Wordless Wednesday

This picture needs a little explaining. Yes, that is our garbage can in the middle of the family room. Yes, we've been non-crate training molly to stay alone in the house like the good little 4 year old doggie she is. Yes, its going pretty well... Until I came home one day last week and found the contents of the garbage can pulled out all over the floor!! She pushed it and either stepped on the foot release to open it, or tipped it up with her nose because the garbage can wasn't tipped over. She is a smart, but naughty and mischievous dog sometimes! This is what she normally does all day, so you think she is sweet, but watch out shes sneaky!

I LOVE Cilantro and Fajitas!

I've discovered that I have an obsession with cilantro. It is one of the most delicious things to put on a meal.
Tonight, we made the best fajitas ever. I want to say that it comes close, if not better than the fajitas in authentic Mexico that we had on our honeymoon. I will post a few pictures of it, but I can't explain it better than one of my favorite food blogs, Our Best Bites.

Head on over to Our Best Bites and make some fajitas! You really should marinate the chicken for 24 hours, you will thank me later. It doesn't matter how cold it is, you can go outside for a few moments to grill up these chicken and vegetables. It'll be worth it later. David stopped by Moe's on the way home to pick me up some of my favorite salsa verde (its the best because it has lots of cilantro in it!) and chips. It was a little over $1 for chips and salsa. You can't beat that deal!

We used our new tortilla warmer my sister got us for Christmas. I lost the directions, but on the front it says Tortilla Oven so I pre-heated the oven and put them in to warm.... Ok so I guess that wasn't the correct directions. You are suppose to put it in the microwave or keep them on a burner on your stove if they are already warm. Well, mine melted a little bit, but I learned from that experience. Ole!

Teriyaki Chicken and Fried Rice

We love to order teriyaki chicken and fried rice whenever we go to hibachi Japanese restaurants. We finally learned how to make it at home. It is sooo good and not hard to do. The most important thing is you have to cook the rice ahead of time and let it cool in the refrigerator. We have a rice cooker and use 2 cups of rice (and 2 1/2 cups of water). After it is done, I put it in the fridge to cool the night before I make it. It makes a lot of rice, but its great for lunch the next day too.

Here are the recipes:
Teriyaki Chicken
Ingredients
3 Chicken breasts cut up
Kikkoman Teriyaki sauce (A must buy, it is awesome!)

1. Cut up your chicken into bite size pieces
2. Put olive oil into a frying pan to heat up
3. Cook the chicken until its no longer pink
4. Pour the kikkoman sauce generous in the pan (I use about 3/4 of the bottle)
5. Cook on low while you are doing the rice to simmer and let the sauce season your chicken

Fried Rice
Ingredients
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
3 Cloves Garlic, minced
4 Green onions, chopped thinly(or 1/2 cup reg. onion-I love the green onions in it thought)
1/3 cup diced carrots
4 cups cooked white rice (not sure if my 2 cups of uncooked rice equal this but use what you would like)
2 eggs lightly beaten
3 Tablespoons Soy sauce1. Heat the oil in a wok or large skillet over high heat.
2. Add the garlic and onion and cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute.
3. Reduce the heat to medium, and add the carrots, rice and cook, stirring, for about 5 minutes.
4. Use your stirring spoon to make a well in the center of the rice and pour the eggs into it. Let the eggs cook for 1 minute, then slowly start to stir and incorporate the egg into the rice.
5. Add the soy sauce and cook for 2 minutes longer, stirring and tossing with the spoon.
6. Serve with your chicken!
This recipe comes from a website that shows you how to cook the rice, so there is no excuse not too make it. Click here for the video.

Bon Appetit!

T.G.I.F!

In celebration of the end of the work week, I'll leave you with some fun photos of some yummy drinks and great friends! We went out this Tuesday after work to celebrate the launch of our new website and blog for work that Leah and Lacey designed. Cheers in hopes of a long and great weekend for all. Too bad we don't get off Monday for MLK day.

Frozen Strawberry Margaritas and a Swirl Margarita

Lacey and Me

Me and Leah

Atlanta Weddings Event

Yesterday I went with Amber to the Atlanta Weddings Magazine Bridal Event at the Georgian Terrace Hotel. It was right across from the fox theatre. Amber and I had fun adventures trying to navigate our way to the event. The parking garage may have been the most confusing part of all. We are definitely suburb gals that love our open, free parking lots away from the tight space spots of city parking. 

I got free tickets to the event because David and I were in the Spring/Summer issue of the Atlanta Weddings Magazine! Don't get too excited though, it was just a small picture towards the end of the magazine. It was pretty cool to see it in there though. Our wonderful photographer, Pam had also placed an ad in that issue and used a photo of us. So we are in it twice! Here are the photos from the magazine. 

We got to see Pam in one of the ballrooms. She had a great display set up with tons of books with photos and a digital photo frame. She brought a photo album she made from our wedding and it was right by the sign-up form. So of course I got excited and took a photo of my photos. Check out her awesome photography on her blog here.

The event was extravagant and well decorated. I think a lot of the vendors catered to the high-end budgeted bride. We got orange bags with a few goodies in them as our parting gift. All-in-all, it was a fun event. It makes me miss wedding planning a little, but glad I can help Amber out in planning hers. I think she might even book Pam as her photographer!!

Speaking of snow...

This past Thursday we got a dusting of snow in Georgia. Of course that doesn't seem like anything, but with our temperatures never getting above freezing, it all turned to ice. Our office on Friday delayed opening until 10am. It wasn't bad on interstates, but side streets and neighborhoods were pretty icy.

Speaking of snow, when I went to Texas for Christmas we got a surprise in the white and fluffy kind of way. The wind was blowing and causing a full on snowy blizzard! We tried to have fun and play in it, but didn't have the right boots or gloves to play. This is a picture of Michelle's new and pretty house they built out there.

 

Poor little Maddie didn't like it outside at all.

It was a gals trip this go around and we had fun doing some pre-Christmas shopping, making cookies, cooking and having friends over.

 

Even Bella and Maddie had a great time at Christmas!

Pasta and Pups Night In

We had David's best friend David and his wife Dana over for dinner this weekend. We wanted to show them our new pasta attachments for our Kitchen aid Mixer that I got for Christmas. We grilled up chicken apple sausages and put it with our pasta and sauce.

We had fun watching them try it out and I think we convinced Dana even more that she needed a mixer for herself. Just keep trying Dana :)

They also brought their dog with them to play. Molly and Lola are best friends and get along great. They had fun destroying toys and playing together.

 

After dinner we played the card game Phase 10. It's similar to Rummy and very fun. The object of the game is to be the first player to complete all 10 phases.

This is David's artsy photo of our scores.

Glad ya'll could come over!