Becca Veazey Scogin Turner has a nice ring to it....

I am alive for all who were wondering. Although I would like to say that things have been very busy and my life has been crazy for the last 3 weeks, I wouldnt be telling the truth. Becca Turner as we like to call her, Emmett, and I have been doing a whole lot of nothing, if you call Rock Band nothing that is. I have to say (and follow up to Becca's blog), that BEK (our band, Becca, Emmett, Kathryn, Beck, Becca, it has so many levels) is pretty freaking awesome. You can check out pictures of us rocking out at blogin' scogin. Unfortunately I dont have my SLR yet (ahem, Emmett), so I cannot grace this blog with mine. Becca and I have recentley graduated to "hard" on the guitar. It adds so much depth to the music. Emmett and Becca also rock out on the drums (Im still working on them, the foot pedal gives me shin splints). I have to say we play a kick ass version of "Celebrity Skin" by HOLE, that is with Victoria on the mic. We have also been enjoying the non-existant waters at the lake (its really pathetic), and recently the awesomeness of the Georgia Bulldogs.
I did want to make mention of one thing Becca seemed to omit in her blog post. We had a Bees Knees come to Walton Way last weekend. I fixed a hell of a good Tapas spread and our other awesome friend Beth Anne Cudnik came over. What she failed to say is that I make a mean sangira, which has recently been spreading its fame all the way to Birmingham, AL, courtesy of Brown Johnson. Next stop...LA. Ill be on the TODAY show with it in no time. The recipe only gets out to select few so youll have to pass a test before you can be qualified to re-create it.
I wont be away too long this time...Next up on the blog: fake Mel is awesome.

italians are worth the wait

Well although I did not post the recipe of the week yesterday, it was definately worth the wait. In honor of Becca, I am making lasagne. This is a great meal to feed a lot of people very easily. My lasagne is very special and delicious, much better than the frozen one.

Ingredients Needed:

Lasagne noodles
Large can of tomatoes
Tomato paste
Garlic cloves
Onions
Butter
Fresh Basil
Oregano
Salt
Eggs
2 containers of ricotta cheese
2 bags of motzerella cheese
Container of parmesean cheese (fresh kind)
Ground beef
Italian sausage (spicy or sweet, either kind you like)
Bread Crumbs

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Boil the lasagne noodles.

For the sauce:
Mince garlic and cut onions very fine. Sautee them in a pan with a couple tablespoons of butter. While it is sautee'ing, put the can of tomatoes in the blender or food processor and blend them completely. Add the tomatoes and small can of tomato paste to the garlic and onion. Stir and let sit for a little while. Add salt, and add some oregano. Chop the leaves of the fresh basil very small and add that. Let it simmer on low heat while you cook the meat.

For the meat:
Cook ground beef and italian sausage together in a pan with a little olive oil in the bottom. Drain the excess fat off and add to the pot of sauce and let that simmer for about 5-10 minutes.

Ricotta cheese when it comes out of the container doesnt have a lot of flavor. Each container needs to be mixed with 1 egg, so you can just put 2 containers in a bowl with 2 eggs. Add some salt, oregano, and the minced fresh basil.

Use a large pyrex baking dish. Layer the noodles, sauce, 1/2 the ricotta mixture, 1 bag motzerella, and then 1/2 container of parmesean cheese. Make another layer of the same. Add bread crumbs to the top, and put 5-6 small pats of butter on top.

Bake at 400 degrees for about 45 minutes until bubbly on top! Enjoy!

i'll eat anything wrapped in bacon

Todays recipe is my husband's favorite. The truth of the matter is you could burn something to a crisp, then wrap it in bacon and it would be delicious. I don't believe anyone who says they don't like bacon, they have just lied to themselves. This recipe is a new take on traditional chicken cordon-blue, and it is so easy!

Ingredients:
Boneless, skinless chicken breast
Bacon
Spinach
Blue Cheese
Sweet Potatoes

You need a chicken breast per person. Take a knife and make a hole in the top, thick part of the chicken. Use your finger to enlarge the hole and make a pocket the length of the chicken so you can stuff it with the yummy ingredients!
Chop up the spinach (I remove the stems), and just stuff a little spinach and then a little blue cheese and repeat into the hole you just made. Get as much in as you can.
Use toothpicks to wrap the chicken breast in bacon, I use 2 pieces of bacon per piece of chicken.
Bake in the oven at 350 for about 20 minutes, just make sure the chicken is done but not dried out, some ovens cook things faster, some slower.
I usually serve this with sweet potato fries. Cut the sweet potatoes in half lengthwise and then in half again. Then cut into long fries, the thinner they are the faster they cook. Drizzle olive oil and salt and pepper over them and make sure they are all coated well (this dish gets your hands dirty!). Bake these for about 30-45 minutes at 350 (depending on the thickness), till really crispy. This is so yummy and easy! Yall will LOVE it. Emmett does (and we all know how picky he is :)

some celebrities eat chips

If you are a girl and are not in the habit of obsessively checking www.theskinnywebsite.com, you are really missing out. This website is awesome because it shows pictures of celebrities eating chips and cookies and getting fat. There is just something reassuring about seeing Heidi Klums cellulite or Britney Spears fat ass. I hate seeing all those pictures of the stars in VOGUE and SHAPE, etc because they are airbrushed like crazy. It is nice to see them woofing down pizza with a little bit of armfat, makes me feel better anyway. (This one was for you Rianne, I mean they dont even want chips, right?)

