Pinterest Recipe Reviews

Everything looks delicious on Pinterest, but sometimes when you make it, it's just not as good as you were expecting it to be.  Lately I have tried out a few recipes, so I thought that I would share my thoughts so that maybe you can try them too!  (I hate the way you embed Pins now, so I'm just going to link the original website.)



Chicken Taco Bowls

 I really enjoyed this Chicken Taco Bowl.  It is basically shredded chicken, corn, salsa, black beans and some spices.  The best part?  I threw it all in the slow cooker before work and so dinner was basically done when I got home.  Ryan wrapped his up in a tortilla and ate it as a wrap, which I'm sure is also delicious!

Caprese Chicken

 This was another good recipe.  I am a huge tomato fan though.  I forgot to add the balsamic vinegar at the end, but it was still really good.  Cheese, tomato and basil = win.


Zucchini, Black Bean and Rice Skillet

Of the three recipe's I have tried recently, this was probably my least favourite.  However, I did feel that it was fairly healthy and so I still enjoyed that part of it.  It was good enough, just slightly bland. 

So there are three of my recent attempts at cooking.  I'm not sure that Ryan was thrilled with any of them, so they are maybe slightly girly meals.  But we can't have sausage, hamburgers and pizza everynight!  (Which I'm pretty sure would be his choice.)

A Coffee and a Notebook

I kind of stopped doing Blogtember.  I'm not entirely sure what happened, but I'm back today.  Mostly because my Wednesday night consists of sitting in Starbucks for an hour and a half until it's time to go to yoga.  I was writing a paper, until I got bored of that.



{via pinterest}

I'm writing this blog post out old school journal style.  Aka pen & paper.  There is something about writing on paper that seems more personal, like it's not for anybody else but you.  (Except for when I then post it on the interweb for everybody.)  And I like being able to see my mistakes and corrections for some reason.  In university, I wrote the first draft of every paper out by hand first.  Then when I typed it out it was my first edit.  (Followed by at least 2 more edits.  I wasn't one of those write your paper the night before people.) 

Not going to lie, I want to take a picture but I'm afraid the people around me would wonder what I'm doing.

I don't feel like getting to wordy, so I think I'm going to end this post here.  I have about half an hour left to kill and I really just want to get back into reading Pandemonium. 

Relationship Struggles

Every couple has that thing that they have an issue with.  You know, the one thing that always seems to be an argument and that you can never agree on.  For me and Ryan, that thing is raisins.

Ya, I bet you thought this was going to be serious.  Well it is serious!  I seriously hate raisins.  They ruin everything good.  Butter tarts, muffins, carrot cake, scones.  Did you know that there is such a thing as raisin pie?  That's just a waste of a pie crust.

Ryan on the other hand, will eat raisins in anything.  I just can't handle it.  There is nothing worse than taking a bite into a delicious butter tart and finding a raisin in it.  Same goes for carrot cake.  They are always sneaky in the carrot cake because they kind of blend in.  Or sometimes I think that it's a carrot cake with nuts.  Nope that nut is a raisin and is gooey grossness!

Luckily for Ryan, his mom makes him stuff with raisins.  Also luckily for Ryan, he knows that I won't eat all of his treats on him if they have raisins in them.

Does anybody else have these strong feelings about raisins, or is it just me?

Stupid happy raisins

Courses That High School Should Have

In high school we have to take certain courses like math, science and English.  These are all somewhat important (except for science in my business minded brain, I never use anything I learnt in science.)  However, there are a lot of courses that we aren't forced to take, or that aren't even offered that probably should be.

It seems that high school is more about preparation for post-secondary education than it is for life in general.  And while that is important, many people either don't go on to post-secondary education, or they do but they still don't know some of life's basics.  So here are some courses that I think should be mandatory in high school.

Personal Finance
This course would teach you how to budget.  It could include portions on mortgages and loans so that students understand these things earlier.  It's so easy for people to get into trouble early on because they don't know how to budget and save their money.

Accounting
I may be biased here, but I think that everyone should take accounting.  Accounting relates to any job that you will ever do.  Even though you may not have to actually input the numbers yourself, I can't tell you how many times at work I have to deal with people in other departments who don't understand that I can't just issue a cheque and not put it towards an expense account.  Or they don't understand the difference between a balance sheet item and an income statement item.  And don't even get me started on the lack of understanding of amortization....end rant.

Home Ec
This wasn't offered in my school, I'm not sure if it's offered anywhere anymore.  I understand that women can now go to university and have careers, but where do we learn to sew these days?  Some things are just important skills to have.

Typing
Do schools have this?  I know my school didn't when I was there.  I taught myself how to type with a program at home.  These days though everybody should know how to type properly.  None of this two finger stuff should be going on, I don't care how fast you are at it.

Personal Fitness and Nutrition
Now my high school did offer food and nutrition as well as gym classes of course.  I hated gym.  I am not an athlete and so the thought of playing basketball and soccer for a period every day was terrifying.  However, I'm now somewhat of a gym rat.  Being able to work out and promoting fitness is completely different than playing sports.  I think that high schools should have a course that is purely fitness.  There could be sections on gym workouts, circuit training, aerobics, and then basic nutritional information.  I actually feel that this should be an option in grade 9 that can be taken instead of the basic gym class.  For all those kids out there who hate sports like me.

What are some courses that you think should be mandatory?