‘healthy’

Taco potato skins bring back so many memories and I am so happy to have a healthy version to share with you! I worked in a bar in my early 20’s.  On Wednesday nights I worked the kitchen to give our only cook one night off a week.  He was the Uncle of the owner of the bar, and he drank Heineken and shots of...

This butternut squash soup is great for your weekly meal prep! My Mom gave me three butternut squashes probably three weeks ago.  They rolled around the back of my car for almost that whole time, until I cleaned out my car and found them – thanks Mom!  Butternut squash is a hearty vegetable! Roasting this butternut squash is my favorite way to use it.  That,...

I’ve mentioned it before, but I usually write recipes on my train ride home.  Yesterday morning before I left for work I almost pulled out a pork chop to defrost in the fridge during the day, but saw that I had shrimp and not knowing if I was going to be working late last night, knew they would thaw quick and I’d make something with...

I’ve never made sopes before.  But that’s what happens when you meal plan with what you have on hand.  I’ve had a bag of masa in my pantry for a while.  I just googled “what to make with masa” and sopes popped up.  A lot of recipes called for adding lard to the batter, or butter.  Masa is simply corn flour.  I got excited because...

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. ...

  Let’s go back in time for a bit, shall we?  Maybe 25 years ago, I ate TWO apple fritters on the way to work.  Then I would get a frappuccino with my co-workers when I got to work.  That would be 41 points right there and it wouldn’t even be 10:00 a.m.! Lunch would be Sbarro – it was right by my old office...

I am so happy to share this healthy banana muffin recipe with you guys.  Only one tiny problem – I said they were three smart points, but they are actually four – I forgot to add the two eggs to the recipe on the WW app, but still, these are a winner! But first, can I talk about how empty the train parking lot is...

I took 238 pictures from Friday night until last night.  I may have a bit of a problem. 😀  It was a good long weekend.  I didn’t really have any plans except with my Mom yesterday.  It was a nice balance of productivity, cooking and lazy.  I will admit that we ordered pizza on Saturday night and I may have eaten half of a small...

About a month or more ago, you may remember that a branch from my tree hit my neighbors roof and put a dent in their gutter.  Because there was no damage to my property, my insurance wouldn’t cover it.  They claimed that the damage was $5,000, they had to file a claim with their insurance company and will have to have their fireplace rebuilt –...

I don’t know what made me think to walk to the train station from my house.  To tell you the truth, I didn’t really know exactly how far it was from my house to the train station.  I am kind of glad that I didn’t look it up because it was 2.6 miles one way, and I may have had second thoughts had I known...