Nutella Crepes!

Since Spencer and I are trying to eat better..we bought a cook book of Cook this, Not This! It has a bunch of recipes from famous restaurants of food they have and what we should cook instead...plus its all under 400 calories. So far everything we have cooked has turned out DELICIOUS!! This morning in between cleaning the house, Spencer made me some nutella banana crepes! and they were divine! I haven't even ever made crepes before..but he did a wonderful job. Even Tebow tried to eat some, o wait he always tries to eat our food. He is a crazy kitty, but full of love and joy. The recipe is below in case you want to try it!

Nutella Banana Crepes: (260 calories)

You'll Need:

Crepe Batter: (1/2 the recipe to make smaller amount)

1 cup flour

2 large eggs

2 tbsp melted butter

pinch of salt

3/4 cup low-fat milk

1/2 cup water

Combine flour, eggs, melted butter, and salt in large mixing bowl. Gradually add milk, then water, whisking to prevent any lumps

1/4 cup nutella

2 bananas peeled and sliced

confectioners sugar (optional)

heat 10" nonstick pan over medium heat. Add enough butter to coat, then add 2 tbsp crepe batter (we added more) and swirl pan to cover it in a thin, even film

cook on first side for 3-4 min until bottom takes on a deep golden brown color. Flip and slather a tablespon of nutella down middle and top with banana slices (we used 3-4 slices).

cook for 3-4 min and fold crepe sides over filling and slip onto plate. top will a shake of confectioners sugar if you like. ENJOY the GOODNESS!!

Super easy to make and super yummy to eat!

Ultimate Loser Contest!!

So Spencer and I have been doing this contest with my family. Over the Christmas break, we did some fitness activities, like I learned how to play basketball and shoot better and tennis. We have already been good on working out last semester, but we ate out too much, or too much junk food. Finally I decided enough is enough. Tristan came up with a great idea for the Ultimate Loser Contest to go down. So we all weighed ourselves (Tristan, Erin, Spencer, and Me) and decided from there where we wanted to be by March 12, which is our Lucky Leaf beach trip (Topsail Island, NC)! We also bet that whoever loses the most has to pay for our reward dinner to.......drum roll.....
PAPPASITO'S! CANTINA!!! Now Spencer and I have more motivation, then last semester, to lose weight and get back in shape. We are doing well and have been eating much healthier, which is making me feel good again! Kelsey and Pat have also come into the competition and everyone is working hard to get that dinner. I am excited and I hope that Spencer and I will win, well I know we will win. We have gone to the gym and put got our P90x on as well!! GOOD LUCK Tristy, Erin, Kels, and Pat cause our game faces are on!

TEBOW!

No I am not talking about Tim Tebow, the quarterback for the Broncos. I am talking about our new cute kitten we adopted from the Humane Society. It all started with our apartment complex having the Humane Society come and show off some of their animals. We went just to look for fun and I totally fell in love with a kitten named Raye. She was super sweet and fun to play with. Then I asked how much to buy her, they said $75. That was it, we were totally shocked and I started being really excited to talking to Spencer and we decided to get her after the holidays and wait for our grant money to go through again. A few weeks later I look online to she her picture, and low and behold, she wasn't there anymore. I emailed them right away and asked if she was still available, but she was just adopted by another family a few days before. I was so sad, and Spencer was as well because he told me he was going to surprise me with her for Christmas as a present for both of us. Then I was in search of a new pet for us to get and I found a few others kittens equally cute. He was at the Marietta Humane Society, which is where my parents live, instead in the Athens one and we went to look at a few and found Houdini. We loved him and put a hold on him so we could get him after Christmas. I couldn't wait and we picked him up a few days before Christmas, and called him Tebow. It was either naming a cat Tebow or our kid and I chose the cat of course. Spencer is truly a die hard Broncos fan. This picture does not do him justice and he is as cute as can be. He just started to warm up to my parents house, and is now all turned around again at our apartment. He is scared, happy, playful, and cute all at the same time. At least this time he didn't hide under our couch for too long. I will post more cuter pictures later!

Lok Lak Dinner!

