Food

So, I've had a fixation with food lately. The other night I went to Applebee's with a friend, and I ordered some really yummy cheesy noodle stuff with chicken. It was really good, and it was a huge helping. At one point, a little past halfway done, I thought, I should stop now. But, I just kept eating and eating, and I ate it all and my stomach was soooo full! Then I went home and after putting the kids to bed, Brett started watching a movie, so I sat down and joined him. Now, the day before I had made some tortilla soup, which is quite yummy, but my FAVORITE part of it is the fresh cilantro. I *LOVE* cilantro. I only used it really for the first time last summer, and I fell in love. So, anyway, you don't use up all of the cilantro in the bunch for the soup, so I had some left over. In the summer, I always made fresh salsa with it, with the tomatoes in my garden. Now, tomatoes are not in season, and so you pay a whole lot for them, but I decided I couldn't let my cilantro go to waste. :) So I made some fresh salsa, and Brett brought it out and I grabbed a chip, and he's like, "I thought you said you were sooo full?" And I said, "I'm just going to have a few chips." Yeah. It was SOOOOOO good. I can't even describe the goodness of the tomatoey, oniony, limey, salty, CILANTRO-yness. We ate the entire bowl. It was heaven. Absolute heaven. And I was really full. :) (If anyone has any fantastic recipes using cilantro, pass them along please! Brett asked if we had a neighbor who was a witch who had cilanto growing in her garden would I make him go get some and give up my baby. I said, I hope we never have to find out.)

That's not so weird, after all. It's something (at least since last summer) that I know I completely ADORE, but I had a weirder craving today. I actually bought store-bought bread, and the american singles cheese--two things I don't think I've bought in my married life--to make grilled cheese sandwiches. Now, I like grilled cheese sandwiches, but we always just have it with our bread, and regular cheese. In fact, I actually HATE american cheese EXCEPT in grilled cheese sandwiches like these. And I flipped through a magazine this morning, saw an ad for Kraft singles that showed a grilled cheese sandwich (it wasn't the one at above, but you get the idea) and I had to have one. It was delicious too. I had chocolate milk with it to dip it in occasionally (that's how it's done at the Rasmussen house--sometimes we'd have after we got home from boating or other occasions, grilled cheese sandwiches in the waffle iron and chocolate milk, it was such a treat!!) Anyway. We used up the whole loaf of bread in one afternoon. For your information, Kroger american cheese has twice the sodium, half the fat, and half the calcium of Kroger regular block cheddar cheese (not that I care). Anyway. I know I've held you spellbound about my eating habits of late, but we must move on to other news.

We got a new computer. It's WONDERFUL in that we don't have a tons of things half-ways corrupt, and we have a WHOLE lot more space, but also it's hard to get used to a new layout. I always think that the old way is better.

I cut Ethne's hair today. I'm not positive if I'm glad I did or not...it got gradually shorter and shorter as I tried to make it even, but it's not a mullet anymore.

What a cutie.

I like this one. ;)