May 20, 2009

While it took a while to cook, it was worth the wait!  We used this homemade barbecue sauce, which is so good!  I used olive oil to just do a light rub to hold the seasoning before the bbq sauce went on, came in to empty the dishwasher and then thought – oh no – flame up!  I got to it in the nick of...

I mentioned yesterday that the inspiration of today’s soup was from here – the only difference was that I added baby spinach to it to use up the rest of my 1 pound that I bought last week – wow that went a long way! I think its absolutely delicious if I do say so myself!  But the best part is that this whole recipe...

After yesterday’s breakfast, I knew I had to up the calories and protein to get me to lunch today!   I ended up making a “pam” fried spinach, egg, ham and cheese quesadilla. 1 flour tortilla (mine is 190 calories) 1 egg handful baby spinach 1 ounce black forest ham (love it!) 1 ounce mozzarella cheese It is such a beautiful day outside – glad my...

Dinner was so good!  Definitely worth the almost $10 for the saffron, although in retrospect, I probably could have used more.  I have never cooked with it before, but know that “a little goes a long way” and didn’t want the cream sauce to overpower.  And I liked the texture of the orzo too! It was light, creamy and afterwards I thought this would make...

my breakfast!  By 10:45 I was already hungry and I knew I was doing Jillian’s shred at lunch.  So I looked in my drawer and found these: The grocery store that I frequent most, mostly because it its awesome produce, is very ethnic – each aisle is a different country!  Since I was shopping alone, I took some time to go down some of the...

I did not want to get up this morning!  I wanted it to be Sunday morning, but sadly its Monday! I have a recipe I am doing tonight that only calls for the top two inches of asparagus, so last night I made a batch of asparagus guacamole – the only thing I did differently was add fresh cilantro and a whole seeded jalapeno. I...

We had a nice time in Wiscosin – its always nice to get away, even if just overnight!  Before we left I took Ed on a 40 minute walk to get him tired out for the afternoon before Hannah got home after her work shift. On the way, we stopped at one of my favorite fast food restaurants – luckily there isn’t one around us,...

Hannah had to work last night so it was just dinner for me and Tony.   My grocery store has a 50% meat sale every night around 5:00 for all the meat that has to be sold that day.  I was able to get two t-bone steaks for $5.30!  And this particular store just had a grand re-opening after remodeling, so they have amazing sales –...

We ended up not going to Brunch cafe – the parking lot was crowded and so was the restaurant, so on the plan B. The place that we went has about 10 pages of menu items, from pizza to Italian, fried chicken, fish fry Friday – you name it, they have it! I ended up on the grilled chicken panini with avocado, but no tomato,...

In trying to use up the 1 pound of baby spinach I bought last week, I decided to make a spinach and bacon egg white omelet with the 75% reduced fat Cabot cheddar cheese – it was amazing and so filling! Breakfast comes in at 373 calories, 11 fat and 38 carbs.  I am having lunch with Tony today!!  He’s dropping off his car for...