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Hey girls!

Okay so let me tell you about my recipies!

I have been making Cranberry Chicken Salads every day, and I know that you might be thinking of the "jello" cranberry salad, but thats not what I make, that stuff is gross.

My salad has dry cranberries.

Cranberry Salad:
1.) Romaine Lettuce
2.) Grated Parmesan cheese
3.) 2 chicken tenders
4.) sliced cuccumbers
5.) dried cranberries sliced in half
6.) I like Blu Cheese Dressing

Now to make it, I always put the lettuce down, and then dice the cranberries all over the lettuce, sprinkle the parmesan cheese all over the salad, place 4 cucumbers on each corner of the salad, slice the clicken tenders on top of the salad, and then put the dressing on and there you go!!

It is soooo good! I hope those directions arent to hard!

I usually eat one every day.

Heres some other stuff I have made for parties, get togethers, and lunch these last few weeks. I get alot of my recipies from Lilly Pulitzers books, and my new book that I got from a friend of mine called "Southern Cocktails"

"Every day is a cause to celebrate, but a ew days deserve some extra oomph!"
-Lilly Pulitzer

Tomato Sandwiches with basil mayonnaise
you use 4 large ripe tomatos (cored)
1 cup of mayo
Salt and pepper just for taste
1/2 cup of fresh basil (it needs to be chopped incredibly small)
and 16 slices of white sandwich bread with the crust trimmed of course!

That one is just amazing for an appetizer!

The next recipe is...
The Classic Mint Juliep
This is SUCH a great drink!
I love watching people make them!

Ya'll will need...
fresh mint leaves
1 tbl spoon of syrup
2 oz (who's counting?) of bourbon
and for decoration, a mint sprig!

The next recipe is out of my Skinny Bitch in the Kitchen cookbook...now I do NOT do organic, I mean I have made it 20 years without it, so why start now so I convert all of the organic stuff to regular junk and its better for my appitite.

Eggplant Parmesan
This serves 4 as an entree or 8 as an appitizer or side dish!
1.) 3/4 cup of parmesan cheese
2.) 1/3 cup of break crumbs
3.) 1 tbl spoon of garlic powder
4.) 2 teaspoons of fine sea salt
5.) 3/4 teaspoon of pepper
6.) 1/2 cup of milk
7.) Coconut Oil
8.) 1 eggplant (1 1/2 pounds) cut crosswide into 1/2 inch slices
9.) 1 1/2 cup of basic red sauce
10.) 1/4 cup of chopped fresh basil leaves
11.) 4 ounces of shredded mozzarella cheese

Preheat over to 350*

I hope these are fun for you, they were really good for me! I am learning to cook for next year, so I have been making all kinds of stuff! ENJOY!

Have a great Tuesday!

Tagged!

I was tagged by Europafox to so this cute survey! I love stuff like this!

What were you doing ten years ago?
Lets see, 10 years ago I was in the 5th grade at a very strict private Catholic School. I remember I was always in detention in 5th grade as we had a card system, and it didn't like me very much! I loved my teacher though, shes still probably my favorite teacher! We still keep in touch to this day! The reason I had such a hard time was because I loved to talk too much, AND I was Presbyterian and I had no idea how to behave in Mass...that caused a lot of chaos...I cant believe that was 10 years ago!

5 things on my to do list today
1. Go to my Playground Counselor interview.
2. Get my Volvo from the dealership. I had to take it in this morning for a check up because it wasn't driving up to par, and I had no clue why! It turns out I let the coolant get too low!! Whoops!
3. E-mail my Vineyard Vines boss for some more promotional items to give out.
4. Okay so my friend and I always go to our Country Club pool, but lately there are so many kids and its just too crowded so...much to our parents dismay, we went in together and bought an inflatable pool HAHA! It is too funny, we need to fill it up today, it will probably be short lived as we will want to go back to the real pool tomorrow but for today we can have our fun! It is the "Party Deluxe Pool", and its HUGE! I did rupture the bottom of it though, so I will have to patch that...sketch!
5. Help my mom pick out new furniture for our living room. We are re-doing everything in it! She never would do it, but now she FINALLY wants to so i'm really excited!

4. Snacks you enjoy
1. Goldfish
2. Sliced Fruit (especially pineapple)
3. Cheerwine or Sundrop slushies
4. Mini cranberry chicken salads, I make them sometimes if i'm hungry before dinner!

1.Place you have lived:
1. Salisbury, NC

5.Five things you would do if you were a billionaire
1. Fund cancer research
2. Help underprivileged children as much as I possibly could
3. Give to my family so they would live very comfortably for the rest of their lives
4. Give to the church
5. Buy some Lilly

I tag:
Tres Poshe Pretty
A Journey to our Daughter
Nautical By Nature
Pretty in Pink
Preppy Money Penny

Have a great Wednesday!!

