City Life in Suburbia: Yogli Mogli Fro-Yo Shop

For this edition of City Life in Suburbia, I'll be talking about a frozen yogurt shop called Yogli Mogli.

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One night Simon and I went to dinner and we saw this place next door.  They were packed and it happened to be around 10 pm!  This is big because most places like this do not stay open past 8 or 9 pm.  I mentioned that we should check them out one day, so we did this past Sunday.

It's all self-serve, so you choose the flavor(s) of frozen yogurt, add all of the toppings that your heart desires, then pay by the pound.  Here are a few indoor shots (via cell, I was in line and had to keep it moving):

And an outdoor shot since it was such a pretty day and all:

My choices: 1/2 Cake batter yogurt 1/2 cheesecake yogurt, butterfinger pieces and strawberry slices.

One of the best things about this place is that it's only a 15 minute drive!

Have any of you ever tried one of these fro-yo places?  There are so many different companies popping up now.  I love them!

Call me Betty Crocker

I've been cooking up a storm around here lately, and Simon has been loving it!  I enjoy cooking when I get the urge.  It's not that I don't normally cook, but I have been trying new recipes and adding new spins to old ones.  Here are a few things that I've made lately-

Some of these dishes were inspired by Heather from The Lovely Cupboard.  If you've never been to her site, you should go there immediately.  Inspiration to the Nth degree craft wise, cooking wise, diy wise...all of it!

V-Day Treats

Valentine's Day this year was nice.  Well, every year is nice, but this one was a little different.  I was feeling a bit creative, so I decided to do a few crafty things:

• Made cookies for my mom and sister that were weight watchers friendly.  They loved them!

• Put together little bags of heart shaped chocolate covered pretzels for my coworkers and drew/colored onto the bags.

• Wrapped Simon's gift and added a couple of cute embellishments.

Some of my Loot:

• Teddy Bear and Chocolates from my mom

 
• A dozen roses from my sister

• Two shirts and a pair of unmentionables from Simon.  He also fixed a delicious dinner (crab legs, beef wellington, corn on the cob and mashed sweet potatoes to be exact).

2011 Wrap Up- Pt II

Hello again!  I hope your week is coming along well.  If you missed it yesterday, I posted boat loads of pictures from Christmas.
To wrap up the wrap up, the rest of these images are more from Christmas and the quiet New Year's Eve that Simon and I had at home.

Hot Buttered Apple Cider

 

Cotton Candy Cosmos
 

Simon and Lee putting together my Mom's treadmill.
 

As I mentioned, Simon and I had a low key New Year's Eve.  We haven't spend NYE alone in two years, and with so much going on from Thanksgiving on, no one was really interested in "partying".  I still wanted to make a nice dinner and make our first NYE alone in our house special, so I whipped up a little tablescape, and cooked Mediterranean Meat Pies and Strawberry Salad with homemade dressing.  We sat in front of the roaring fireplace watching a few NYE specials and drank Pink Champagne at 12 (I drank most of it...maybe Simon wasn't too interested in the pink?).  Lovely way to bring in the new year in my book.
 

I hope you all had a great Christmas and NYE.  Now back to home decor blogging and the like!  It's going to be a busy year :)


*btw, the watch above was a Christmas gift from Simon.  Looks very similar to this one!

A Lazy Green Thumb

I trust everyone is winding down the Christmas prep and getting ready to enjoy their time off of work and on with loved ones!  I'm excited to see what Santa is bringing me this year, and I'm excited to see the reactions to the gifts that I'm giving to loved ones!

When I was younger we had a garden in our backyard.  The concept was so neat to me.  Plant a seed, give it a little TLC, watch it grown, then eat it!  Free food...that's probably one of the best parts.  Now that I have a backyard I want a garden.  We have the perfect spot for it, I just have to do some research on gardening.  So in the meantime, as I was browsing pinterest (surprise, surprise) I came across a way to grown green onions indefinitely.  It looked fairly simple, so I wanted to give it a try.

Of course I pinned this about two months ago and I'm just getting around to doing it.  When I made the smoked salmon cream cheese I needed to buy some green onions, so it was the perfect time to try this out.

I cut them down to the white and placed them in water in the afternoon and by the night time they had already started growing!  I tried to take pictures of their progress every day but missed a few days in between.  Even so, you can see how quickly these grow.

12/11 (This was the first day.  I didn't take a picture when I first cut them and they had already started growing within a few hours...so imagine that there is a picture before this one showing the onion at the white cut line)

12/14

12/15 (I added a few more onions)

12/16

12/18

12/19

12/21 (they were growing so much that I had to transfer them to a jar!)

They have almost been growing for two weeks now and I'm amazed at how quickly they grow!