 5 min. or until heated through.

Stir in cheese.

 

NOTES:  My hubs is all about the protein, so I added a couple of cooked breasts of chicken, cut up in thin pieces.  I mixed in the cooked chicken with the pesto and peppers.

 

I've never cooked with any of these ingredients (other than the pasta, of course) so I was a little afraid of how it would come together.  But...I like all the ingredients, so I decided to give it a try.

OMGOSH YUM!!  I'm on a whole-foods type diet right now and this looks really, really good.  LOL  Even if I wasn't on this stoopid diet, it would look good! 

 

I found this (and several other) recipes on Kraft Recipes.  I like this site because you can type in individual ingredients of what you have on hand and it'll bring up recipes with those ingredients for you to browse through.  I've tried a number of recipes from Kraft Recipes and I haven't had a stinker yet!

 

So...are there any recipes you were afraid to try but once you did you loved it?  Or a recipe you were sure a family member wouldn't like but they did?  Share them with me!  I'm *always* looking for new recipes to try!!  As always, you can email me at megharmeyer@gmail.com.

Hope you're making it through your Monday relatively unscathed.  It's back to work I go...I have a pile of things needing to be sent out that are staring at me.

Tag: What Would You Rather...?

Happy weekend, Kitschies!  I hope you're enjoying some down time this weekend.  It's been kinda busy here at our house.  We have our bestie's oldest son over for a sleep over.  He and Nate are arguing over how to play Lego Batman - you should hear them!!  Earlier, they had fun out in the pool in the backyard.  Even Mason got in on the action for a little while.  After a dinner of homemade pizza (thanks, hubs) and more S'mores than an adult should be allowed to eat, I'm about done.  

I saw this little meme over at Libby's Pink Vanity a couple days ago and Kimberly mentioned that she thought I should play along...so I am!

1) Would you rather lose all of your mascaras, eyeliners, lipsticks, and lip-glosses or lose all of your palettes and eye shadows?

Oooh...that's a hard one!  I think I'd rather lose my shadows because you can make yourself look made up with everything else.  You don't *have* to have shadow.

2) Would you rather chop off all your hair or never be able to cut it again? 

I'd rather chop it all off.  My hair is already pretty short, so what's a little less?

3) Would you rather have a coral cheek or a pink cheek? 

Pink.  Coral doesn't really work well with my skin tone - too much yellow already.

4) If you had $1000 to spend, would you rather buy clothes or makeup? 

You're seriously going to make me choose?!  I guess I would have to say clothes because I already have quite a bit of makeup (I'm including nail polish in that).  But...I would love it to be a 70/30 split (the larger being for clothes). 

5) Would you rather apply lipstick as eyeliner or eyeliner as lipstick? 

I think I'd rather do lipstick as eyeliner because eyeliner as lipstick would be too thick.  Though lipstick as liner would probably smear/crease pretty easily.  Either way, not a good choice.

 

6) Would you rather only shop at MAC or Sephora? 

Sephora!  MAC is too expensive and Sephora has a much larger selection.

7) Would you rather only use one eye shadow color or one lip color the rest of your life?  

One lip color.  Why?  Because I really only have one lip color (just ask the bestie).

8) Would you rather wear winter clothes in summer or summer clothes in winter? 

I'd rather do summer clothes in winter because you can pile lots of layers to make you warm enough.  You can only get so naked.

9) Would you rather have dark nails or bright nails all year round? 

Either?  But, if I had to chose, I guess I would go with bright nails because you can do more stamping and art on top of the brights than the darks.  Though holos *are* pretty damned awesome.  But...I think I like darker vampy colors more.  Confusing much?

10) Would you rather give up your favorite lip product or your favorite eye product? 

Favorite lip product.  I don't use lip stuff all that much anyway.

 

11) Would you rather only be able to wear your hair in a ponytail or a messy bun? 

Messy bun...it looks better for a wider range of circumstances.

There are no set rules for tagging people, so I tag whoever wants to play along! 

Lipgloss photo credit