Orange Beef with Noodles

Crossposted at: Talking Snack.

This was not too orange flavored thankfully and just over all very tasty!

Ingredients

• 2 cups cooked somen noodles
• 1 1/2 pounds cooked sliced steak or beef roast
• 1 1/2 bell peppers, sliced
• 2 small onions, sliced
• 1 cup snow peas
• 1 cup sliced scallions (green onion)

Sauce

• 2/3 cup orange juice
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1 teaspoon arrowroot or cornstarch
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 3 tablespoons fresh grated ginger

Toss all of the sauce ingredients into a bowl until well blended. In a skillet cook the bell peppers, onions, and snow peas until slightly tender, add the beef and sauce mixture. Cook until sauce is thickened, toss in the noodles until well coated, serve with another sprinkle of scallions. Makes six 1 cup servings or 3 large servings. For those on weight watchers, each 1 cup serving is 7 points (probably due to the amount of meat but I needed to use it all up).

Soothing Tones

Why yes, redid the design. I will be slowly fixing all the pages to go to XHTML strict  Go figure, I already was XHTML strict all I had to do was change the doctype.

I am hoping if not this weekend, that next weekend I can make a trip to the Chicago Botanic Gardens, especially in the evening… 5-7pm for that soft pinkish warm afternoon light. I haven’t really done any photo outings lately. Not sure why. Speaking of photo goodness, check out OneLotus!

Well this is a short entry for now, I will try and blog more later on tonight!

Chicago Botanic Gardens

Here are some photos I shot yesterday at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. It was cloudy most of the time we were there which didn’t make me all that happy, so I will probably try to go again next month!

The Little Things Give You Away

Well… I’m fickle, that’s my only explanation for another re-design. Anyway, I recently bought a blender and since I adore smoothies, I want you to share your favorite smoothie recipe! I am fond of strawberry and peach combinations but I am willing to try anything! It’s been so warm lately that I felt now was a good time to buy it, plus it was on sale. Speaking of warm weather, I finally broke down, located my box (well it’s round) fan, took it apart, washed it… for the most part… and right now Daniel just plugged it in and a big pile of dust puffed out. Fantastic. He is thrilled that we have the fan going though, “AHHHH fresh air circling ALL the time!”.

Well time to go to bed and hope that this piece of dust that lodged into my eye works it’s way out! Fun!

I reprocessed a photo from the botanic gardens, just cropped it more basically.

Oh before I completely forget, I was talking with my friend Crystal (who hasn’t blogged in a very long time… for shame!), about podcasting and she brought up how I used to do podcasts ohh… a year or two ago. Does anyone even remember that phase? Anyway, I thought the following conversation was freaking hilarious so I’m posting it now… because in 10 years I will read it and crack up all over again.

Me: Well more so fancy equipment where it SOUNDS more… REAL instead of a cheap $10 comp mic from the grocery store.
Crystal: Ahhh, of course. Well, the quality is limited but it’s not really a sticking point, I think. Even scratchy-sounding hosts can attract an audience if they’re charismatic. And you are.
Me: ahahah thank you! My never ending chipperness!
Crystal: Absolutely… you’re a chipper, frisky, freaking cute MAGNET. Hahah.
Me: AHHAA there ya go! I knew all the times I was told “you sound FUN” on the phone by random customers, telemarketers, and wrong numbers would bring me a future!
Crystal: LMAO I can just imagine it… “You sound FUN *eyebrow waggle*”
Me: HAHA exactly!! I can’t help my LUSH voice!
Me: No ego none at all!
Crystal: No, no, I remember when we talked on the phone ages ago… You talk FAST, lady. They think you have oral dexterity. *smirks*

Oh yeah, she’s naughty. Ok, bed time for real!

Little of your Time

I have had the most fun this past weekend! Saturday I took the wee one and went to my best bud’s (look at the photos, isn’t she freaking gorgeous?!) place where we had nummy chinese food and sadly found out the hard way that the movie Miami Vice, sucked. She taught me how to parallel park! On my driving tests in Ohio and here in Illinois, I never was tested for parallel parking so I never bothered to learn. So now I know how to park on the left hand side of the street (it’s a one way street, parking on both sides) and I feel so super proud about that now.  We also had a wee photo shoot which was SO MUCH FUN! Next time we want to attempt it in actual daylight hours so we can have natural light. We didn’t end up leaving until 4am because it was so fun!

Then today after doing a ton of laundry I went back, we had mexican food and I installed some programs and such on her computer and just chilled for a bit. Came home, did some more grocery shopping, and debating in my head what should go into my morning smoothie… I have frozen strawberries, frozen peaches, and frozen pineapple.

Ok, here are the photos, I would appreciate feedback please especially since I rarely take photos of another person lol and I threw in a photo of my sparkley pink bobby pin cause it’s pretty!

ETA I went through and removed members who haven’t logged in within the last 45 days.

Me I don’t look all that happy at like 3am now do I heh.

Teen Girl Room

Kat

Kat

Kat

Kat

Jeans and a T-Shirt

So last night I went back over to Kat’s place to shoot some more photos because we were bored. I went with the intent of working with the current theme “Green” over at Photography Girls. Sadly most of our ideas didn’t pan out, simply because it was at night and most of my ideas involved late afternoon light. Still, I think we got some awesome shots in general.

Do You Know

Can’t explain it, but I am feeling so exposed… so emotionally raw today. It’s been one hell of a week and I can’t really even talk about it publicly. Suffice to say, I’m exhausted, big changes are on the horizon, and I am needing some hugs right about now. 

Can’t Stop

Quickly, here are some random shots from well… technically last night while I was over at Kat’s. We had a blast! Later on today though, I am supposed to go to the city to the finally reopened farmer’s market with my sister and then to a bunch of garage sales. Anyway, here are the photos!

This is the entrance to my favorite Chinese restaurant in Niles.

Kat shot these next two photos!

Pandoras Temptress 1

Kat and I had another photography shoot so each day I will post another photo from the shoot! The story is as follows. An evil temptress locates a box, she opens the box to reveal a potential threat she can use against Pandora. Once the temptress discovers and realizes what that threat is, she tries to tempt Pandora with it. In this first photo of the series, the temptress has just discovered the box and is questioning what could be in the box.

Pandoras Temptress 2

Kat and I had another photography shoot so each day I will post another photo from the shoot! The story is as follows. An evil temptress locates a box, she opens the box to reveal a potential threat she can use against Pandora. Once the temptress discovers and realizes what that threat is, she tries to tempt Pandora with it. In this second photo of the series, the temptress is just discovering what is in the box.