*raises hand*
Let me start by thanking the weather gods because this summer has been absolutely amazing in terms of nice weather in Western Washington. We kinda got robbed last year. That being said, I may be the minority here but I'm entirely too excited to see the temperature drop so I can bust out the sweaters and boots. Even for being a Florida native my entire life, I just cannot get enough cool weather. Of course, I could do with less rain but I'll take a cool rainy (entire) day over triple digit heat and still-wet-after-toweling-post-shower humidity. Yuck. Don't miss that.
Not only are the clothes cuter, in Seattle it signals the end of no-way-in-hell-am-I-turning-this-oven-on season.
When I first moved to the Pacific Northwest and I was scoping out apartments, I was appalled to learn the thermostats didn't equal air conditioner - it controlled the heater. Only. I looked at the lady renting the apartment funny. Huh?
That means if it's 95 degrees out and you have a west facing window that isn't shaded by a beautiful greenbelt, you are sleeping in your skivvies with the windows wide open. I just didn't grow up with open windows in the house. We lived and died by whether or not our A/C was kickin'. But that's the nice thing, if you DO end up trying to escape stifling heat by way of windows, you won't wake up having to worry about giant flying vermin (such as mosquitoes, horse flies or palmetto bugs..aka flying freaking cockroaches) flying in to your room at night.
Spiders are more the NW pests. Spiders and slugs. Oh god, the slugs. I find them gross but I should try to capture a video of my mom reacting to these slugs out there. You'd think they were some sort of deadly spastic creature that can jump on your and suck your blood or something. She literally convulses in disgust and scurries away like a crazy person. Gabe and I find it both hilarious and ridiculous.
Nature shock.
My current obsession is anything w/ buffalo sauce and while the weather is starting to turn cooler, I had the pleasure of dreaming this up one night it was still warm enough to warrant not cooking anything over a hot stove.
I always have a rotisserie chicken from the store in my fridge to make sandwiches, quesadillas, whip up a quick dinner, etc. I just use some of the meat mixed w/ Frank's for the chicken. Comes together super quick and you're not withering away over a hot stove trying to bring life-giving sustenance to your family, man!
Buffalo Chicken Salad
Serves 1 (but easily scaleable for more)
The measurements are intentionally loose so you can scale to your own taste. Plus I didn't think it practical to direct you to put 1/2 a bottle of buffalo sauce on your chicken like I do.
1/2 - 1 c. cooked chicken
buffalo sauce to taste
2-3 c. butter lettuce
1 stalk organic celery (why organic? read this about the dirty dozen)
4-6 grape tomatoes, sliced
1 scallion
chopped cilantro to taste
blue or gorganzola cheese (all I had was feta in the fridge)
blue cheese or ranch dressing
Slice or tear chicken into bite size pieces and toss with buffalo sauce. Assemble salad layering lettuce, celery, tomatoes, chicken scallions, cilantro and dressing.
Bacon would obviously be awesome on here also.
Nature shock.
My current obsession is anything w/ buffalo sauce and while the weather is starting to turn cooler, I had the pleasure of dreaming this up one night it was still warm enough to warrant not cooking anything over a hot stove.
I always have a rotisserie chicken from the store in my fridge to make sandwiches, quesadillas, whip up a quick dinner, etc. I just use some of the meat mixed w/ Frank's for the chicken. Comes together super quick and you're not withering away over a hot stove trying to bring life-giving sustenance to your family, man!
Buffalo Chicken Salad
Serves 1 (but easily scaleable for more)
The measurements are intentionally loose so you can scale to your own taste. Plus I didn't think it practical to direct you to put 1/2 a bottle of buffalo sauce on your chicken like I do.
1/2 - 1 c. cooked chicken
buffalo sauce to taste
2-3 c. butter lettuce
1 stalk organic celery (why organic? read this about the dirty dozen)
4-6 grape tomatoes, sliced
1 scallion
chopped cilantro to taste
blue or gorganzola cheese (all I had was feta in the fridge)
blue cheese or ranch dressing
Slice or tear chicken into bite size pieces and toss with buffalo sauce. Assemble salad layering lettuce, celery, tomatoes, chicken scallions, cilantro and dressing.
Bacon would obviously be awesome on here also.
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