Sometimes Mexican

Mexican cuisines sometimes become part of our dinner menu. There is a lot of traditional Mexican dishes like enchiladas, quesadilla, fajita, chimichanga but we often have burrito, tacos or nachos at home. Those three are the easy one and quick to fix. We prefer buy the ingredients at the store even though we have fast food restaurant nearby our house...

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Get Cool Splash!

Autumn has officially started on Friday (23rd Sept). Two days ago.The summer heat hasn't over yet but chilly weather just around the corner. Autumn (fall) is the signal of transitioning from summer into winter. Currently we have rainy days. We will be packing our summer clothes up and getting ready for colder days soon.   We walked Babe to...

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Sneaky Snacks

I am totally love snack foods. Love to have something crispy or cheesy or doughy or cakey or sweets. I think everybody does too. Honestly I have been snacking soda (Coke/Pepsi) potato chips, chocolate brownies and other snack foods for couples weeks ago. I know they are low nutrients and hard to get rid of it. I'd say that I've conscious effort lately...

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Grocery Shopping

Shopping for food supplies is part of household task. Basically we do grocery shopping once or twice a month. Speaking of spending money for grocery; I would say the bills are varying in a month. In fact, the healthy foods are expensive. We try change our eating habits like less carb, less sugar, stay out of white food and eat more veggies. Staying...

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Fun rides

I always go to the beach in very late afternoon. Around 6 pm. I love that time. I won’t get sun burn and the waves will be awesome when tide is rising. On that day the waves were really good and the water didn’t carry the dried grass like the other day. I love bodyboarding or boogie board. It is great exercise and it's fun activity during summer. Body...

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A bag of Ghirardelli

I was surprised when I received a letter (picture below) with a coupon in the mail last two weeks. I won a bag of chocolate!. It is odd when I never tend to buy Ghirardelli everytime I go to the store. Generally I think the price is unfair even for a small bag of Ghirar compare to the other brands like Lindt. So this big bag of Ghirar would challenge...

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Weekly Recap

Here are some photos of this week to share, A group of wild deers around the neighbourhood during summerBabe got a new toy - Rubber bone  ( same type as previous one but different color)Robert went surfing on labour day. Labour day is an official holiday in the USA and it's celebrated on the first Monday of September.Strong waves and high tide...

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New look for Autumn (Fall)

Boots, boots.., winter boots, fall boots, rainy boots, knee boots. I'm really obsessing with all those kind of boots but I can't afford to buy all of them at once.The good ones are really expensive. I got this one from HSN last month. Thank goodness they were on sale plus I used a gift card from Robert. Nice price! Now they are all sold out when I...

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My Birthday 2011

My birthday just past a few days ago ( Sat, Aug 27th) which had happened on the hurricane day. Sadly we can't go out to celebrate due to the weather condition. But we celebrated it with a bundt of coconut cake! That cake looked terrible in shape but it was so soft and absolutely delicious. I messed it up when I turned it over to the plate. We ate...

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Irene came and gone

What a relief! Hurricane was over! Now the weather channel busy talking about another tropical storm and other hurricane Katia on the next coming. Seriously we had a bad weather last weekend. Windy and rainy from midnight Friday till Saturday night. Not only us having terrible weather but million people on the East coast (NC to New York to Vermont)...

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