orange hues

Many of you said after yesterday’s post that you were really gullible. I don’t think that’s true — I think I’m just really good at making up stories. Some may call it lying, I call it having a vivid imagination. Really it was lying — I just don’t want my mom to be mad at me.

As I told you yesterday, we went furniture shopping yesterday — we ended up with a media console to fill the void under our flat screen (can you seen it behind the box?).

 

Luckily for us, the husband has a convenient trailer — most times I love that he owns a landscaping business! It sure does cut those delivery fees down. I found it so funny when we took the console out of the box and had the box next to it, it had taken up our entire living room! There was no room for us to walk anywhere.

 

The final product:

 

I am in love with this piece — it is really sharp, but still has a rustic feel to it. We also ordered a sofa table for the side wall, but that was special ordered so it won’t be in for about 6 weeks. Until then, my foldable bookshelf will do just fine!

After all that last night, this morning was rough getting out of bed. Fortunately for me, I had quite the orange breakfast planned.

 

Nothing says love like pumpkin oats. Apparently I <3 myself because no one made these for me… I’m a one woman show over here in the kitchen.

For lunch today, I wanted to stay in the orange department — a sweet potato! This guy was probably the size of my head, which was good… because I was starving. I was in a meeting during my plan period and up until lunch time (the kids had a sub for an hour) so I didn’t have a chance to eat a snack. Lucky for me, sweet potatoes are packed with fiber and this filled me up!

 

It was topped with a lot of hummus (notice the orange lid in the background?)…

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On the side I had a honeycrisp (thanks Mom!)

 

For a second I was trying to figure out a way to convince you that green and red mixed together makes orange, but then I decided to show you that my apple was a little on the strange side today.

 

Okay, in reality this was the same apple I used for my oats this morning — it didn’t come like that.

This afternoon flew by (as most do) and by the time I knew it, I had to rush home to make dinner — the parents (in law!) were coming over for dinner!

On the way home, I had an orange packaged snack: a cashew larabar!

 

Thankfully for me, the majority of the dinner was already hard at work cooking away in the crockpot all day — chicken, potatoes, and veggies were already done!

I am horrible with desserts when I ahve to prepare dinners, so it slipped my mind. While I’m not one that’s big on packaging, I had this in the back of the cupboard and put it to good use.

 

This is faaar too sweet for my liking — I didn’t have any for dessert because I just couldn’t even get over how sweet it was when I licked the spoon tasted the batter.

 

For myself and my mother-in-law, I roasted some butternut squash…

 

and some brussels sprouts

 

I love having people over for dinner. There’s something about watching someone (besides your Husband) enjoy your cooking and the hard work you put into the meal.

 

The spread:

You would have a picture of my dinner, but well… see out that window? It’s dark! Pictures are horrible right now — anyone have any tips?

Oh well, I’m off to go eat some carrots or something just as orange. Am I telling the truth or lying? You probably will never know because I’m so good at making up stories.

Question: Do you like having dinner parties? What is your favorite thing to make for guests?

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Tagged as: apple, brussels sprouts, butternut squash, cashew cookies, dinner party, honeycrisp, how to cook dinner for the in-laws, hummus, larabar, pumpkin oats, sweet potato