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Weekend Roundup: Too Much Food, Too Little Time

March 24, 2014

I spent most of last week sitting in bed with a wicked chest cold, but Friday night, Lily and I met up with Lauren, Shay, and Marlowe in Columbia to see the Divergent movie (since we’d all read the book). Before the movie, we got sushi (and delicious cucumber mojitos) at Miyo’s. My eyes were definitely bigger than my stomach, and I ended up giving most of my sushi away because I was too full. After dinner, we walked to the theater and settled in for the show. Shay & I were really pleased with the movie, but Lily, Marlowe, and Lauren all had some serious issues with it. Either way, if you read the books, I think it’s definitely worth the watch!

If for nothing more than to stare at Theo James for 2 hours.

Saturday morning, we had a pretty disappointing lunch at Copper River Grill before spending a couple of hours wandering around the mall. We all went our separate ways around 3 (except Lauren who had to leave at 5 am to go be in a parade), and I spent most of Saturday afternoon laying in bed catching up on Grimm and eating the edible fruit bouquet that my parents sent me.

Because nothing says “get well soon” like chocolate covered pineapple slices shaped like high heels.

Around 9, I met up with people at a friend’s house where they were having a wine and cheese night to celebrate a new job. We hung out there for a while before meeting up with Cullen & Taylor at The Alley to get a few drinks to celebrate Taylor finally being 21! We ended the night at Butcher & Bee with a burger, some buffalo fries, and a lamb gyro. It was pretty delish. We also met up with them Sunday morning at Lost Dog Cafe for brunch before they headed back to Greenville.

Oh, sweet nectar of the gods.

After brunch, I took a cooking class at Southern Season entitled “Asian For A Crowd.” We made a cold Thai noodle salad, Korean beef bulgogi, Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches, bok choy kimchi, and a floredeliz salad for dessert. I immediately regretted the decision to get brunch before the cooking class because I was stuffed for the rest of the day.

There was enough food for a crowd, but only 2 people to eat it.

After the cooking class, I met back up with Lily to see Muppets Most Wanted, which was entertaining, but nowhere near as good as the first Muppet movie. We also celebrated my sweet kitty, Fezzik’s, birthday. I can’t believe he’s 3 already!

Look at those eyes!

Here’s hoping that everyone has a great week and that I finally kick this cold!

Random Fodder

Delta Touch2O® Faucet Review & Giveaway!

January 10, 2014

In September of 2013 I was given the amazing opportunity to attend Southern Living’s Taste of Charleston festival as a blogger correspondent for Delta Faucet. In exchange for them paying for my ticket, the cost of transportation, and giving me a Delta Touch2O® faucet to try out, all I had to do was show up, eat a bunch of delicious food, and then tell you guys all about it, which I did in my Taste of Charleston a couple months ago. It’s definitely one of the best quality kitchen faucets, especially for a messy cook like me!

Does this jog your memory?

I’ll also be posting a recipe next week that I created after being inspired by all I saw and ate at Taste of Charleston. Cooking and cleaning have become so much easier with my new faucet, and I’m so spoiled now that sometimes I forget that most faucets require you to use a handle in order to work.

MAKE THE WATER WORK

My mom called a plumber friend of hers to help install it, because we didn’t want try and install it ourselves and end up flooding the whole house (which really wouldn’t have been all that unlikely). He installed it in a snap, and we stood around playing with it for a really long time.

Like… way longer than we should have.

Mom was having her Christmas party that evening, so she was excited to show it off to all of her friends, who were super jealous. Basically everyone should have one of these faucets, because they’re as much fun to play with as they are convenient and useful.

Tina is so festive!

But don’t take my word for it! I’m giving you an opportunity to win one of these awesome faucets for yourself. You can choose the style & finish (up to a $638 value). The only exclusion is that Delta can only ship to the United States. So if you’re in Canada, Mexico, or Europe, you can still enter as long as you have a friend or relative in the US who is willing to receive it for you!

All you have to do to enter is leave a blog comment below saying which Touch2O® faucet you’d choose if you won. You get extra entries for:

Liking my page on Facebook
Following me on Twitter
Tweeting about the giveaway (this can be done once per day for extra entries!).

Be sure to visit Delta’s facebook page and comment there that you are entered in Queen of the Food Age’s giveaway (this isn’t extra points, it just makes me look good). The winner will be announced Monday January 20th, so you have 9.5 days to enter. Good luck!

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Recipes

Italian-Style Turkey Meatballs

August 22, 2012

So, I recently started dieting, kind of, and was trying to find some ways to use ground turkey in place of ground beef to save some calories and fat. I Frankensteined some recipes that I found off of the internet together to come up with this Turkey Meatball recipe that I think is pretty delicious…but then, I think everything I cook is delicious, so…

…ok, well MOST everything I cook.

Ingredients:

1 pound Ground Turkey 93/7
1/2 C Red Onion
1/4 C Chopped Red Bell Pepper
2 tsp Minced Garlic
1/2 C Ricotta Cheese, part skim milk
1/2 C Italian-style Breadcrumbs (I used Progresso)
1 Tbsp Dried Parsley
3 Tsp Italian Spices Mix
2 Tsp Black Pepper
2 Tsp Salt
2 Tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Instructions:

1. In a bowl, mix together everything but the olive oil.

Oh, boy, doesn’t that look appetizing!

2. Add the olive oil to a frying pan set on medium-high heat and start rolling out your meatballs. I got about 16 balls out of the whole thing, but depending on how big you’re making them, you might get more or less.

They’re getting there!

3. Cook them until they register 165 degree internal temperature. I like to have a little crisp on the side, so I turned the heat up a bit at the end, but it’s totally up to you.

That’s not burned, it’s “crisp!”

4. Serve the yummy meatballs with some pasta or just with some marinara sauce for a meal. Only 300 calories per serving (serves 5 people, or one person over 5 meals, which is what I ended up doing). I also sprinkled it with some fresh basil and parmesan cheese. Yummm!

See, now it looks really yummy. OH YE OF LITTLE FAITH

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