“Grill it up” and a small giveaway
Hey everyone! Back to the grind, eh?? Hope your Monday is treating ya well so far 😀
I felt a little off yesterday after Saturday night’s shenanigans but I was so happy to make dinner with the pilot. We’ve started a habit of grilling on Sunday nights and it feels like such a great way to start the week 😉
We had sweet potato fries (seasoned with EVOO, sea salt, pepper, paprika and chili powder), veggie packs and baby bella mushrooms (with balsamic, sea salt, pepper and rosemary)
And the pilot plopped his organic grass-fed beef burgers in the middle. I almost cried happy tears when I saw that our Publix started carrying Greenwise meat because until now, I’ve had to get his carnivorous purchases out-of-town and freeze them. This makes life soooo much easier. He seasoned the burgers with jalapeno slices, worsteshechireshire sauce (does anyone else have difficulties with that word? I usually call it “worst” sauce), sea salt, pepper and stuffed them with pepper jack cheese.
He’s extra sweet about keeping his meat away from my veggies (TWSS?? Ahhhahaha). He uses separate spatulas everything! Whatta guy 😀
The finished product rocked my face off.
Zucchini, yellow squash, Campari tomatoes, asparagus
MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!
Tater fries with Annie’s ketchup:
We even grilled some jalapenos in a foil pack:
And I ate allllll of them >:) You know I like my spicy.
After dinner, we went to get a tour of a kennel here that Viesa is going to stay at while the pilot and I drive to Oklahoma City. My aunt is going to watch Bella, but since Viesa wants to eat my aunt’s yorkie, we’re finding another place for her to stay since Megan (who is our Viesa-sitter) will be at school with me!! Lots of planning, but it’s all working out so far.
Tonight, I finally made some of this:
Summer Shape Up winners, your macaroons are in the dehydrator 😀
Mmmmm, macaroony goodness.
Speaking of macaroons…….
I just want to say thank you again for sticking with my bloggy post plastic surgery. It was a little weird getting everything switched over, and the Google reader disappearance, but now the bloggy’s in recovery mode. Special thanks to all of you who helped me get the word out about the re-subscribe issue <3 I hope you know how much I adore each and every one of you and thank you for making this such a FUN place to talk about food, fitness, mumbo jumbo and everything else. I started the blog on a whim -and because the pilot told me to “get a hobby”- and you guys have turned it into something so enjoyable and rewarding. Ok, mush part over.
Now, who wants some macaroons??
All you have to do is leave a comment and let me know if you’re a cake or ice cream person and what your favorite flavor is 😀
I love both dearly –chances are that if something falls into the “dessert” category, I’m a fan- but I’m definitely a cake person. My favorite homemade cake is flourless chocolate but a la box, I love FUNFETTI!!
******I’ll use a random number generator tonight at 9 EST to pick the macaroon winner, who can choose from blonde, chocolate, or almond butter-stuffed macaroons.
Aight, I’m out. I have some errands to run but I’ll see ya for lunch!
xoxo,
G$
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I like both! There is a birthday cake ice cream that is absolutely to die for made by Ashby’s Sterling. It’s a wonderful every once in a while treat.
I’ve never had a macaroon. They look fab!
My absolutely favorite dessert, hands down, is ice cream! My favorite flavor is Ben & Jerry’s Chubby Hubby <3
I love all sweets but my favs would have to be chocolate cupcakes and rocky road ice cream!
Ooh! Maybe this is my chance to try some of your famous macaroons! 😉
I actually don’t like cow’s milk or cream, and that includes ice cream! I know, I know. It just tastes funky to me. I also don’t care for regular cake, but I DO luuuurve cheesecake. I’ll eat any kind, but straight up New York style is my fave 🙂
Your grillage looks AWESOME!!!!!
