February 16, 2014

I remember one birthday party for Hannah when she was five or six, I had the idea of baking bread in terra cotta pots, and after the girls ate the bread, they decorated the pots with sharpie markers and then that was their party gift to take home.  Thanks to google images, they looked like this: One bread I’ve never made from scratch was sourdough...

It was a good call taking the day off of work yesterday.  We slept in, I did some laundry and before we knew it, it was time to grab some lunch out.  There is a place we’ve been going to since we moved out here.  Always good food, and as soon as Tony suggested we go there, I immediately thought of a Reuben sandwich.  Holy...

Good morning!  I have the day off from my day job today.  I knew it was going to be a crazy busy weekend at the restaurant, so I decided to take the day off to spend it with Tony, otherwise I wouldn’t have seen him much at all today. We are back to breakfast tacos!  I actually think I am going to make a bunch...

Do you guys know what Snapchat is?  It’s an app where you send someone a 9 second video, and once they watch it, it just goes away.  My step-son sends them to me all the time – just random shit like his dogs, or his workouts.  Joe was a very picky eater growing up – so much so that he made Tony peel his hot...

Yesterday morning I woke up at 5:15 in the morning.  I was soaking with sweat which meant only one thing – my blood sugar was low.  Know what sucks about that?  Literally dripping with sweat inside a toasty bedroom to walk into a cold kitchen to check my blood sugar.  Yup.  It was 51.  No idea why.  It was 119 before bed, and usually when...

Since I knew we wouldn’t have a new office microwave at least until lunch time, breakfast had to be something I could heat up in the toaster oven – so we are back to breakfast pizzas!  Flatout thin crust artisan bread, 2 tablespoons tomato sauce, baby spinach, an ounce of deli ham, 1 scrambled egg and 1 ounce of shredded mixed cheddar cheese.  This whole...

If you ask me, I think breakfast is the best meal of the day.  So many possibilities – savory, sweet, traditional, eclectic – the skies the limit!  In fact, when Tony traveled for work, Hannah and I almost always fixed breakfast for dinner.  Sometimes pancakes, sometimes home made egg McMuffins.  Maybe because it’s the most economical meal is why I like it too.  My store...

I was half way to work when I realized that I brought stuff to make an egg white McMuffin for breakfast and remembered that the microwave still hasn’t been replaced yet.  I thought maybe I could bake egg whites in the toaster oven, but thought it might take too long, and I really wasn’t sure it would work out.  Plan B.  Subway breakfast sandwich –...

Another whirlwind day at the office.  Although I love days like that – I actually felt like I was contributing to something rather than my usual work days where I sometimes make scratch paper pads out of printouts that nobody picks up!  “Brief Day” is never the same day twice.  Sometimes when my boss has a brief due, there aren’t many exhibits and she handles...

I was happy to see that we only got four inches of snow the night before last.  What I didn’t expect was that it would take me nearly 90 minutes to drive the 15 mile drive to work.  Some roads were fine and I could drive at nearly the speed limit, and then all of a sudden the roads were covered in slush and cars...