Getting By, Dreaming Big

This is a blog for me to share my thoughts on my favorite things: books, traveling, food and entertainment!

Congratulations to the 2007 World Series Champs – the Boston Red Sox!!!! November 2, 2007

Filed under: My Favorite Things,Sports — readerbean @ 8:18 am

One of the reasons that I didn’t post much over the past couple of weeks was because I was wrapped up in baseball post-season madness! It was very exhausting but so worth every second!

Even though we’re in NYC, we wear our Red Sox hats, visors, shirts, sweatshirts with pride and it was nice to have them win our first year here!

What can you say about this team – other than it truly was a team effort – everyone pitched in and helped bring that title back to Boston and that was my favorite part of the whole thing.

So we’re not moving Wally all off-season in the hope that the position he was in when they won while continue the streak when they come back in April!!!! Now all concentration is on the Patriots….

 

52 Weeks of Cooking: Easy Bacon, Onion and Cheese Stuffed Burgers November 2, 2007

Filed under: Cooking,Recipes — readerbean @ 8:17 am


Ah…the infamous lunch I mentioned in my previous post. I wanted to make stuffed burgers for my family gathering because I had never made them before and I thought it would be a fun thing to make.

I wanted to pick a relatively simple recipe (for a stuffed burger that is) and I found this particular recipe on http://www.allrecipes.com/. If you would like to review the actual recipe click here!

I got everything ready so that when they arrived all I had to do was the assembly. The burgers didn’t stay totally stuffed, some of the stuffing came out the side while Jon was cooking them.

I served them with just a light salad because I had a feeling that they might be a little heavy. And I was right. Everyone “said” they really liked them, and I liked the flavoring and the taste, but I just thought it was too much food. I only ate half my burger and was glad I didn’t try to finish it off.

I would definitely try a stuffed burger again, and I would even try this stuffed burger again. Next time I would either make the burgers smaller and put less filling in, so that the burger isn’t too large or I wouldn’t serve it on a roll, but rather over a bed of lettuce, with onion, tomato and pickles.

 

52 Weeks of Cooking; Awesome Baked Sea Scallops November 1, 2007

Filed under: Cooking,Recipes — readerbean @ 9:10 pm

Again, I bet you thought I had abandoned you! No, even though I was perhaps too busy to write, I did stick to my 52 weeks of cooking:) Saturday, October 20th Jon and I woke up early enough to go to the Farmer’s Market at Union Square, one of our favorite New York things to do. It’s just such a great way to start your day (and this coming from a girl who hates crowds, ah, how I’ve grown).

My parents, brother and my brother’s girlfriend were coming over for lunch the following day and I wanted to make something with very fresh ingredients. While we were there we picked up some scallops for our Saturday night dinner and I made this dish – Awesome Baked Sea Scallops.

You can find this recipe on www.allrecipes.com or by clicking here! The cool thing about allrecipes.com is that when you find a recipe you can adjust the ingredients for as many people as you want by just putting in how many people you are cooking for.

This recipe was good – a little heavy, more filling than I generally like my fish to be – but in all fairness to the recipe I forgot to adjust it for just 2 people in all aspects but the scallops! Oops – that’s what happens when you rush around. It looks really beautiful and is really quite flavorful. I definitely plan on giving this recipe another go around and will make sure that I adjust the recipe appropriately next time!