August 20, 2012

Here we are at Monday morning again – why do the weekends have to go so fast?  Both Saturday and Sunday I woke up so late that I only ate brunch and no lunch.  Saturday was a bagel sammie: And Sunday Tony made me eggs with hash browns (made with a shredded baked potato – so good!) and half a bagel.  Tony makes the best...

It was a co-workers birthday today so I brought in bagels for the office yesterday. I hadn’t had my bagel of the week yet, so yesterday was bagel Friday.  Hands down the Everything Bagel is the best one to get. Since I have bronchitis, the exercise has come to a screeching halt.  I still have about 60 miles to go in my 100 mile challenge...

Tony and I are really good about getting our flu shots each fall.  I usually use my sick days for wellness doctor appointments.  I talked about having a cough earlier in the week.  I don’t know what it was, but yesterday on my drive in my coughing fits got worse and worse. At work I kept trying to hold it in and not cough.  Around...

Since I had the day off yesterday, I didn’t get out of bed until 8:00.  I did my blog post, started to straighten up a bit and then all of a sudden it was 10:00 and I hadn’t had breakfast. This was amazeballs.  Two slices of homemade bread, 1 breakfast sausage, 1 cup baby spinach, 1/4 cup of egg whites, then 3/4 of an ounce...

Welcome Back Kotter was a t.v. show that aired between 1975 and 1979.  I was 8 when it started and 11 when it went off the air. I loved that show! Back in the day I was an avid letter writer.  It wasn’t uncommon for me to write a letter a day.  Probably around the age of 10 I decided that it was high time...

Thanks for all the ideas on how to get tar off yesterday – so glad I have alternatives next time that happens and I’ll walk away from the cleaning products to clean myself! I decided to make an English muffin sammie with one of my homemade sausages.  On the side was some of the best watermelon I’ve had all year – breakfast comes in at...

Or CLR.   Saturday morning I realized that I had bought some country sausage at the fresh market the previous weekend and I needed to cook it up.  I didn’t really look at the ingredients too closely, but added some fennel seed, salt and pepper to the mix.  It was not greasy at all. I ended up making 8 patties.  I had two patties, some delicious...

I finally used up the last of the filet mignon – there was only 1.5 ounces left, but it made this open faced English muffin breakfast – 1 english muffin, 1/2 cup egg whites, 1.5 ounces steak, baby spinach and a slice of American cheese split over the top of each half.  The cherries look like Rainier cherries, but my store calls them “yellow cherries”...

Wow, this has seemed like a long week for me but I am so glad its Friday.  Not only that, but yesterday we finally got a decent rainfall and the temps in the 70’s broke a 44 day heat wave Chicago had this summer.  Let’s hope it stays like this for a while. So I tried the Chobani Vanilla Chocolate Chunk vanilla yogurt and the...

When I was cleaning out my refrigerator the night before last, I realized we still had some leftover filet mignon from our dinner out at Ruth’s Chris over the weekend.  As luck would have it I still had bread leftover from when I made it over the weekend. I made this olive oil bread – it made two loaves, and while it was delicious, I...