holler at your girl

hold up world- its time for a howe girls do stuff first. we are LIVE BLOGGING this months cooking task. i hopped on a plane on wednesday night to visit meg in boston for st. pattys day. as it stands now, we have visited 7 of the 87 irish pubs in boston. so this months cooking challenge plays into this perfectly...british isles. so today we are undertaking the task of making shepherds pie and roasted cauliflower with cheddar cheese sauce, and as an added bonus, were making an app!

right now, meg is looking over her cauliflower recipe. liam is prepping the shepherds pie, and whit- our cousin who bravely joined us today for the st. pattys day parade as well as the harpoon tour, is making the app. so well start there.

todays british isle app is bread and, wait for it, evoo and balsamic vinegar!!! so whit just finished perfecting the dip, and the bread is cut. and im going in for the kill....AND ITS A WINNER!! perfecto!!

so now its a bit calm. meg is moving things around to chop "stuff" and liam is sipping on his pbr tall boy. seems pretty calm in the kitchen right now. and now hes left his spot, trying the app. and again, winning. duh.

so meg needed some steamer thing to steam the cauliflower and didnt have one- she she just dropped those bad boys into a pot of boiling water. game time decision that i think will eventually work out- well just have to see.

liam is now sauteing the 99% fat free turkey breast on the stove. meg is joking about making me do dishes. ha. I'm not going to lie, this is getting kind of boring and i wish that dinner would just be done. oh- but meg just offed up some cheddar. and I'm back in the game! its ok- not what i would have chose, but that's why I'm blogging and meg is cooking. now shes shredding that chedda.

and now were talking about brackets. and pardon my french, but my bracket is f*cked. seriously. who picks gonzaga to go to the final four?? vs. Louisville? ha. anyways.

whit is now cutting up some dubliner cheese to snack on. girl is all over the app portion of this meal. now meg is measuring things in order to make the cheese sauce. interesting to note- little piggy is also grabbing some of the shredded cheddar out of the bowl and she waits. now discussing atheism- and wondering if mary and joseph really just punked the world to make their parents ok with her being pregnant at 14??? hm. good call meg.

and now meg's chatting w grams. i get it. meg wants to be the fav. but sucking up in front of 2 other grandkids?? party foul. anyways. movement from liam. he's mixing meat with spices and frozen veggies. and he's doing a great job. gold stars all the way around. now he's mixing in the gravy. this sh*t is riveting. meg now wants more beer. which deserves its own paragraph.

so we went to the harpoon brewery this afternoon. its basically and all you can drink learn-a-fest. but we walked out with a growler of this oyster beer. its like a dark beer, but better. yeah, thats all you're gonna get from me. it was all you can drink.

now meg is cutting cheese to layer in the shepherd pies. even though i said that was gross. so well see how this turns out. but i'm thinking were on our way to a cheese overload. its ok. and now were moving on to the cheese sauce for the cauliflower. after reading the recipe- i'm kinda convinced that its actually the same cheese that grams makes at her house, but i guess we wont find out until we taste it.