Weekend!...

Hi! What a great weekend this was.! It's been busy so I wasn't able to write yesterday but here is what happened:

Friday went to a new bar in williamsburg that was really cool! Too bad the owner is self centered and rude....

Sat morning I went to a boot camp that my friend Declan put on it Stuy town. It was almost 90 minutes and it was serious! I still can't move.....

After that i did a little shopping and wound up at the farmers market in Union Square....it was POURING!!!- good times.

My friends were having an appetizer cocktail party at their house sat night so I made stuffed mushrooms....these things were off the hook and so simple to make! The best part is, I actually only needed about half the mixture. The other half I just mixed with some shrimp that I had in the fridge, heated it up and had it for dinner....

I am going to tell you how I made the mushrooms in one second but first I want to talk about being able to think outside the box! This is just a quick recipe, the real challenge is to learn how to "go with the flow" and just be creative! Mix and match and do what ever you want! Just google cooking times and start creating your own recipes.. ok, with that said, here's what I did:

What you need:
*18 mushrooms (or how ever many you will need...)
*1/2 pound sausage (either hot or sweet or mixture)
*1 small onion chopped
*little bit of panko or bread crumbs
*olive oil
*sun dried tomatoes chopped
*1/2 zucchini (or spinach, or whatever...)
*1 celery stalk chopped
*little bit of Parmesan

what to do:
*remove stems from mushrooms and keep about half and chop into little pieces- discard rest
*Brown sausage and break it up until cooked. Transfer to paper towel to drain
*cook onions and celery in leftover juices stirring often until soft, add chopped mushroom bits and cook a few more minutes (adding olive oil if necessary)
*transfer sausage and onion, celery, mushroom mixture to bowl. still in rest of ingredients and mix well
*line shallow pan with tinfoil and put mushrooms in it....fill each cap with as much filling as you can. (preheat oven to 425 while you do this....)
*drizzle with olive oil and top with panko, cheese and salt
*bake for about 20 minutes

Any leftovers can be combined with anything....that's what's so good! This is a great thing to make around the holidays and you can really be creative! So do whatever!....I dare you .

Beauty Tip: Take some lemon and smooth it over face to help with sun damage and oiliness..rinse with warm wated and moisturize as usual.