Sunday Evening. Hm. Church was canceled today due to the massive snowstorm here.
Let’s talk about the weekend.
SNOW STORM.
Friday night Aaron and I both left work early because it started snowing around 1 PM. I left around 4 instead of 5. That one hour made all the difference…
Aaron came over around 6 and we got to making salmon for dinner. Thanks Mom for leaving salmon in the freezer! We put it to good use.
I made a spinach salad with the following:
- baby spinach (trying to use up the massive amounts from Costco..
- 1 red bell pepper (I went through SIX bell peppers in one week)
- red onion
- slivered almonds
- feta
I want to mention the dressing we were using because it is the most amazing stuff. It’s Bolthouse Farms Yogurt Blue Cheese. I got it at Whole Foods and can’t seem to find it anywhere else. It’s made with yogurt instead of mayonnaise. It’s AWESOME.
Getting the salmon out of the oven:
Panko-crusted Salmon Recipe
Adapted from Simply Recipes
Ingredients
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 pieces thickly cut, boneless salmon (each 6 oz)
Salt and pepper to taste
2 Tbsp yellow mustard
1 Tbsp honey
1 1/2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
1/2 cup panko bread crumbs
1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
Preheat the oven to 400°F. Set the salmon on a foil-lined, (non-stick sprayed!) baking sheet skin side down. Sprinkle generously with salt and pepper.
In a small bowl, combine the honey and mustard and 1/2 teaspoon of the Italian seasoning. In another small bowl, mix the panko with the remaining 1 teaspoon of Italian seasoning, 2 teaspoons of olive oil, and paprika.
Using a small spoon, spread the mustard mixture on the salmon; top with the bread crumb mixture.
Roast the salmon for 10-12 minutes (test at eight) or until it is almost completely firm to the touch and flakes when poked with a fork. Serve at once.
Serves 2
Eat with Trader Joe’s Red Pepper & Tomato soup:
Glare at your fiance while cleaning up:
Go to sleep and wake up to 2 FEET of snow.
Aaron ventured out to buy me the newspaper and to see what the roads looked like. I gave him my camera to document.
Aaron’s lil’ truck:
Liberty Avenue:
He makes friends with random dudes like no one else.
Sooo we were pretty much stranded in Bloomfield all day. Aaron took a second walk later in the day while I baked a cake. I’m going to post about that separately. Uhhh what did we do all day Saturday?? Sat around staring outside all morning, ate lunch, baked for about four hours and then Aaron convinced me to walk to Home Depot in East Liberty. This is about a 2 mile walk each way. Wouldn’t be bad if it hadn’t snowed TWO FEET. Who knows why I agreed to this…
It was about 30 degrees and dark outside. We were on a mission to buy a snow shovel.
There was a lot of walking in the middle of the street:
Aaron was so excited about going on this walk. He was like a little kid the whole time, jumping around and being happy and then he fell in the middle of the road. hahaha
The only redeeming factor of this trip was that we were going to stop and get coffee along the way.
We walked to Giant Eagle — CLOSED.
Then Whole Foods — CLOSED.
Plus we passed three Starbucks — CLOSED.
We made it to Home Depot after about a 45 minute walk. They were open but sold out of snow shovels. The sales person pretty much laughed at us and told us we shouldn’t have waited until 7 PM to buy a shovel.
I wanted to punch this man.
Soooo we started walking home again. This time, we stopped at Walgreen’s and bought pineapple for the Hawaiian pizza that we decided to make once we got back. Then we stopped at Panera (OPEN!) and finally got my coffee! It wasn’t very good and kind of hard to drink while staring at the ground trying not to fall but still, it kept my spirits up.
We made it home around 8(?) and Aaron called his roommate (who had previously offered to let us borrow his shovel…) and got a shovel. I prepared the pizza while he dug out his car. We used another TJ’s whole wheat pizza crust and this time, actually cooked it the whole way through. Small miracle.
Note to self: bake crust at 375 for 10 minutes then add toppings and bake another 15 minutes.
Aaron came back in, ate some pizza, and then went out again to finish digging out the car. I sat on the couch in a tank top and shorts reading blogs…
He called me about 30 minutes later to report that he was successful and was driving his car around Bloomfield trying to figure out what to do with it. It’s pretty much impossible to park at this point unless you dig out a spot for yourself.
This is the longest story ever, eh?
Almost done.
He found a spot on the main street about a block away and came back to my apartment. Then…he left again and went to hang out with friends at a bar down the street for a little while. I was pretty happy sitting in my apartment warm and with internet so I didn’t go along.
Sooo that was my Friday night into Saturday Pittsburgh snow storm recap. I’m pretty sure my rear-wheel drive car will be staying put in the garage for quite some time. We’re supposed to get 4 MORE inches on Tuesday. This is freaking lame. I should consider walking to the grocery store at some point soon I guess unless I want to live on 6 pounds of blueberries and 10 pounds of oatmeal for the week. Thank you Costco.
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–Pamela
One more thing: Aaron is currently working on writing a blog post. Who’s excited?!
Sooo I’ve been skipping the gym, going to work then coming home and getting into bed by 8 PM the last two nights. This doesn’t make for exciting blogging. The good news is I found and purchased a wedding dress!!! It needs to be made though so I won’t actually get it until the first week of June (wedding is 6/26) but still, I’m so excited that that’s out of the way. Don’t fool yourself future brides, wedding dress shopping is NO FUN.
