fun times in cabo

white party

hotel & pool

seals

Lovers beach - where the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez "make love" according to our tour guide

the fancy dinner at Krystal

Spring Break

I am now on spring break for a glorious week - Cabo here we come!

"chi-rish"

So St Patrick's Day is celebrated on the weekend here in Chicago. We have finals starting on Monday but were still able to enjoy some of the festivities.

Fat Tuesday

So tomorrow is Ash Wednesday - the day I like to think of as my second chance at a new year's resolution. Should I give something up? Should I do something more? over the years i have tried both to different degrees of success with cabo on the horizon the one thing i won't be doing (which I normally do) is give up soda. It might be silly but i have a feeling that with water and such I will be drinking soda more for safety than for enjoyment. chocolate is always hard to do and it does make a good sacrifice. But I don't think it is really enough. I have though about adding daily meditation as i think that would be good and in line with the idea of lent. But I don't know how to meditate.

Any ideas?

Sign of spring

Garlic peeking out of mulch

easy nice dinner

so as the quarter is coming to an end Bill and i have even less time to spend cooking and being together. usually this means more fast food etc in our diet but with Cabo around the corner and that bikini I bought laughing at me I am trying to eat a bit better and exercise. So when grocery shopping this weekend we tried to keep this in mind. One of the places i love to go to get quick meals is Trader Joes.

They aren't the best for fresh fruit and veg, but their frozen meals rock. Bill and I bought so pre packaged snowpeas and a port tenderloin that was pre marinated. Last night I made dinner in the time it took bill to get from the train station down town to the train station in Homewood.

Sear tenderloin on all sides in a stove to oven pan

Through some baby carrots and half an onion in the pan with a bit of olive oil

set timer for 20 min

snap snow peans and wash

rinse rice and put in rice cooker.

saute snowpeas

dinner in 30 min - yum!

I think that pork tenderloin might become a new rotational member in my "homey" but easy meals.