Cake or ice cream??? Hmmm that is defo a toughie!! I’ll say ice cream–my favorite ALL TIME flavor is mint chocolate chip, but my favorite current flavor is chocolate-peanut butter coconut milk ice cream 😀
Cake is definitely above ice cream for me (although I love ice cream). German Chocolate Cake is probably my favorite but I have been craving Carrot Cake for some time now. :))
I am seriously loving coconut ice creams. Mmm, mm, mmm! Although, now that you mention funfetti you just reminded me of a recent funfetti craving I couldn’t shake! Maybe I should make cupcakes for hubs to take to work and do a little “quality contorl” on one. 😉
I love both cake and ice cream 🙂 Ice cream fav’s are chocolate chip coffee or strawberry with fresh strawberries all mixed in and you can’t go wrong with carrot cake and cream cheese frosting yummmmmm.
I’m an ice cream cake girl, the best of both worlds! My favorite is Dairy Queen ice cream cake since it is almost all ice cream with a thin layer of cake. Chocolate all the way.
I am a total ice cream person! MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP!
Ice Cream!!! I love frozen yogurt!! I think my favorite flavor would be peanut butter!!
Ice cream all the way!! You put a bowl in front of me and I’ll go to town on it. Never know when to stop! My favorite flavor would have to be chocolate. Chocolate is the best.
Definitely a cake person! Any flavor EXCEPT CHOCOLATE! The horror. I especially like spice cake and banana cake. Carrot cake is excellent as well.
Cake! I love Boston Cream Pie ( I think it’s funny that it’s called a pie when it’s really more of a cake)
I’ve gotta go with being a CAKE girl! My favorite cake is any cake served at a WEDDING!!! I don’t know why but wedding cakes always taste AMAZING to me – maybe the secret ingredient is all the love flowing around 🙂
Gina, if you like Funfetti cake, you should try the recipe on the side for making them as cookies instead. They are KILLER! LOVE THEM!!!
Ohhhh so excited, I hope I win some famous macaroons!
–shari
oooh i love wedding cakes, too. except for fondant. blech.
funfetti COOKIES? how did i not know about this?!?
Totally a cake person! Lemon cake with lemon icing :)Yum!
Cake girl myself. Any flavor. I mean, you just can’t go wrong with chocolate cake but any cake will do. Your sweet potato fries look really good. I either burn things or leave them raw when I try to do them on the grill like that. Thanks for inspiring me to keep tryin’! We used to have dogs and finding a dog kennel you trust is so hard, isn’t it. Good luck!
I’m really both, but if I had to pick one, I’d say I’m an ice cream person. My fave flavor is at a local ice cream shop – it’s called Grasshopper Pie and has a mint base with oreos and fudge.
Totally yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Simple and perfect.
so hard to choose between them – but i adore pistachio gelato, and homemade angel food cake is my favorite cake!
ice cream and cake!! haha baskin robbins commercial?? I’m always down for both but ice cream definitely wins!!
I am not really a cake person unless it is a cheesecake and I like ice cream, but I am on a total frozen yogurt kick…but my favorite ice cream is rocky road.
We have something in common — I also adore funfetti cake!
I would have to go with ice cream although I adore cake. My favorite is this place from home that makes the ice cream from scratch and the best flavor is pumpkin – deelish!
First, just wanted to say the new site is gorg!
I guess I’m more of an ice cream girl. Coconut milk ice cream, to be exact. And preferably chocolate, or straight up coconut. Although I did make some awesome vegan soy-free cupcakes this weekend!
Thanks for another great giveaway!
I’m sorry but I can’t eat my birthday cake with out ice cream! Soooooo I would say BOTH!!!!
I love both ice cream and cake but id prefer cake!! chocolate cake!!! 🙂
Oh goodness, I can’t even choose… I think if pressed I’d be forced to say that a certain midnight cake (buttermilk chocolate cake with white chocolate mousse) from a bakery in my hometown that has been my birthday cake for a few years straight now…
I would say my favorite cake is the white kind with fresh berries in between the layers, i’m not sure if it has a name but i’ve had it at a few weddings and it was AWESOME! a la box- yellow cake with chocolate frosting 🙂
MMM definitely cake. German Chocolate or of course funfetti! I love to make the funfetti in the giant cupcake mold. So Cute!
