Vacation: Part Two... Sort Of

The rest of my vacation was fairly uneventful. Other than Thursday's "Wild Life Encounter" things were calm, relaxing and mellow.

Friday I went grocery shopping, and I felt like being the awesome wife that I am and pick up some beer for my hubby (he likes this Jamaican stuff called Red Stripe... I am not a beer fan...). I decided to surprise him and let him find it on his own (I put it on the top shelf in the fridge with all the other beverages since that is where he generally puts his beer). When he got home I asked him to fill up my water bottle (the water pitcher is in the fridge on the top shelf) thinking he would see the beer. He sweetly filled my water bottle and brought it to me in the living room.

A little taken aback by the lack of enthusiasm I asked him, "Did you see the surprise in the fridge?"

He responded, "The feta cheese?" (the feta was for a meatloaf I made on Sunday, I'll get to that later.)

"Ummm, no..."

He said, "Okay, let me go look again..."

Next thing I hear is him opening the fridge and then exclaiming, "BEER!!"

I'd like to think it totally made his Friday....

Now, the feta cheese... I made meatloaf on Sunday and was feeling adventurous so tried something new. First off, we don't eat red meat for the most part so my meatloaf is made with ground turkey. What I did was I made (basically) a stuffed meatloaf and for the filling I mixed baby spinach, a mostly-drained can of diced tomatoes, and the thing of feta cheese. It was so FREAKIN' GOOD! I am thinking I will try it again sometime, maybe using a different combination of stuff for the filling. (I am open to suggestions!)

Yeah, the rest of my vacation was nice.

The weather here the past few days has been absolutely gorgeous. It's sunny and about mid-to upper-seventies outside right now... And I am stuck at work. What's worse, Collin has the day off!!! Oh well...

By mid morning yesterday I felt like I hadn't really even had a vacation... Luckily I am mostly caught up and things weren't out of control while I was gone...

Now I should get back to work... Ugh...

(Yay! Tonight is pork stir fry! Another new thing I am trying to make... I hope it's as good as I think it will be...)

And that just reminded me...

Collin found a really simple recipe for traditional Scottish shortbread. We made two batches on Saturday, one plain and one with mini chocolate chips.... Sooooo good, but not really healthy...

Hasta!