April 20, 2010

I saw a recipe on Eating Well’s website for huevos rancheros verdes.   But the serving size was for six people, and considering the fact that no one else in my family would touch that dish with a ten foot pole, I customized it for one.   I was a bit leery when I saw pinto beans, but I actually loved it!  I had two corn tortillas,...

It seems like the weekends go by so fast!  I really wanted to sleep in again today 🙁 Yesterday I made shredded zucchini egg whites, a couple pieces of turkey bacon and some fruit – nothing much since I was meeting my Mom for lunch. 😀 I met my Mom at Sweet Tomatoes – the “theme” was lemon – they had a wonderful lemon romaine...

This weeks secret ingredient kind of threw me for a loop.  The problem?  I don’t like beets!   But you know what?  This isn’t the first time I’ve used an ingredient I didn’t like!  Way back when, sweet potatoes were chosen.  I don’t like sweet potatoes, or so I thought!  I came up with Sweet Potato Pillows in a spicy red pepper cream sauce – and...

It was such a beautiful day yesterday, and this weekend we will have normal temps in the 60’s, which I love.  I hate when some years we go straight from winter to summer – spring and fall are my two favorite seasons! I had the last of my crustless sausage and broccoli quiche. It was our monthly birthday celebrations at work yesterday, and while I...

When figuring out what to make for breakfast yesterday, since I was up so early, I had time to make quiche!  I quickly discovered that I had broccoli that was on its last legs, and some Jimmy Dean sausage leftover from Easter that needed to be used up, as well as buttermilk – so quiche it was! I love crustless quiche.   Who needs the extra...

I knew I was going out to dinner, so I thought I would stick to my sensible breakfast and lunch.  Breakfast was three of my apple cinnamon pancakes, 1/2 cup of strawberries,  1/4 cup sugar free syrup, and not pictured was 2 slices of turkey bacon.  Breakfast:  426 calories, 67 carbs, 16.9 protein, 10.6 fat and 5.2 fiber. Lunch was a serving of my buffalo...

I am really so lucky.  I have a roof over my head, food in my fridge, great kids, but most of all – I love my husband! Seriously!  I love coming home every day knowing he is here.  When he is out of town on business, and I hear his car pull up in the driveway, I still get butterflies in my stomach.  We met...

I came home to a beautiful lawn! The first mow of the season is the worst.  We had planned on doing it over the weekend.  We have a tree that drops these huge shells, they almost look like string beans!  And because we had such a wet spring, the riding mower got clogged several times – it looks beautiful – thanks Tony! 😀 I started...

Some of my eats were a hit yesterday, others need some tweaking!  I started out my leisurely Sunday morning with a classic Biz sammie – English muffin, 1/2 cup egg beaters, spinach and 2 ounces of leftover Easter sandwich.  Surprisingly – no cheese was involved in this sammie! 😀 When we buy stuff off the $1 rack – we’ve learned that we have to move...

When I woke up yesterday morning, I was going to suggest to Tony that we go out for breakfast, but quickly realized I already had all the ingredients to make  a kicked up breakfast.  First up?  Hash browns!  This is one potato – it was huge!  I finally figured out that I have to cook the potatoes in water first, then dry them and then...