Amazing Duck Stew

I was kind of skeptical about eating duck that one of Adam's professors had shot, but it was actually the best stew that I have ever had. The duck tasted like tender pieces of beef. I was quite impressed. I even had a second bowl later that night and then another bowl for lunch the next day. It was sweet and spicy all at the same time. Adam is so talented with cooking.

 I think this looks discusting. But Adam thought it looked pretty good. It's hard to think that I could have fed this little guy bread at some point, and now he's feeding me.... Aw...

 The end product. It was actually very very yummy. I would eat it again. We have like four more ducks left in our freezer to eat.

If you are into duck and game meals and things like that, get this recipe from Adam. I'm not lying when I say it was the best and tastiest stew I have ever had, even if it is duck.

BYU-I Horticulture Flower Show

Adam and I went to the big flower show last weekend that is put on by the floral design majors of horticulture. I went last year and it was amazing! This year was just as amazing! When we move to Utah, it would be nice to drive up to Rexburg just to see this flower show. It is really unbelievalbe. I took just a few pictures of random things.

 All those little dots are billions of lady bugs! I have never seen that many lady bugs in my whole life put together! It was cool/ gross. I felt really itchy in that room.

 Our wedding flowers. These ones were huge and perfect!

 This isn't actually a real structure...it's a cake!! It totally looks real. I just had to take a picture of it.

You can't see this picture very well, but those stands were very high with flowers on it. We were up a bunch of stairs and I took this picture looking down.

Early Birthday Surprise!

Friday was our date night and we went out and watched the movie Beastly and then we went out to eat. When we got home, Adam wanted to give me an early birthday present. It was a Cricut! I was so excited and very surprised! I had no idea that he was going to give me this. We went to Walmart the next day and I got to pick out two cartridges. I ended up scrapbooking the whole weekend.

THANKS ADAM!

Ward Chili Cook Off

Our ward was having a talent show/chili cook off last night and there were 24 people who brought their chili. Adam and I brought White Chicken Chili (Adam made it all... I just did the dishes for it which I thought was a pretty good deal. He worked on it for a long time to make it perfect). Adam and I got this recipe originally from my sister Amber. (Thanks Amber for sharing!!) It's been one of our favorites and Adam expands on it each time we make it. There were five awards that they were giving out: the spiciest, the most appealing looking, the chunkiest, the most original, and the best overall. We were awarded the most original, and all the five that they picked had to taste really good too for them to be awarded the prizes. Each chili was given a number so that it could be anonymous and we heard several people comment on how good our white chili was of chili #17. We even heard the judges talk about it, so this is seriously a keeper recipe! It was a fun night and we were pretty happy to win that wooden spoon! I'm so proud of Adam and his cooking skills!

For the recipe click on the link below

White Chicken Chili

 

Adam making the finishing touches to the chili

 

The 24 contestants in the Chili Cook Off. Ours is in the red crock pot.

 

Adam holding his prize for THE MOST ORIGINAL CHILI!

Our First Valentine's Day

Adam and I just had a quiet evening last night. We made a nice dinner of Chicken, Cheese, and Spinach Manicotti, Olive Garden Breadsticks, a salad, cherry jello with whipping cream, Chocolate Covered Strawberries, and of course Martinellis. We ate it by candlelight and it was really romantic. We then played our new game Blink that Adam got for me for Valentine's Day and then we watched the movie Couple's Retreat that I got him. It was really nice and low key of an evening. And we both can agree that it was our best Valentines Day ever!

Bountiful Basket Experience #2!

We got the Bountiful Basket on Saturday and it had lots of yummy goodness in it. We took this picture after we had given a bag full of stuff from it to our neighbor. We also got the tortilla chip and guacamole packages that you can purchase on top of the original basket. This week we got:

2 Bunches of Bananas
2 Bunches of brocoli
Lemons
Clemintines
Lettuce
Strawberries
Mushrooms
Cantalope
Orange Bell Peppers
Spinach
Carrots
Green onions
White onions
Avacados
Limes
Jalapinos
Homemade tortilla chips

Valentines Day Roses

Adam came home Friday with this beautiful arrangement of a dozen roses. They are even more beautiful now because they are opening up. They are some of the prettiest roses I've ever recieved.