Farmers Market & WV Botanical Gardens

Happy Saturday! We didn't want to waste this beautiful day so we got up early this morning around 8:30 am to go to the local farmers market for the first time! I forgot my camera but I will bring it next tie so I can take pictures! We also got up because WVU tailgaters were already being noisy outside oh well! I am so glad we went and I know we will be going back every Saturday we can until the winter!

Here is all the yummy food we got! All for approx. $30. Not bad especially for super fresh farm raised food!

I finally got some local honey this guy has several beekeeping sights a 10 mile radius around the town! It is awesome and I have heard it can help a lot with allergies! It tastes very flower and clover-y, very different from generic store bought.

This bread was still warm they had baked it fresh this morning. Olive Rosemary was Justin's pick! My pick a stuff Chibatta with spinach and feta! There was only one left. Glad I grabbed it because it is delish!

Farmstead Cheese! Like a very creamy cream cheese yum! Organic kale in the bag, WV Gold apples they are pretty crisp and sweet, and butternut squash I am going to roast it!

After our trip to the market and back we decided to go check out the WV Botanical Gardens! Which is a lot closer than I thought it would be. Justin always figures out secret ways to get to destinations! I took lots of pictures! :)

On the way to the Gardens!

I love fall but this weather today was more like summer!

Justin! You look good with pretty trees!

I cant wait till the leaves turn brighter colors! We need to come back when they do.

...I don't know, I guess it is an excited face!

Sunshine! Vitamin D :)

We met some friends...

...and disturbed some while eating their lunch. These guys were really eyeballing us!

These 3 pictures are why I love fall! COLOR! also the smell of fall I love and basically everything, who am I kidding!

Justin checking out the creek

telling me cool stuff about the creek!

We stopped and sat on a bench for lunch! The spinach and feta stuffed ciabatta was so good, we still have half left!

a big bag of carrots, which we ate most of already.

WV gold!

shady fellow

an old dam

Justin taking cool time lapse photos

me taking pictures of my mug ;)

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Have a great rest of you Saturday!

What are you planning this weekend? OR have done? Going to join the hubby watch the Penn State Game! Have a great Columbus Day weekend! :)

Damages

So...someone hit my parked car in our parking lot. At least they came up to tell me. And their insurance is going to cover the damage. Which is good. My poor car can't handle anymore damage. :(
I have been so terrible about posting everyday, but I guess when I start working I won't have the time to post everyday anyway. I guess I will see.
So that is the new and not so exciting news. I am just glad that I was nobody was hurt or in the car at the time. I am pretty sure I would have been really mad if I was in the car and someone hit my car backing out of a parking spot....seriously that is pretty bad driving skills.

Anyway here is a bit more of what I have been doing/eating this week! :)

Monday night I got the craving for homemade mac n cheese so I said I am going to make some!!
I didn't really have all the ingredients for some of the recipes that I saw online but I figured I would just try my own. And truth be told it turned out pretty good, but not the greatest. I am still in search of the greatest homemade mac n cheese recipe...I guess next time I will actually follow a recipe...might help. Mine didn't make it to the hall of fame, but it was "OK" as Justin usually says about everything that he likes.

 I used:

One whole box of Shells pasta
Margarine
2 tbsp mustard (next time I am going to get powdered mustard)
2 tbsp flour (this is what I think might have killed the flavor a bit...I think it was just too much flour, but I don't know..)
1 8 oz bag of mixed cheddar cheeses (next time I am going to just do all sharp cheddar.)
S&P
Italian Bread crumbs and shredded parm on top

Truly though, that was what I used but I wouldn't recommend it as the best mac n cheese but who knows...you might think it is tha bomb!

Served with Italian breaded chicken and fresh green beans!

Breakfast one morning this week...

Tea and Water always in the morning!

My oatmeal recipe which I need to do a series of pictures on how i make it. I make a big batch and eat throughout the week.

my attempt making pumpkin yogurt it was a honey flavored chobani with canned pumpkin and spices but it was too much pumpkin ratio to yogurt and it needed a bit more sweetener or something! My homemade spiced nuts, and pumpkin spice marshmallows made it OK.

I love Pomegranates!! And this is the first time I have opened one myself I watched several different videos on YouTube on how to de-seed a pomegranate without making a mess. :) And guess what! I didn't make a mess!!

