Today Paul and I had a vacation. A vacation from our little princess, Carrie, who spent the night at Gigi and G-Pops house. Carrie was so excited for her get away that she decided to forego ice cream at McDonalds just so that she could get to the toys at their house faster. Its hard to beat the toys at their house although the toys at grandmamma and grandpa's mountain house were pretty impressive too (Carrie still talks about the Lightning McQueen chair).
Paul and I, as much as we love our daughter, were excited to have a quiet house. A day and night off of "Wanna run, wanna ride, wanna play, wanna go outside, wanna play chalk....wanna have a 45 minute bed time!" Having Carrie gone makes having just Andrew (even when he was sick) like a cake-walk!
Unfortunately, my day of freedom was not as amazing as originally hoped. Andrew was sick so I took him to the doctor just to wait 45 minutes to find out that there was nothing they could do for him. Then, I noticed that one of my tires had a slow leak. Luckily, it just needed a plug but that sucked up a good hour of my day stressing, locating a service center and then watching in amazement as the mechanic plugged it up in 5 minutes. Next, I realized that I had misplaced our main credit card. After calling every establishment i had been to this week to see if they had it, I finally had to just give up and throw in the towel. This will require me to call about 10 vendors on Monday to change our payment method - ugh!
After all that was over, I decided that I was going to get at least one thing accomplished today and so I took Andrew with me to the paint store to pick out some paint colors to use to paint his name over his bed. After I drove 15 minutes to get there, took him out of the car and put him in the Baby Bjorn, I walked the door just to realize the paint shop had just closed. Aghhhhh!!!! So much for free time!
I thought the day was a lost cause, but tonight made up for it. With Andrew finally asleep and Carrie in heaven at Gigi's, Paul and I decided to experiment in the kitchen and try to replicate the Curry Quinoa we had at Proof on Main in Louisville, KY (discussed in my blog post from last week). We set up a test kitchen Food Network style and created two batches of quinoa with various ingredients to see which one tasked more like it. The 2nd batch was the winner! Here is the recipe... enjoy and thanks for letting me vent!
Copy Cat Curry Quinoa
Ingredients:
· ¾ cup quinoa
· 1/3 cup currants
· ¼ cup toasted cashews
· 2 scallions, diced
· 1 tbs plus ¼ cup olive oil (divided)
· 1/4 white onion, diced
· 1 tsp white vinegar
· 1 tsp sherry
· ¼ cup white wine or champagne
· 2 tsp curry powder
· ¼ tsp pepper
· ½ tsp salt
Directions:
· Cook quinoa according to box instructions. Set aside on a plate.
· Sautee white onion in 1 tbs. olive oil.
· Add the rest of the ingredients to quinoa and serve