Paul and Cori

Things we love: cooking, photography, crocheting, reading, math and board games.

Monday, October 31, 2011

It's a Thing-ful Halloween!


Bridget and I are both 5 feet tall. Dan is 6'9" or something really tall. So for Halloween this year, we decided to dress up as The Cat in the Hat, Thing 1 and Thing 2. HAHA! Love it :)
I crocheted wigs for Bridget and I, made iron-on decals in photoshop, printed them out, ironed them on red t-shirts, and we got red sweatpants. One of the best homemade costumes ever!
It had been a while since I had crocheted anything, so I was excited to work on a new project! I was looking for similar styles to Thing 1&2, when I saw this mermaid in my Crochet today magazine.  Check out that mermaid's hair! Perfect! So first I made the wigs.
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 Next it was time to find a font similar to Thing 1&2's shirts in the book. I looked at free fonts for at least 1-2 hours before settling on one for the word, and using a different font for the 1 and another different font for the 2. After sizing things how I wanted them in photoshop, and test printing, I was ready to iron!
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I was a little sad at first at how much the red showed through the iron-on paper, but then I embraced it as more vintage looking. :)
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After finishing all that, all I had to do was buy red pants. This proved very difficult actually. I looked all over town for 2 days, and then finally decided just to buy some for more money than I was hoping to spend online and have them shipped to me, instead of trying again at the .....mall. eek. Thank you Amazon!
All this made an excellently fun day at work, and a new pair of super comfortable sweatpants I want to wear everyday, everyday. Awesome! 
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

make your own Oktoberfest

 Oktoberfest comes to us from Munich, and is all about beer (and food). As German as we could make it, we had a make your own Oktoberfest at home this year. With Weisse beer, Weisswurst, sauerkraut, potatoes and Riesling. Weisswurst is traditionally served without a bun if it is at a sit down restaurant, or in a bun if you will be eating it with your hands (such as from a cart, or at a festival) hence our buns. :)

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I am looking forward to celebrating other cultural festivities this way as well. Next- St. Patrick's Day the Irish way? ;)

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

pepper party

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A trip to Wegman's, 2 pounds of red, yellow and orange sweet peppers, and so many possibilities. What would you make with 2 pound of sweet peppers? I made a colorful pepper pico. Diced peppers, tomatoes, onions, cilantro, garlic, and sriracha.Very good salsa- fresh and delicious.
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Stir fry- chicken, carrots, water chestnuts, celery, garlic, ginger, and peppers. Paul marinated the chicken in some super secret sauce (not really, I just don't know what's in it because I was at work :P). The same night he also marinated chicken for fajitas- coming up next! Serve over rice (we always use jasmine rice- love the smell and flavor).
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Fajitas! I love fajitas. Marinated meat with sauteed onions and peppers. On a tortilla, with salsa and lettuce. Fajita Marinate: For about a pound of meat:
1/3 cup oil
1/3 cup lime juice (or mixture lime juice and red or white wine vinegar- red for red meat, white for white meat)
2 jalapenos or other chilies, seeded (if desired) and chopped
3 tablespoons green onions, sliced
2 tablespoons cilantro, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced.
Also great with guacamole! Recipe here in this old post.
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And finally, you can put colorful sweet peppers in good old fashioned salad, of course. :) We are trying to eat more salad around here. Paul never used to want to eat salad, so it's a nice refreshing change. Plus, healthy. We usually just dress our salad with balsamic vinegar, olive oil and ground black pepper.
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