2014 Catch Up: New Orleans

I had great intentions of keeping a blog this year. However, it appears it has been almost a full year since I have last posted. So I guess that didn't happen.  But I've watched my two awesome sister-in-laws regularly keep me updated on their lives through their blogs, and I'd like to try and follow their example.

I wanted to post about my activities this year in chronological order.  As I got behind, I couldn't post about the latest events, because I still hadn't posted about stuff 3 months ago. Yeah, I have issues.

Anyway, in March, I accompanied GR to New Orleans for a conference.  He attended the conference during the day and I toured around the city.  I discovered Beignets at Cafe du Monde are delicious, there are lots of boats in New Orleans, the dead are buried above ground in New Orleans and people will do crazy things for money. 
See the pics below:

 Above ground burials.  If I remember correctly, the bodies are put on "shelves" within the tombs, and ideally, they break down to make room for more bodies.  Kind of gross, but necessary as New Orleans is above sea level.  This is from a Voodoo Walking Tour I took to St. Louis Cemetery #1

 I'm not sure how well you can see this but that is a dog in a casket.  The person is asking for money to bury his dog.  However, after a minute or so, to the dog moved!! He is really alive just really well trained. And for the record, I did pay a dollar.

 We took a boat tour to this state park (at least I think its a state park).  A crazy old battle took place, though I already have forgotten the details.  The trees (shown below) are so old its possible that they witnessed said crazy old battle.

Back on the Wagon Again (This post is for you Ammie Beth Ballard Hatch)

So...I fell off the primal wagon a while back...sometime around Thanksgiving.  Turns out I don't seem to lose weight while eating out all the time and never going to the gym.  I am sad/proud/happy/longing for sugar to say we back on the primal wagon again.  GR and I go to the gym several nights a week and haven't eaten out since our Provo adventure over a week ago.  Hopefully we can continue this for longer than we did last year and finally kick all of this extra weight.  Below are some favorite recipes we've found so far:

Tomato Basil Soup
Super easy and waaaay good!

http://theprimalfoodblog.wordpress.com/?s=tomato+basil+soup&submit=Search 

Cauliflower Pizza
This is a bit harder to make.  The hardest part is getting cauliflower ground up and then getting all of the water out (after you steam it). I've made this for several people who don't eat primal and they say they can't taste the cauliflower. 

http://www.theluckypennyblog.com/2013/02/the-best-cauliflower-crust-pizza.html 

Green Scrambled Eggs
No recipe, just blend spinach into eggs (literally put your eggs and spinach in the blender).  Then cook your scrambled eggs. 

Oh, and this new one:
Breakfast Calzone
The recipe was actually in a cook book we bought but it puts a new spin on cooked eggs.  Basically you make a calzone out of the eggs and have tomato sauce and basil inside.

Further,
I've started a sewing class.  Below are the pillows I made.  Yay for my first project!