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After some inspiration from other daily bloggers about food and what not, I decided to try to keep up with my own blog more!

I always knew Chris and I both shared a love of food and cooking, but it have become much more apparent since moving to Texas and living together, planning shopping and cooking meals! Wow- planning meals was harder than I thought it was going to be! When Chris and I sat down to plan our first week of meals, we had a hard time thinking of things to make! Growing up, my mom always asked if there was anything particular I wanted for dinner that week because she always tried to plan the week out for grocery shopping. Well, Chris and I tried to do that after we arrived here, and found it difficult! Not that we didnt have things we wanted to cook, but just that we couldnt think of anything to cook! I guess we both wanted dinners to be special that first week! So we had a great first few weeks of dinner with some old favorites and some new recipes!

Here I am cooking an old favorite side dish- parsley potatoes!
Chris cooked filet mignon perfectly!
it was sooo good!
BBQ ribs and corn on the cob for Memorial Day!
Dinner #1 garlic italian style shrimp with basil and spaghetti compliments of Rachel Ray!

We also had oven fry chicken (one of my favorites), orange roughy (a new dish for Chris- he liked it!), chicken and pork lo mein (also a Rachel Ray recipe and a new one for both of us- was not so good...), and rotisserie chicken!

After 2 weeks of excellent dinners, we have found ourselves in a lull, eating pizza, leftovers, sandwiches, etc! It's exhausting, timeconsuming, and expensive to cook! But so much fun, and I love eating!

This evening to entertain myself while Chris was at a rehearsal I decided to start a second batch of cake balls and make some banana blueberry almond pancakes! Bakerella has some amazing ideas! Check her out at http://www.bakerella.com/

Here's the final result of the cake balls! I still need to work on getting the chocolate thinner and tapping more excess chocolate off the balls, as well as finding a device to dip the balls with so fork marks aren't left in the balls! But they taste fabulous regardless of how they look!

So here's to a great past 2 weeks of meals!