Stay-Home-Saturday

Thank God! :) Since it's been about 4 degrees the past few days...yesterday TOTALLY needed to start with a warm breakfast and oatmeal was the way to go! I was looking around for something to swirl in my oats and found this jar of Maple Cream in the fridge....

I stirred in a spoonful and topped my oats with a sprinkle of almonds and my Costa Rica vanilla powder...TOTALLY hit the spot! Especially because I ate it curled up on the couch with my dog while watching figure skating. (cause I party like that;) hahahahahahaha....

Lunch was the return of the GREEN MONSTER...dun dun dunnnn...:)

I also had one of those Quaker Mocha squares this afternoon...did NOT like! It had about 87 flavors, and all of them tasted fake-y! Not cool. Guess you can't win with all the food finds;)

And after a successful trip to the Asian Market...our dinner was Forbidden Rice stir fry!...

I read about black rice, or forbidden rice, in my "Food & Wine" magazine this month and was totally intrigued! So I was so excited when we found it at the market:)

We cooked 2 cups of rice with 2 cups of chicken broth and let it simmer for 30 minutes. (it took awhile, the rice was pretty chewy) for extra POW I mashed in some roasted garlic and salt into the rice. Scott's a stir fry master so I let him handle that one! We had another good night of "eating the rainbow" with the carrots, bean sprouts, baby corns, scallions, spinach, onions and snow peas. Soooo good!

And we also picked up some steamed pork buns...(which may be making another appearance again later this week;)

So all of this combined with the cupcakes made for a fun (and delicious) Stay-Home-Saturday:) Today we have "Moraccan Chili with 10,000 grains of sand" simmering in the slow cooker...now just to deal with the aroma wafting out of my kitchen for 2 more hours! My stomach is grumbling already!;)

What's your favorite dish for a lazy day??