Since Spencer has made it through his first semester and is done, I asked him to make us dinner this week. He surprised me and made Lok Lak, a delicious Cambodian dish that we have both been craving since we've been back. While in Cambodia, we had this meal at least 4 times a week. Every place we went made it different, but equally good. I was very impressed with his cooking skills because it was DIVINE!! Not the same as over there, but super, super scrumptious. It was a bit spicy, but not too spicy where you can only have a few bites. He also cleaned up our apartment, wrote a new blog on his sports website, worked out with me, and was a basic stay at home mom (husband) for me (no we are not expecting, just a funny comment Spencer told me that was what he felt like). IT was totally awesome to come home and not worry about cleaning or making dinner for us. I hope that he will make us dinner more often because he really is a wonderful cook. He also bought me some gorgeous flowers to surprise me, but didn't realize at all that they were totally fake. I saw them and thought they were pretty, and then I got up close and said, these are fake. He said "THEY ARE, OOO MAN! I can never do anything right." I thanked him and hugged him anyways for the thought, plus they will never die!

We have loved living in Athens, GA for the past few months. Spencer is doing awesome at law school and enjoying it being over for now. I like my new job at the Botanical Garden of Georgia. I am the plant recorder there, which basically makes the signs for the plant common and scientific name, and origin on it. I get to use a dark room, and it is almost the same way you would develop pictures, which is pretty cool. I also keep up all the records of all the plants on the grounds, coming in and taking out. It's very different then shoveling snow at 2 AM, but I can't complain because I it helps us pay bills. Although being at a computer all day gets really tiring, and I think I would rather shovel snow. Seems totally crazy, but I like being active and outside, which is part of the reason why I chose my major. All is well over here, we miss our friends at BYU, but are glad to not be in Utah anymore. It's beautiful weather out here, still in the 60's the past few weeks at times, and I feel like it will be a great Christmas. I am sad that my parents will be leaving us, but I do know that they will be great on their Mission and be great Mission President/ Mission Pres. Wife!

Thinking about getting a kitty, but not sure yet since I love dogs way more, Spencer is really the cat person, but we saw this super cute kitty at the Humane Society and I fell in love. She was sold unfortunately, and Spencer was going to surprise me with her for Christmas. O well, we will see if we find anything, because I am not going to get one unless I love it like I did the other kitty.

Transformers 3- 3D and Carnival

The other day we were eating at a restaurant and the TV was an. A commercial came on that showed Transformers 3 and said they had a movie cinema place called Legends Cinema at City Mall. I looked it up and low and behold they have a real copy of Transformers 3 and in 3D. Spencer and I were so excited. Last Friday we went on a date to go and see it. I got popcorn and it was divine. I have missed popcorn so much, and we got free drinks for getting our tickets. I wish it was like that in US. Anyways of course I had to go to the bathroom half way through, so I asked Spencer for a ticket in case they asked. He fumbled through his pockets and finally found one(This has a point in the story I will tell it later). Then right near the end of it when Sam saves his over the top gorgeous girlfriend, the power goes out. It was extremely sad and we should of thought of that, but I think it took about 10 minutes of it to come back on. Only in Cambodia would that happen because it goes out all the time.

I have to say it was better than the second, but the first is still the winner. So after the show we go back to our apartment, Spencer realizes he lost his keys at the theater when he was getting the ticket our for me. Good thing we asked for an extra set and I grabbed mine right before we left. It was already 12 am and the mall was closed. We just decided to wait for the next day to go back and when we did, IT WAS THERE!! We were both shocked and surprised on one had taken them. YAY!!!

Saturday night we went to the Carnival, well it really wasn't much and only had a Ferris wheel, and a boat that goes back and forth. I didn't ride the boat cause I get super sick and by the time we were ready to ride the Ferris wheel, it was closed (even though the park still had 30 minutes til close). I just don't understand why everywhere we go, they say it closes at 9 or 10 and everyone closes 30 min and an hour before that. IT was still fun. We decided to go through the shrub bush maze, and we got lost many times but found some hearts and a dinosaurs head to take pictures. I had fun, and I got some ice cream to make it even worth it. The only game they had to play was darts to pop a balloon. They had about 8 different booths of the same exact thing. I think someone needs to teach them different games so they can actually get some business.