 I already started breaking this one apart but...first you cut off the top with the little nub thing...I don't know what that is called

Then cut off the bottom

then you score with your knife around the edges of the pomegranate where you can see the white membrane. Then you pull those apart underwater in a big bowl. The seeds float to the bottom and the membrane stuff floats to the top. It makes it fast and easy, but you don't even need the water if you take your time picking out the seeds.

Little ruby jewels of super food fruit! YUM!

More fun soon to come! :) And hopefully good eats! I have my eyes on an Autumn Root Vegetable Soup, but it is supposed to get warmer so I need for it to get chilly again so I can make it!!

Catch-up!

I haven't posted in a while. This weekend I had friends come to visit and we had a great time eventhough it was pretty awful rainy and cold weather. I have been getting over being sick too for a little while it was pretty bad but I am almost completely back to normal! yay!

I have been making some yummy things but I keep forgetting to blog about them ahh! Sometimes I annoy myself. I have pictures from the past few days so some yummy food and stuff, and then some of the really good stuff I forget to photograph, but I guess I can still blog about it.

Last time I posted was Monday so I have Tuesday nights dinner to share! It was definitly a pasta night. I wasn't feeling great at all on Tuesday so Justin made most of our dinner. I help cut some veggies.

Justin sauteed red and orange bell peppers til they had a bit of blacked edges. He added that to the (Classico) vodka sauce and it added so much flavor.

I made our side salad and cut up some fresh mozzarella on mine. It was very tasty.

Wednesday morning I wasn't feeling much like making anything that took a very long time for breakfast, and I picked up this delicious oatmeal bread from the bakery it was a manager special and was so good with some Bummbel and Brown and honey. Yum.

With a banana and Yogi Energy tea

I love bread so much especially fresh baked!

Lunch was some left over noodles and an idea to recreate the Pasta Fresca from Noodles & Company. It was pretty good, I just couldn't figure out what was missing. I didn't add the white wine so maybe it was that...I don't know.

Pasta Fresca a la Heather! I didn't have shredded parm so I did some mozzarella.

It was a yummy and simple leftover noodle lunch.

Next day is Thursday! I got up and decided to take my first attempt on pumpkin oatmeal since I got a bunch of canned pumpkin at Walmart. Finally. I was like man why don't they have any canned pumpkin!

It didn't turn out to taste super great because I didn't have any pumpkin pie spice. I just had cinnamon, but I love these marshmallows they are spiced pumpkin flavored!

It was a pretty good first attempt I am sure I will have this again soon and now I have the spices I need!

This breakfast contained...
1/3 cup oats
1 banana
1 tsp chia seeds
1/2 cup canned pumpkin
cinnamon, vanilla to taste.
Toppings: Coconut, a few chocolate chips, spoonful of cinnamon raisin swirl pb, and flavored marshmallows!
But it was definitely missing the pumpkin pie spice that really makes it good! Oh well next time!


Now for this weekend! My lovely friends Jen and Michele came to visit! We met in college and were all roomies and when we get together have a blast! I love them! They had a long drive from Philly to visit. I had not seen them since the wedding and didn't get to hangout very much then. So glad you could leave the wonderful men in your life for a weekend to come visit! (hope they didn't mind too much, I bet they missed you!)

I cooked Chicken Parm for the girls and hubby Friday night, we stayed in and watched the movie Bridesmaids, which was hilarious. It was a rainy evening like every other day this weekend!

We had Cline Zinfandel with out lovely Italian meal! ;)

It was a great evening for curling up on the couch with a good movie! Saturday morning we took it easy and had a late breakfast and since it was pouring all day we decided that going shopiing was the plan. We really wanted to go up to Cooper's Rock but in the pouring rain that didn't seem like the greatest plan.

That night we went to Morgantown Brewing Company for dinner! I love their homemade ranch and their micro brews are pretty great! I took some pictures right when we got to the restaurant but not with our food or drinks. Boo...I always forget, plus I am hungry and want to eat...that's probably why! haha. I will have to get Justin to remind me.

Pretty ladies! Ready for a good burger and some beer!

Deciding what to eat...took awhile also because I was goofing around taking pictures and not looking at my menu :)

Thanks for coming to visit us girls! We had a great time! Hope you come back soon! Now it is time for me to get ready for bed! Goodnight! I will try to be better about posting more often and taking pictures. :)