22. MOJITAGRIA

Just a little something to keep you cool or cool you off.

My humid heat remedy- Home made MOJITAGRIAS!

ok So its a mojito and a sangria combined! 

1 bottle of white wine and the rest is to taste, so make it how you like it!

lime juice 

pom juice 

mint leaves

sugar to taste 

sliced oranges and lemons

let everything chill for over an hour. the longer the tastier.  

top off individual drinks with club soda and you've got yourself an awesome summer drink!

(drink responsibly, when on toddler duty....)

how dare you

I love this little project Thao has going with Mirah- some rad chicks singing some rad tunes that my baby likes to dance to. Plus she called me the best waitress ever- back in my waiting days. Yep dropping names. I was cool...once...

21. VIA Tuscan chix

HOT HOT week and probably still too hot to bring up steamy fettucini in a mushroom alfredo sauce...but I'm going to anyway (coming from the girl who spent our heat wave sans air conditioning with a sticky baby around her neck, tough like that!). Two weeks ago my girlfriend and I caught up on life over dinner at a little Milwaukee restaurant on Downer known as VIA. It was my first times there so naturally I ask what the waiter's favorite thing on the menu is- it's a habit- and 20 minutes later a very delicious pasta dish. Now I hate eating pasta out (as in out of my kitchen)  just because I usually can make the same thing at home rather quickly and cheaper, but I kind of liked this dish-- enough to try and recreate it...so here goes...

                                      

Coloring on the greyhound

chicken breast: enough to feed the fam 

Mushroom sauce:

1 lb of crimini mushrooms and/or white ones 

1 shallot 

1 can of beef stock

sun dried tomatos- you can get them already dried and packaged, so one bag

2 tablespoons of flower 

a dash here and there of fresh oregano and thyme 

salt

pepper

1 package of yummy fettuccini noodles 

 8oz of marscapone cheese

1 cup of parmesan cheese

a dash of fresh basil 

2 minced garlic cloves 

1 stick of butter

Start by putting a pot of water to boil. Cook chicken over medium heat in a pan with butter and cover with lid. Remove cooked chicken set aside and add in chopped mushrooms and shallots- saute. Add flower and beef stock slowly (you want a nice thicker mushroom sauce) add sun dried tomatoes and herbs. Salt and pepper to taste. Drop in noodles (cook to packaging directions). In a sauce pan combine sauce ingredients and stir frequently. Cut chicken and mix in mushroom gravy sauce to coat. 

Combine fettucini with alfredo and top with chicken and mushroom sauce!

**I cook with a lot of "dashes" and "handfulls" and "sprinkles" so your own discretion is advised when using my recipes ** 

STICKY SWEAT...SWEET...

So fresh.

Driving to work I like to imagine myself doing the "Carlton" to this song. Even better --I like to imagine Carlton and I doing the "Carlton" together to this song...yeah it makes me happy...

Summerfestivities

So you have a baby or two babies or three...and if you are anything like me, the last time you went to Summerfest you were taking shots in the bathroom from a water bottle full of whiskey that was strapped to your ankle... 

 Summerfest just isn't the same when you get older unless you are a weirdo or a mom. I happen to be a mom that wanted to enjoy our sconnie holiday this year, and let me tell you- it's possible! 

1. Get there at noon, or 11am (an hour before it opens)

...you are guaranteed a better parking spot!

2. Take the little one to the playground area- the only people there that early are other moms

3. Catch an act on the little kid stage

4. Buy cheese curds, fries, grilled cheese sandwiches, lemonade and dippin' dots...ultimately thats what Summerfest comes down to anyway

5. Run through the splash pad 

6. Buy yourself a wine cooler for $6.50 and milk it until the end

7. Take a walk along the lake or by the "rocks" to check out all the mini stages before the pot heads get there

8. Join in on an afro drum circle 

9. Dance like a hippie with your two year old

10. Browse through the little markets and lie to the attendants that you will- totally be back for that little piece of 20 dollar beaded junk! 

11. Get your kids face painted...and yours?

12. Pretend you love pop country 

13. hula hoop

14. Collect free samples of things like shaving cream and  free music downloads.

15. Leave at 3:30 with your baby passed out from fun overload, before you buy the second round of cheese  curds and right before the crazies get there!!