Sunday, June 23, 2013

Relay for Life Band Gig

My husband is the lead guitarist for the band The Compilations.  (Look them up on facebook!)  The band has been together for over two years and we are finally super busy with gigs! 
This Relay for Life gig was on the 21st of this month and it was a blast! Mainly because I got to sing a song! Both of our female musicians are on maternity leave and on Tuesday before the gig, the boys asked me to sing Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me" and it was awesome! They decided to have me sing it at the show! 
I was stoked! Moydie and I practiced it a lot before the gig because I had no desire to make the band look bad. 
Before the show, Moydie and I went to the car show!! He is in love with Jeeps and we will get one someday . . .
 
The gig went great!! I slipped up a tiny bit in the song, but Moydie didn't notice so I consider it not a mistake.  Our male singer had a friend come with her nieces and one of them is madly in love with Taylor Swift.  She screamed a high-pitched scream when she found out I would be singing that song.  She was part of the reason I was hardly nervous . . .How could you be with a little spunky girl dancing and singing in the front row giving you the biggest smile?!
Here's a sweet video of my husband rocking out on the guitar that night . . .

Isn't he handsome?! 
I love to sing, but since high school I haven't done that much instructional singing.  Because of my love for music and my obsession with Glee and wanting to be like Rachel, I signed up for private voice lessons for next Fall Semester at BYU hoping to come out of my singing shell and improve one of my talents.  















Thursday, June 20, 2013

Greek Ribs? What's that?

Here is my lovely husband chowing down on some tasty Greek ribs!!  He absolutely loved this dinner!!
I've been going through our gluten-free recipes and I was feeling like ribs tonight to go with our potato salad that I made a few days ago.  So, the Greek ribs recipe won today! Here it is . . .
 

Ingredients:
3 lbs.spareribs or short ribs
1 onion (chopped)
8 garlic clove, crushed
salt and pepper
2 tbsp oregano
Gluten Free Greek Seasoning (basil, thyme, cinnamon, nutmeg)
1 fresh lemon


Directions:
Preheat oven to 300°F.
Line a cookie sheet with foil. Combine ribs with onions, garlic, pepper, salt and the oregano. Spread out on the cookie sheet and sprinkle Greek seasoning on the ribs. Bake for 2 hours until tender.
Finish baking by broiling for approx. 10 mins on each side. Squeeze fresh lemon juice on when ready to serve.
It turned out wonderful!! The spices and seasonings and the lemon juice made this ribs my favorite so far!!!
Here's the creamy potato salad recipe, too! These two recipes went very well together.  My husband called our meal very Mediterranean. 
 
 Ingredients:
3 lbs baby red potatoes, quartered
1/4 cup Italian dressing (any GF flavor you like)
8 oz. creamy/cream cheese chip dip (any GF flavor you like-although stick with the same type as the dressing you choose)
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, shredded
1 1/2 cups cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
2 stalks celery, sliced
2 Tbsp fresh basil, finely chopped
Directions:
Boil potatoes until soft, then drain and put in a bowl with dressing. Refrigerate for an hour to allow the potatoes to soak up the flavor of the dressing.
Once potatoes are cool, gently toss all remaining ingredients together and serve.
Enjoy!
 
 

 


Thursday, June 13, 2013

Yummy Surprise for Moydie

My husband, Moydie, is gluten-free and he loves baked goods.  Hmm . . . see the problem?
It has become my life mission to find him great gluten-free recipes for his favorite desserts.  I've baked him gluten-free Dutch apple pie, pumpkin pie, doughnuts, and cinnamon rolls!  And they have all turned out great!! I guess you can't go wrong with a recipe with sugar in it lol. 
Today is our 1 year 10 month anniversary and I've been wanting to make him these cinnamon rolls again so today was the most perfect day to do it! And it only took 40 min!! (I remembered these being really hard to make so I was surprised and happy that this time it went smoothly). I had dinner already made and before Moydie walked through the door, I had the rolls ready to go in the oven!! I actually had him turn around to let me put them in the oven so he couldn't see what it was!  When they started cooking however, he knew what was in the oven. 
He was so excited!! And . . . they tasted delicious!!   
Here's the recipe . . .
Ingredients:
¾ cup rice flour
¾ cup potato starch
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp xantham gum
½ tsp salt
1 Tbsp sugar
2 eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
½ cup milk mixed with 3 tablespoons melted margarine or butter
2 tsp cinnamon
½ cup sugar
¾ cup raisins
TOPPING
1 cup icing sugar
¼ tsp vanilla extract
1 Tbsp milk
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Sift together the rice flour, potato starch, baking powder, xantham gum, salt and sugar.
Whisk together the eggs, vegetable oil and milk in a separate bowl, then pour into the dry sifted mixture and blend well.
Grease paper (waxed) with a little a spray or oil, place the dough mixture on the paper, flatten then lightly butter the dough.
Blend the sugar, cinnamon and raisins in another bowl  then sprinkle the mixture on top of the dough.
Lightly grease your cupcake or muffin pan. Start with one edge and roll the dough to form a long tube shape.  Slice the roll every 2 inches and place each roll with swirl facing up in a greased muffin pan.  Bake for 15-20 minutes.
While your dough is cooking, mix together your icing mixture of milk, icing sugar and vanilla to make the topping for the dough. Remove the rolls from the oven when cooked and spread icing onto hot rolls and enjoy!
I got this recipe from Angie from the online Gluten-Free Club.  Feel free to use it!!
 
This was one of the perfect cinnamon rolls, close-up.  Yep, they tasted just as good as they look.  I love using my Mom's old pans by the way.  They definitely bring back memories from baking with Mom. 
P.S.  Right as I was writing this blog, our power went out for 2 hours!!! It was kind of creepy.