Goat Cheese and Greens Flatbread

This is a great quick dinner or anytime snack.  It combines all of my favorites--goat cheese, greens, garlic, bacon and pizza.

Balsamic tomatoes:
1 pint cherry tomatoes
1 TBS balsamic vinegar
2 TBS olive oil
Chopped basil
salt and pepper
Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes.

For the Flatbread:

Pizza dough from the grocery store (or local pizzeria)
Roll and stretch it out, coat with olive oil and grill both sides.

For the Greens:
I like an organic spring mix, but any greens will do.
Toss with lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper.
I also like to add bacon (yum, bacon)

Once the flatbread and tomatoes are done, smear with your favorite softened goat cheese (I add roasted garlic and basil to mine), add greens and tomatoes and enjoy!

Spit or Swallow?

Brotherly lesson on using big boy toothpaste.  "You have to be able to spit, Ben".

The Barn

We recently purchased this outbuilding from our neighbor along with some more land.  You can't imagine the amount of work that is needed to get this thing usable.  Apparently her ex-husband practically lived in there for a bit while they were having problems (weird).  The good news is that there is water and electric, unfortunately it is sourced from our neighbor--we'll have to work on that later.  For now the goal is to clean it up and move items from our attached garage to "the barn".  I'll share that renovation outlook with you soon. 

The hubby moving the fence--reusing for now to save the budget for bigger things (we have kids and dogs to contain). Below...I remembered to snap a photo when I was almost done clearing the work benches..oops.

The second story hasn't been cleaned up yet....tons of gross junk, but also some hidden treasures. Check out the old TV, 1970's lamps and there is a nice drafting table buried in the back.

 A desk...I am going to clean it up, add new hardware and use it in my office space.

 Another groovy lamp and some kind of homemade table. Can't wait to go through the 8 track and record collections.  Those will definitely get sold online.

Now you get the idea of the renovation we have in store for ourselves.  The future plan is to make the upstairs into an apartment for guests and split the downstairs into a bar, gym and ??  What do you think we should do with the first floor?  We don't really need to park our cars in there.