Project 365: Day 201

Not much goin' on on Wednesday, so I took a couple shots of this art installation in my dining room:

Aimee made it in her ceramics class last year and didn't have anywhere to store it, so we're holding it for safe keeping (even though I already broke to top off the chess piece in the middle).  It'll be on display in the Steinle/Stachokus household until further notice.

Project 365: Day 200

The search for the perfect quiche continues.....

It began over a year ago when I made my first quiche and accidentally used sweetened condensed milk instead of regular condensed milk - that one tasted like candy coated eggs. We basically ate the crust and the cheese on top and nothing else. It was pretty bad!

Since then I've had endless problems with quiche that wont set, takes forever to cook, and is mushy and wet in the center. I finally figured out that it's because I don't drain my veggies well enough before I put them in the middle, in particular the spinach which apparently gets very wet when cooked.  I think I finally learned my lesson because this quiche was perfectly cooked on the inside. BUT it was a bit over done on top.... so the quest continues. 

I feel it though... the perfect quiche is within my grasp!

Project 365: Day 199

Ok... it's Monday, and I'm cheating! I lost my camera somewhere in all of our tailgating gear and have yet to locate it. As such, I have decided to showcase a picture that Kevin took of me and Nick on Saturday morning on our balcony. Kevin has a great picture-of-the-day blog over at http://pricelesshotdog.com/ so you all should go check him out. He's a much better photographer than I am!

Project 365: Day 198

How 'bout dem stillers!!???

I had such a great weekend hanging out w/ the Pittsburgh crew and we ended the weekend with the Steelers / Broncos game. Nick scored $30 tickets for me, him, and Ashley in a 1/2 price sale a month ago - so that was awesome. Unfortunately the Steelers didn't win, but that's ok. We did get to see Missy Franklin and Peyton Manning threw for his 400th career touch down in his debut game with the Broncos... not too shabby!

Project 365: Day 197

Another birth righter moved to Denver!!! I'm so excited to have Steph in town and she's living ONE BLOCK from me! Crazy!!! All we're missing is my little sister!!!

Project 365: Day 196

Pittsburgh Weekend!!!! So excited to have some friends from high school in town for the Steeler game on Sunday. Friday night we hit a couple breweries in the Highlands and then headed to LoDo to finish off the night. Good times!

Project 365: Day 195

Lovely Thursday evening grilling on our patio for a pretty decent dinner - if I do say so myself...

Grilled lime chicken w/ avocado and corn salsa (avocado, tomato, onion, skillet corn, lime juice). I'm no Cat Cora but it was pretty tasty.

We also had artichokes. Mine was pretty good but Nick had the unfortunate experience of finding a critter in his.... to be fair, we suspected he might be in there, but it's still not a nice way to end dinner!

Man, I love being home! Not traveling for three weeks is spoiling me, I'm never going to want to leave again!!

Project 365: Day 194

Another tell-tale sign that autumn is upon us...

If that isn't a leaf that's ready to drop it like it's (not) hot... I don't know what is.  I do love the fall.... but I'm not ready for summer to be over!

Project 365: Day 193

Attack of the teeth!

I picked up these sweet molds of my teeth (including the chip in my front tooth that I got from a beer bottle 6 years ago) at the dentist last week. Last night, I started whitening my teeth with trays that were made with this mold.  I gotta look bangin' for the wedding :-) The only draw back is that I have to do it every night for two weeks and can't have coffee during the process... my @$$ is dragging today!

Project 365: Day 192

SNIAGRAB!!!! Well folks, that's it. The summer is officially over - as marked by Ski Rex and Snigrab: the country's biggest ski sales. This year I'm going to be a RAZZELBERRY SKI BUNNY!!! I'm so excited!!

Thanks to my dad for my awesome new coat and today I found these rad pants at Ski Rex. YAY!!!!!!!!

Project 365: Day 191

After a rousing day recovering on the couch, Nick and I managed to get off our butts to enjoy some frozen yogurt before bed. YUM!

Project 365: Day 190

The encored with Tweezer reprise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Most AMAZING PHISH SHOW EVER!

Although I have to say, Phish is like Vegas. Two days is great, three is just too much. I'm glad we didn't buy tickets for the Sunday show too. That being said, Saturday night's show was off the hook!! I love PHISH!

So glad Hammer was in town to join in on the fun!