{kale, to the movies}

It's been a while since Big Red has had an ice-stash.

We had an ice storm the other day. Of course, we didn't listen to the news and went out for Restaurant Week with some friends.

I'm glad we did, because the food was amazing at Ruth's Chris. Their signature is that they serve the best prime steak, sizzling hot. For meat, the last bite is just as warm and delicious as the first.

We were lucky and didn't have any trouble with the ice. It wasn't hard to believe that there were over fifty wrecks in the areas affected; we saw lots of cars on the side of the road.

The next night it was still a little icy since the temps dropped and the roads were still wet. So, we rented the movie Ted, free of course thanks to the same mad skills I used on these movie nights. It was an alright movie. It was a little foul, but still pretty funny. I also made some tasty kale chips to go with it! They are salty and fill a popcorn craving, but don't add empty calories.

ready for the oven!

ingredients.
Kale {about 2 cups, or however much you want to eat}
Olive Oil {about 1 tbsp}
Sea salt/desired spices {a few squirts of lemon juice is nice too}

I.

Preheat oven to 350. Wash and dry kale, break into chip sized pieces.

II.

Drizzle kale with olive oil, and sprinkle lightly with sea salt and any other spices.  

III.

Pop into the oven until crisped, about 10 minutes. You want it to be dark green, not it's natural color or brown. 

delicious movie snack!

Enjoy! Let me know if there is another recipe that you like better!

xx

{we the tiny house people..}

I was completely floored by this.
I love getting rid of stuff just as much as I love to finding new stuff.
These people probably hate the show Hoarders.
I'm just not sure I would do what they do. Even though there are many great points of why I might.
Would you?

{goin' to the movies}

I wonder if I may be watching too many movies lately. At least three in the past four weeks. It's hard to resist when they are free, though. Mostly, I should thank Redbox. With some googling skills, I found coupondad who showed me the light: now we have about three codes we can use per credit card! I've signed up to get free movies every first Monday too!

Basically, free movies are awesome. 

I also read on another blog about this hilarious little movie! I watched it last night as soon as I saw Mavis' post about it, and just cracked up! Some parts are a little serious, but most aren't.
It's definitely not a movie to make you feel like you should be a vegetarian. I was a vegetarian for several years, but stopped after I had to consult a doctor told me that I wasn't getting enough nutrients thanks to my many allergies. Let's just say that being really active with not enough protein can be a horrible combination!
There were parts of this movie that made me frown a little, but it was mostly just for giggles. I think one day, I will convince my sweetheart to let me have a few clucking hens. So, with Amazon Prime*, I watched it on my kindle fire (free too!) but here is the movie if you don't have a kindle!

The Natural History of Chickens

Hope you get a giggle to. Let me know what your favorite part was! I'm starting to think only my dad and my best friends read this.

*Amazon Prime is awesome-you can get some books for free, do a book swap, watch some movies and tv shows for free, and even get free shipping! For us, it actually saves us money. If you're a student too, you get an amazing discount! See for yourself.