If I can get through this day, I might weep tears of joy. We have the school play this afternoon. I was asked to play the character of Paula Abdul in the American Idol type play with a ton of cute kids dressed as dinosaurs and performing dino-type musical acts. Totally cute and adorable and …
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This guy isn’t feeling anything but happy. For me, this week is making me crazy. It’s the last full week of school so we have every possible ceremony, play, parent night, meeting, etc crammed into 5 short days. And I’m stressed! I’m going to my morning CrossFit class, but l’m skipping my afternoon runs …
I have a drawer full of these sweet onions that were grown down the road and I wanted to do dress them up a bit. I could have easily just cut them up to play backup singer to something else, but with these….they need to be center stage. 1 1/2 pounds red potatoes, cut …
This week was the last week of the beautiful strawberries! Strawberries Salad Mix Carrots Cabbage Broccoli Squash/Zucchini Basil Onions It’s only been one week, but I have already seen a difference in what I’m cooking and how I’m shopping. I’m planning meals on what is in season and what I can expect to pick up …
Does anything about that title sound healthy? Not really, but I promise that it is! In the past, I made a very rich flavorful alfredo sauce and loaded up the shrimp with wine, butter, and cheese. I made a few changes with this dish and added a lot more flavor with the Cajun spices., fresh …
I really can’t complain too much about the “off season” because we really didn’t break a streak. We didn’t have much winter and we fired up the grill in January wearing a long sleeve jacket. Usually, we reserve the grill for steak night. But this go around, I wanted a lot of grilled vegetables and …
I’ve never put greens in a quesadilla before. Then again, I’ve never participated in a Community Supported Agriculture program before where I eat what I’m given. The rainbow chard is something I have never had. I’ve been on a kale kick for the past couple of years and have always had turnip and collard greens. …
Look what was waiting for me! This week we had: rainbow chard strawberries lettuce greens dill sweet onions and…..beets…..sigh The beets are going to be put off until next week and maybe the onions. These are a different variety than Vidalia, so I’m thinking of making and herbed onion/fennel gratin. The first thing I …
This post is a day late because I was waiting to see what will be in our first harvest basket from our CSA, Snow’s Bend farm tomorrow. I’m way too excited about this. After getting some good produce from the Farmer’s market Saturday, I was trying to use up that food and incorporate a few …
After the trip to the farmer’s market and Whole Paycheck, the only difficulty in planning dinner was deciding what to make first. I had a lot of vegetables from the market. And this from WF. That corn was going in the pot tonight! I had some kale that needed to be used soon so I …
I’ve mentioned before that I’m not crazy about cold cream based salads. So when I made some a few weeks ago, I made it and put the bowl in the fridge so it would cool off and kept a bowl of warm pasta on the counter for me. I don’t need it real hot, I …
This year, I’m not waiting until JULY to go to my favorite market. Pepper Place is in Birmingham so I have to drive a little over an hour but I usually make a day of it and get my staples from Whole Foods as well. Today was a great day for the market. It was …
I really do not like chocolate and bananas together EXCEPT in my morning protein shake. I’ve had chocolate dipped bananas, banana chocolate chip pancakes, and other various ways to mix chocolate and bananas. I haven’t found any of these to work for me. I do, however, like a little chocolate chips in banana bread. So …
This was my first week with tracking every tiny thing that I ate or drank. It was interesting to say the least. This was also Teacher Appreciate Week and I felt REALLY appreciated, to the tune of desserts, tons of carbo-licious-ness, and maybe two cokes (for the WHOLE WEEK!!!!) . But I tracked everything. By …
The garden is slowly growing! We really need the neighborhood cats to stop digging up the plants if we want food. Frankie’s species doesn’t seem to be as well-behaved as he is. He wouldn’t dare do anything so tacky as to dig in a garden that wasn’t his. I’ve seen the glares he gives them …
A few weeks ago, I was sent the new Kashi bars as well as CalNaturale Svelte to review. I was very interested in the Svelte, which is a line of pre-mixed protein drinks. After trying all flavors, chocolate, vanilla, cappuccino, and spiced chai, I am really impressed! I have a high standard when it comes …
It’s been two weeks since I’ve gotten myself together enough to plan and post a menu for this week. I need a plan or else I either won’t eat or eat the stuff that doesn’t make me feel good overall. Sunday: Vegetable Bean soup Monday: Salmon (again), roasted asparagus, sweet potatoes. …
After a day of playing, we had appetizers and drinks back at Peg Leg Pete’s. These are Grouper bites. And they were outstanding. I can’t believe I almost ordered cheese sticks. I can get those anywhere. These were fresh from the water. Sunset on the beach again. And dinner at Landry’s. We ate here about …
It feels stupid making posts knowing that until whatever was wrong was fixed, I couldn’t post them. I finally worked in the dungeons of HTML and got it all fixed. WordPress is great..but sometimes it likes to make me feel like a bumbling idiot. I refused to seek professional help (for the tech problems or …
~ We’ve survived the week of Crabby Pants no talking, no breathing loud, no fun. ~ But that will change in less than 6 hours. I love road trips. ~ I’m so giddy, I’m singing the song from the floppy fish.