Monday, May 31, 2010

Memorial Day


We got ourselves out of bed this morning and made it to the 9AM Loveland Memorial Day parade. Jeremy was thrilled to see his classmate Emme and her family. On our way home we stopped at Home Depot for annuals. We planted some, but not all, this afternoon. Later in the day we had a cookout with Mom, Mike, Louise, Rachel, and the Loughners. Loughner girls convinced us to get out the water slide. It was a really nice day.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Impulse Buy

I'm weak. I was at Kohl's just trying to get a price adjustment for some things I bought Friday that went on sale Saturday. Perfectly innocent thing to do, right? Somehow, I came home with this:

The kids had a spectacular time on it yesterday while Tim and I worked on spreading mulch. We spread 8 yards altogether (with Tim doing the harder work!). After the mulch and the slide, the boys and I made our first visit of the season to the neighborhood pool. We were EXHAUSTED by the end of the day. Thankfully, we picked up Chinese at Timmy's Wok, so I didn't have to cook. Yay.

Milestones


The 4-legged baby has been keeping us busy. Last Monday, he learned to go up and down the inside steps. This is a big deal. It means we're moving out of infancy, where I had to carry him upstairs and down all the time. He's still a little reluctant to go, but he's getting better.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Going Green, Year 3



Today was the first pickup of my third year in Earthshares CSA. It was a green day:

2 lb spinach
1 lb leaf lettuce
2 baby garlic
2 oz mixed herbs (rosemary, sage, thyme, and more)
1/3 lb kale

A small, but nice start to the season!

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Dinner Idea

Things have been a bit busy at the Case House lately. This is partly the regular end-of-school-year nuttiness, but it's mostly because of the new little 4-legged addition to the family. So, I haven't been cooking much. Sunday at Kroger, on a whim, I grabbed a flat iron steak. I was actually home this afternoon and early evening, so I decided to try my hand at cooking the steak. Into a ziploc bag, I place the steak, some leftover hoisin sauce from a meal a while back, some sweet chili sauce, rice vinegar, and soy sauce. I let it marinate for a couple of hours then grilled it for about 10 minutes. I found some garlic scape pesto in the freezer (from the CSA last summer - I think I'm needing to clean the freezer out!). I mixed it with just a little butter and spread it over the steak after it was cooked. The whole thing sat for 10 minutes or so while I finished the side dishes and then I sliced it up. YUM! Definitely better than doing the same thing with flank steak. It was a very successful meal, if I do say so myself.