Everything + Bagel

Everything bagel + olive oil, avocado, sea salt, cracked red pepper, crumbled goat cheese.

Good made better.

Apparently this picture does not explain itself...
Step-by-step instructions
(just for GJMK)
1. Toast bagel
2. drizzle with olive oil
3. slice avocado, add to bagel
4. add salt and pepper, crushed red pepper and cheese
5. eat

call if any questions

Crafty non-food

I made this.

Yup.

Believe it.

I got crafty.

This was a Christmas gift for my sis-in-law.

If you would like to get crafty and make one for yourself, learn how here.

I wasn't kidding when I said I got crafty.

I got crafty.

I really don't like that word, just something about it. Maybe if I keep using it, it will grow on me.

Look what else I was crafty with.

Coasters.

Made from tiles, scrapbook paper, modge-podge, clear spray paint and felt.
I even did permanent stains on the blue ones.
I call those vintage.

Ho-made gifts are the bestest.
Especially when I get to get crafty.
Yeah, no. Not really growing on me.

Buffalo Chicken

Happy New Year! Today was a day to recover from the last week, make that month, of festivities. Although there's been one item missing from this season (where are you snow?) it has been a fabulous end to another year. Spending time with the ones you love, making, buying, cooking, and adding extra love to gifts for all those special people... ah, I'm getting a bit sentimental here...

Getting down to business, I've been watching a bit much of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and have become obsessed with buffalo chicken. Don't ask me why. I also saw this super duper awesome trick on how to  shred chicken in a cuisenart mixer. Tried it. Love it. No more burned fingers! So after a couple days of thinking about nothing but shredded buffalo chicken, I decided to be ambitious in the new year and came up with a delicious, sweet and spicy tender chicken sandwich.

Yum.

I used Sweet Baby Ray's Buffalo Marinade and added some garlic, diced onions, and brown sugar. Over medium heat I cooked the chicken in the sauce in my new Le Creuset (woo woo!), for about 20 minutes.

(I got the pre-cut chicken tenders fresh from the deli because I really wasn't in the mood to trim the fat from full breasts, yuck!)

{So excited about my new orange Le Creuset, fitting that the first thing I made in it is also orange}

Then, I did the incredible trick of putting the hot chicken in my cuisinart mixer and voila! After a few spins on low I had perfectly shredded chicken! I returned the meat to the sauce and simmered for another 20 minutes or so. (Really could have gone longer but I couldn't wait) I added some provolone cheese and pickles on an onion bun and.. Oh. My. God. Hangover and sinuses cleared!!!