my birthday gifts put to use
for my birthday a few weeks ago, i got a couple’a coolio gifts.
the first one i got on my birthday day from perry… it’s oh-so-much fun!!!!! =) one of my students texted me on tuesday “don’t forget to bring ur ds to school” and we battled out super mario on the wifi network. isn’t that awesome? it’s pretty neat =) so far i only own “the new super mario bros” and “brain age” but i hope to one day soon own “tetris”... and if you have any other games to suggest to me lemme know please =) i just beat the mario game so i’ll be looking for a few to buy.
thank you perry for my nintendo ds lite! =)
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a couple of days later i arrived at home and puttered around for a bit before i saw a package on the end table unopened. i thought it was for rita and curious, i looked at where it was from. that’s when i saw my name on the label. SHOOT! it was for me!!! i was so excited, i had NO idea what it could be… perry was there and i asked him if he sent me something =) hahaha… then i opened it and found this really sweet knife compliments of kathy and susan.
i wanted to test it out on a variety of vegetables, especially the dreaded tomato, which i love eating but has always proven difficult to cut. so i started out making some ceviche.
here’s all the vegetables in their glory, laid out on the table, washed, and ready to be cut with the knife.
the vegetables, diced, and all piled up in a shallow bowl
the ceviche all made and ready to be marinated. you can’t tell but this bowl is as deep as it is wide. yeah… there’s 1.4 pounds of imitation crab in there, along with 8 tomatoes, 2-3 red onions, 6 green onions, 2 mexican green onions, one yellow bell pepper, one green bell pepper, half a bunch of cilantro, 3 jalapenos, and ton of lime/lemon juice. and garlic salt. man… it was SOOOO good. there were 12 people total for dinner that night (me, perry, chad, ron, jason hinkle, laurie, rita, jason, marlene, marc rolle, jeff swanson, and rowell) and we totally killed the ceviche along with the 1.5 pounds of lentils that i made…
after cutting all the vegetables (and 3 more tomatoes to go in the ceviche and lentils), these are all that i had remaining. those green tomato things are tomatillos that i bought to add bulk to the ceviche without having to buy tomatoes at $2.99 A POUND!!!! but then i didn’t end up using them. other than that, i only had a little bit of cilantro left.
i absolutely loved using my new knife and i thought i would share the joy of ceviche with you since kat and susan shared the joy of wonderful kitchen utensils with me =) that knife was some good stuff… and i know everyone loved the ceviche.
now i wanna go eat some more… =)
thank you kat and susan!!!
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