Monday, May 30, 2011

Cooking for friends

Yesterday we had our friends Mike and Jori over for dinner and a few movies.  By request, I made steak burritos in an awesome, programmable, 6 quart crockpot.  If you don't have one, you should seriously invest.

The recipe is super simple.

Crock pot steak tacos:
1 5-6 lb chuck roast
1 can of tomatoes and chilies (like rotel)
1 packet of taco seasoning

Stuff cooking:















Mix the taco seasoning together with the rotel.  Put the roast in the Crockpot and pour the mixture over the top.  Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours or on high for 4-6.  The beauty of this recipe is that if you're using the crockpot with the programmable timer, you can cook it and after the cooking time has elapsed, the crockpot will move to warm and keep the food nice and warm for you.  Pull the roast out of the crock pot and let it rest for 10 minutes.  Shred and enjoy with your favorite toppings.

Toppings:
 














Shredded Beef :














This is a picture of the meat cold, so it looks a little off.

Then we watched two movies, Live Animals and Pandorum.  Live Animals was a part of a four movie pack for five dollars, so, as you can imagine, it was pretty terrible.  I did fall asleep for the first few minutes of Pandorum, mainly because it was so quiet, but I didn't miss so much that it made the rest of the movie unwatchable.



Saturday, May 28, 2011

my big project

I've started work on my largest crochet project thus far.  I've made things before as gifts: a companion cube for Matt for his birthday (even though it was a bit late), Amigurumi  Monkey, Cat with Kittens, a Mario mushroom, afgans for my mom and sister for Christmas, but this is my biggest endeavor thus far.  I've used patterns for most of the other things I've created, but for this project, I'm flying solo.  I've decided to make a pixel art blanket with the iconic Mario 3 image.  Ya know, flying with raccoon tail Mario. 

To check out my progress on the blanket, follow me on ravelry or here on this blog: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/cmmiller

In the true style of pixel art, it will just be a bunch of squares.  This is the base: