This is a basic recipe for a roast – chicken, beef or pork- that never fails.

either 1 whole chicken cut up, 4 chicken breasts, a beef chuck roast, or a pork tenderloin/butt roast

Season your meat however you want (salt, pepper, dried herbs, Montreal seasoning, etc) and sear all sides in a pan w/ a touch of oil.

Preheat oven to 350 and put a small can of low-sodium veggie/chicken/beef broth in a roasting dish. (I just tried those concentrated Knorr things – seasoned gelatinous broth you mix in water. Not bad.)

Add a 1/2 – whole pack of fresh rosemary to the pan. Thyme and fresh or dry bay leaves are good too.
While your meat is searing, get your veggies ready. I always cut the top off a head of garlic and put it face down in the roasting pan. About an hour or so in, I take tongs and squeeze out the roasted garlic onto the vegetables.

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Use whatever veggies you have – like cut up potatoes, carrots, onions, celery, sweet potatoes, parsnips, mushrooms – asparagus, broccoli and sugar snap peas are good towards the last half hour of cooking. Salt and pepper your veggies after you dump them in the pan.

This serves 4 so, keep the amount of veggies in mind. (2 medium potatoes per person)

Add the meat on top of the veg.

You can deglaze the pan with more broth, water or wine (red for beef, white for chicken & pork), and sherry works great with beef too. Add this to the pan. About an inch of liquid in the pan should be good. the veg & meat will give off liquid as well.

Cover well and toss in the oven for about 2 hours. You don’t have to baste or really check anything except maybe your liquid level, which really should be fine.

NOTE: Roasting means the meat cooks in its own steam – not swimming in liquid – that’s braising. That’s why I set the meat on top of the veg. You can have the meat in the liquid, surrounded by veg if you want. That way, you can cut your cooking time by a half to a full hour and still have tender meat. You can also raise the oven temp to 400 to speed it up.

Since it’s just the two of us, this makes great leftovers for the next night and I think it’s even better once heated up again in the oven for about a half hour.

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• Finally getting over this cold! It was a beast! I’ve been a non-stop bitcher and moaner on le Twitter and for that, I apologize.
• I hope I’m well enough to go to a potluck tomorrow night!
• find beauty everywhere:

• Sheep herding bunny!

• Costume designer/art director Eiko Ishioka died on Saturday January 21st. She’s responsible for the luxe costumes in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Cell, The Fall, the Batman show on Broadway, many of Bjork’s album covers as well as directing videos, Grace Jones’ tour costumes, the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony, Cirque so Soleil, the new Snow White movie coming out directed by Tarsem Singh- one of her favorite collaborators and pretty much a duo to be reckoned with.

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I’m sick. Sick with a stupid stupid cold. Cat gifs make everything better.
click for more action cats 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14

And… pretty much how I’m looking today:

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Rite Aid was having one of their BOGO sales so I swiped up a bunch of new Revlon nail polish colors.

This one, Starry Pink, was a thick chalky disaster. 4 goopy coats and it still looks splotchy in certain light. It’s not sheer enough to layer and I didn’t want to add a topcoat to the 4 I already had on so no stamping on that rough surface. And that’s that.

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Taking care of business you guys!

January is about to kill me but I’m getting stuff done. I didn’t have a real list of New Years resolutions but instead, a long list of things that simply needed to get done.

• read 3 books in less than a week
• hooping
• took Ulti & Nibbles to the vet – Ringo is next

• Got worked on for 2 miserable hours at the dentist and I’m not even halfway done. 9 shots of novacaine later, I got some fillings and a deep cleaning below the gum line on the right side. I really don’t want to admit how long it’s been since I’ve gone to the dentist. I grind my teeth at night and because of that, my gums have receded in spots, leaving small cavities along the gum line.

Next, I have to

• take Ringo to the vet on Saturday
• go to the lady doctor for my annual on Monday
• get my oil changed  some time in February
• get Valentine treats for everyone
• back to the dentist on March 15th for the left side
• schedule a normal cleaning
• get my teeth whitened at a medi spa (cheaper)
• get a mouth guard
• my 33rd b-day is on March 23rd and we’re going to see The Hunger Games movie! Can’t wait!

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I don’t do chain letters but I got tagged for a post by Lindsey at The Savvy Speechie (who I really adore) so I will do my part in answering 11 questions. If you want to do this or check out her answers, this post will help you out.

1) Are you allergic to anything?

Not really BUT I just found out yesterday that I’m super sensitive to epinephrine (adrenaline) at the dentist when he gave me a zillion novacaine shots. I had the same panic attack feeling I had at the dermatologist a while back, getting a mole removed. So, that explains that.
2) If a genie granted you one “do-over” for anything, would you take it? And if so, what?

That’s a tough question because of the butterfly effect. I’d be scared to change anything in case I didn’t wind up where I am now. If nothing would change, I would’ve never met a few jerks in my life.
3) What’s the meaning of life?

A change to live a kind loving life, being true to yourself and others. That’s all I got right now.
4) Do you have a favorite drink?

caffeinated ones – tea, coffee, coke, cherry coke (oh and Naked juices)
5) Toilet paper: do you let it hang over or under?

OVER!!!!

6) What pair of shoes did you wear today?

