I tell ya, as the working-from-home mother of two, the end of my day is punctuated with my knitting, my carefully chosen and DVR’d show on the TV and my pomegranate martini. And I also tell ya, some days it seems like this is the ONLY formula of elements that allows me to retain my [...]
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Well the cold has once again returned to central Texas and when that happens I start craving hearty, warm and cheesy dishes for dinner. My quest for healthy low fat meals got temporarily set aside last night when I made this fabulous dish. Who doesn’t love cheesy, beefy, pasta-y yumminess? But I get so BORED with [...] Readers of this blog will know that this household is on a quest for low fat but highly flavorful dishes that don’t require the stocking of tofu or birdseed in our pantry. I don’t want to change the kinds of foods we eat (ok, minus the cream and butter) but I do want to change [...] Seeing how I’ve been asked twice in as many weeks for my Baked Spanish Rice recipe I figured that I’d better post it. At least in central Texas, Spanish rice is ubiquitous. It comes with everything, from everywhere, and ranges from limp, pale tasteless concoctions to dried out and overly spiced disasters. Personally, I don’t [...] So the quest for high flavor, low fat foods is ongoing in this household. Enter an old favorite of mine: Souvlaki with Tzatziki. I first fell in love with this Greek dish when I lived in Montreal, of all places. There was this tiny skiing village north of where I lived (I actually lived about [...] Hands down, this is the best apple coffee cake I’ve ever had the pleasure of baking. I made mine in a pretty bundt pan and it turned out just wonderfully and got gobbled up. It is so moist that it held really well at room temperature for several days AND it froze just perfectly as [...] You know, I never fail to be stunned when I look at the nutritional labels on the back of a can of soup. I love soup and the myriad varieties, but man-o-man do I not love the sodium in them. Or the junk. I guess the quest for maximizing the mighty dollar has led food [...] Well, I learned a long time ago not to make resolutions. I only set myself up for failure and then I make everybody around me miserable until I work through it. So, no resolutions for me. However, if I were to make a resolution it might include trying to incorporate more healthy dishes into our family [...] |
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