Week 5 - 01/29/07 - It's icy! Weeeeeee!

Current mood: cheerful Week 5, week 5, week 5. Holy crap. We are 10.4% done with this year. Wow! This week I went down a hill really fast in a tube, made some yummy pasta and cookies and did some other random stuff. See for yourself. Saturday, 1/26/07, Tussey Mountain: Snow Tubbing Ask yourself, have I ever, in this lifetime or past, seen Melissa enjoy being outside in the cold. With snow. At night. Probably not, unless it was years ago and your my sister and we made a fort on Kristin's lawn. Well, I actually enjoyed myself Saturday night at Tussey. We went from 6 to 9:30 and had 6 runs down the mountain and one hot chocolate break. There were tons of kids. Sticky, loud, germ covered kids wall to wall. I almost had my knees taken out my a few, but I did not get sick. I would go again but I would like to figure out a better way to get more runs down the hill for the admission (15 bucks). I wonder if you bought a 2 hour pass, how would they know if you tubbed all day. Mr. Droopy Drawers, who ran the conveyor belt that took you to the top of the hill, didn't seem to hip to check my status. He just wanted me to get up the damn hill and hopefully die on the way down. Then I thought about buying an all-day pass at 10 in the morning and just going home to take naps during the day. But I was so freaking tired and my feet hurt from my stupid pretty boots I don't know if I could do it for 10 hours. Here's a picture of those who went (NIck, Carla, Kyle, Troy and me! I look like a total douchebag.) Your suckers if you were invited and baled. The hot chocolate was awesome for $1. Tuesday, 1/30/07, My kitchen: Lemon cream pasta On Sunday after my night of tubing joy, I was pretty much laid out on the floor for most of the day. I watched a lot of Food TV and some stuff that Troy wanted to watch. We both really like Nigella Bites, mostly because she's a ballsy dame, and we saw her make this dish. It looks yummy and was pretty good. 2 Eggs yolks Light Cream (1/2 pint) 1 Lemon Butter (1/2 stick) Parsley fettucini While the past is cooking beat 2 egg yolks in a bowl. When they start to change color add the cream. You can add as much or as little as you like, however thick or thin you like your sauce. Grate the zest of one lemon into the bowl, then the juice from said lemon. I used the juice from half of a lemon and all of the zest I could. (The flavor is in the zest). Mix a little more. Drain the pasta and add pasta and the butter (you can add more, but I wouldn't add less) back into the pot. Add 75% of the egg mixture back into the pot to temper the eggs (Watch you don't scramble them) and toss with the pasta and butter until it thickens a bit. The heat of the pasta should do this. Poor into a bowl and the remaining egg. Toss in some chopped parsley. this is what you get. It's very subtle and very light but good. It's a great alternative to fettucini alfredo. I would ditch the parsley next time or not add as much. I hate warm greens, they super creep me out. I would also wait until spring/summer to make this again. It is super freaking crazy cold in my kitchen and the pasta cooled to fast for my tasting. Troy loved it. Tuesday, 1/30/07, My kitchen: Coconut Macaroons After dinner, Troy went to the garage and I was alone and cold in the house so I made cookies, partially hoping the oven would heat the kitchen up. (FYI: My house is not a shanty on a frozen lake, although you couldn't tell by the way I bitch, but it is an old Vic. The kitchen is pretty chilly, especially when the temperature drops below 25. I also pay the electric bill and I am cheap, so I don't turn the temperature up to much.) This recipe also came from the Big, Red Better Homes and Gardens book from last week's spicy chicken. Check out these sweet babies. Nice huh. They use: 2 egg whites, 2/3 c sugar, 1 TB vanilla, 1 1/3 cup coconut. I would have liked to toast the coconut, but that's pretty advanced for my attention span. They are super easy and super fast and with four ingredients you can't beat them. They weren't like most macaroons - they were more like meringue balls with coconut. Troy & NIck love them and after 3 days they are gone! Tasty bitches. Well, this week has come to a close. I know that I've turned more Rachel Ray than I feel comfortable with but I can't remember a damn thing I did in the past week. I did stuff like get my teeth cleaned but who the hells wants to hear about that. I don't even like talking about it and it's about me. Until next week - eat it!