Soup

I got a kick out of the comments yesterday about who does and doesn’t like hot sauces.  I think I got my love of hot stuff from my grandpa.  He died when I was 11, but I have memories of him adding hot sauce and pepper vinegar on a lot of his food.  Pepper vinegar is something to behold – and while my Aunt is...

Thanks again for your continued virtual hugs about Ed. Tony hasn’t gotten the courage to read the comments to yesterdays post, but I know when he’s ready he will appreciate it! Since I got home so late Thursday night, I didn’t prepare anything for my Souper Friday at work.  I had promised minestrone soup and my rosemary artisan bread.  I ended up making the dough...

I woke up yesterday morning and within 5 minutes I was making biscuits!  I made my soup for the office the night before and when I woke up, I remembered I never made the biscuits.  No worries, because these are so simple.  I adapted this recipe from this one. Simple Cheese Biscuits made 13 biscuits – each one: 131 calories, 5 fat, 17 carbs, 1...

One of the secretaries called in yesterday, so it was a busy work day – which I love.  I think back to my early career as a legal secretary, and probably 75% of my day was spent doing electronic dictation.  The attorneys would leave their Dictaphone tapes on my ledge all lined up.  They could be dictating pleadings, wills, real estate transactions, memos, etc.  Not...

I have to laugh at some of the photos I take.  Even after nearly two years of having my DSLR camera, I still struggle to get it to work the way I want.  Case in point.  Here is a picture of my breakfast yesterday morning. I have no idea what the hell setting it was on.  But I switched the dial around and this was...

I know as soon as Melissa reads the title of this post she will jump up and down!  As part of the Skinny Snowman Challenge, one of the ways to earn points is to have a meatless Monday.  Um, turns out I didn’t read all the rules until last Monday, so I missed on this opportunity last week. Meatless Breakfast Casserole for One: Serves One: ...

I hardly ever wear winter coats.  I figure I walk to my car, drive to work, walk into work.  That is one thing I do not miss about working downtown was having to bundle up to make the mile walk to my office after getting off the train. Yesterday however?  It was cold.  17 degrees cold.  But I still went with just my sweater because...

I don’t know what the deal is, but last night was the third night in a row that I woke up with low blood sugar in the low 50’s.  The two nights before I ate half of one of my granola bars and that did the trick.  Last night we were out, so I ate two Baby Ruth’s that were leftover from our Halloween candy...

Fall is definitely in the air – it was only 31 degrees yesterday morning when I left for work.  We are going to take down our gazebo this weekend, which is always the sign for the end of summer. I found a Jimmy Dean breakfast bowl in my deep freeze, who knows how long its been there.  I have to think a while, because the...

I was contacted a few weeks ago from Legends from Europe, asking if I’d like to participate in their blogger recipe contest.  I jumped at the chance!  Then quickly forgot about it! Legends from Europe is on a three-year campaign in the United States to increase awareness of the legendary ingredients: Grana Padano: Parmigiano Reggiano: Montasio: Prosciutto di Parma and Prosciutto di San Daniele:       ...