- Back to school days are here and after trying and testing routines to make the crazy scheduled days go smooth I have found that if you will cut up veggies and fruits, boil eggs and sort cheeses and crackers into separate zip lock baggies you can grab and go in between home to school and prepare a quick snack when you pick them up before dance and sports with an assortment of goodies that are healthy and won’t break your budget!
- Pick a nice spot with morning sun and plant the seedlings you started last month as they are now ready to move to outside and should be producing in a few short weeks. I like to cut back all herbs now as well and really trim things up so they are forced to push through the end of summer early fall.
- Sign up for a continuing education class. I am always learning and working on something and I find that it keeps me busy being productive and not watching TV! Masterclass, Skillshare are great if you are a self starter and our local Community College always its offering something interesting.
- On my nightside now….You are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero and the latest issues of bella Grace and Psycologies magazines.
- Purchase season tickets to the Alley, Stages or the Houston Ballet. Both my children are so much more well rounded having been given the opportunity to see theater regularly.
- Make poblano peppers stuffed with basmati rice and shrimp! It’s a favorite poolside and an easy make ahead on those first days of school when everyone still longs to be home and not running around!
- Get all the planning finished for Labor Day celebrations and assign each family/friend their recipes so it’s off your list and into their hands!
- Books and more books! Take a room and gut it and really organize everything. Currently I have removed all books from the children’s playroom and will sand, repaint and then only put back the books that we have decided to keep and take to our library to donate the rest.
- Schedule a make up class and learn how to contour your face or buy just one beauty magazine and see what’s trending in colors for the fall sop you’ll be ‘in the know” come party and gala time in a month or so!
- Watch me on Fridays on KPRC2 mid-day and I will tell you what to do with the children in the city! Each week there’s something new and sometimes free!
Auntie Alisa’s Stuffed Poblano Peppers with shrimp and jalapeños and cheese
3 Poblano Peppers cut in halves and seeded
1/2 cup of pimento cheese spread with jalapeños
1 cup of cooked basmati rice
18 large deveined and peeled shrimp
1/4 cup kernel corn
Sprinkle of cilantro
Handful of mexican blended grated cheese
Set oven to 425 or if making ahead place in pan covered overnight in refrigerator
In a small bowl combine the rice and the pimento cheese
fill each halved poblano pepper with the rice mixture
place in oven safe pan and add shrimp (3 per half)
sprinkle corn and cilantro and top with cheese
Bake until the shrimp turn pink and then turn onto broil for 2 minutes
Serves 6
