Beef

It took Tony, Hannah and I over 90 minutes to shovel and snow plow our drive and deck.  It actually felt really good, the sun was shining and I really worked up a sweat!  I entered the activity into eTools and discovered I’d only earned 4 activity points – WTF?! We don’t have a garage, so we had to first dig out the last car...

I was all set to go to the gym yesterday morning.  Bathing suit laid out, gym bag packed, granola bar in purse.  The only problem?  I woke up an hour and fifteen minutes later than I intended!   My alarm did go off at six, but my “just one more minute” turned into a lot more.  But not to worry, I decided to make today a...

I shared the remainder of my reuben quiche with a couple co-workers yesterday, and they both agreed it was delicious!  Especially my one co-worker – she and I are Reuben geeks – we even compare notes when we’ve tried a new one.  So I had the last 1/4 for my breakfast yesterday. I also had my first orange of the season – can’t wait to...

Since I knew I was going to be having pizza and cake later yesterday afternoon, my breakfast was simple – two Nature’s Path granola bars – am I the only one that loves crunchy granola bars? It was the perfect amount of fuel to do Level 1 of Jillian’s 30 day shred.  I am happy to report that I was able to do the push...

My Kitchen Addiction is the host for this weeks BSI – Lime!  I was glad that I was able to submit an entry – its been a few weeks since I have! I utilized lime in both my filling and in the sauce – zest went into the beef and bean mixture, and the juice of a whole lime went into the dip.  The dip...

I have to credit www.cooksillustrated.com for me NOT to overcook a beef roast.  Tony and I like our beef on the rare side.  Rare on a typical meat thermometer is 140 degrees.  The secret is to pull the meat off the grill at 125 degrees, let it rest for 20 minutes, and its a perfect medium rare every time.  We always cook our meat over...

Absolutely no calories – my noodles have no calories!  Update!  You can find out where to buy them here! It says its the whole package is 2.5 servings, but with no calories, I just dumped the whole thing in! I ended up cutting up one of the beef ribs from last nights dinner and used up the rest of the broccoli as well – I...

I have to admit, I wasn’t sure how dinner was going to turn out tonight.  In all the recipes I searched for, I want to say 90% of them called for slow braising or putting these short ribs in a crock pot – slow and steady would result in tender ribs. I threw caution to the wind and decided to grill them – only 10...

I have to give full credit to my friend Roni for turning me onto spaghetti squash – I never tried it before going to her site!  It’s one of those vegetables I think that if you were never introduced to it as a child, never comes to mind as an adult. Unfortunately I carried too many of my childhood food fears well into adulthood.  I...

This soup recipe could not have been easier, since there are so few ingredients: 8 ounces ground sirloin 1 tablespoon hot sauce (I used Thai hot sauce) 3 cups baby spinach 8 cups chicken broth (I use soup base which comes in a jar – only 10 calories per 1 cup of broth) crushed pepper to taste per one cup serving: 96 calories, 5 fat,...