Soup to Warm you up!

Pasta Soup 

After a few months away from this little blog, I'm back with a great soup recipe.

Found this recipe in Cooking Light Magazine and it is perfect for cool weather.  I served it with Rosemary bread (found and Costco) and it was a hit.

• 3/4 cup uncooked small shell pasta
• 1 tablespoon olive oil 
• 1 (4-ounce) link hot turkey Italian sausage, casing removed
• 1 cup diced onion 
• 1 cup diced carrot 
• 1/2 cup diced celery
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
• 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme
• 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
• 5 garlic cloves, chopped
• 1 (15-ounce) can unsalted chickpeas, rinsed and drained
• 1 (15-ounce) can fire-roasted diced tomatoes, undrained
• 4 cups unsalted chicken stock (such as Swanson)
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1. 1. Cook pasta according to package directions, omitting salt and fat; drain.
2. 2. While pasta cooks, heat a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add oil to pan; swirl to coat. Add sausage; cook 3 minutes or until lightly browned, stirring to crumble. Add onion and next 6 ingredients (through garlic); cook 10 minutes. Add chickpeas, tomatoes, and stock; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer 5 minutes. Stir in pasta, salt, and black pepper; cook 1 minute.



Hope you enjoy it !
xo

Ready for Fall

I am ready for Fall!

I love summer and the beach 

but I'm ready for a new season;

cool weather, hot cocoa, pumpkin anything,

sweaters, hoodies, and fall baking  

all pics via pinterest

Life Lately

I haven't blogged in a month

and probably a month before that

Instagram is so much easier

But for my journal purpose 

I like to blog and print :)

Here's a peek into our summer

Beach with sweet friends. 

Lunch dates with friends.

We love the Oxford Exchange

This was a beautiful bridesmaid luncheon

Oxford Exchange

All the girls wore black dresses and pearl

the Tiffany Cake and accessories were all 

the Tiffany blue colors

we totally stalked them :)

Lunch at Danny's All American with my sister

Guy would be happy! 

He made Danny one rich man!

Yogurt date for one

Happy Cow - love this place!

Grown up lunch dates

More Oxford Exchange

Painting pottery!

Treats for my friends coming to my Pampered Chef Party

At which I got $240 dollars FREE - score!

Obsessed with these gift tags 

Monogrammed just for me

From my new IG friend Rachel 

Going to meet here soon

Maybe even her sweet sister

Saw this cute chalkboard 

If you know me you know I'm kinda obsessed with them

And I LOVE this saying

Will have to copy it on one of my own boards

Morning walk and talk in my back yard with God!

Love my little desk!  and the color turquoise 

and my bulletin board..... and starfish 

Taco Tuesday with the Golden Girls

Fish Tacos - YUM

Love fresh flowers around the house.

And rainbow waffles!

And my honey - miss him - he will be home today from the Florida Keys

With lots of fish and lobster

And Trader Joes Art Work

Well greeting cards framed :)

Sleepovers making blankets

with Pop Corn and M&M's 

Speaking of the Florida Keys

Lobster and Fish Pics

of Steve and Robert 

I see a seafood feast coming on soon

Sav and my sweet niece Kacie heading to CT

to visit my other sweet niece Kris

Sav's instagram with my great nephew

Sav and Kris

yes the weather was 55 in CT last night

Lucky!

And - wahhhh 

a few proofs

Sav's Senior pics

That's a wrap!

xoxo

An engagement and sweet friends

Last night we had a special celebration

An engagement party for special friends

Karen and Scott

Karen is part of our girls night group

(16 years and going strong)

One of the sweetest friends I have

The text messages started going around about a week ago

Who was going to bring what

What should we do as a gift

About 50 text messages later

the menu was planned

a gift certificate was chosen

the party was set!

I have to admit I started setting up the dining room a week ago

deciding on flowers

color scheme

details :)

Decided on white and silver

classy -vs-  cute

I purchased very nice silver and white paper plates

nice "plastic" silver ware

Adorable "We're Engaged" napkins

Well Friday night, I decided we should not do paper

After texting Barb and Amy about another 50 times

we decided to use my depression glass

Amy's nice silver

And no paper

At midnight, I pulled out the dishes and washed them all

set the tables 

everything was set

Saturday morning I had just a few errands

A photo from Costco that HAD to be framed

more fresh flowers

and  gift certificate from Berns in Tampa

well, after purchasing everything I needed

I headed to Tampa to get the gift certificate

arrived at 1:50  p.m.

they do not sell gift cards until 2:00 p.m. 

are you kidding me?????

I call Mel, and Amy frantic and MAD

Amy sends a text message out to the group

Just by luck Carole is  Tampa

what are the odds?  She lives in Apollo Beach

She was doing a cupcake tasting with her future daughter-in-law

whew... she saved the day

Carole picked up the gift certificate and I headed home

The evening was perfect

everyone brought amazing appetizers to share

Barb brought the photo booth props

Karen and Scott had a great time

There is something about a close group of girls

that just touches my heart

I love them to pieces 

We are so blessed by our small group

At the end of the evening the guys end up outside talking

and you would know every friend at the party 

ends up in the kitchen washing dishes

putting food away

to where it didn't even looked like a party took place

I love that we are so comfortable in each others home

Today the summer cold has gotten the best of me

I am on the couch feet propped up 

with two furry friends on top of me

I just might not get up until tomorrow

Blessings on your day sweet blogger friends.

xo