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is a winner!   The secret ingredient to this soup is a chunk of American cheese.  You put it in the freezer for easy shredding – it melted really well!   In their test kitchen, the decided all cheddar cheese made the soup grainy. 3 tablespoons butter 1 onion, chopped fine (obviously, I left this out!) 1 carrot, peeled and chopped fine (mine was 3 ounces) 2...

So after our plumbing expedition in the basement, we continued to do a clean sweep of the house.  Dusting, vacuuming, the usual!  Lots of laundry, since when the pipe burst yesterday, every piece of clothing within six feet got completely soaked.  Oh well, at least its working! So we sent Hannah on a lunch run – she got a plain gyros, but forgot to get...

So since I didn’t go grocery shopping, I am out of eggs, butter and flour so my thoughts of the ultimate pancakes went out the window!  I had Jimmy Dean sausage and bagels left, so that’s what we had.  So remember yesterday when I walked out and our house was at 50 degrees?   Once I flipped the switch, it kicked on, but after I left...

Okay, so while Hannah and I can eat pizza EVERY Friday, Tony has other ideas!  I knew that I had snails in the fridge that needed to be cooked – they are .69 cents a piece in the shell, with the herbed butter! At a restaurant I once worked at, they served their escargot with puff pastry – so that’s what I made for Tony!...

One of my co-workers made chili and brought it in and its been warming up in the crock pot all morning!  Thanks Cassie!! She gave me the recipe, I’ll post it later if its okay with her.  It’s got wax beans and carrots in it!  Two ingredients that I never would have thought to throw in – and of course I had to accessorize it...

I stepped out of our bedroom this morning only to be hit by a wall of cold air!  I looked at the thermostat – it read 50 degrees!  WTF?   Turns out our electricity went out for a second last night, as half of the clocks in the house were flashing, the others were fine. Turns out there is a switch on our furnace, and Tony...

It’s basically a love love relationship with me and KFC.  I had a LONG day at work today – one of those days where you never seem to slow down?  I ended up getting home an hour late, and after I dropped off the work FedEx, KFC it was! I ate the wing with skin – took the skin off the breast, all of the...

So I was all set to work out, but at the last second decided I’d better check my blood sugar to see where I was at.  This is what I saw:  Typically when I work out, my blood sugar drops in half and at that number, there was just no way.   Good news is there was free food!  Because of the cold, my office ordered...

Busy morning, so this will be a quick post! So my hubby Tony has told me that my parents-in-law love to have yogurt mixed in with their oatmeal.   So this morning I decided to give it a try! The base is a packet of instant regular oatmeal.  The second layer is my low fat vanilla yogurt, then sprinkled with my homemade cranberry pumpkin seed granola.  So...

In an attempt to make it FEEL like July right now, I decided to have a picnic for dinner!   The catalyst for this dinner was the fact that I had brats in the freezer, and since I am still limping towards my weekly $100 grocery challenge (more on that below!) I decided to build my menu around them.  By all means, if you have access...