mushroom quesadillas

Ok, so the other day when we were headed out and about the lovely city of Stuttgart, I got my hands on a copy of Rachel Ray's 30 Minute Meals 2 that just so happened to be sitting, cold, lonely, abandoned in the back seat of Nate's truck.  I flipped through the book, just looking at the pictures of all the lovely things RR has thought up. And then I saw the recipe for mushroom quesadillas. I couldn't get the thought of those stringy gooey buttery little yummies out of my head! So tonight I made them. And people. Seriously. You need to make these for yourself. For your family. For your friends. For your neighbors. Just make them!

Mushroom Quesadillas
Adapted from Rachel Ray's recipe

1 block of Monterrey jack cheese
1 container of regular ole brown mushrooms
tortillas
butter (and lots of it!)
salt

Roughly chop the mushrooms and saute in butter. Salt to taste.
Grate the cheese.
Melt butter in a frying pan that has preheated on medium.
Place one tortilla in the buttered pan.
Cover with cheese and sauteed mushrooms.
Put another tortilla on top.
Flip.
Cut.
Serve.

LOVE!

The Promised Pictures!

Well just look at me, two posts in one day with pictures in both! Be proud, my darling readers, I know I am!

My beautiful bed in my beautiful bedroom!

The view I get to wake up to each and every morning!

Me and Bryn at the Volksfest on Saturday

Me and my new German friend who's name I can't remember...oops

Yum!

5 Sinne (5 senses)

Today Bryn and I caught the S-Bahn (the train that goes between cities, as opposed to the U-Bahn, which is the train that goes around the city)

to do a little shopping and get lunch before we went over to Nate's house for a lovely dinner of pot roast with all the traditional fixins--mashed potatoes, cooked carrots and onions and gravy. While we were in the city, I had a little time to journal in the beautiful city of Stuttgart's center...








Sitting in the schlossplatz--the city center.

I hear the fountain like a waterfall, musicians tinkering away on Eastern sounding instruments, and the sounds of people talking all jumbled up together like a happy herd of grasshoppers humming.  Two lovers who can hardly keep their hands off each other are laying in the grass in front of us.  My mouth taste slightly of the crunchy onions and spicy brown mustard that crowned the best hot dog I've ever eaten bought across the street at the mall.  Like an after thought, I can smell the cigarette smoke wafting through the air. The sun is shining behind me and I am perfectly content to sit Indian style in this green green grass. A breeze tosses my curls about my neck and I am thankful for my little brown hair tie that holds them all in place.  I only wish I wasn't fighting a head cold...but such is life! Surrounding the park is a most interesting mix of both old and modern architecture. Somehow it works like a bridge, spanning humanity through out both time and space and bringing together all of us who sit here today.  Just now a tiny black chihuahua is straining against a leash held by his beautiful raven headed mistress, who is distracted by the click of a lighter against a cigarette against her red lips. A beautiful little boy with a red plaid messenger's cap is snuggled up against his seemingly exhausted mother...and the music plays on.

Day 3 here in Germany!

Last night Carolyn and I took the train down to Volksfest in Stuttgart...IT WAS UH-MAZING! When we first got there, we had a couple of jager shots to fit in the locals...ugh! After I coughed down shot number two, we headed over to the tents...which were HUGE closed off tents filled with really long wooden tables that could probably seat close to a hundred people each...and the tents were totally packed! We were lucky enough to get seats at such a table right next to a couple of German boys who were students at the local university...super cute and super nice and super good English! We then took the train back to what we thought was the right station, but it wasn't...so we took a taxi back home to Echterdingin and promptly fell asleep!

Today, Bryn, Nate, and I are working on getting my bedroom all put together, playing Farkle (thanks for the dice, Mama!) and just hanging out around the haus to gear up for tomorrow...the Fest again!

I MADE IT!!! Germany is so beautiful, so clean, so green! My flight wasn't as horrible as I thought it might be, and it was awesome because I met my cousin Josh at XNA airport unexpectdly and we were on the same flight to Atlanta!! He was so sweet, took me for appetizers and good talks. Then on the trans-atlantic flight I sat next to a man who was an older German gentleman who currently lives in the states...He laughed at me for what my adventures might hold, especially not speaking German. I know i'll be ok, though, I know that this language  barrier will not be as big of a deal as he probably thought. I also sat across from a very cute german guy who was traveling with (i assume) his grandparents...he was a total doll!
Anyway...Bryn and Carolyn picked me up from the Stuttgart airport around 9 am this morning. we went back to the apartment ( which is HUGE! for Europe!) and kind of settled in and unpacked and freshened up before going to dinner at Faviano's, an Italian "cafeteria" type place where you choose what you want to eat from a menu (in english!) and then watch the line chefs cook it right in front of you! We enjoyed a lesiurely meal and then walked around downtown Stuttgart checking out the tons of cute little shops...went to a HUGE indoor farmer's market type place with lots of different vendors. I was so tired after though! We went back to the apartment and I absolutely CRASHED for about 4 hours...I set my alarm, but didn't even hear it go off! Woke up around 5:15 to the sound of Nate, Bryn's man, who is fabulous, btw, singing downstairs haha... later, the four of us, (Me, Bryn, Carolyn, and Nate) went out to dinner at a local bier garten here in Echerdingin and stayed for almost four hours!!

PICS TO FOLLOW!!

i don't know why nothing was posted under my last post...?

tuesday isn't that far away