October 21, 2010

A co-worker of mine, for medical reasons, needs to be on a very low sodium diet – no more than 1000 to 1500 mg a day.  Do you have any idea how hard that is?  Sodium is everywhere! Right now I have a loaf of artisan bread, omitting the salt – and last night I tried to make her a baked potato soup using a...

It’s starting to get chilly in our neck of the woods.  Several years ago we had a huge tree knocked down.  It was going to cost twice as much if they cut down the tree and removed all of the wood, so our frugal minds were like “we can cut down the tree and use it as firewood!” OMG, hardest work we have ever done...

I really like Eating Well Magazine.  I no long subscribe to their magazine, because I can get the recipes online.  I also get a weekly email from them, and last week I saw a recipe for Green Chile smothered Breakfast Burritos, which I immediately printed out and put in my recipe binder to try. I got 4 poblano peppers – check out how cheap they...

Hannah and I had so much fun yesterday.  I knew we were going out for lunch and I didn’t get up until 9:00, so I had an apple and a piece of string cheese to hold me over until lunch.     We first went to the thrift store, only to find out that it didn’t open until noon and it was 10:30.  So we...

No, I am not talking about Hannah – I am talking about me!  It doesn’t happen very often where I get a cleaning jones, but yesterday was one of those days.  Do you have a place in your house that ends up being the dumping ground?  Well, that was our back room.  It has a t.v., my comfy chair, our computer and . . ....

Our breakfast for our bosses yesterday was a big hit.  Let’s just say my bacon stuffed cinnamon rolls were a hit, as well as the breakfast casserole my co-worker makes that is to die for, and waffles, sausage, hash browns – we even had a special drink menu! My plate:  397 calories, 5.5 carbs My friend and I were able to walk outside yesterday –...

I had planned on making soup with the leftover roast we had over the weekend.  Have I mentioned that Tony doesn’t usually do leftovers? I think meatloaf, cold pizza and fried chicken are the three things he’ll eat leftover.  So I had leftover roast and I decided to make a soup with it. Only one problem, I forgot to make it!  But I had an...

First I want to thank you for all your wonderful comments about Hannah’s essay – seriously, she gets all the credit for the person she turned out to be – sometimes I wonder “did she really come out of me?” 😀 Yesterday morning I put together my chicken tikka masala for lunch, and I spent so much time on that, that as I was leaving...

Hannah is going to community college, and one of her classes is a speech class.  She had to give a speech and below is what she said – she got an A! So proud of her – she hasn’t skipped one class yet! From Hannah: If our kitchen could talk, it would furiously say, “Enough already!” Not only does my mom neglect to put anything...

Mondays are always hard for me to get up because I sleep in over the weekend.  I wish we could have a late start to work on Monday mornings! 😀 Breakfast, yet another egg sammie (promise its the last one for a while!) with some strawberries – they were pretty tart so I sprinkled them with Splenda and let them sit for a while.  Breakfast...