Family Adventures At Chau Ram Falls, Westmintser, SC

I now have a new favorite park in South Carolina, Chau Ram Falls. Right in Oconee County, this park has it all: great hiking trails, waterfalls, flowers, swings, picnic areas, and a gazebo! We enjoyed the park on a bright sunshiny day! There were not too many people there, and not too few. Everyone that I saw was having a blast.

Memories of Broccoli Pizza

Last night I made broccoli pizza for Anthony and myself. Growing up, my Mom always took my brother, sister, and me out for pizza on Saturday nights. Our favorite spot at the time was Rudy's Pizza in Soudertown, PA. One of our favorite toppings to get there was broccoli. At the pizza shop, there were five seasonings that I always used: grated parmesan, garlic powder, red pepper flakes, oregano, and black pepper. While waiting for the pizza to arrive, we lined up our seasonings to put on top of it, and my Mom would read a chapter out of a book to us kids. She would often read inspirational biographies of Christian heroes of the faith to us.

  

 

Food Review: On The FlipSide

I recently purchased some two-sided snacks called FlipSides at a local grocery store. The snacks were half pretzel and half cracker, and were kind of odd. Eating them was sort of like eating stale pretzels. However, they did taste good, and they tasted more buttery than anything. We kept eating them, but on the "FlipSide" . . . we will not be buying them again.

American Girl Prefers Math Over Storybooks

 

The Easter Weekend Flood

When we returned from visiting family over Easter weekend, we discovered our apartment had flooded. I started freaking out and said that we could fall through the floor. Anthony said that everything was under control and that our apartment management had done an excellent job taking care of the situation. Anthony has such a way of setting me at ease.

Shari's Awesome Multicultural Rice Dish

What to call it? Delicious. Scrumptious. My multicultural rice dish has Indian, Latin American, and Italian ingredients in it. Yes, I absolutely did combine white long-grain rice, lentils, tumeric, mustard seeds, coriander powder, red chili powder, cumin, tomato sauce, garlic, onion, oregano, salt, water, and olive oil in one pot for dinner. My multicultural rice dish "makes for some" awesome spicy comfort food.

National Garlic Day

Yesterday was National Garlic Day. I found that out when I found an awesome recipe, Roasted Garlic Chicken Pizza Pockets on Twitter. The recipe was commemorating National Garlic Day. I decided to make the recipe for dinner. 

I did a few variations on the recipe. First, I used water instead of butter with the olive oil for cooking the chicken and onions on the stove. Second, I just made two large calzones instead of four pizza pockets. Third, I did not put as much cheese as the recipe called for.

I might add, this was my first time making roasted garlic in the oven. To me, it didn't taste any different than if I had just cooked the whole cloves on the stove in the water and olive oil with the chicken and onions. I did something similar when I recently made Chicken and Broccoli(with whole garlic cloves), and the garlic turned out fabulous and soft.

My husband and I loved the pizza pockets. We both ate more than we should have. I suppose we shall have to start an annual National Garlic Day tradition of having these delicious calzones for dinner!