January 2014 – The Adventures of a Calamari Queen

Savings!

Hi everyone, just a quick post of my savings last week. Lowes.com had a clearance sale of their detergents and I was quick to get some before they ran out of their supply (lots of couponers in the WA area I’ve noticed). I will be sending all of the detergents to my mom in the Philippines,they are not HE type so I cannot use them here. I think this will last her for a year or two. I bought some produce too but forgot to take a picture, as I always wash and put them in the refrigerator right away. Happy Savings friends!

Everything will be ship to the Philippines; I paid $14(lowes.com,I picked up at the store)

Food this week!

Hello family and friends, I hope you had a fun weekend. We watched a movie yesterday (Jack Ryan: shadow recruit) and had dinner at our local favorite Greek place. It was a quiet weekend for us. It’s been a hard week for me, got some sad news from a close friend in PI and my heart just broke for her. Praying for a good week for everybody. Anyways, I think I’m gonna start posting what we eat every week. My blog is like my food diary and I think it’s fun to see what we ate over the years. Here’s what we ate this week:

left over shepherd's pie and another caprese salad — left over shepherd’s pie and another caprese salad

clams in white wine and garlic sauce;garlic bread — clams in white wine and garlic sauce, garlic bread

We had dinner out last night at Tantalus Greek Restaurant(Issaquah) after we watched the movie Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (Chris Pine you’re one good looking actor!)

some Lamb dish that's really good! — Lamb kokinisto -arni(lamb sauteed with vegetables,wine,cinnamon and tomato sauce)

I’m off to look at my freezer and refrigerator so I can start my meal plan for this week! See Yah later!

Recent Dishes!

It’s been a while since I posted here, we’ve been busy around here. Riley (our mini schnauzer) had an ear infection and we had to bring him to the vet. He’s doing so much better now and I’m just so glad he’s back to his normal happy self. I also started my Women Bible study every Tuesday morning, we are studying Gideon (based from the Book of Judges) by Priscilla Shirer! Zach and I also have a Bible study every Monday evening at our friends house.

One of my goals this new year is to cook more dishes at home, and to try new recipes and dishes that me and my Hubs will like. I have a lot of cooking magazines so getting inspiration is not a problem! I’ve been meal planning since last year but this new year I will really try to stick to it because it makes my life easy (knowing what we’ll be eating for the week) and saves money and time. Here’s what I’ve been cooking lately:

sweet and sour fish(escabeche);I use Red Snapper

Hubby said this is one of the best caldereta he had!

chicken wings,greek pasta salad — chicken wings,blue cheese sauce,greek pasta salad

Chicken wings is my Hubs fave finger food!

We also had take-outs and dine out a couple of times!

take out at our fave mexican resto! (we had spring rolls too from local vietnamese resto)

Dinner at John Howie Steakhouse(sorry for the blurry pic)

trying this new Indian resto at Bellevue (very good place but I forgot the name of the resto) — trying this new Indian resto at Bellevue square(very good place but I forgot the name of the resto)

We had sunday dinner at my Inlaws last week, my DIL made gumbo (it was so good)

We’ve been eating yummy food lately! I’m looking forward to my meal planning tomorrow because that means we’ll probably have yummy food these coming days. We shall see! I hope you all have a good week and GO SEAHAWKS!!

Savings!

I shopped at Walgreens and Fred Meyer today. I plan to send a balikbayan box to my mom and brother next month so I was on the look out for sale and clearance items. Most of the clearance items are candies and I have enough candies to send back home. So I passed on that deal. Here’s my haul today:

Walgreens: Regular Price:$28,after Sale,rewards,coupons I paid:$7.49 — Walgreens: Regular Price:$28,after Sale,rewards,coupons I paid:$7.60

Fred Meyer: Regular price:$35, after sale and coupons I paid:$17

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year family and friends! We pray that you had a safe and fun NYE party with your loved ones. We had a casual NYE dinner with my In Laws, ordered Chinese food from our favorite Chinese restaurant,watched fireworks on TV, and as midnight approached we toasted and welcomed 2014! I bought some party favors to use like mini horns but we hardly used them because the doggies started to bark like crazy when we attempted to make some noise. I’m looking forward to 2014 and grateful for what the Lord blessed us with in 2013. 2013 was not my favorite year, and I’m just so ready to forget it. The best is yet to come! Cheers for a great 2014 friends!!!