Cordele Anyone?

My wonderful job has landed my in Cordele, Ga for a speaker program this evening--that is not even my program. I am helping another worker on my team since he is new to the job. I left Augusta this afternoon and began the miserable drive to Cordele--the ride goes by soooo slow. The doctor who was supposed to be the keynote speaker, was delayed in the Atlanta airport, so yours truly was called out of the bullpen! After the program, I am headed to my good friend and co-worker Jodi's house in Macon for the night, and then we get to participate in partner work day tomorrow...it should be very similar to Jim and Dwight field rides together.

As for my husband, he hacked it around today in the first round of his event in Houston. He shot 75. He decided to get off to a good start and then make five bogeys just to make things more interesting for tomorrow. It is my birthday Saturday, so I will be expecting the gifts to start pouring in soon!!!!!

contrary to what some may think, my hooters are real, not fake

Emmett is in the mindset that a lot of people think that the Hooters tour is "fake" professional golf. While I understand that the Hooters name doesnt exactly make something legitimate, in this case the Hooters restaurant is actually associated with something very real (except for Mondays). The Hooters girls make appearances 3 out of the 7 days at the tournament. They are there on Mondays driving around beer carts for the members of the course and people in town who sign up to go out to the course and play. People who frequent Hooters restaurants + Hooters girls + lots of beer = a lot of sketchy things. However the golfers are not involved at all in the Monday event, although some may like to be. Their 2nd appearance is Wednesday during the very professional pro-am. During those days they simply sit at the tee box on par 3's and clap for the members and tour members. The last day they show up is one that Emmett and I have not (YET) gotten to participate in. They do the check presentation to the winner on Sunday. Believe me, when they give Emmett a check, we will be taking lots of pictures with them :)

The Hooters Tour is the 3rd best tour to be on in professional golf. The highest is obviously the PGA Tour, second is the Nationwide Tour (owned by the PGA Tour), and then the Hooters. There are a lot of guys on the PGA that have come from the Hooters, most famously, Zack Johnson, Vaughn Taylor, John Daly, and Jim Furyk. They are a very professional orgainzation. Their tournaments are 4 day events where you have to walk, no carts. Some of the mini-tours allow carts but we dont really see the point in this because the goal is to get to the big show and they dont allow carts there, obviously. The purses are $200,000 with $36,000 going to the winner, so there are really good payouts. The calibur of players is also very good. They have a qualifying school that you have to go to to get on the tour, just like the PGA, because so many guys want to play on the premier mini-tour.

So for all you folks out there who were dissolusioned that the Hooters Tour was fake, this may be the only legitimate thing that Hooters does.

*good blog alert: BlogginScogin is a story about a young soon to be married friend of mine and her life as an Air Force C-17 pilots wife. They are moving to Seattle soon (sniff, sniff), but you can follow their adventures by clicking my link. You will also hearing about our law and order watching, rock band playing, sangria drinking life very shortly as she is moving back home temporarily THIS WEEKEND!!!!

*new recipe alert: I am putting my favorite recipes to cook each week on Sundays on the blog. So for all of my friends that have just gotten married or are soon to be married, you can make these easy yummy meals!!

who came up with 8 to 5?

What I want to know is what idiot decided that we should work 5 days a week and get only 2 days break? Probably the same idiot who came up with the idea that we should work 8 to 5. Now I realize that work makes the world go round and stock markets and the economy and healthcare and blah blah blah, but I want to know what it would hurt anybody to take just one more day off a week, I'd settle for 1 day of every other week. Basically this is my life right now: I wait around for doctor's all day, come home, watch Law and Order, of course, and go to bed. I am like a merry go round for 5 days a week doing the same thing. Or a hamster on one of those wheels, that sounds more like it. In the summer we non-teachers have to suffer through the knowledge that our teacher friends (who I LOVE very much) are not working, which is pretty much agony. So I am very happy that they are going back to work very soon (sorry Kat and JoJo). For all you younsters out there who have not yet entered into the world of benefits, paychecks, and bills, take a hint from my husband: get a sugar mama or daddy and stay outside all day, even in the heat it sure as hell beats 8 to 5.
Ive finally figured out the very worst thing about being away from Emmett. When he is gone I beg time to go by quickly, I want to wake up and have 3 weeks gone so he will be back with me. But when I think about life with him, I don't want to rush ANYTHING, I want to have every moment and every day just go on forever because one more day gone is one less day I get to be with him. Does that make sense?
For the last item, Rock Band rules and so does me turning 27 because that means my wonderful husband is getting it for me!!!!! I dominate the microphone and my dream is to beat Frank on the guitar. Im out for you Mullins.