Savings!

I only shopped twice this week.  There was nothing significant about my shopping except that I stocked up with Starbucks Kcups.  I ran out of Kcups a month ago so I’ve been using my good old coffee maker.  Starbucks Kcups can be pricey (my opinion), I chose to wait until they were on sale.

Fred Meyer Trip: Before coupons:$80, after store sales and coupons:$58
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Walgreens trip: $51, after sales and coupons: $28

Memorial Day 2012 Part 2!

For part 2 of our Memorial weekend, My Dad In Law made some yummy ribs and we had dinner at our place. We all loved the ribs and Hubby made cornbread and potato salad:) I will have to post the recipes next week. I also watched a royal special on ABC this week.  I have this ongoing “HUGE” crush on Prince William for the last 17 years!!

German Potato Salad
cornbread mixture
so good!
so tender
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paw massages for Riley!
Yay for rawhides
I’m so intrigued with her!!
Your brother will always be my Forever crush Harry!hahaha

Memorial Weekend

We spent our memorial weekend at Greenlake park in Seattle, we got lucky because of the nice sunny weather. We took Riley with us, and I was kinda nervous because I know there will be lots of people and I wasn’t sure if he’s going to “behave”.. He did so well, I’m a proud mamosh!  Memorial day, we had dinner here at the house and my Dad In law prepared some yummy ribs while my husband took care of the side dishes, he did German potato salad and cornbread (both were delicious). Enjoy the pics!

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i love me some panera mac and cheese!
Riley watching the sweet young couple
love love Riley!
eyeing the sandwich, how can you resist this face?
I can’t!
more please…
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Riley is kinda tired!  The weather is too hot for him…
Green Lake Park
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Ducky family
OOOHHH Riley!!
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such a good boy!
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so tired after a long day in the park!
good night!

 

Savings!!

It’s been a while since I posted my savings deals.  We are pretty stocked up and our pantry and freezer are full.  For the last 2 weeks, most of my grocery shopping has been for produce and fruits. So yesterday, I organized my coupon binder and lots of coupons are about to expire, so I wanted to use them.  I shopped at Walgreens and Fred Meyer for this saving trip:

$2.28 after sales,coupons and store rewards
SCORE!! the conditioner is originally priced $4.99(for one conditioner!!)
$4.58 including the toothpaste..
After store sales and rebates I only paid $1…$1( SCOREEEEEEE!!!!) for all six..
$19, I used coupons for most items here except for the corn,bananas and green peppers..

Dinners!!

These are some of the quick and easy dinners I’ve cooked lately:

sweet tea
baked salmon
lox
Hubby made home made guacamole
Ina Garten recipe
left over lasagna and salad
with our fave dessert wine
Carbonara
Spaghetti Carbonara: Emeril Lagasse recipe
i heart sushi!
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Dynamite shrimp
chicken curry
meatballs and chicken curry
antipasto kabobs (interest inspired)
Banana Nutella crepe
fried red snapper
subway dinner (I used coupons of course!)
Pork Adobo
grilled chicken (in filipino marinade)

Chicken Cacciatore with Cremini mushrooms

I was looking for a simple and healthy recipe online,and this caught my attention from wholeliving.com.  I had all of the ingredients needed and was not really up for a complicated dish last night since I would rather watch the NBA playoffs.  The recipe calls for a slow cooker, but I just used my Le Crueset and the stove top and cooked the chicken for an hour. I prepared mashed potatoes to go with the dish.

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Ingredients:

  • 1 whole chicken, cut into 10 pieces, skin removed
  • 8 ounces cremini mushrooms, quartered
  • 1 can (28 ounces) whole peeled plum tomatoes in juice, drained, and broken up
  • 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup dry white wine, such as Sauvignon Blanc
  • 1 celery stalk, thinly sliced
  • 1 small onion, halved and thinly sliced
  • 1 sprig fresh rosemary or 1/2 teaspoon dried
  • Coarse salt and ground pepper

Directions

  1. In a 5-quart slow cooker, stir together chicken, mushrooms, tomatoes, flour, wine, celery, onion, rosemary, 2 teaspoons salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.2.Cover; cook on high setting until meat is tender, 4 hours. Do not lift the cover of the slow cooker while cooking. To serve, discard rosemary sprig.

WIWW!!

It’s WIWW time again, I’m linking up with Lindsey at thepleatedpoppy.com. We had lots of sun last week here in the Puget Sound so I was able to enjoy the sunny weather ,wearing my flip-flops and skirt. But now the weather is back to rainy and gray!

Top=nordstrom rack,skirt=burlington factory,tory burch wedge,michael kors shades
top= I don’t remember/old,hollister jeans,talbot wedge,zara bag
wedge/shades=tory burch, cardi and top=hollister,skirt= levis,LV bag
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top=F21,cardi and jeans =hollister, tory burch wedge
top=JC Penney, jeans=hollister,Toms wedge
napping puppy!

Ultra Rich Caramelized Filipino Pork Adobo

Another Adobo dish that I prepared last week. I really liked the result of this one.  Normally I don’t use brown sugar to caramelize the pork, I just brown the meat and then add all of the basic adobo ingredients. I could have adobo at least once a week, so comforting and reminds me so much of home. The only thing I don’t like when I make adobo is that I end up eating way too much rice:(

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Ultra Rich Caramelized Filipino Pork Adobo (www.pepper.ph)

makes 4-6 servings

1 kg Pork cubes

1/2 cup Soy sauce

1/2 cup Vinegar

1/2 cup whole garlic cloves

2 pcs bay leaf
1/2 tbsp whole peppercorn
2 tbsp oil
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 liter water
  1. Marinade pork in soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, bay leaf and pepper for 30 minutes.
  2. Drain and set aside.
  3. Heat oil in pan on high flame.
  4. Saute pork and add the brown sugar.
  5. Brown pork, or wait until sugar caramelizes.
  6. Add in remaining marinade and water. Boil for 5 minutes.
  7. Lower the heat and simmer until tender (about 40-60 minutes).
  8. Sauce should have a syrup-like consistency.

Weekend Fun!!!

We had a quiet and relaxing weekend.  The weather is back to gray and raining most of the weekend.  Hubby and I had dinner at our local favorite restaurant (Coho cafe) and Saturday night we visited our friends Lena and Ethan and got to see their new baby.  This week I dropped my old camera and it’s totally broken now, we are thinking of getting a new camera maybe DLSR type but I’m not in a hurry to get it right now, and I also really want to pay it in cash so we have to save for that ASAP.  Hubby had a nice surprise from his work this week too, his company appreciates his hard work lately and gave him the new iPad, that’s what I’m using for my pics lately (I’m really liking the quality of the pictures too), it’s funny because Hubby was also gifted with an iPad(the first iPad ever)  2 years ago from another boss. Lucky Hubby!!

testing the iPad camera!
date night with hubby
watermelon salad..
pork slider
crab-avocado tower
jalapeño corn waffle
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Hubby made nutella crepes for me this weekend!
antipasto kabobs that i prepared (thanks pinterest for the inspiration!)
RIP to my camera
thanks to hubby’s nice bosses:)
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lots of cuddle time with our love love Riley!

Arugula, feta, watermelon salad

This salad was so simple and refreshing when we had couple of nice warm days here in the Puget Sound (we loved every minute of it). I used the same dressing in this salad (the pioneer womans dressing recipe).  I will be making this salad A LOT when summer is here:)

I love the color red and green together.
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so sunny in our kitchen
I added cucumber too
I added pumpkin seeds too!
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