Monday, April 13, 2009

Did you notice??

In my last post I uploaded this picture:
Notice anything weird going on behind Mickey's head? Look again. There's a pale blue blur there. Do you see it now? That would be Dustin's pale blue boxers. They're blurry because he's wearing them and is, of course, dancing as I try to concentrate on taking pictures.

Just thought you all should know.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Santillans can cook, dontcha know

What do you do when you can't fall asleep? I tend to make up new outfits and new recipes in my head to lull myself to sleep. It's totally normal. The other night I was thinking about food as I was falling asleep and decided that I had to make mini apple pies the next day. If I didn't make them I would DIE.

I'm not kidding.
The dough was a Martha Stewart recipe but everything else was all me. I made them in a muffin tin. Aren't they so friggin cute?!




How can you resist that?? You can't. It tasted soooo good. But then I put vanilla bean ice cream on top and promtly passed the fuck out.

With the leftover chopped apples I made apple crumble. The coolest thing (besides the pies being miniature) was that I only used 3 apples. Granted, the apples are huge here, but still.
When Dustinface got home we decided to make our own soup. Actually, I decided to make it when I was trying to fall asleep the night before and had a general idea of what I wanted to put in it. We needed to clean out our pantry.
There was a lot of Santillan teamwork that went into this tasty dinner. I have the know-how and Dustin is really good at seasoning "to taste". We were very proud of ourselves. It's sad that we won't ever be able to make this exact meal again because we didn't bother to measure or write anything down.

But we have a buttload of leftovers in the freezer!
I love being married to someone that can cook.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...

For some reason that song has been stuck in my head all day. But anyways.

Happy Easter!!!!
It's been a very tiring day for me. I've been cooking non-stop since 9am and I'm pretty much exhausted. But it was worth it. I wanted to make us a "feast" since we didn't get to have one on Christmas and I needed an excuse to cook a lot of food. It was fun for me. It calms my anxiety attacks down for some reason too. This is our first Easter together where we actually celebrated it.

Yesterday, after seeing Monsters Vs. Aliens (go see it! Right now. I don't care what time it is. Get off your hiney and drive yourself to the movies and see it right this instant!), we came home and painted some eggs.
We went for the crackle method that I read about on another blog and they came out quite nicely I think. Plus, now I have all these wonderful gel food colourings that I can play with.

You simply take a hard boiled egg and make cracks in the shell all over before you dye it.

When you take the shell off the egg it will have these pretty (and blurry) lines all over it.

Cool, huh?

Oh, and make sure you have a Proactive face mask on while you peel the shells off. Trust me.

We almost wanted to keep these just to look at. Almost.

So cool. Some of the eggs were a totally different colour underneath the shell too. I don't remember which ones though.

Then you can make tasty deviled eggs that are also pretty!

Mickey informs me that it's now time to make some chocolate cookies with chocolate coffee ganache on top.

He was right. And so I did.

And then I sprinkled some coconut on top and put some birdie eggs (almond M&Ms) on them. Just for kicks. And also because I want to go into a sugar coma today.

What's this I see? Making an Easter breakfast of carrot cake pancakes????

Why yes indeedy do! What else would I make for Easter breakfast?

Even though I would like to kill him in his sleep, I brought Dustin breakfast in bed. See that sauce on top of his pancakes? That would be cream cheese frosting. Breakfast style. It was pretty much fantastic.

Then I made too much bread. Hooray for freezers! This is actually the bread before I baked it. I burnt alot of those rolls by the way.

Here's my face. I was in the middle of cutting tomatoes. Thanks Dustin.

These are Crash Hot Potatoes. Dig it. Probably the best part of our Easter feast.

Mickey says it's time to roast these darling cherry tomatoes. I listened. He always has the best advice.

A completed meal. Oh yea, we had ham as well but all I did was stick it in the oven for a few hours so I didn't take any pictures of it. It looked lame anyways. Everything tasted wonderful and Dustin ate so much that he was groaning with pain (and happiness??) afterwards.

I have been eating non-stop all day. I have to taste test everything! Also, I had to keep eating the chocolate coffee ganache to tell if I liked it or not. I'm still not sure. I'll have to have some for breakfast tomorrow to come up with a decision.

P.S. My wedding dress is a size 2. At the rate I'm going I'll have to not eat for a whole month before the wedding in order to fit into it.

A good reason for divorce

I recently had another moment where I threw my wedding ring at Dustin. It happens. This time I was almost completely serious.

I don't think I over-reacted, even though Dustin doesn't see why what he did horrified me so much.

But when your husband picks up a pair of dirty tighty whiteties off of the bathroom floor and uses it as a tissue, you have no choice but to announce divorce.

I mean....come on. That's probably the most repulsive thing he's ever done and he's gross pretty much all the time. He is a guy, after all. I still can't get over the fact that he actually did that. And he doesn't see anything wrong with what he did!

Don't worry though. I wont divorce him. I don't wanna leave Okinawa.

Friday, April 10, 2009

I can read minds when I want to

Last night Dustin starts to randomly laugh to himself.

T: What the hell are you laughing at?
D: I'm thinking of...something from 30 Rock.

I take about 2 seconds to think and then I start to sing,

Werewolf bar mitzvah, spooky scary. Boys becoming men. Men becoming wolves.

D: How did you know?!
T: I know you.

Just so you know, this is about the 52nd time I've known exactly what's on his mind. It impresses even me sometimes.

Thursday, April 09, 2009

If your life were a tv show, this would be it

Last night I watched the episode of Degrassi where Rick goes and shoots up the place. I hadn't seen it in awhile so I had all the same reactions I had the first time I saw it.
Now, if you've ever watched Degrassi with me you'd know exactly how I react. I can't just sit still and watch it. It involves a half hour of me gasping, screaming, laughing hysterically, rolling on the floor and jumping at the tv. It gets out of control sometimes. Last time was no exception. And I've seen this episode about a dozen times already! I'm glad it still has that affect on me but I wish Kelly or Mike were there to watch it with me. I used to call Kelly whenever a new episode was on and we would try to get through it all together. I would have to watch the same episode about 3 more times after that to actually understand what was going on. We yelled so much, we would miss moments of the show here and there. Good times.

And Degrassi will never be anything less than 100% intense. Oh my Lordy, I love this show. Someone please buy me all seasons but 3 on DVD so I can have a heart attack watching them.

Every rose has it's thorn...

Yesterday Dustin came home with a Now That's What I Call Power Ballads cd and I fell in love with him all over again.

Now I can listen to Every Rose Has It's Thorn 10 thousand times a day instead of just yelling it at Dustin constantly. I'll probably just sing it more often now actually.

Dustin is such a lucky guy. :)