I'm becoming a chef!

So cooking has never exactly been a strong suit of mine. Don't get me wrong, I can follow a recipe just fine, but when it comes to throwing stuff in a pot and making it taste fantastic, I'm no expert. I'm actually kinda horrible.

BUT....I have begun to surprise myself. I mean, I still haven't created a culinary masterpiece necessarily, but we certainly are not starving and everything has tasted really yummy. My favorite so far has been oven barbecued chicken. I made a barbecue sauce concoction made up of honey sweet barbecue sauce, honey, butter, mustard, garlic, salt, pepper, paprika and a special blend of Italian seasoning. I marinated several chicken thighs for a couple of hours, baked it for thirty minutes, re-basted it, and then baked it for another twenty minutes. The result was heavenly...it fell apart upon contact with my fork. Don't you agree??



Another of my favorite dishes is called Poppy Seed Chicken. It's quite a yummy casserole (in my opinion, a delicacy). It's also one of the easiest dishes that I know how to make. Cream of chicken and cream of mushroom soup, and sour cream mixed together, pour it over sauteed chicken, pour crushed Ritz crackers soaked in butter on top, bake for like 45 minutes, and then pour over rice. Fabulous I tell YOU!

So....now my question is - What is your favorite recipe? Send it to me! I would love to give it a try, because I am about to run out of things to make and I would prefer to leave Jonathan under the impression that I am a wonderful cook!

Thanks!

1 month and counting

Monday, July 12th, marked our one month wedding anniversary! It's hard to believe that it has already been an entire month. 31 days ago I said "I do" to my best friend in the whole wide world! I posted some pics below. I'm still waiting for our official wedding pictures from our photographer, but here are some from friends. Enjoy!!







Another tidbit of fun news...my new nephew was born last Thursday! He's my first nephew so I'm super excited! He was born July 9th at 9:24 in the morning. He weighed 8lbs 13oz and was 20 inches long. I saw him yesterday and he is as beautiful as ever.






I'll post pictures of our new apartment soon. We still haven't decorated so we'll just have to wait a little longer!

Beginnings....

Blogs seem to the new "journal" for young marrieds. I've never been the journaling type, but it seems like people are having fun writing all of their stories and fun things so.....I figured if I was going to start a blog I should start now.

Honestly what peaked my interest in blogging was my friend Chelsey who has had a blog going ever since she and her husband got married and it's super cute. Also, I watched this movie called Julie and Julia. It's about a woman named Julie who cooks her way through the Julia Child cook book and blogs about it daily. It's also my FIRST official movie recommendation! It's a must see but kind of a chick flick....so sucker your man into watching it with you and make some popcorn.

My husband and I just got married - hence the MRS. part.....the boyfriend part is just a joke. I posted something about my "boyfriend" on Facebook and my status about blew up with comments so I thought it might be a good idea to go ahead and explain the joke now before I get to hear about it again. :)

So this is the first post of what I hope become a fun blog with lots of readers and comments ;-)