I dip, you dip, we dip

Momma and Poppa Lee went out for dinner tonight. So, the Lee sisters were on their own to take care of dinner which was no biggie as we enlisted the help of good ole Chipotle. Chipotle is always bomb dot com, but we decided to go a little more bomb dot commer...with...THE SEVEN-LAYER BEAN DIP!!!!

Serves 4
1 can of pinto beans
1 yellow onion
2 cloves of garlic
2 tomatoes
1 scallion
1 avocado
2 pickled jalapenoes
juice from 1/2 lemon
cheddar cheese
sour cream
sliced black olives

1. Saute 1/2 onion diced with crushed garlic until onions become translucent.
2. Add drained can of pinto beans. Cook until soft, then smash with spatula until desired texture is achieved. Set aside.
3. Diced tomatoes and 1/2 onion and scallion. Add a pinch of salt and mix all together and set aside. This is the salsa portion.
4. Spoon out avocados and add lemon juice to your liking (I used about 1 tablespoon, but then again, I like things pretty sour). Mix with finely diced pickled jalapenos and set aside. This is the guacamole portion.
5. Start layering

First - Bean Dip

Second - Cheese (Add however much you like)

Third - Salsa

Fourth - Guacamole

Fifth - Sour cream

Sixth - Cheese

Seven - Olives

TA-DA!!!!!

Currently Reading...

A couple books I have to read for my role as tutor for some of my favorite kids:

1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy



I read this when I was in high school, I think. It was a GREAT book. Incredibly moving and powerful. Not in a "feel-good and everything is great with the world" kind of way but rather "gives you motivation to change the world" way. Catch my drift?



2. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott



This is being read currently by my sixth grade girl. It's a classic that every little girl should read. With that said, I've never read it, so it's a real treat for me to read it with her. Afterall, I AM a little girl at heart~



3. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler



This one is for my own please and oh my goodness, this girl is so hilarious! I absolutely love her! And tonight is going to be a belvedere evening~~~

Beard Papa's

When writing your thesis/paper/whatever you have to do/etc makes you want to pull your hair out...



Beard Papa's saves the day!

Saying goodbye to a very good year and welcoming yet another~

As the new year approaches, I turn over a new chapter of my life. And I literally feel like I shed old skin because my birthday falls near the end of the year. As a child, I didn't like my birthday because it fell right in the middle of the holidays, but I learned to cope with it. Now, holidays, especially New Year's Day, mean a lot more to me because I really feel like I am starting a new chapter of my life.

Christmas is hands down my FAVORITE holiday of all time, but New Years comes in really close. I love making resolutions because they give me the motivation to live my life better. My resolutions (and I think for the most part, everyone's resolutions) are usually the same: somehow, someway we want to be better people. This year, I will try my best to stop being such a lazy girl, which will be extremely hard as I do consider it to be one of my many talents. =P

This Christmas season was busy for me, though busy in a good sense. I had a couple Christmas parties to attend (I won a wine that was made by the Director of Biochemistry of USC!), a thesis to write, AND it was my birthday!

For my birthday, my sister was so cool. We went to go eat at Cafe Santorini, which in my opinion has THE BEST GREEK FOOD EVER PERIOD! As a warning though, their food is so so so salty. I was chugging down water like a camel! Then we went on a shopping spree, and she bought me so many cool things.


My sister is so cool because she does so many good things for me. I'm really blessed to have her as a sister. But I do a lot of good things for her too, so I guess we even out! =P

*From the top left to right: strawberry, peppermint, coffee, strawberry lemon, mint, i don't remember, red velvet, red velvet, coconut, dulce de leche, red velvet, red velvet.

For my birthday, instead of getting a cake, I got a bunch of tiny cupcakes (dozen). Which I thought was really cool and new and these cupcakes were absolutely so so good! And I got them in different flavors so we could all try out different stuff. We got these at Dots...good stuff!

My hand looks so awkward there...

The best sister in the whole wide world, who shared the best birthday ever with me! <3>