Some Easter Decorations

With Easter coming up this weekend I am enjoying my bunnies and eggs for one more week before I switch over to some spring decorations.

I got some flowering branches in the dollar section of Target and used them decorate our side table.  The flowers are kind of a funny foam but unless you get up close (or touch them) you can't really tell.

I am pretty sure this stone bunny is meant as an outdoor decoration but I have always used her as part of my Easter table decorations.

I love how colorful Easter decorations are! Other than the little egg tree I am going to leave these pretty decorations up all spring.  I love how fresh flowers always make any space look more fancy and festive.

I put a few eggs up around my house.  Easter grass always makes such a mess while putting it out but the eggs look weird without it so I always end up dealing with the mess.  I will just try not disturb any of it when removing the eggs and replacing them with spring flowers.

Happy Easter!

Favorite Foods at the California Adventure Food and Wine Festival

A couple of weeks ago I flew down Disneyland for the weekend. It was the first weekend of the California Adventure Food and Wine Festival so of course I took full advantage of it.  There were 13 food and beverage booths to choose from. Some of them were the same as last year but there will also a lot of new booths with new things to try.  

As an Annual Passholder I was able to buy a Sip and Savor pass for $45. It came with 8 tabs that are good for food at the booths but can't be used for alcohol. Any food item that cost more than about $5.75 was worth using a tab for. There were a couple of food items (and most of the non-alcoholic drinks) that were less than that but most of the food was $6-$7 a plate.

I started out my first day (I arrived around noon) with a Jalepeno Margarita and some Jalepeno Popper Mac & Cheese from the Peppers Cali-Ente booth.  The margarita was not bad but also nothing special so let's ignore the margarita for now because this is about my favorite foods at the festival not the ones that are just okay.

The mac and cheese was the star of this meal.  It was nice and creamy, had bacon on top of it and the jalepeno pieced gave it a nice kick too it. Pretty much all things that make it hard to go wrong. It wasn't super spicy but if you are sensitive to spice it might be too much for you. 

The first day I was there it was rainy and actually quite cold so I was quite happy to eat this White Cheddar Lager Soup from the California Craft Brews booth in the middle of the afternoon to warm me up a little bit. I came in a mini bread bowl so while there wasn't a ton of soup because of the bread it was really quite filling. They had some sort of cheese and beer soup last year that was also really good so I was glad to see this type of item back this year.

Last year hidden away at the LA Style booth in Hollywood Land there was this delicious Strawberry Pineapple float drink with popping pearls that I discovered on my last day and it was amazing. When I saw that LA Style was one of the booths returning to the festival I had my fingers crossed that this drink would also be returning.

Crossing my fingers must have worked because the Strawberry Pineapple Float is back! It is not at the LA Style booth this year but at the even more appropriate Strawberry Patch booth. It is just as good as I remembered it and it is joined by "Frushi" which sounds a bit odd but is actually quite delicious.  Between these two dishes I had my quota of sugar for the day but it was worth it!

Later on to counteract my sugar high I stopped by the Garlic Kissed booth to try my second type of macaroni and cheese of the festival.  The Creamy Mac & Cheese with garlic bread crumble was super creamy and delicious.  I would recommend getting both kinds of mac and cheese but if you absolutely have to only get one kind (though I have no idea why) I would get the Jalapeno Popper Mac and Cheese only because it is more unique than this one.  But really just get both!

Last of my favorite foods from the Food and Wine Festival that I want to share today is another return winner from last years festival. I enjoyed it last year so I didn't want to skip it this year so on my last day I stopped by the Off the Cob booth to get some Sweet Corn Nuggets with beef chili.  The combination of the sweet nuggets and the salty savory chili is a winning combination.

I used my Sip and Savor Pass for all the foods in this post except for the Frushi which only cost $4. The California Adventure Food and Wine Festival is still going through the 12th of April so if you are in the area make sure to stop by and get some of the delicious food. Come back next week for the rest of the food and drinks I tried at the festival and which one are worth a try and which ones to skip completely.

Weekend Wrap-Up

After being gone last weekend (Disneyland posts coming soon) I had fun and productive weekend at home this weekend.

Friday night I met up with a friend at an Italian restaurant for a murder mystery dinner. The food was served family style and the appetizers and the desserts were good but the main dishes were kind of meh. There were three murders though the course of the night and we were able to figure out who committed one of them.  Even though we were not able to solve all the murders we had fun trying!

Saturday morning I went to the gym and then ran a bunch of errands. Not always the funnest way to spend a Saturday but necessary.  While at Trader Joe's I bought a bunch of daffodils to brighten up our house.

Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning I did lots and lots of cooking.  I made a casserole, a chicken dish and a bunch of calzones.  I put all of it in the freezer so that we would have easy things to grab for lunch or to make for dinner when we don't feel like cooking.

Sunday afternoon my husband and I to see Black Panther.  It was soo good!  The movie was so pretty from the scenery to the costumes. After cooking all weekend I didn't feel like cooking Sunday night so we grabbed some burgers at Five Guys on our way home.  A perfect end to the weekend.

Stitch Fix #31

For this month's Stitch Fix box I asked for some comfy lounge clothing so that is mostly what I got.

This grey hoodie was very cute and fit really well but I didn't end up keeping it because it had a really strange chemical smell to it.  It may have washed out but I have had other clothes with this chemical smell that the smell never went away so I decided to err on the side of caution and send it back.

I was unsure about this shorts romper when I first pulled it out of the box but once I put it on I was sold. It is not a color I have a ton of in my closet but the color looked good on me. The fit is great and this will be comfy weekend wear this summer.

This 3/4 sleeved shirt was just kind of blah so I sent it back.

I always like a good cardigan but this one just didn't fit well. It hit at a weird place on my hips and was just not flattering on me so it had to go back.

I was looking for comfy loungewear so this could have great for that but it wasn't. They technically fit but they were about an inch too short to be full length pants and a couple of inches too shot to be capri length.