Well, I am finally back blogging and life is somewhat getting back to normalcy. The past two weeks I have packed up one house, moved and unpacked into another house, packed up an office and moved into a new office space that we just remodeled.
After being through a few moves with my husband in our life together, I have learned that moving is the true test of love and a good, strong marriage. Exhibit A: My husband and I are packing up the kitchen and dining room. He says to me, and I quote "How many cake platters do you need?" Without blinking an eye I answered, "I don't know...how many golf clubs does one man need?"...silence. I rest my case your honor!!
So in the end, all the cake platters and golf clubs made it to the new house and here is what we have established, some people in our home have a golf addiction and others have a platter, cake stand, tablecloth, and dishes addiction.
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While sorting through my boxes and boxes of platters, I am having island withdrawals and want to be back at our condo on the ocean forgetting about reality for another two weeks. Unfortunately that is not going to happen, so we are working in our new backyard, getting ready for future dinner guests and preparing the grass and clearing branches for the girls' new volleyball area. In trying to keep our Polynesian memories the girls suggested that we decorate our new powder bath with the island flair.
To add to all the fun I have been having the past two weeks, my husband decides half way into our Hawaiian vacation that we need to lose weight, change our lifestyle and go on a diet. Are you kidding me??? On my vacation...I have one word - BUZZKILL ! I think our chocolate chip and coconut scones pushed him over the edge, or maybe it was our dessert indulgence at Roy's with our Pineapple Upsidedown Cake and their Chocolate Lava Cake tastings we had.
At any rate, I have had to temporarily say good-bye to my food tv girlfriends Ina, Trisha and Ree. Okay maybe my (as my friend Toni refers to) "big girl pants" were getting a little snug in some not so flattering areas. We hit the South Beach Diet strong and I'm just taking the attitude and looking at it as trying out some new cookbooks. Stay tuned....
So let's just recap here. In the past 2 weeks, I have moved twice and I have not had potatoes, pasta, white rice, crackers or chips. Crankiness is setting in without a doubt. We did succumb over Father's Day weekend and shared a bottle of Klinker Brick Pinot Noir wine and I made fat free brownies with mini chocolate chips because the mini chips have less calories that the regular size chocolate chips, right?
As we were wrapping up our vacation, we had to start using up our leftovers for dinners and clear out the refrigerator. Yes, sometimes you do need to have leftover night, even on vacations.
Since I had to start preparing myself for a lot of proteins and salads, I came up with this suprisingly great combination fajita salad. I took our remaining rib eye steaks from anniversary night, the shredded chicken from our quesadilla lunch and the garlic sauteed shrimp from a caesar salad dinner and grilled them all up together with half a yellow onion, sliced and some diced yellow, red and orange peppers.
I then plated all the meats and veggies on top of chopped romaine leaves and finished it with tomatoes, cheddar cheese, avocados and sour cream. Of course, anything tastes wonderful sitting outside on your patio watching the sun set into the ocean.
