lasagna cook-off

Two weekends ago we had another one of the cook-offs that we (by "we" I mean Kevin) compete in... a lasagna cook-off.

I don't even remember the last time I had lasagna and since it was kinda chilly on Saturday I was super excited for the competition.  Chilly weather = warm comfort food weather in my book!  Kevin made Buff Chixxx Lasagna (buffalo chicken lasagna) from his friend Belgeri's recipe.  I was kinda grossed out reading the ingredients... mostly because I think blue cheese dressing is yucky.  The whole idea of the lasagna is basically to deconstruct hot wings into lasagna form.  It is your basic lasagna with lots of hot sauce added to the red sauce and a blue cheese sauce along with the regular mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese.  YUM!!!  The finished product looked pretty amazing...

There were 10 lasagnas in total and they were all soooo good!  It is definitely not easy to eat that much lasagna though, I was a little overzealous with my first three portions and had to downsize my portions for the other 7.

In the end Kevin won Most Creative and Jenna won 1st place!!!

Sooooo excited!!!

Awwww love these guys:)

1st, 2nd 3rd place and Most Creative.

I of course made some cupcakes.  It was the first time I made cupcakes from scratch for a cook-off.  I made Oreo cookies&cream cupcakes.  They were a HUGE hit... I was told they are the best ones I have made yet.  It really go me super excited to be more adventurous with my cupcake baking and to really make more of an effort to bake from scratch.

Don't they look amazing, oh man they were so delicious!!!

hello kitty

Tuesdays are "girlie date nights" for Marissa, Claudia, Gabby and I. We all go to Marissa's apartment after work to cook dinner together and watch totally riveting TV. Since 90210, Melrose Place and Millionaire Matchmaker have all ended we have moved on to GLEE! If anyone reading this does not watch Glee then you are crazy. It is by far my favorite show on TV right now. I love all the singing... I wish more than anything that I could have a great singing voice (sick dance moves come in at a close second) but alas I do not... Kevin won't hesitate to tell you that my singing is a little sub par, hahaha he gets to listen to my "singing" way too often. Since I don't see the gift of song in my future I will continue to live vicariously through the cast of Glee.

For dinner we made turkey burgers and topped them with lettuce, tomato, caramelized onions and avocado. We also had broccoli and french fries, you can't have burgers without french fries!

Before cooking dinner we made funfetti cupcakes. They cooled while we cooked and ate dinner and then we decorated them as Hello Kitty! Kevin's brother and sister-in-law gave me a cupcake decorating kit for Christmas two years ago and I have been the queen of decorating cupcakes every since.

Check out these beauties!

I have to give a very special THANK YOU to Cyndi (Kevin's lovely mother) for sending me the cutest cupcake apron and oven mitts. I look so professional when I am baking now!