Pork

My new routine has been to pick up fruit at the train station on my way to my office on Monday mornings – I just buy whatever is on sale – this week:  .99 per pound for honeycrisp apples – yes please! D’Anjou pears for $1.29 a pound and bananas were .50 cents each.   Breakfast was what I call a “shower omelette.”  I heat a...

Pork Dim Sum? More like Pork Dim PLEASE...

Guys.  You have to make this!!  I haven’t been this happy with a recipe I made on the fly in a while.  Most of the times I recipe develop on the train ride home, I get home, make the recipe as I’ve written it, and then had to tweak it.  Like a lot.  Not this Korean Pork BBQ sauce.   I grilled a pork tenderloin I...

I have to admit, I’ve never really had an authentic banh mi sandwich.  There are a lot of variations around, some have pate and sardines, some use ground pork, but in the end it’s a spicy pork sandwich with pickled veggies and a spicy mayo. Side note:  I don’t like mayo.  When my step-son was little and I asked him one time when he was...

  Let’s go back in time for a bit, shall we?  Maybe 25 years ago, I ate TWO apple fritters on the way to work.  Then I would get a frappuccino with my co-workers when I got to work.  That would be 41 points right there and it wouldn’t even be 10:00 a.m.! Lunch would be Sbarro – it was right by my old office...

I am thrilled that the editors of Nicole’s new cookbook asked if I would be interested in getting a copy of her new cookbook, and a second one to give away, and I didn’t have to think twice about that – yes please! This is Nicole’s third cookbook – I’ve already made the Italian Bolognese sauce which was so delicious and nearly zero points.   I...

Yes, you are reading correctly, I added chives to these mini cheddar chive bacon biscuits - so good and only 3 points each.

Sausage stuffed chicken parm will be on the top of your recipes you need to make. While I didn’t fully meal plan this week, I definitely meal prepped.  Some weeks the meal plan comes to me in minutes, and other times I struggle to come up with ideas – and all I do is look at food, Pinterest, blogs, you would think that it would...

I know I am going to get called out on my soup not being a true “ramen” but it has a spicy broth, has noodles, so I am going to call it quick pork ramen!  But first, I have to tell you guys I am working for The Chopping Block on Saturday, December 9!  It’s the One of a Kind Show at the Merchandise Mart...

I love foggy mornings.  What I don’t like is driving through fog.  I remember driving home from my brother’s house in Iowa – Hannah was probably about 6 – and I drove through what seemed to be about 100 miles of fog.  I or course was on the right side of the road, flashers blinking the whole time, when cars on the left of me...