Dinners and Decor

My signature fajitas with pepita salsa, this time with rice and black beans.
I fell in love with rice and black beans while we were in (on?) Key West. I could eat them for every meal.

Two tasty ingredients for my pasta sauce. Nice thick pancetta and fresh oregano from my garden.

Spaghetti with meat sauce and garlic bread. How red checkered table cloth of me.
The sauce was simple. Ground pork, pancetta, San Marzano crushed tomatoes, fresh oregano and basil, and seasonings.
Never rinse your cooked pasta under cold water. It's a pasta sin. It removes all the lovely starches that help sauces adhere to the noodle. I just drain mine, and then toss it with the sauce. None of that silly "pouring sauce over the naked noodles" nonsense in my kitchen.

Dinner tonight was pork, again. Bork bork bork.
Pork chops that I brushed with dijon mustard and then coated in seasoned bread crumbs and rosemary, roasted red potatoes, and zucchini and yellow squash from the garden.
Awesomeness.

Speaking of awesomeness, how about my new chalkboard? I've been looking for one forever, and I finally found this one at Target, of all places. I love it, and it was only $20!

I also got this super cute Buddha for my entry way.

Here's our Pergo progress. Just the office is nearly done. It's hard! Especially when you don't take time off to do it. I love love love they way it looks! I think the color is just right. Not too dark, not too light, not too cherry. I'm not a fan of super shiny cherry floors. This is called Hand Scraped Hickory. I can't wait until it's all through the house.
...someday in the future.
I'm off to work out again, do tonight's dishes, and finish some random house stuff before work tomorrow.
Goodnight!