June 24th

Chris and I had a sushi night tonight. We bought all the ingredients and made a ton of sushi ourselves. And my god was it ever good.

We made all this for about $18... so I have no idea why sushi costs so much to buy at grocery stores pre-made...

It turned out really well. The rice worked perfectly even though I messed up the cooking process lol.

And rolling it went really well once we got the hang of it. This was like... legit sushi. I will have to try and make some more. A customer suggested I make smoked salmon with cream cheese and I can't wait to try it.

I got all the recipes and tips I used from my Sushi with Style book by Ellen Brown. I am so happy to have it. The tips are seriously great and I feel like a pro. I learned what types of tools you need, what ingredients work best, how to make, season and cool the rice, how to put the rice on the seaweed properly, how to roll, how to cut, just everything you could ever need to know.

June 23rd

Chris and I had birthday cake ice cream today.... who ever came up with that flavor is a genius...

Chris is boring but I made mine into a delicious sundae... yeah that's picture of the day worthy

June 22nd

The sky was pretty interesting on my way to work today. There were no clouds in the sky, except at the verrry edge of the horizon. It look pretty neat.

June 21st

I saw this adorable mini cooper 1000 at work today. It was cute all over, it took up like none of the parking space and it has the steering wheel on the right side and everything. Look at the little gas cap on the back corner. Man I want one of these.

June 20th

My garden is growing by the second... the plants have all gotten so much bigger I'm going to have to move them all. Here are some of my tomato plants that we just tiny not so long ago...

And here is the tomato plant that Chris' mom gave me, it was started earlier and now its like ... 50 times the size of my other ones!

Chris' grape plant has grown so much that it has nowhere left to grow, it was trying to grow up the flower pots on the railing for a while and now its growing across instead.

June 19th

All the pretty flower bouquets we have at my store :) I actually took this picture to show Chris and coax him into buying me some but it might as well be my photo for the day

Pina Colada Fruit Dip

I made this Pina Colada fruit dip for a friend's surprise party and it was so good I decided to blog the recipe. It was kind of hard to find a complete recipe with measurements that made sense online, so hopefully this will clear it up for me when I want to make it in the future - which I definitely will want to.

Ingredients:
-one 8oz pkg (brick or tub) of cream cheese (softened slightly)

-one container of Jet Puffed (or other) marshmallow fluff

-1/2 cup shredded coconut

-half of a 19 fl oz can of crushed pineapple

First, stir the cream cheese and marshmallow fluff until combined. Then fold in the pineapple and coconut until the mixture is even. This dip tastes best after it's been chilled in the fridge, I left it over night but a few hours would be good enough. It definitely tasted better than when it did when I had just made it, so chill it. Enjoy!