My new obsessions - Project Runway and Prosecco

In an episode of 30 Min Meals, Rachael Ray suggested you buy Prosecco, sparkling Italian wine, instead of Champagne. Its cheaper, and unless your a snob, you'd never know the difference. I love a mimosa! My most favorite is the bottomless blood orange mimosa at Root Down. 

B and I have 'Breakfast for Dinner' on Sunday evenings. We've been doing screwdrives, but sometimes its nice to mix it up with a mimosa.


The new things I enjoy doing is drinking prosecco, eating popcorn, and watching this current season of Project Runway. I feel very Marilyn Monroe doing this - she enjoyed potato chips and champagne.


Anyway, I like Valerie and Mondo. I don't like Ivy and Gretchen. Valerie makes fun and flirty clothes. Mondo is just all around awesome. Mondo is also from Denver.

Tuna Melt

Sometimes life gets ya down. When that happens to me - I like to have good old fashion diner food - at home. I like a tuna melt and sweet potato fries.

I make my tuna melts untraditionally. First step, pull some gluten free bread from the freezer and pop it in the toaster. While its toasting, I mix my tuna. I mix 1 can of tuna with lots of tarragon, dill, basil, and garlic. I add sliced green olives or capers to give the mixture the moisture. and thats it. I don't like to add mayo to tuna salad when I'm making a tuna melt because it can get soggy.

I pile my tuna mixture onto each slice of the pre-toasted GF bread. Then, I top each slice with a piece of cheese. Throw it under the broiler for a few mins to melt the cheese.

I serve my tuna melts open faced. Thats how they serve them at one of our favorite restaurants, Bull & Bush. They serve theirs on an english muffin, which is what I used to use at home prior to going GF.

Update - our summer 2010

Well, again - it has been a few months and we have failed to accurately document our summer.

Here is what we did Summer 2010:

In June, Bob traveled to Michigan with his dad. They stayed with a family friend. While on this trip, Bob learned how to make Chicken Marsala. He drank a lot, smoked a cigar, fished, and came home relaxed.

When Bob returned, we celebrated our first anniversary. We went to Colorado Springs, played mini golf, saw a minor league baseball game, and enjoyed a picnic at the Garden of the Gods park. 

As with  every summer, we explored Denver and Colorado. We tried new foods at new places. Perhaps the most memorable of the summer was Liks Ice Cream in Denver - B correctly answered the trivia question so we received a free scoop. We ate our ice cream outside on a warm evening, and ended up just having ice cream for dinner that night.

In July, Bob and I enjoyed a week in the Outer Banks or North Carolina. A week of sun, fun, beach, family, and sea food. We loved catching up with the east coast branch of the family, and I learned how to pick crabs. Each night someone would take charge an make dinner for the group, and Bob's cousin, Dari, took charge of breakfasts. She made a GF waffle for me one morning! Dari's husband, Sam, and Bob's cousin, Bill, played bartenders. We enjoyed some Dark & Stormy's, homemade cucumber infused gin, and my very first bloody mary. We ate one amazing dinner out at a place with cheesy art on the walls, and B and I bummed around some local art shops one afternoon, and enjoyed East Coast style Mexican food.

While in North Carolina, I participated in a phone interview, and a day later I was offered, and accepted a new job. More hours, more money, a change of scenery, and a new chance to grow. This new job is perfect for me and I love it. The only downside is that it cuts into the education I was getting from watching a lot of daytime Food Network.

In August, I went to Las Vegas with my mom and my sister. Las Vegas is one of my all time favorite places to go. There is so much to see and to photograph. I love to walk on vacations, and Vegas is perfect for that. I treated my mom and sister to dinner at my favorite Vegas restaurant - Mon Ami Gabi, then, the rest of our stay, we hit up some buffets, at which I proceeded to eat my weight in smoked salmon with capers, crab legs, and sushi. We also "enjoyed" the soda tasting at the Coca Cola store, but I use the word enjoyed very lightly.

This summer was busy. We cooked a lot. We saw a lot. We ate a lot, and perhaps we will post about it in the future. All of our experiences shape our culinary skills. There are photos on my camera, but right now, we are tired. It time for Fall and football.