Foil Pack Meal

When I was a Brownie (didn't last long,) we spent one afternoon making foil packs with potatoes, broccoli, carrots, and cauliflower--the first time I'd ever eaten cauliflower, and I actually liked it! It was so fun and easy to just throw everything into some tin foil, bake it low and slow, and eat it right out of the pack. So I attempted to recreate this today! I went to the grocery and stocked up on TONS of fresh produce.

Onion, potatoes, carrots, broccoli. I also added red, yellow, and green peppers alone with oil, herbs & garlic.

     I cleaned and prepped all my veggies--chopped half a vidalia , washed the taters, peeled and sliced one carrot, and washed and cut up about half a small head of broccoli and half of each type of pepper. It's really helpful if you get a large enough bowl for all of your ingredients, line it with foil, and use that to load up all your food instead of trying to maneuver it flat on your counter. I put the potatoes in maybe 10 minutes alone first, but I wish I'd done them longer. It ended up they were almost done while everything else was almost perfect. If I could do it over, I'd do the potatoes maybe 20 minutes by themselves, add the broccoli and carrots for the next 15 minutes, and then add everything else for however long it takes to finish it all up.

     All in all, this was good, and I'm sure it'd be even better if it all turned out cooked perfectly!

Stripey Nails

These nails were supposed to be...well...more exciting. I was watching QVC this morning (I know, summer 2012 is sooo going great!) and the girl selling purses had the best nail polish ever! So I decided it was time for a well deserved manicure.

 The picture does not do the teal justice--its got this cool slight shimmer to it that I love. It's Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in "The Real Teal" color 480. I started with that as a base coat and it did beautifully! Then I cut tiny strips of tape and used my Sally Hansen nail art pen in silver to draw in between the tape pieces. I later realized there was a MUCH easier way to do this. You know those kits for french manicures that come with the curvy nail stickers that you use for the french, and then the straight ones that you have no idea what to do with? They now have a purpose. Use those instead of sweating while cutting straight pieces of tape like me. 

The intent was to then go over and have a small stripe-within-the stripe of glitter, but my silver stripes were too thin. I'm thinking I might go over with a glitter glue pen perpendicular to my silver stripe and have a cool little Mondrain-esque thing going on.