Yes, we are getting music inspiration now from RockBand. Embarrassing, but true. Still good bands though:
(Lacuna Coil - Our Truth)
(Dinosaur, Jr. - Feel the Pain)
chocolate pumpkin muffins
Apparently, there is a recipe for everything. I wanted to quickly use up some eggs this weekend, noticed that I also had a box of chocolate cake mix and can of pumpkin. So I googled chocolate cake mix pumpkin and came up with this recipe:
Same as linked recipe except I added an egg, doubled the oil, and added two teaspoons of pumpkin pie mix, and cooked with paper muffin liners for 20 minutes, and didn't frost. Oh, and my cake mix was dark chocolate fudge.
They came out very moist and light and very chocolate-y, but not too sweet. They were not at all pumpkin-y, although you could smell the spices.
sunday
Yay for Saints, via my brother's head:
(At least it's not a tattoo.)
In other news, I keep visiting the Rodarte for Target line whenever I'm around the Humble store. It's now on 30% clearance, apparently Texas did not get the memo that this stuff is supposed to sell out, as it has apparently everywhere else. I keep trying to like it, but not really my style.
weekend
Yesterday, I made a huge pot of chicken noodle soup and it is all gone today. I love cooking big pots of food, and I really love when it gets eaten up instead of wasted. My chicken noodle soup is almost too easy to call homemade:
Heat two big cans of chicken broth (49.5 oz each) in a pot on medium high heat. Add chopped carrots and celery (about 1 cup each?). I usually spend one day chopping, then freeze the stuff in ziplock bags measured for my recipes for whenever I get around to cooking - makes it really easy. While that's cooking, heat a little olive oil and cook about a pound of chicken tenderloins in it. Then tear it up into tiny pieces, add to the broth, and boil it all for about 20 minutes. Then add about 3 cups of uncooked medium egg noodles and cook for about 15 more minutes. Done! I like a lot of stuff in my soup, but you could cut down on the noodles and carrots and stuff if you don't.
Today, is another driving day, so we might be the only Americans not watching the Superbowl. On Friday's drive, I wore purple tights with my motorcycle boots... I love the 90s!
pearl harbor
I rented Pearl Harbor last weekend thinking it would be a good action movie to watch with the boys. I remembered it being good when I first saw it at the theater, but didn't remember exactly what happened in it until about 20 minutes into it. It was so sad I cried (again), but I still think it is the perfect combination of boy/girl, action-y and still so romantic.
Plus, I love Kate Beckinsale. She is one of my favorite actresses of all time, and so beautiful especially with the retro look. I love her makeup and hair and clothes in this movie:
She was retro gorgeous in The Aviator too:
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