Weekend at Casa de Sitser!

This past weekend is the first weekend in a long time that we didn't have anything planned. We were so excited about being able to potter around the house and sleep in and have no plans. Matt did have to end up working Friday night though unfortunately. I took the opportunity to watch Eat, Pray, Love b/c I figured Matt wouldn't enjoy it. It was really good! It surprised me b/c I had started to read the book and became bored with it and never ended up finishing. However, that doesn't mean much since I couldn't even finish any of the Twilight books!! I know what your thinking but I have an attention span of a gnat! No joke....I'm horrible! Anyway, it was really good and I would recommend it to the ladies....not so much for the fellas...it's a chick flick. 

On Saturday, I got all the laundry and house cleaned while Matt cleaned out the garage and put up all the Christmas decor in the attic. Then we set out to do some shopping. We had ordered buffet/side table earlier in the week from Crate and Barrel that I'm VERY excited about!!! It matches our dining table and side tables we already have in that room.  Here's a picture of it. Can't wait for it to arrive!!!

So, we were out shopping for a nice lamp to go on top of it since it's going to be in the entry way and we thought that would look nice. We found some we liked but nothing we were too crazy about.  Please let me know if any of you know of any good places to get a cool lamp at a reasonable price! Oh, BTW Marshall's is da bomb.com!! We didn't find a lamp there but we got 2 huge really nice cutting boards for $9 each and I got a really cute girlie apron for $8. We could have gotten alot more but Matt was getting cranky hungry and so we left. ha! They have some great deals for kitchen supplies and house decor....I was impressed! After Marshall's we decided to go to the store to get everything to make fajitas. Note: In Dallas the best place to get fajita meat is at La Michoacana Meat Market.  So, we got all the goodies and headed home for the night and had some de-lish fajitas and curled up on the couch with a glass of Merlot and watched a movie. My favorite thing to do! :)

On Sunday morning I decided to try and make some muffins for breakfast that came out of a cookbook Matt's mom had given me for Christmas. The cookbook is recipes from The Hummingbird Bakery outside of London. I decided to try and make the Ham & Mushroom Muffins. The instructions were very easy but it is in grams and so my new scale I also got for Christmas came in handy b/c I could switch it to grams. They turned out DE-LISH! It always shocks me when things turn out the way they are suppose to b/c I am fairly new to baking and so I can never tell how it's going to turn out until I taste it. Here's the recipe if you want to give it a go!

Ham & Mushroom Muffins (they turn out to be more like a biscuit)

50 g butter
1/2 small onion, finely chopped
80 g button mushrooms, chopped
360 g AP flour
2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
250g cheddar cheese, grated (I used 1 whole packet of grated cheese you get at the grocery store)
220 ml whole milk ( you can substitute for low fat milk...I did)
1 egg
80g smoked ham, finely chopped (I used plain ol' smoked ham lunch meat)
sea salt and black pepper

Note: if you don't have a scale you can google to see what grams converts to in cups. 

MAKES 12

Preheat the oven to 325 F

Melt butter in saucepan over medium heat, then add the onion and mushroom. Once cooked season with sea salt and black pepper and set aside.

Put the flour, baking powder and cheese in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, mix the milk and egg together, then slowly pour into the flour mixture and beat until all is mixed together.

Stir in the onion, mushrooms and chopped ham until evenly dispersed.

Put baking cups down in the muffin pan and spoon mixture into the baking cups about 2/3 full and bake in oven for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown.

VOILA!!!!