September 15, 2008

I had some leftoever ground sirloin from our tacos last week that I needed to use up, and thought a burger sounded good for lunch.  It was 3 ounces raw, and about 2.5 ounces cooked.  Added 1 ounce sharp cheddar cheese, spinach, pickled jalapenos and lots of mustard (which I LOVE!). My mother-in-law got me this book earlier this summer (and its autographed! – the...

Blue skies and blueberry oatmeal!  Slow drive into work though, with water on parts of the road, but its supposed to be rain free this week! My mom works at her local food pantry and there are some items they get donated that can’t get distributed for whatever reason.  So right now I have about 100 packs of these: It’s nice to add to my...

Since my lunch was huge, I wanted a light dinner.  My grocery store has a $1 rack of food that is really ripe – you never know what will be on there.  This week I got 10 baking potatoes for $1.   After the first try of this potato soup, I had to go back and tweak it – it needed to be thicker and needed...

Okay, so the reason I couldn’t find the restaurant’s website is because THEY WENT OUT OF BUSINESS!  We met my mom and we were standing in front of a restaurant that had a table and a chair, otherwise completely empty. What to do?  Look right and go to Big Bowl!  We love this place.  We each got the build your own stir fry, I got shrimp...

I woke up this morning to the smell of oatmeal – my daughter got up before me this morning and felt like oats. Mine: 4 ounces cooked oats 1.25 ounce REALLY RIPE banana! .25 chopped macadamia nuts I love this snowman coffee cup (I have LOTS of snowmen coffee cups!) The plan for today is to meet my mom for lunch and a movie.  We...

I ended up getting 4 quart and 4 pint jars (plus a little extra!) from last Saturday’s salsa making.   We stoppd at the store on the way home and picked up a sesame ginger marinated pork roast turkey tenderloin!- buy one get one free!   For side dishes, I decided to keep the Asian theme going. First up: Spicy pickled cucumbers 6 ounces sliced English...

Since we had a late breakfast, it didn’t make sense to go out to lunch before the movies.  But of course, as soon as you walk in, the smell of popcorn overwhelms!  I just think its ridiculous that the movie cost $13 for two tickets, and two drinks and a large popcorn was $17!!  GO SEE BURN AFTER READING – don’t read about it, look...

I didn’t get out of bed until 10:00 today – nice!  It’s crappy out, supposed to rain all weekend, so its hard to get motivated! I tried for the second time to make hollandaise sauce, this was maybe  bit more successful?  I definitely poached the eggs perfectly.  On www.pioneerwomancooks.com she has a recipe for Eggs Benedict.  The secret to the perfect poached egg is to...

I made three pizzas tonight (well, actually two since my daughter made her own after I made the dough). This is how my food processor dough looks when using my regular recipe: This is the end result for my DH pizza: DD pizza: I decided to try a whole wheat pizza for me.  I grabbed some whole wheat bread flour the last time I was at Whole...

Anyone who knows me knows that I love snowmen.  So for my snack this afternoon, I “borrowed” the snowman cheese spreader from my office kitchen.  I’d steal it if they wouldn’t figure out it was me! I found these crackers at Trader Joe’s.  22 for 1 serving!  But they are tiny.  I have half a serving on my plate.  I also had two squares of the Ghirardelli chocolate...