I'm at the point in my pregnancy where I'm having bouts of insomnia due to not being able to get totally comfortable at night. The baby is kicking and flipping around a lot, waking me up every couple of hours, so I've been feeling pretty restless. And hungry. Oh so hungry. I don't remember being this hungry when I was pregnant with Darcy.
Lately I've become obsessed with cookbooks, and reading them like they're summer novels. Here are the foodie books I'm currently reading:
Feed the Belly: The Pregnant Mom's Healthy Eating Guide is the first pregnancy book I've looked at this pregnancy, and honestly, I think I checked it out because it's all about food. So far I've enjoyed it, and I'm now to the recipe portion of the book. There are several recipes that I want to try, with one in particular I've been thinking about for a week. I finally got around to making it today, the Mediterranean Barley Salad. It was good, but it didn't live up to my tastebud fantasies. I was just expecting more of a flavor punch with a combo of roasted red bell peppers, artichoke hearts, garlic, green olives and feta cheese.
I don't normally watch
Sandra Lee on the Food Network, because sometimes she's a little hokey. But I can appreciate her style of cooking, especially when I'm pressed for time and want something quick. Plus, this one is all about desserts, my favorite and my best. I would actually consider purchasing a copy of this book. It's loaded with good stuff! I made the
Chunky Monkey bites the other day and they were crazy good. You can find the recipe
here, you just have to scroll down past a few others.
I haven't made anything from the
Barefoot Contessa book yet. But I did have to stop looking at it on Sunday, because it made me SUPER hungry, and I wanted to eat everything in the house.
But honestly? This is my new best food friend:
Seriously, this
stuff is rocking my world at the moment. I saw 2
other varieties in the store, and I'm anxious to see if they taste as heavenly as this one. That's if I'm not totally sick of peanut butter by then.
Food books aren't the only books I'm reading these days. Here's what else I'm reading:
All of these titles are winners. I'm over halfway finished with the Heather Armstrong book. My friend Laura gave it to me for my birthday. I am enjoying the read as much as I enjoy the cover.
Heather has a really dry and sarcastic sense of humor, much like myself and Laura. Heather's
blog is full of goodness, so check it out if you haven't already.
A couple of days ago, Darcy and I were watching a show about Disney's Animal Kingdom on the Travel Channel. She loves all animals, and thinks we should be going to the Zoo
every single day, so this show was right up her alley. One segment was about a roller coaster they have called
Expedition Everest. On this ride, you can only go forward so far, because the track has been demolished by a Yeti, so you end up going backwards to the beginning of the ride, and while traveling backwards, you catch a glimpse of the Yeti.
She was so fascinated by the Yeti, and she kept calling it the "scary gorilla." She asked me half a dozen times at least, "What's that scary gorilla's name?" I would tell her it was "Yeti", and she would say, "Oh yeah, that's right! Yeti!" She actually woke up in the middle of the night, talking about the Yeti, and it was the first thing she mentioned the next morning.
So I decided to make her a little Yeti puppet to play with.
I didn't have any fur on hand, so I improvised and gave him a jagged edge to look like fur. I think he's pretty cute, and so does Darcy. You can check out the
sketch I drew of Yeti first, if you're interested.
xoxo
Amy
I decided to get a little bit fancier with this one and add the rick-rack trim. I like how it gives it a modern vintage feel.
Don't you just love the wooden lettering?
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