AuburnChick's Adventures

Hola, friends!

How was your weekend?

Mine was fairly chill. I stayed in pajamas the entire two days, and I’m not even ashamed of myself.

Friday afternoon, I came home to these beautiful flowers, which the Mr. had picked up for me when he was at the farmers market grabbing a bag of raw peanuts.

Nothing says college football like a pot of boiled peanuts.

We use this recipe.

We watched FSU get beat by Virginia, and we weren’t mad about it. We lived in Tallahassee for five years many moons ago. Being an Auburn fan amidst FSU fans wasn’t pleasant, so we’ve always rooted against them.

College football, y’all.

I finished reading a short story, which I’d gotten free through Prime’s First Reads offerings last month.

This was a big nope for me. The story was predictable; the characters were flat.

Books have been such a miss for me lately. I’ve been sorely disappointed by many of them.

I checked this book out from Prime Reading. It had been on my Kindle a long time.

The writing was horrendous. The plot was rushed. The characters had no character.

I gave it ⭐️.

Another book I recently finished was this one . . .

I think this might have been another free book from Prime’s First Reads. I was generous with the ⭐️⭐️⭐️ I gave it. It had too many cliches, and the plot was rushed.

Where are all of the good books?

Saturday

I got up raring to go Saturday. We had an away game, which meant we would be spending the day at home. As much as I love attending football games, I relish the days we can take it easy.

This was my idea of relaxing . . .

I started off by prepping this Jalapeño Popper Cheese Ball. I had seen the recipe on Instagram and knew it would be perfect for a football Saturday.

It was very easy to prepare.

That’s not the most appealing photo. My apologies!

But seriously, the texture and taste were absolutely amazing! This recipe will be on repeat from this point forward.

Then, for whatever strange reason, I jumped right into preparing another recipe.

I had seen an Instagram reel for Vegan French Onion Soup, and I knew I had to give it a whirl.

I used my mandolin to slice four yellow onions. I’d read that caramelizing onions is best done in a cast iron skillet.

The recipe states that it should take 40 minutes for the onions to caramelize. It took mine over an hour, but I was patient, and they finally looked like this.

I added toasted slices of a baguette the Mr. had picked up for me, along with Daiya mozzarella cheese.

The soup was delicious!

My shoulders were done, though, so I spent the rest of the day on my recliner.

We watched our Tigers play Texas A&M. Sadly, we lost.

Ugh.

The game was painful. Our defense was incredible; our offense could not get itself together.

We spent the rest of the evening watching football. Unfortunately, Georgia couldn’t pull out the win against the other school in our state. We were not having a good football day.

I called it a night rather early. I’d been fighting a small cold ever since our trip to our daughter’s house. Every time I fly, I come home with a bug. I decided to give my body the rest it was craving.

Sunday

I woke up coughing, so I decided to watch church from home.

I did eventually shower and wash my hair. I even changed into a clean pair of pajamas.

Ha!

We had a lovely little FaceTime session with our girl and her babies. Our grandson had asked to call; the first word out of his mouth when my hubby answered was, “Jeep.”

The Mr. has a jeep that our grandson has been talking about for over a year. He likes to call and make the Mr. walk into the garage to see it.

Nothing lifts my spirits quite like talking to my grands.

I spent the rest of the day with a new book (I’ll report back when I’m done) and just, in general, took it easy.

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