Superbowl Breakfast

Complete with CHEESE scrambled eggs (for the Green Bay Cheeseheads), Hienz ketchup for the hasbrowns (for the Steelers who play in Heinz Stadium), and helmet and football shaped toast!

Orange Bowl and Miami (part 1)

Mikes family gave us tickets to the Orange bowl for Christmas! So we got to go with all of them to see it, while it was not the turn out we hoped for it was still a good time.

Our seats were so nice!


We ate some really good food. One place was Joe's Stone Crabs. It's been featured on a couple of the food shoes Mike and I watch like Man vs Food. The wait was soooo long but worth it. It was my 1st time trying stone crab, and like all other crab, it was delicious. This crab though, is super meaty for its size!

My Fall Tablescape and Place Cards!

Here are some pics of my table using various fall decor.

Now here are some quick place card ideas I put together. Please excuse the tape and my hand writing as I was just trying out some of the ideas I've seen across the web - Unfortunately, Thanksgiving will not be at my house this year.

The leaf says "Jess"

It Was a VT Football game day when I was taking these pictures

I love fall colors - Maroon and Orange! (the obvious choice for my table)

Fall Flower bouquet Mike bought me.

Here's some more ideas I liked for Thanksgiving:

http://www.tipjunkie.com/day-1-thanksgiving-place-cards/

http://www.bhg.com/holidays/thanksgiving/indoor-decorating/easy-to-make-place-cards-for-a-thanksgiving-table/

Hokies and Blacksburg

We Finally got down to Blacksburg this weekend. It was a last minute decision because we found out two good friends were engaged Friday. It was a great weekend of small town fun, tailgating, and football. I finished the weekend by seeing the BFFs and Anthony at my second home as a teenager - the baseball field/park.

Sunday Funday

This week’s tailgate was again at Fed Ex field, but for the Redskin’s vs Cowboy’s game. Mike is a Cowboy’s fan so this made for a competitive game! We tailgated with another couple, so this time I got to bring more of the food. Included was my stuffed bread (this time made with refrigerated french loaf instead of pizza dough) and my mac n cheese! So finally here’s what the stuffed bread should look like when you’re all done!

Today is also Mike’s Birthday! Happy Birthday Mike!!!
p.s. if you’re wondering who won, the Skin’s did thanks to one of the Hokies on the team’s (Deangelo Hall) defensive touchdown (and some penalties to the Cowboys).

One week til 2010 Hokie Football

We’re one week from Hokie football. Boise St is coming to take on VT at Fed Ex field. That’s right kicking off the season in an NFL stadium where there’s a HUGE population of VT alumni and close enough for students to travel. Should get noisy!

Football Season is Almost Here.

We’re one week from college football…

Though I’ll be sad to see summer go, I’m very excited for football season. I’m a Virginia Tech alumna and huge Hokie fan. As such, I’ve attended many VT tailgates. There’s nothing better than tailgating, you get to bring all your friends together and entertain only if you want to. Obviously, I love to. I reworked a recipe of my mom’s she coined “Super Bowl Bread” to make an easy hot sandwhich recipe that 99% of tailgater love!
Jess’s Stuffed Bread
Ingredients:
1. Pillsbury pizza dough (in the can thing in the refrigerated section next to pre-made cookie dough and biscuits).
2. Stuff- aka meat and cheese you want to stuff with I would say use about a pack of cheese slices and 1/2 a pound of meat (or more depending on how stuffed you want it) from like the deli counter. but usually i get two types of cheese and two types of meat and make two loafs and mix em (like ham and cheddar or turkey and Monterrey jack).
-for the pizza one you need a pack of pepperonis and a pack of sliced mozzerella (way easier than shredded).
3.. one egg whisked

How to:
1. Roll out the pizza dough on a piece of aluminum foil thats about as wide as a baking sheet, into a rectangle about as big as a the cookie sheet. No put a row of sliced meat down the middle (you want it to be about and inch in from each side horizontal and should be the middle third(maybe a little more) vertically). See image attached.
2. Add row of cheese.
3. add another row of meat.
4. add another row of cheese
5. Cut 1.5 inch slits in the dough on the top and bottom.
6. Fold and twist the now panels of dough together so they enclose the stuff and look pretty.
-variation, if you want to do the pizza bread without having sauce to dip in, put the sauce as in layers with cheese and meet, but leave only a couple small gaps in the bread (aka no twists just enclose).
7. egg wash the creation
8. Bake on cookie sheet as directed on the pizza dough can, about 15 mins at 375 or bake until golden, I’ve done two on one tray before and its worked out.
9. Wrap the remaining foil around the bread to keep warmth in and for ease of transportation (only if enjoyed outside of the home where it was baked).
10. Eat!!
*Mom’s original recipe was more like a club sandwich with all types of meat and she used bread dough she made using her bread machine to get the dough right before the point of baking, wrapped the meat as directed, and finished baking in the oven.
Here’s a diagram I made for a friend when I gave her the recipe, it’s no master piece but I think it helps (see below).

Update: Please see a pic of the finished product here!