Empanada Making

Now that Anthony is living with me I have found that his Puerto Rican culture is making it's way into my life more and more (which I love by the way). I found myself buying stuff at Wal-Mart like Sofrito and Adobo. And sometimes even speaking a little spanglish! lol 

A few days ago Anthony taught me how to make Empanadas. So fun and so yummy! but not so great when you are trying to lose 10 lbs.

Empanadas are made by stuffing empanada dough shells with filling and then frying them. They sell the shells at Wal-Mart for about $2.50 for a pack of 12, in the frozen Hispanic foods section. They are shaped like a flat circle. You place the filling in the middle and fold the circle over creating a semi-circle. You then pinch the dough together and last crimp it closed with a fork. 

It should look a little something like this before it is cooked. This was my first one though however so it looks pretty sad compared to Anthony's lol.

Next you fry them until golden brown on each side.

You can fill them with a number of things. We tried cheese the first time we made them and a beef/cheese recipe we found online the second time. Both were absolutely fabulous!

Love, love, LOVE these! Can't wait to make more. 

Thanksgiving (and Baby Shower) Fun

As you all know, yesterday was Thanksgiving day. I hope everyone had a fun day with their family :]

My Thanksgiving was very different this year but different in a good way. First off, this was my first Thanksgiving with Anthony, and he is Puerto Rican so it was not the traditional American Thanksgiving I was used to. We had rice and beans, macaroni salad, and a yuca stuffed turkey! No mashed potatoes or green bean casserole here! It was very good though and we all enjoyed our selves and had fun.

His family also decided to throw us a baby shower on the same day, so instead of the typical Thanksgiving deserts, we had cake! lol it was perfect though.

I have a few (very crappy un-edited) cell phone pics to share. Man I REALLY need to get on that camera thing. I didn't get any Thanksgiving-ish pics but I got pics from the baby shower part of it. And of course I tried like hell to get Anthony to take a few pics with me but he down right refused as he never lets anyone take pictures of him.

Panda themed!

Diaper Cake.

The coolest cake in the whole world.

The cake with out the plastic (and with worst lighting).

Anthony... this was while we were still getting ready.

Charlie :]

I know WORST pic ever lol but this Charlie eating Thanksgiving (We gave him a whole plate, cuz yes we love our doggie!)

In other news, Anthony and I went to Wal-Mart this morning at 3AM to attempt to get a TV from the Black Friday add. The add clearly stated that they were NOT selling the TVs until 5AM. When we got there we were told that they were giving away tickets at 4PM YESTERDAY  and they all sold out then. Honestly, this makes NO sense to me, if the TVs were not going on sale until 5AM this morning how is it that they were all sold out at 4PM yesterday? I just started to hate Wal-Mart a little more :/

Roommate Update:

The day before Thanksgiving I got a text from one of my roommates stating that they got an apartment but will not be able to move out until mid-December! 2 weeks after I told them they needed to leave. On top of that, they also informed me that they will not be able to pay me until after they "get the money" currently they owe me around $250 and that will soon go up to $500 at the end of November. SIGH. So now I am stuck with them and my dirty house, and they are giving me NO money, AND I will now not be able to get my house ready for my baby unless I take time out of my vacation and stay at my house to clean when I was supposed to be in Kissimmee enjoyed the last days as a family of two.