I’ve posted pictures of this stew I’ve made before….but I finally came up with a name!!!
Jennilyn’s Survival Stew!
The base starts with Trader Joe’s Harvest Grains Blend.
Add 2-3 bags of frozen veggies
Add 2-3 cans of beans
And a meat
It’s very flexible, so you can add whatever you want. It’s SO yummy! AND when you eat it, you feel like you can survive in the wilderness!
Tonight I spent the night at my friend Mel’s with our friend Katie. Mel is the maid of honor for our friend Tif and we’re throwing her a surprise shower tomorrow (note: writing this post from the future, so it won’t mess up the surprise)! We spent most of the evening prepping food, chatting about life and drinking wine (hence the picture below).
It was so great to catch up with old friends (I’m talkin’ years and years!) It made me feel like I was a teenager again, chatting about life and boys, sleeping over and all….the only difference was I wasn’t drinking wine when I was teenager. 🙂
So, the lesson here is this….don’t wait too long to catch up with your friends. 🙂
I crave steamed blue crabs all year long. I put Old Bay on EVERYTHING (including my hummus and beef barely soup). And I wear flip flops in January. Yea, I saw the meme going around…. 😉
That being said, I’ve been chatting with a good friend of mine about getting together for a while….I said, well, we should grab some crabs!
Now, I’m a Baltimore girl, but I’m also a penny pincher….Back in the day, I would get $1 crabs with my friends ALL the time….and now it’s REALLY hard for me to spend more than that!
And woo hoo, I found a place!!
Jimmy’s Famous Seafood!! Wednesday nights, they have $1 crabs!
Here’s how they look!!! I’ll report later how they taste!!!
So, Friday I worked about 4 hours, Saturday, I worked about 15 hours, Sunday I worked about 8 hours. By today, I was tired! I took a long nap last night and then slept somewhat in this morning.
For the rest of the day, I’m not going to lie, I really didn’t do anything! I mean, I cleaned up my desk, went through my emails, did a little blogging. But otherwise, I watched Lost and played games. I edited a few of the bridal show pics, but didn’t finish. It was a fantastic day!!! Boy did I need the rest and relaxation!
I did a lot of driving around today and boy was it hot! I realize it isn’t THAT hot, but since Maryland goes from freezing to warm pretty quickly, I forgot what warm was like.
I thought, wow, it’s almost warm enough to jump in the river!
Well….it actually is.
I asked my youngest brother if he felt like going for a bike ride and jumping in the river in the middle of the ride. Oh boy did he feel like it!
We biked about 5 1/2 miles total and hopped in the river for about 10 minutes. The water was AMAZING. Ahhhhh. Great summer day. Ahem…I mean Spring.
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