recipe

Roasted Plum Tomatos

I just love roasted tomatos.  The tomato is one of my favorite garden plants.  It is a fruit and a vegetable in my book.  It comes in different sizes and colors.  The tomato is the state plant of New Jersey and Arkansas.  Here is a really easy and delicious side or starter you can make for your family and guests all year round.

Roasted Tomatos

Oven 350

6 plum tomatos, halved lenghtwise
Olive oil for baking dish and drizzling
Agave
Paprika
1 cup Panko breadcrumbs
Salt/Pepper
2 Tbs. chopped fine parsely

Place tomato halves in lightly oiled baking dish and drizzle more olive oil, agave, sprinkle the tomatos with  the breadcrumbs & paprika.  Season tomatos with salt and pepper and roast for 20 minutes in preheated oven.  Sprinkle with parsley before serving.

 

Thank you Bobby Flay!! 🙂

LS

Family

Face Painting

I love when my grand kids came over to visit straight from attending a kiddie party.

Oh, what fun it is to go to a kiddie party, and more fun to bring it home with you.
Their recent  party adventure sounded like a super event.  Sophie was full of stories and her excitement showed on her face.  In more ways then one….The face painting was a big hit with her.  When she arrived her face was splattered with flower pedals, well not exactly splattered, more like  painted pedals.   In her hair she wore a  bright yellow flower  and I guess the flower pedals just fell all around  her face.   I smiled when I saw my  Hawaiian princess… Sophie also had a  skull tattooed on her arm…this is the side of her that is a little macabre.

Now Christian, he was a regular boy at the party.  Why did Christian not have his face painted???… Well, according to his mother, Christian just wiped away all the face paint from his face, with his little hands.

No painted face for Mr. Christian.  Now sunglasses, not a problem…guess he thinks they are cooler than paint on face…

Now back to Sophie.

Face painting is certainly  a lot of fun, if you have the patience to sit still and let some person treat your face like a piece of canvas. 🙂

But the most important thing, to me, is that the paint easily washes off and paint on face will be no more…<3

TG!

 

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Fashion and Beauty, product review, Video

Coldwater Creek Jeans and Getting Gorgeous 2012 – Video

We attended the Getting Gorgeous Event a few weeks ago – but we were so busy at the swag bag table that we never got a chance to get a pair of Coldwater Creek jeans.    The lovely people from Coldwater Creek were  sweet enough to send us some and we are so excited.  The jeans are wonderful and the fit is generous , the fabric is so soft and comfortable, just love the dark wash!!    These gorgeous  jeans come in sizes 4 – 24.  Natural or curvy fit- regular  and petite.  Coldwater Creek has you covered!

 

http://www.coldwatercreek.com/

 

http://gettinggorgeous.com/

Family, Travel

Puerta Plata And The Family

For my 60th birthday, as a gift to me,  I took my family on  vacation…It has been my dream for a long, long, very long time.

To be honest I was a little nervous about it.  See we are not exactly the Partridge Family or the Brady Bunch, I would say more like the Adams Family…see you never know who would just go totally berserk …and set up a hail storm of uncontrollable fire works…Like the one we almost had when we were checking in our bags at the Jet Blue counter.  Well, we were a little late and my parents bags almost did not get put on the scheduled flight…Why was this such a problem?  Well, remember the fireworks that could just go off…that would be my mother…you have no idea how she was screaming about wanting her money back if she was not going on this flight, see she thought the airline meant that my dad and her would have to take the next flight out…not the bags.

All I can say is,”Thank God for my daughter-in-law”, Erin came over and took full charge of the situation  and began to explain, with great clarity, why the bags need to be on this flight.   Hurray!  Erin  convinced  Jet Blue  to do the best to get the baggages on the plane, and they did… PHEW!  One problem down.

Now we are off to the Dominican Republic.  It is true what they say about Jet Blue.  Plenty of leg room on board, and you get plenty of snacks. Christian had his own seat, I could not believe that they charged  full price for him…he did not even fill the seat up…  

Arrival at the resort, IberoStar, Costa Dorado.  Sophie happy to be away, and happy to get to be eating lunch.  Lunch which consisted of a few pieces of french fries and a quick I am not hungry comment…

Now I know how to get Christian’s face to light up with glee…Give him a cup of Soda and watch him smile from ear to ear…SODA!  Yes, we are  on vacation.
The family spent every day by the resort pool…I tell you it is hard watching a two year old when you are by a very large body of water.  All we kept shouting was, “WATCH CHRISTIAN!”
SHARK! SHARK!  Don’t worry Sophie is riding him back to shore…I had no idea that fish, well very large fish, was her forte…Ride ’em fishgirl!
Yes, that is me with the hat and sunglasses, in the pool…I really hate the sun…you would not believe it, but that hat survived the water…better than me.
My parents enjoyed our family vacation soooo much…not a single complaint from my mother…who by the way is very hard to please…did I mention that earlier…
We did do some lounging on the beach…but we always drifted back to the pool…see Sophie just wanted the pool…and I agreed…hate the sand and no real fish in the pool.
Here they are my family.  They enjoyed our time together…we had such a grand time that we decided to do this again in 2 or 3 years…Be it God’s will that it does happen again and it happens in  2 years.    I cannot wait to hang out with my very special people…I wonder where we will go next…I am thinking Jamaica…
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