Cheesecake love

This Valentine's was very nice. Actually now that I think about it my boyfriend is very good about valentine's day. He always gets me flowers (which I know is a cliche but I love it) and takes me to dinner. i always try and think of something to get him. This year I decided to make a cheesecake. Not just any ordinary cheesecake but an OREO CHEESECAKE!! Holy Jeez um!!!


Ingredients:
Spring pan
5 eggs
sugar
flour
vanilla
sour cream
oreos
butter
cream cheese


First thing you need to do is get your spring pan and line it with parchment paper.

Then as the cream cheese is getting to room temperature you can make the crust. Put about 25-30 of the oreo's in a blender or bad or any other way you want to crush them to a pulp and add 2 tablespoons of melted butter. Should look like this.

Press into the pan

After that we can get to mixing the cream cheese. Don't get frustrated like I did, the cream cheese will stick and you are going to have to scrape down the sides at least 5 times. (By the time I was done with the first step I was talking to the mixer like I was Tony Soprano and he was the snitch..."You're going to work the way I want you to work or you see that window right there, you're going through it, YOU GOT ME MIXER??!!"

Then when the cream cheese get a little bit more softer you put in the cup of sugar.

After that is combined you can put in the 5 eggs, but make sure each one is combined before you put in the next one.

Then add some vanilla

Mix it some more

Then some flour. (don't really know what this is for but it was in the recipe)

Then some sour cream.

Mix it until creamy and it should be really creamy. Make sure you mix the sides and bottom to get all of the unmixed cream cheese into the rest of the mixture. I tasted it and wow was it good. I think it was the sour cream that made it good.

Just for some zing I added some oreo's in the batter.

Pour the mixture into the pan and bake

After about an hour and 15 mins it should look like this. Then turn the oven off and open the door for an hour.

Wow what happened? That thing is ugly!!! I don't know why but it sank so I decided to put some whip cream on it to make it pretty again.

The finished product. My boyfriend liked it, I kinda wish I had a bite before I gave it to him. Oh Well HAPPY EATING!!

Shrimp A La Nancy

One of the best ways to cook a meal is when you have been dying to have something you haven't had in quite a while. On this say I was dying to have shrimp but was trying to make a dish that was good, hearty, and to use as little fat as possible (You do need a little butter just so you don't spit it out for not having any flavor at all. That's why I'm not to fond of salads, it's all crunch and no taste haha) So I made a dish called Shrimp A La Nancy. It was just some stuff I threw together.

Lets start with the ingredients shall we?!:

Of course shrimp


Italian seasoning

My fave garlic

Tomatoes ( just read the can)

A mini can of tomato sauce. Remember to get the no salt added that way you can keep count of all the salt you add.

And pasta

Now I would get the pasta started because you can do the other stuff while it boils and it doesn't really take long to make.

Next peel the shrimp

Place it in a strainer and rinse

Get a skillet and add a touch of butter for some flavor.

Add the can of tomato sauce and tomatoes diced.

Next add the shrimp and toss it around a bit.

Cover it with a lid and cook for 10 mins or until the shrimp are pink

All done. It looked and tasted so good.

Close up!!!!

The Perfect Place

In your 20s one of the major things that you do is live in an apartment. The first one is usually the one where you liked it when you saw it, or someone picks it out for you and says "This is the best place ever and you absolutely need to live here". Then you live there about 6 months and go wait a minute I am not loving this place as much as I saw it that first day. So here I am about to make a great step in my life and pick out a place that I love all around. There are of course good and bad things but I am sure that the good absolutely out weighs the bad. I wanted to share with you a sneak peak into my next apartment. I will be officially out of the new place in 2 months. I know it is a long way but I am stoked. At the end I will give you a little insight as why I wanted to move and later on I will do a comparison of the two place.




This place was perfect for me. It was nice and clean, lots of room for rocky to run, pet stations, and trails. These are pictures from their website and I know what you are thinking but these pictures are exactly like what i saw so don't be fulled.

This is the nice office, the only thing different were the cars parked out front.

This is the club house. It is free during the day if you wanted to have a get together or BBQ and at night you can rent it. I might do that for my birthday.

In the club house there is a pool table that is free.

A gym and also a Pilate's (or however you spell it) and yoga instructor. They just put in plat screens and after 10 you need a key to get in. They are also installing camera's in the next month, which makes me feel very safe.

This is like the study area. wi fi with printer and computer stuff. It would be a nice place to come and do some studying.

This is the pool. There are actually two pools.

This is my floor plan. Last year when I was searching I had looked at this apartment before and I fell in love with it then and when I walked in I was still in love. I remembered it immediately.

This place has so much storage. It has a coat closet when you walk in, a storage until outside and also a linen closet.


This is the living room. It was really funny when I saw this picture because the furniture was exactly the same. The woman said instead of the place to put the TV there will be a fire place.

This is the balcony

The kitchen.

The bathroom with the garden tub.

That is about it. So here are the negatives and positives

Positive:

Alarm system in each until

pool

2 pet stations for Rocky

trails and bikes to rent

fireplace

central heating and air conditioning

dishwasher

washer/dryer

more storage space

Rent is a few dollars below what I am paying now.

Closer to walmart and cheaper grocery stores

carpet!!!!

balcony

Negatives:

Quite a drive for work and school

Won't be able to go home at lunch

Electric stove instead of gas

live on the 3rd floor (won't really be nice when I have the case of water bottles to bring up)

The other thing that made me think I was doing the right thing is that last night my neighbor had his car broken into and I know it can happen anywhere but I feel like living where I live there is more of a chance that that will happen again. So if you want a visual tour click the link below.

When the link pops up, scroll down and click on the walk through and you will see.

http://www.apartments.com/avsummary.aspx?page=avsummary&property=101959.329&p=aptlinks&prvpg=8&partner=aptlinks&prvpg=8

Wedding cheers

This past weekend I went to my friend's daughter wedding shower. We were all really excited when her daughter finally got engaged. It was very fancy and I for one was really surprised at how the house was so lavish that I felt a bit under dressed. It was a nice time though.

My friend and her daughter. I thought both of them looked really good. My friend had lost some weight and she looked great.



They had a wedding coordinator come and decorate the tables. It all looked beautiful.



And of course the food ( I thought there was going to be big plates of all the Italian stuff but I was mistaken, still good though):

A bar of tea and water

The guests

Next is the wedding!