Dessert

It’s no wonder where I get my drive to stay busy.  My Mom and my Aunt Martha are shining examples that age is just a number and you get so much more out of life if you stay active.  I know I’ve talked it about it before, but there are some times of the year I literally need to schedule time with my Mom weeks...

This weekend was the perfect blend of relaxation, productivity and family.  Saturday we had my husband’s nephew over for lunch.  I was so happy to have company over after not having company for months (well, other than my Momma  – hi Mom!) that I only took one picture!  I made homemade cheezy beef sandwiches, and homemade potato chips.  And well, since the fryer was there,...

Ever since last week when I showed Tony a peach pie that I saw on Pinterest, and he declared it one of his favorite pies, I’ve seen peach pies everywhere!   I was drawn to Natasha’s Perfect Peach Pie for a number of reasons.  First off, she used butter and cream cheese in her pastry crust.  Huh.  And I was also drawn to the lattice top...

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...

This will be the last of my breakfast parfaits for a while – it was my last Chobani!  But I think I saved the best for last. The flavor was apple cinnamon, so I decided to carmelize a Fuji apple in 1 teaspoon of butter and 1 teaspoon of brown sugar for my fruit layer – Fuji apples are my favorite apple – they never...

So I was a bit discouraged at my WI yesterday, but guess what?  I weighed myself today and I had a loss of 2.6!  Just goes to show that you can’t always count on your weigh ins to show up when you want – hope that last sentence makes sense!  So we’ll see how that translates at next weeks WI.  So how was your week?...

I love getting cookbooks from my library – they are so expensive these days.  One in particular that I got was this one – it would have been $35.00 in the store! My friend Beth uses King Arthur flour all the time and bakes up some of the best things – check out these whole wheat hot cross buns she made. 😀 I was reading...

First off – thank you, thank you, for all your kind comments yesterday about my abs tummy picture.  If nothing else I hope it inspired someone to get off the couch and get moving.  Today is Day 10 on my new plan and I feel great.  Just imagine where I’ll be at Day 100! 😀 I was so sore yesterday morning from Jillian’s shred that...

I was happy that Friday’s work day kind of flew by!  I started out with my classic bagel thin classic: 1 bagel thin, 2 slices cooked bacon, 1/2 ounce habanero cheese, 1 egg, handful of baby spinach and a sliced orange on the side, which was really juicy! 😀 Lunch was more leftovers:  1/2 cup Ronzoni pasta from the grilled chicken parm from the other...

Tony found a copy cat recipe for Portillo’s chocolate cake recipe.  Since our neighbors were buying the crab this time for Crab Fest 2010, I offered to make two desserts – something I rarely make!  But these two desserts are show stoppers.  Both are super simple, but taste as if you were a pastry chef! I kept thinking yesterday was Saturday since I was off! ...