The Preppy Pearl

Apparently there is another "The Preppy Pearl" blog.
Dont get us confused haha.

Pictures from yesterdays adventure!

This pretty much says it all, we had a great time!

I always say these things are fun to preview when your young, in my dreams when my Harvard Doctor magically appears and decides to propose, I fully intend on living it up on the greens!

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haha...we can all dream cant we?!

I hope everyone is having a great Thursday!

Old North State!

Hey girls!

I hope everyone is having a great week!

You will NOT believe what I did yesterday, I dont even believe it!
My friend T and I have known each other forever, and we basically do anything crazy and spontaneous that nobody else would ever do and it can get a little out of hand/illegal/hailarious, however you wanna take it! Nothing bad, just memorable trips!
For example, I have a house on Tuckertown Lake, and right up from there is a place called Uwharrie Point, it is so nice. My dad has golfed there, but me I have never been! Neither had T, so, one day I was out at lunch with my father when he texted me and said
He said,
"Slap on a Lilly, and get the hell in the car, lets go on a day trip to Uwharrie Point!"
OMG, I knew this was going to be so much fun!
We got in the car and headed that way!
When we got there it was the prettiest day, 90 some degrees and absolutely gorgeous! We rode around in the convertible for a bit and just looked around, then we made a plan!
We decided that I would wear my ring on my left hand, we were engaged, he was in Law School, and I was finishing up school taking online courses to be a special education teacher! We were looking to move to the lake with our shitzu, hahaha!
We found the visitor center, and decided to go and say we were interested in looking around and you will never believe this...
The incredibly sweet, (but gullible) people that work there gave us a golf cart, open bar, and dinner at the club!
It was a night out of Heaven, so much fun.
The Country Club that I am a member of is great, but it is always nice to see different ones!
It was truly the most fun i've had all summer!
We rode the golfcart around the whole area and saw beautiful houses! We rode around for probably 2 hours! Then, we went inside to take a tour of the club house, we met some great people and mingled for a bit! After that, we went to sit on the porch and have our first drinks of the day!
I had an Apple Martini, or 5 and a Seabreeze, both of which were oh my gosh, so good!
The staff was alot of fun too! At dinner, we were having our steaks and T mentioned he wanted a cigar!
Hello, all we had to do was ask!
I went straight up to Alex, my favorite bartender, and told him,
"Hello, its my fiances birthday, and he would just love a cigar, would that be possible?"
Alex replied
"Of course, you can both go sit on the terrace with fresh drinks and I will bring it out shortly!"
Haha!
No less than 2 minutes later, Alex gave T a cigar for his "birthday" while I was having my martini out on the terrace, and we just relaxed. Alex took our picture, and even lit T's cigar.
The view from the terrace reminded me of those commercials for "Sandals" islands or whatever it is, it was just beautiful! So exciting.
Then, a few minutes later these 3 ladies in their 40's were heavily tipsy and came to sit on the terrace bench as well!
HELLO, I had to strike up a conversation, they were killing us!
I actually didnt have to though, they did!
Our new friends names were Rhonda, Lynn, and Susan!
Rhonda came right out and said,
"Are the two of you engaged?"
I said,
"Yes, we are!"
and then she yanked my hand over to see "the ring" hahaha!
T really didnt say much beacase we were all talking enough for everyone!
Then, Lynn looked at him and said,
"Y'all are exact opposites, you are reserved and shes a pistol!"
He then looked down to see Rhonda and myself on our knees talking about how her husband left her at a bad time, and she was having a midlife crisis!
She started crying saying how "she could tell we were so in love"
bitch please, we are faking the whole thing! haha, it was too good! T and I were just dying!
Lynn then asked if we would buy the apartment next to hers so she could have good neighbors, because her 3rd husband just left her, but in the settlement she got the apartment! GO LYNN!
Seriously, I loved these women, they were so funny! They said we were their entertainment for days, and they have been our entertainment for over a year! Apparently, they have kids at State, so I hope I never meet them! Although, we were all 5 so tipsy, I doubt those women remember anything! It was Rhondas birthday/annavershary of the day her 2nd husband uprooted and left, so she was pretty hammered!

The bill for the night really wasnt awful either, we just split it and made plans to go back soon!

It was the time of my life! LOVED it!

Yesterday I finally got my hair done, it was much needed. I saw a picture of Heidi Klums hair in a magazine and LOVED the cut and color, so I went a little blonder! Also, today I am getting a spray on tan (that always sounds so skank!) but I love them. I am going to a new place because haha, yes I research my dyes, and this is suppossed to be like the best tan dye out there! So excited, I tried to lay out the other day, but my skin just cannot take it. I got so burned, and it peeled anyway so I think that the spray on tan is probably the best way to go! I have been getting them for years, usually for special occassions but I have a few summer parties, and I refuse to be white, so I cannot wait.