I absolutely looove both (but I pretty much love anything swee!) My favorite kind of cake though is an ice cream cake with cookie dough ice cream and chocolate frosting 🙂 Yummy
I’m actually not a sweets person (although – I AM a macaroons person!) 🙂 I usually pass on cake and icecream – and if I do have a craving – its for Mint/Chocolate 🙂
I too – suffer the “worstesschiersjserlajdrslkfjslfj” curse. The word has like, I dont know, 75 syllables when I try to actually pronounce it 🙂
hahah glad you to know i’m not the only one 😉
I love my mom’s cake – yellow cake with butter cream frosting that is out of this world. She used to teach cake decorating classes when I was a kid and she’d let me practice on graham crackers while she made cakes. YUM!
Since I can’t have cake every day though, I probably an ice cream girl – my favorite is definitely peppermint stick ice cream. You don’t have to add a thing to it and it’s divine!
Hmmm…I love all desserts, so this is hard. I’d have to say cupcakes, since they’re a form of cake, but cuter!
How about cake WITH ice cream? 🙂 My favorites are carrot cake & chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream..but probably not those two together!
I love all desserts, but my fav of the two choices would have to be cake!!! While i do love my ice cream yellow cake with butter cream frosting has to be my fav! Thanks for the giveaway!
i’m not too big on dessert… i would have to pick ice cream over cake if i had to, but I would like to try your cookies- they look yummy!
I am definitely an ice cream kinda gal! I have been dying to try the coconut milk ice cream you’ve had on your blog. My all time favorite flavor is mint chocolate chip!
Definitely ice cream! Especially Cinnamon ice cream, yummy! 🙂
I am an ice cream person. If I have to pick a favorite, it would be chocolate chip.
My all time favorite ice cream is when I go to visit my grandparents…its an old time custard stand from the 50’s and it still opens up every summer. The lemon custard is to die for!!! mmmm I wish I had some now….
Am I allowed to be both? I love yellow cake with chocolate buttercream frosting, and i also loooove red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. For ice cream, I love Argentine ice cream flavors, like the ones with dulce de leche.
I am a cake person. I love chocolate cake with raspberry filling and vanilla buttercream.
I love white cake with lemon curd filling and vanilla icing.
Oh no do i really have to choose one or the other?!?
I am a sucker for a huge slice of rich chocolate cake with fudgey chocolate frosting but hand be a tub of ben and jerry’s half baked frozen yogurt and i am one happy girl 🙂
I’m definitely an ice cream person! I loove coffee or chocolate chip cookie dough. All of your macaroons looks soo good, especially the almond butter stuffed ones. Hope i get to try them out, thanks Gina!
Tough decisions… I would have to say ice cream, chocolate or cookies and cream. Thanks for doing this giveaways. I would LOVE to try your famous Macaroonies!!
Melissa
COPYCAT ALERT! def buying baby bellas this week. maybe even tonight. those look wayyyy too delicious (and i love how mushrooms are filling without being high on calories or making ur belly feel too full).
in other news, i love plain vanilla ice cream. weird right? my favorite dessert right now is chemical filled vanilla piled high with fresh peaches, a dash of dark chocolate chips, and a little sprinkling of slivered almonds. i may have only eaten half a dinner the last few nights to save room for some. yum. and p.s. i am dying for some of your macaroonies!
Hi! I just found your blog and would love some yummy macs! I am a total ice cream person!! Especially my homemade chocolate peanut butter! mmmm
..ice cream..! Get ready for the best combo ever: vanilla ice cream (I use Rice Dream) with blackberries and caramel. Oh, lawdy. Otherwise, I am a Mackinac Island Fudge fan if we’re out & about.