California Dreamin': March 2023

Monday, March 27, 2023

2023 - Week 12 : March 19 - March 25

March 19 - wine tasting

March 22

March 24

March 25 (more on this later...)

2023 - Week 11 : March 12 - March 18

March 13

March 15

March 18

2023 - Week 10 : March 5 - March 11

March 5

March 7

March 8

March 9

March 10 - 4 months old

Also March 10 -- I couldn't resist posting this one!

March 11

Cocktail Wednesday - on Super Bowl Sunday

Our second cocktail this year was/is the Chocolate Covered Strawberry Martini (recipe from here).

This is the picture from the website.

Ingredients:

1.5 oz strawberry vodka
1.5 oz chocolate vodka
3 oz strawberry puree
1.5 ox half & half
1 c crushed ice
1 c strawberries
1 T water
1T sugar
red sprinkles
chocolate syrup
chocolate covered strawberry

And this was ours. It looks pretty good, right? However it didn't have enough taste. You could taste too much of the alcohol and not enough strawberry. So we ended up making our second drink choice as well.

Double Chocolate Raspberry Martini

Recipe from here.

Picture from the website.

Ingredients

Fresh raspberries
Chocolate Syrup
Chocolate Sauce
Vodka
Almond Milk
Ice

I liked this one much better and would definitely recommend it over the first. We had a few other participants -- I don't think Nevada sent me hers, but my YS sent me a boomerang .. it's kind of blurry.

Anyway, it's time for our March cocktail, which we will do in April.

Cheers!!

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

2023 - Week 9 : Feb 26 to Mar 4

Feb 26

Feb 27 - the drive home

March 1

March 2

March 4

Friday, March 3, 2023

Goals - Monthly Update - February

My goals for February:

Sign up for Spanish - NOPE - I'm not quite ready to make the commitment
Continue walking regularly (17 of 28 days)
Cocktail (Chocolate Covered Strawberry Martini) - need to post about it, but we had the cocktail on Super Bowl Sunday
Continue with the Prisoner - I've watched a few more episodes. I think I've watched 10 now (there are only 17)
Go to Gallifrey One - YAY
Make another new recipe - didn't do this, but have a plan to.

Fitbit miles : 103.35 (total 183.6)
Weight - down 0.8 lbs. hardly counts as a loss but it's not a gain, so that's a win.

March goals:

Continue walking on treadmill
Eat at least three fresh veggies / fruit per week
Cocktail (not selected yet)
Continue with the Prisoner
Go to a new winery in Livermore
Work on Mackenzie's knit blanket
Deep clean one room in the house .. but which one?
Reorganize cupboards in kitchen

Cookies #9 - Checkerboard Icebox Cookies

Here's the picture from the book, but I made it look like they were mine ...

Ingredients:

2 sticks butter
3/4 c. sugar
1/2 c. powdered sugar
1/2 t. salt
2 egg yolks
2 t. vanilla
2-1/4 c. flour
1 oz. semisweet chocolate
2 T. cocoa powder

Nevada's Cookies

Mine

Me trying to be artsy and imitate the cover of the book.

My helper

These turned out pretty good. We, my YD and I, were thinking that we might try and roll the dough flatter and then roll them up together and make a swirly cookie. We'll see if we ever do that.