Homemade Sunday Dinner

This past weekend my family, grandparents, roommates, and all of my cousins that are currently attending BYU went down to Spanish Fork to celebrate my dad's, grandma's, and brother's birthday. Every year my dad requests homemade Swedish meatballs which my mother makes for him. She probably made close to 75 meatballs because our family eats so much! (espcially because I have 5 brothers that put away A LOT of food!) Anyway, my dad made the mashed potatoes and gravy and my mom made the best homemade rolls ever and cooked several varieties of vegies. My grandma brought salad and cookies. Yum. I enjoy these home-cooked meals better than ANY restaurant! I'm grateful for parents that make these wonderful meals and that I'm lucky enough to live close enough to go down for Sunday dinner each week! For dessert we had three different cakes for each of the people celebrating a birthday.... talk about have dessert options! Along with it we had a variety of cookies and ice cream! Yum!!

My Adventure in Making Bread

Last Saturday after I got home from work I was trying to decide what to do. I looked for some bread to munch on but low and behold I did not find any... so I decided to try and attempt to make some myself. I've seen my mom do it dozens of times so I took a swing at it. I started with getting a whole bunch of ingredients out, mixed them together and then started adding flour like crazy. I called my mom multiple times throughout this whole bread-making process. I don't know if I didn't let it rise long enough or what but I kneaded the bread into loaves and put them in my mom's bread pans that I had to borrow and let them rise even more. I put them in the oven and let them cook until they looked like a nice golden brown color.... haha. After I got them out and started to let them cool they didn't look too pretty. I also tasted a little bit of one of the loaves and it still tasted kind of doughy. I quickly put all the loaves back in the pans and put them back in the oven to try and attempt to finish cooking them. Several minutes later I got them back out. They looked okay but they weren't nearly as pretty as my mom's homemade bread. I'm definitely going to need some major practice on my new bread-making skills!

Salad Anyone?

Not too long ago one of my best friend’s and I decided to try and be extra healthy…right. Anyway, we decided to get ourselves a salad at a local restaurant but there was one problem. I just don’t like salad! I told my friend that I would try and train myself to like it. So, I got a pretty decent tasting salad dressing and drizzled it over the salad. I looked at the salad, trying to prepare myself to eat this bowl of green leaves. I put a bite in my mouth and quickly tried to chew it up and swallow it. I was only successful for about four bites. After that, I just couldn’t swallow it without getting a gagging feeling. Ugh! Since then, I’ve tried eating salad again but I don’t ever get that far with my attempt.

As for an introduction, I'm from little old Spanish Fork, UT which is only about 20 minutes away. We have had all sorts of animals as pets because we live up on the East bench in the middle of a whole bunch of fields. We've had horses, chickens, rabbits, cats, dogs, sheep, cows, pigs, etc. I think you can get the picture. I have a twin brother and I'm seven minutes older than him and you know that I don't ever let him forget it! Haha:) I swam competitively in high school along with my twin brother and we had a blast. I've really enjoyed taking swimming classes here at BYU along with other sports classes. I play the piano and yes, I do love classical music but I also love almost any other type of music too. I guess I can share with you my favorite food since we'll be focusing on that subject a lot this semester. My all time favorite food to eat is homemade taquitos with chips and salsa. Basically any type of Mexican food. I also LOVE cookie dough and cookies n' cream ice cream! Yum!