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I’ve had a craving for wonton soup for a while.  The last one I had was store bought, and had shrimp in it.  I knew I had ground chicken I needed to use up, so I decided to use that as a filling.  But before that, I picked up these garlic rounds at the Fresh Market that are so addicting!  I remembered I had goat...

Tony and I have had problems in the past of chickens and turkeys not thawing all the way through, so we decided to take that part out of the equation this year!  It’s a bit more expensive, but luckily I was able to find an 11 pound turkey!   And I love this grocery store, its the closest thing we have to Whole Foods, and its called...

I woke up this morning to see a film of snow all over the back yard, but it won’t last – its supposed to be in the 40’s today!  No walk for Ed this morning, its a late start for Hannah and I slept in! Breakfast: 1.25 ounce bread 1 egg 1/2 ounce swiss cheese orange/grapefruit medley! At lunch today I am on the hunt...

What an enjoyable afternoon we had!  My daughters school musical department is AMAZING!  Out of the 2000 kids that go to high school there, 450 kids are in Fall Follies, the first big musical production of the school year.  My mom always says that when she sees these performances, she said that if she closed her eyes she would think she’s in downtown Chicago.  It...

I had about 1/4 cup of blueberries leftover and found this recipe on www.recipezaar.com to see what kind of pancake I could come up with.  A couple tweaks later, this is the recipe I made for Hannah: 1/3 cup oats 1/4 blueberries 2 tablespoons skim milk 1 tablespoon flour 1 tablespoon water 1/4 tsp. baking powder sugar free syrup I on the otherhand am happy...

We had such a late lunch that we ended up not eating dinner until almost 8:30!  I saw a recipe for open face burgers with horseradish sauce and thought it would be good and quick.  Tony doesn’t like horseradish, so I left that off of his.  My sauce was 2 tablespoons fat free sour cream mixed with 1 teaspoon of horseradish (this is strong, so beware!)...

The individual pies turned out great!  We haven’t tasted them yet – but from the looks of them, they are amazing! The pie crust recipe I used was found on www.pioneerwomancooks.com – look in her holiday folder and its in there.  I only made 1/2 a recipe since I only had pie crust on the top. Um, this is NOT LOW FAT.  That’s why I...

and I am not quite ready for it!  When I took Ed on his walk this morning, I thought, its not too cold today!  But half way to the river my ears about froze!  And the river is starting to freeze by the beach. Breakfast was quick and simple – 1/2 bagel sandwiches.  I didn’t have any apples with mine, we had popcorn before bed...

Okay, that title is a mouthful!  I thought I would make a Big Mac pizza last night but was very disappointed!  Here are my ingredients: I seasoned the beef with salt, pepper and A-1 sauce.  The base was thousand island dressing.  I did love my dough though!  Here’s how it looks in just 5 minutes: Here is how it looked out of the oven: Then...

I brought two of my chimichangas from last night and heated them up in the toaster oven – they came out really crispy!  Since I used the rest of my enchilada sauce last night, I went down to the basement to get a jar of homemade salsa that I canned.  If you don’t know the process, click on the “my garden overflows. . .” page...