I also took my car in to get an oil change and $900 later (and lots of labor, parts for a dozen different things)....it is in great shape for a road trip to San Antonio...except maybe the tires. They could blow...at any time....another mental note to decide to chance it or drop another $400+ for new tires. Mechanics say they're fine for the trip - but just telling me that one is about to wear out means I will not forget that and drive for 15 1/2+ hours with a clenched stomach wondering when the tire will go. It will A) blow out 45 mins outside of town in the outer realm of hell away from any semblance of cell coverage while my BFF and Princess Harleigh shoots me looks in the 98 degree weather of the New Mexican desert that would turn us all into ice, or B) not give me one problem, but will have my stomach in such knots the whole way there in fear of what ultimately won't happen, that I'll need the jaws of life to pull me out of the car because I'll be in a permanently rigid state that no human could get me out of. New addition to the ever growing list of things to be done before I leave...consider new tires.
I have officially set up mail forwarding to take affect next week, leaving me cold and clammy over the thought that it may be a few weeks before I can get my weekly copy of Soap Opera Digest. Since I will likely miss some episodes of Days Of Our Lives, I will have to depend on SOD to keep me up to date on the happenings in Salem USA. God forbid I miss Stefano's return...because you know he never really dies....
So this weekend we had our last dinner club with two great couples that I will sorely miss. I'm trying to figure out a way to continue it by forcing them to come to San Antonio every month...I'm sure they won't mind the month payment to American Airlines. The theme of the night was Cuban and we had an awesome dinner then went out into a field behind our host/hostess' house in Black Forest to play Goofy Golf.
Appetizers: Marinated Peel and Eat Shrimp/Bruschetta
Dinner: Cuban Lime Chicken, Saffron Rice, Black Beans, Potatoes
Dessert: S'More bars...not so Cuban but was perfect after a night of Goofy Golf
Goofy Golf: Using putters, we aim for an agreed upon stake in the yard...
First one to hit the stake determines the next stake aimed at...
You can steal/trade with someone else's ball 2ce per round. Kinda like a white elephant gift exchange...with golf balls.
Much cheating ensues...except for me...I NEVER cheat...ok once...ok a few times...always....
The Cowboy and I were in charge of dessert. Which means, I planned and made the dessert. Cowboy drove me to the store to get the ingredients...and watched me make it. I made S'more bars...because you can never have enough S'mores and it is my birthday month (my damn birthday). I got the recipe off of a website I found on Pinterest and true to fashion...I didn't follow it. I used it as a guide. Mine came out gooey-er and kinda like a molten lava mess...because we didn't let them finish cooling...because they were S'mores..who wants to wait for that chocolate-y goodness to cool?
I took pre-made sugar cookie dough and mixed with graham cracker crumbs.
Then I put half of the mixture in the bottom of a foil pan. I imagine a wider pan is better than the small one I used - would be more bar like and less like a thick pan of goo (but it's yummy goo). But I didn't want to make too much for just 6 of us, even though I used the same amount of ingredients. (That's the way I do math...I never said I was good at math)
Then layer with Hershey's chocolate. No other will do!
Then comes the marshmallow creme. By accident I found that if you punch a hole in the paper cover on the jar, in altitude, the stuff oozes out of the jar giving you a bit of a pour effect that keeps it from being messy, at least initially.....
Then it gets messy, and sticky...but it wasn't that bad. Run your knife under very hot water before you dig into the jar....then it glides on....
Put the other half of the cookie mixture on top. Rolling it out like pie crust will let you put it on easy. I don't do easy, I do fast...so I added it on top of the marshmallow cream in sections and patted it all down.
This is what it looks like when it's hot...it is a gooey mess of choco-mallow-graham loveliness with a side of homemade vanilla ice cream. When the rest of it cooled...it sliced like a bar dessert...and was equally as yummy...
We took the left overs to my in-laws for dinner Sunday night. I didn't bring any home...it was gone. It was good. Now I'm trying to recover from the sugar coma that was this weekend. I'll recover while the movers pack our house and the drywall guy starts covering the nail holes in the wall and any other little maintenance things that need to be finished up before we leave. And I'll work....must work to pay for those tires...
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