I really don't understand why they do that because anywhere you go whether it be a pharmacy, a restaurant, a shoe/clothing store, a machine part store they have a whole block of the same exact store that sells the same exact things. How do they ever get business?

Five Guys and Hawaiian Ice of Cambodia

Spencer and I have found this amazing snow cone place that is so scrumptious and I don't know what I would do without it. I loved going to get one last summer after a long hot day of work at the Provo Temple grounds. It was so refreshing and yummy and I was sooooo sad that I wasn't going to be able to do that. Well turns out there is a place right on the corner from where we live. I LOVE IT! The lady there is actually the wife of one of our tuk tuk drivers that we usually use and they are both super nice. One day I saw a little girl getting a shave ice and I said, that is it I am going to get one too. They put some gummy type things in the bottom, you choose which ones you want or dried fruit, shaved ice, then sugar palm syrup(probably the best part), then some more shaved ice, put cherry and some other green syrup on top with a milky type syrup last. Yes it is very very sweet, but soooooooo GOOD!! I am so excited that we found this place, cause now I probably will go at least once a week.

Yesturday for FHE, we decided to go out to eat before we had our lesson to a place called Mike's Burger House. All the senior couples told us that it is like the IN-N-OUT of Cambodia! Well personally strongly disagree that In-N-Out is the best place, because it isn't. Five Guys is way better bigger burgers, more fries and have delicious seasoning and you get stuffed to the brim. Anyways, we went there and I got the classic American Bacon Cheese Burger with fries and a ROOT BEER FLOAT!! Spencer and I were extremely happy about the ROOT BEER FLOATS and I think I peed my pants a little it was like a dream come true. OF course Spencer got the Chili Double Cheese Burger with fries and ROOT BEER FLOAT!! They even use A&W root beer. It was delicious and way better than IN-N-OUT will ever be. The Cambodian who opened it up is from California, which I am sure he got the idea from In-n-out. It is finally a home away from home for me. A place that actually fills my American food delight craving. I can't wait to go back and I hope that we will soon. I was super stuffed though and I totally forgot how fating American food really is. I am actually glad that I haven't had to eaten that all summer, and I think I will be better about not eating so much fast food when we go home because it just makes you feel sick after you eat. You don't feel good about yourself like you do when you eat Asian food. It's kinda crazy how that happens, but it does. (I took the pictures after I started eating it and doesn't look as happy or appealing as it really is, but I promise you that it was the most delicious burger I have had in a really long time!!)

YAY for Mike's Burger House!!!

Pizza experience!!

This awful, plastic, fake looking pizza cost us $10. While being here on the trip, we have missed pizza and have tried to get it at a few places. Since last weekend we celebrated our Anniversary by staying at a nice hotel for 3 nights, we thought the pizza would be better the last night we stayed there. The other food they have had was amazing and all delicious. Spencer decides to order pizza the last night and get some other things for room service. First of all, the other food we ordered came and we had to sign to get the pizza to come. So we started eating the other food, anxious to see how the pizza would turn out. It finally arrives with a knock on the door, Spencer answers it and takes the pizza and puts it on the kitchen counter instead of the table we are sitting at since it is full of all the other food plates. We eat our appetizers we order and he goes to get his pizza. Low and behold is this fake, rubbery cheese pizza that is burnt in front of us. He takes the first bite and it tastes awful. Not only does the cheese bounce, but you can left up all the ingredients and see the bread part underneath in one clean lift. Of course, Spencer being still hunger, eats about 2 and a half pieces before he calls it quits. It was the most disgusting pizza I have ever seen. All I know is that we are going to be ordering pizza soon after we get back into the states.

Luckily a few days later we found another pizza place. We decide to try it because Spencer is craving a decent pizza from the last episode. It wasn't that bad and was probably the best pizza we have had here. You can tell the dough was homemade and I think the only thing they are still bad at is the sausage and the cheese. Don't worry it wasn't rubber or fake looking, they just don't know the right way to use cheese since they never use it in their own food. O well, it is still good for now and they also DELIVER!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!! I know that we will be ordering that again from our apartment next time.