Wine Stopper Attempt

I finished my first wine stopper this afternoon. I'm fairly pleased with it considering it's my first attempt. I used Yucatan Rosewood for the top and I'm very impressed with its natural beauty. I still have to put a few coats of clear finish on it, but I thought I would post it as-is for now.

Southwestern Dinner

I wouldn't consider myself to be the greatest cook ever, but there are times when I happen to throw things in a pan and they end up tasting pretty good. Last night, I decided to try my hand at making Sonya and I a southwestern styled dinner. It turned out really well, so I thought I would share the recipe with anyone who is ever in the mood for a fairly unhealthy, unbalanced, absolutely delicious meal.

Here's the menu. It's simple and I'm pretty sure I didn't cover all of the food groups, but it was darn good. So I don't really care.

Pico de Gallo Chicken Quesadillas and Baked Southwestern Egg Rolls

I realize it sounds like I'm missing something like a side dish, but it honestly seemed perfect to us. I listed the links to the recipes that I found online. I altered my recipes just a little. I wanted to go a healthier route with the egg rolls, so I baked instead of fried. I recommend it.

Pico de Gallo Chicken Quesadillas

Southwestern Egg Rolls

This is the "stuffing" for the egg rolls. It smelled incredible while it was cooking. I almost decided to scrap the rest of the recipe and just eat it with a spoon.

I decided against it though.




The pico de gallo was amazing. Sonya and I both really enjoyed the lime and cilantro in this. It went amazingly with the quesadillas and we found out later that it's even great alone as a dry salsa with tortilla chips.




Here is the final product. I cut the quesadilla into 8 slices and served those with the pico de gallo. I cut the egg rolls in half (at an angle so they looked nicer) and served them with a dollop of daisy.

Seriously. A spoon full of sour cream.

Instead of frying the egg rolls, I prepared them according to the recipe, then baked them at 450 degrees for about 12 minutes.

I'll definitely do this one again.

Ski Dummy

Last week, I heard about a Beer Festival in Seven Springs. So obviously, I wanted to know more about it. I went to their website, but immediately got distracted. I stumbled upon an advertisement for an annual event called the Ski Dummy Competition. Apparently it's an event that happens every January and it just so happened that it was going to be held this weekend!

As you can imagine, I called Ryan and our friend Steve and we got plans rolling. We only had one day to construct our Ski Dummy, but that was no problem. We figured our competition probably only had a few weeks head start on us.

You have to love spur of the moment things like this.

We decided that we wanted to build something ridiculous, so we ended up building an old man with a walker on skis. We didn't have a ton of time, so we build him in cross section style. You can see what I mean in the pictures.

Sonya video taped our run and it is pretty cool.


One night of planning
One day of construction
ONE TROPHY

That's right. We won longest run and best time. Not too bad for last minute.