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Okay, so the reason I couldn’t find the restaurant’s website is because THEY WENT OUT OF BUSINESS!  We met my mom and we were standing in front of a restaurant that had a table and a chair, otherwise completely empty. What to do?  Look right and go to Big Bowl!  We love this place.  We each got the build your own stir fry, I got shrimp...

I woke up this morning to the smell of oatmeal – my daughter got up before me this morning and felt like oats. Mine: 4 ounces cooked oats 1.25 ounce REALLY RIPE banana! .25 chopped macadamia nuts I love this snowman coffee cup (I have LOTS of snowmen coffee cups!) The plan for today is to meet my mom for lunch and a movie.  We...

I ended up getting 4 quart and 4 pint jars (plus a little extra!) from last Saturday’s salsa making.   We stoppd at the store on the way home and picked up a sesame ginger marinated pork roast turkey tenderloin!- buy one get one free!   For side dishes, I decided to keep the Asian theme going. First up: Spicy pickled cucumbers 6 ounces sliced English...

Since we had a late breakfast, it didn’t make sense to go out to lunch before the movies.  But of course, as soon as you walk in, the smell of popcorn overwhelms!  I just think its ridiculous that the movie cost $13 for two tickets, and two drinks and a large popcorn was $17!!  GO SEE BURN AFTER READING – don’t read about it, look...

I didn’t get out of bed until 10:00 today – nice!  It’s crappy out, supposed to rain all weekend, so its hard to get motivated! I tried for the second time to make hollandaise sauce, this was maybe  bit more successful?  I definitely poached the eggs perfectly.  On www.pioneerwomancooks.com she has a recipe for Eggs Benedict.  The secret to the perfect poached egg is to...

I made three pizzas tonight (well, actually two since my daughter made her own after I made the dough). This is how my food processor dough looks when using my regular recipe: This is the end result for my DH pizza: DD pizza: I decided to try a whole wheat pizza for me.  I grabbed some whole wheat bread flour the last time I was at Whole...

Anyone who knows me knows that I love snowmen.  So for my snack this afternoon, I “borrowed” the snowman cheese spreader from my office kitchen.  I’d steal it if they wouldn’t figure out it was me! I found these crackers at Trader Joe’s.  22 for 1 serving!  But they are tiny.  I have half a serving on my plate.  I also had two squares of the Ghirardelli chocolate...

I decided to do the shrimp stir-fry again to use up the end of the week veggies in the fridge.  I have a new favorite vegetable – red cabbage!  I had only ever had it in the mixed salad bag before, but I love that it keeps its crunchy texture while cooking.  And 3 ounces has 2 grams of fiber! I pan fried frozen shrimp...

That’s my blood sugar today!  I woke up at 69, and ate 1 ounce of puffins with 2 ounces of skim milk.  I was sore when I got up, so didn’t do my morning workout, and I hadn’t made my food yet for the day anyway, so then I had time this morning to get that together. An hour later my blood sugar was 171. ...

Dinner was SO good!  It took about 15 minutes to put this together.  First thing I did was preheat my oven to 350 and popped in 4 white corn tortillas (they took about 5 minutes, then I just turned the oven off and kept them in the oven until I was ready for them).  While those were crisping up for my tostadas, I chopped up my veggies. ...