An old pair of black Saucony Jazz sneakers.(I also went to work in what I slept in last night plus a cardigan. I’m kinda disgusting today.)

7) I give you a dollar for the food kind of vending machine. What do you buy?

something crunchy and salty – chips, pretzels, crackers, etc

8) When was the last time you were embarrassed?

It takes A LOT to embarrass me. I can’t even remember. Maybe the first time I farted in front of the bf? That took 3 years. Not even lying. It’s a full-on gas attack now.

9) Taylor Swift has a song called Fifteen. It’s about, as you might have guessed, what you would go back and tell yourself. What would YOU say to your fifteen year old self?

Travel every chance you get. Go on the senior trip. Have more fun! Quit smoking!

10) The majority of your grocery bill, on a pretty regular basis is _______________.

planned out dinners, drinks, and snacks – about $80 a week for the two of us.

11) Have you ever run out of gas? When was the last time and where?

Never. Never ever. How does that even happen?

This was pretty fun! Thanks Lindsey! Anyone wanna answer the questions?

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Heyoooo!

I’ve been slacking on the blog lately… really at life for about a week.

I finally got the first of The Hunger Games books and the hula hoop in the mail last week. Let me just say, hula hooping is hard y’all!

10 minutes into my first try and I was sweating and felt it all over! I’m still having a hard time keeping it up for any great amount of time but I try to catch it before it slams on the floor and whip it back around me immediately so, I can feel it in my back, shoulders and arms. I slacked this weekend on it though because…

OMG The Hunger Games! I started with a goal to read a chapter a night. That lasted until Friday evening. Sunday morning I was at the store getting the second one and this morning, I got the 3rd one. I’m plowing through them and love them so so much. I’ll be sad when it’s all over.

Here are some cute Hunger Games Valentines via:

So what’s been going on in your world?

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There have been some great Valentines popping up on the web! Thank you for being a friend!

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On Monday night, I had my first experience with racism towards my bf David and I, on MLK Day of all effin days. If you didn’t know, he’s half Korean. Anyhow, I was totally caught off guard and totally stunned.

My friend Jen is trying out stand-up comedy and I spontaneously went to a bar not 5 minutes from my apartment to give her some support. I rarely go out drinking like I used to but had a really lovely time. Jen’s just so easy to be around and a new friend of hers came to support her as well. Come to find out he just moved here from NY and is staying with my next door neighbors (the only ones I like in that building)! Crazy small world! We had a blast.

So I went outside to smoke a cigarette and this tiny little Italian girl was gently picking on some guys and I started laughing. She and I became fast friends. She was 27, had just moved here from Jersey, had amazingly just lost 100 pounds, told me all about Spanx, being single in her new body, and crazy Italian family pressures about babies and wanting to stay fit. I’m half Serbian, we joked about our noses and being sisters from across the Adriatic sea. I told her about my bf’s mom squeezing my sides, telling me to lose some weight before I get pregnant… that his mom is Korean and how she tells it like it is and has a fat phobia. Then it all turned.

She scrunched up her nose and honestly I can’t remember exactly what she said because it started to blur but, something to the effect of “Oh, be careful, you don’t want to have Asian looking babies.”

What!?

My first instinct was rage. I licked my top teeth under my lip and sized up my ability to drop her ass flat on the sidewalk. She was 6 inches shorter and 10 pounds lighter. No problem. Then I realized I’m in my 30s and I’m not getting in a Jersey Shore brawl in front of a dive bar. I know she sensed it. She started towards the door. I managed to muster, “They’ll be beautiful.” We both went inside and I never saw her again.

I felt like a failure. I wanted to defend the honor of my future baby, of my boyfriend, of his family, of our love. I wanted to rip her into a thousand pieces. Instead I held it together with every ounce of strength because one small leak would cause an explosion and I know my temper well enough to not let that happen.

So yeah. What could’ve been making a new friend turned ugly and I’m just stunned at the idiocy of people in the world. Sadly, I’m sure this won’t be the last time I hear stuff like this.

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Just sharing a few things that I’m really diggin right now.

My hair is baby fine and stick straight so to get some great body at my roots, I’ve been adding a small amount of this to my roots and halfway down while my hair is still damp, before I blow dry. My hair gets oily looking fast and this extends my hair a day by just fluffing with a dryer and brush. It doesn’t feel like I have anything in my hair either. Love love this stuff!

Big Sexy Hair Blow Dry Volumizing Gel

At $47, I doubt I will get the full-size of this foundation but holy moly the sample was amazing! Perfect flawless coverage and a little goes a long way.

Givenchy Photo’Perfexion Fluid Foundation SPF 20 PA+++

For removing glitter polish, those jars with sponge and acetone are the best. The rough sponge surface helps remove glitter much easier than a cotton ball and they last a loooong time. I think any brand will do.

jar polish remover

This is a mixed review – Revlon ColorBurst Lip Butter. I was thinking this would be a sheer glossy lip balm of sorts. Nope. It’s almost opaque and what you see in the tube is what you get on your lips. It’s also super moisturizing and shiny right when you put it on but dries out like lipstick soon after. So, if you see a color you like, grab one but expect lipstick.

I got Raspberry Ice – photo via

Have you tried anything new lately?

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