christa.monster.

• 2011-07-16

  things I am good at:

  -eating sandwiches

  -getting dirty

  -making rainbow things

  -lists

• 2011-04-12

  Birthday Business

  So for my birthday week we put m.n.d. on hold.

  BUT! this past weekend the whole family went down to rockport to have a crawfish boil / booze fest. needless to say it was an amazing time. Here are a few snaps from the weekend.

  

  bword looking regal.

  

  prepare to DIIIIIEEEE.

  

  friendly visitor.

   thats all for now

  <3

  c.m.

• 2011-04-04

  budding pears and peaches at job #1

• 2011-03-30

  m.n.d.

  This past monday it was my turn to host dinner.

  With the awesome park weather we have been having here I felt inspired to make a picnic themed dinner.

  I set my living room up with a picnic blanket , candles in canning jars and a ton of pillows.

  on the menu for the night was

  B.L.Ts on texas toast with spicy mayo and honey glazed turkey, accompanied by an asparagus, brussels sprout , apple salad. 

  and we cant forget the texas sweet tea (there was also lemonade , and yes arnold palmers were had)

  

   

  in between dinner and the apparently much anticipated dessert, we had watermelon and a few shots of orangel.

   

  and then?

  Peach rhubarb crumble. I also added vanilla bean ice cream , and a spicy orange tequila marmalade. Needless to say it was yum town.

  

  after desert a friend of sam’s popped in , and brought us a bottle of scotch.

  I made pseudo smashes.

  • scotch 
  • peach simple syrup
  • 2 lemon wedges
  • 2 pineapple mint leaves
  • some more sugar
  • mandarin sparkling water

  

  needless to say , at the end of it we were all ready for a nap.

• 2011-03-29

  chicken and biscuits

  last week, independent of m.n.d. I decided I would make chicken and biscuits for the boy since he was going to be working late.

  He ended up getting off early and became a useful hand in the execution of the dish.

  

  mine:

  

  his:

   

  Because I apparently feel the need to booze up most things I bake , the biscuits were lonestar biscuits.

• 2011-03-28

  Let us try this again,

  And by us , I mean me.

  Two weeks ago Lee Loucas and I were Invited over to our friend Sam’s house for dinner. She told us she had trouble cooking for just herself and ended up making around 6-8 osso buco empanadas , as well as a healthy sized pot of wild rice with cherries and cashews, and not to forget steamed greens.

  

  After dinner was finished and I poured the dregs into the lovely hostess’ glass , it was decided that another bottle (2) was (were) needed.

  The three of us:

  Sam (a chef at T’afia)

  Lee (a HRM student , and future bar/ cafe/ restaurant owner)

  and

  Myself (a woman who is quite decent at putting things together with sugar , and one who doesn’t like measuring cups much). 

  Stumbled into the liking of an idea for a weekly (if we were all available ) monday night dinner. Seeing as how the three of us are all in the restaurant industry , and monday is usually our promised day off. 

  the next week (last week) we were hosted again by Sam. We were accompanied by two other guests, a friend of Sam’s and my boyfriend. The menu included:

  Paprika shrimp , fried hearts of palm accompanied by an asian style slaw and papaya aioli.

  

   I decided this time to bring us a treat as well. I made a Drunken Blueberry Apple crisp with a rum brandy sauce and we (of course) threw in some BlueBell vanilla bean icecream.

  TonightIt is my turn to host/ cook. I already have some ideas in the works.

  I may post in the interim about the chicken and biscuits that the boy and I made.

  xo,

  monster-

• 2010-11-04

  one of these days

  kristin marie will post here.

  then i will be excited , and maybe something just might happen. 

  c.m.

• 2010-08-29

  

  C monster and monster momma will be headed to California in September . They are quite excited and will be on the quest for wine AND the perfect pisco sour

• 2010-07-11

  

  . a little before and after action .

  monster-

• 2010-07-06

  since we haven’t updated - ever.

  i thought i might give a stab at it.

  monster-