Breakfast

I have Suzi to thank for the idea of the breakfast banana boats.  She posts all her food and the other day I saw she had this banana that had strawberries, bananas, granola and chocolate sauce drizzled over the top – it looked so cool I told her I was going to steal the idea, and I did.  I made my bosses the same as...

First off, thank you for all your wonderful comments about my post yesterday about the scale not moving.  I know full well that the scale is not the only indicator of success, so I am not going to let it stop me get to my goal – you guys are the best cheerleaders! Something happens nearly every Friday.  I’ve run out of a meal plan. ...

I always like to think that if Martha Stewart and I were friends, I would call her Marty.  We’d make muffins together, sit and have tea. She’d tell me all her cooking secrets.  She’d show me how to till a garden. Since that likely is never going to happen in my lifetime, the best I can do is make her buttermilk pancakes.  Although I changed...

I am sure most foodies who read food blogs come across a blog, see a recipe and think “I need to make that – like soon!”  Then you think you have all the ingredients to make it, then realize you don’t, but you still want to go ahead and make it. When I saw Jacky’s Oatmeal Lemon Ricotta Pancakes I wanted to make them.  Like...

I am out of my Nature Valley protein bars, so when I woke up yesterday morning I knew I had time to knock out a batch of granola as a pre/post workout snack.  I was going to follow my lemon poppy seed granola recipe, but turns out I was out of poppy seeds, I didn’t have applesauce or agave nectar.  But the great thing about...

It seems to be our routine now that we end up not having breakfast at least one day over the weekend.  Saturday we got up, started doing stuff around the house, and before I knew it, it was almost noon!  I still had some menu planning to do, so I ate a quick piece of toast and 1/2 a cup of cottage cheese.  That held...

Another great weekend is in the books.  I am still waiting for my office to give me a four day weekend every weekend, but until then, today its back to the grind. I had a coupon for two free New York strip steaks at our local grocery store – so I got two steaks that would have cost $9 each free!  Because of that, I...

Ever since I received Habitall, a new all natural sweetener that is made from monk fruit, I wanted to make lemon poppy seed muffins.  You see, Tony can tell every time when I use artificial sweeteners in muffins.  I’ve been using Splenda for so long, I don’t really taste the difference anymore. Much like Splenda, Habitall is measured cup for cup for sugar. Lemon Poppy...

This weekend was a perfect balance of relaxing and productivity.  I have a hard time not trying to fill up every hour of every weekend doing stuff.  So when Tony suggested we go out to eat and grab a beer Saturday afternoon, I was in. We spent a couple hours hanging out, watching baseball.  I had a couple beers and some pizza bread.  This was...

So it’s not unusual for me to be Bizzy in my Kitchen before work.  Over the weekend I bought a whole container – nearly three cups – of poppy seeds for only $1.58!  Since I know my boss likes sweet breakfasts over savory ones, I decided to make some poppy seed pancakes with slivered almonds. I was going to use honey as my sweetener.  I...