Soup

I love soup.  Like all kinds of soup.  I do consider soup to be a meal – especially this Tuscan White Bean Soup – its got beans, its thickened with butternut squash and potatoes, and it even has sun dried tomato chicken sausage meatballs – winning! This is my take on Ribollita – which is a white bean soup that’s traditionally thickened with bread –...

I’m sure that I’ve done this before, but I mixed a teaspoon of Better N Peanut Butter with 1/4 cup of sugar free pancake syrup and poured it over my pumpkin waffle sammie – game changer!  Just that subtle peanuty taste was perfect with the pumpkin waffle – and I got some flak for putting Everything But The Bagel Seasoning over top, but it’s the...

I am confident I never even tried butternut squash before I started blogging.  Back in the day, there was something called “BSI” which stood for Blogger Secret Ingredient.  The “host” was new each week, but they would pick an ingredient, and you had to make a dish, and that person who hosted picked a winner of all the recipes submitted, then would pick another host. ...

Our weather has been gorgeous.  Well deserved after our seemingly never ending winter.  I didn’t even need a jacket on my walk to work yesterday from the train.  It’s funny because some people are still wearing UGG boots, while others are wearing sundresses. I already knew yesterday was going to be busy because I left so much stuff on my desk on Friday afternoon –...

I have to give a shout out to Jacob (now my son-in-law!) on his 26th birthday!  I’ve loved having you and Hannah as roommates these last three years – looking forward to our dinner out tonight! I did a whole meal plan this week and I have set myself up for success.  I don’t think I could ever get sick of avocado/egg toast – I...

At long last I am finally posting Jacob’s Chicken Lime Soup – or what we call affectionately call it – Jacob’s Zesty Soup. Jacob is a cook much like Tony was – he just throw ingredients together, tastes as he goes and adjusts accordingly.  In order to get an actual recipe, Hannah wrote down what Jacob did, when he did it, so while there are...

I had a loss last week!  -.6, but I’ll take it.  Um, maybe there was some leftover wine from the celebration memorial for Jacob’s grandma, and maybe I had wine a couple nights last week.   I am totally fine with it – while the scale is moving slower, today I am wearing a pair of pants that Hannah gave me for Christmas that I couldn’t...

This weeknight lasagna soup is perfect for a quick dinner. Didn’t 2017 go by so fast?!  I can’t tell you how many times I typed a letter yesterday and put 2017 – it’s going to take a while before I wrap my head around 2018.  In 2018 my step-son will have been out of high school for TEN YEARS already.  I met him when he...

It was an emotional weekend. Friday night on my way home from work, my cousin Patty messaged me that her Mom, my Aunt Pat, passed away. That’s her on the to row on the far left.   She’s my Dad’s brothers wife.  My uncle died when I was a freshman in high school.  My Dad died ten years after that, and our families somehow drifted...

I woke up the night before last at 3:30 to go to the bathroom – a new phenomemon for me – I could always sleep 10+ hours and not have to get up.  I noticed that I didn’t set my alarm – what?  I went to the bathroom, set my alarm and woke up at 6:30 when the alarm went off. There were several red...