Saturday Critters #635

A few days ago I talked about visiting our local aquarium,

Jenkinson Aquarium 

We went on Thursday and had a great time.

Located on the Point Pleasant Beach Boardwalk, in Point Pleasant, it is just a short drive from home.

It was a beautiful winter day, a "balmy" 36 degrees, with blue skies and sunshine.

It felt great to be out, camera in hand.

The aquarium has been renovated and updated since the last time we were there.

It was clean, colorful and well staffed with very knowledgeable people.

Most of the animals and fish here have been rescued and are not capable of returning to the wild.

I took way too many pictures but I could not help myself...scroll quickly and you may enjoy them more.

This is the scene as you first enter the aquarium.

This is a Map Turtle and it appears to be missing a limb.

The array of colors in the fish tanks were really amazing.

- moon jellyfish -

- stingrays -

- sharks -

- we had fun posing with this -

This is a look at the displays downstairs,

 I will be sharing more on Monday if you would like to avoid stopping by, but maybe you enjoyed this.

Sharing today's images with Eileen at 

Viewing Nature With Eileen 

for Saturdays Critters

- Happy Valentines Day -

Making Fun In The Kitchen ~ Part 2 ~

I did not plan on having a Part 2 when I posted yesterday, but this is the 

most exciting thing I have to share.

I made Tacos on Taco Tuesday and we had a lot left over.

We love tacos but instead of recreating the same thing, I decided to try something I had seen on Instagram.

I saved the video, watched it here, this was super simple and another fun idea.

 

You have to slice the tortilla, in half but only half way down.

If you want to make this and don't understand my description, you can watch the short video.

You make 3 folds.

I served these with rice, they were really good and like I said, fun and easy!

Making Fun In The Kitchen

I watch Allrecipes on YouTube...they feature some really quick, fun and easy recipes.

I watched recently where the hostess prepared what I would call a 

- Deconstructed Meatball Parmesan Sub - 

I do not remember what she called it and I could not find the recipe but remembered how to make it.

Anyone can make a Meatball Parmesan Sub Sandwich right?

But to add a little fun to the humdrum of cooking, I recreated what I remembered her doing. 

This was all I needed and I had everything on hand.

1 loaf of garlic bread, frozen meatballs with sauce, mozzarella and parmesan cheese.

First I cooked the meatballs per the instructions on the box, less 15 minutes.

I cooked the garlic bread...

cut it up...

and put half of it in the bottom of a greased 8 x 8 casserole dish.

Topped with maybe 3/4 cup of mozzarella cheese....

the meatballs, they are large so I cut them in half, added all the sauce and some italian spices.

Next I added the rest of the cut up garlic bread, parmesan cheese, and mozzarella cheese to cover.

I think I baked it for about 20 minutes, it looked like this when it came out of the oven...

and this before we devoured it.

This is the best way to eat a Meatball Parmesan Sandwich, it was delicious!

After I finished this post, I found the recipe here.

I cut this in half and tweaked it a little, primarily because I did not have the recipe.

If you follow the recipe, it will feed 6...

but either way if you add 2 jars of sauce, your bread will be very soggy.

You get the gist, it's not really an exact science.

I just wanted to add that because this is not a "food/cooking" blog, 

I don't take elegant pictures of the food I make.

Maybe I should...maybe I will.

I guess I have been sharing content I don't usually share because not much is going on.

It is warming up, though...and I hope to get out more!