So much has happened in the last few weeks, and 99% of it has been amazingly wonderful. I’ve done most of it with an eye toward blogging about it… I have a list of ten or so big posts to write. There was my trip to Oklahoma for my sister’s bridal shower, which has three [...]
Archive for the ‘Eat to Live’ Category
29 Mar
More Abbott and Costello
Alternatively titled “Reason number 3,927 why my son will need extensive therapy”.
Jet and I cook together quite often. Tonight, we made cinnamon toast for a snack.
Jet: I wanna put the cimma- cinn- cimmammammon on it.
Me: *snicker* You wanna put the what on it?
Jet: I wanna put the cinnannannamon on it.
Me: *snort* The what on it?
Jet: The [...]
22 Mar
King Ranch Chicken
Here’s another fantastic recipe, though not quite as easy as that Easy Chicken Stuff…. My sister in law came up today and made this. It’s not like I’ve never had it before (in fact, I requested that she make it today!). I just thought I’d share the recipe — it’s amazing! FWIW, the measurements are [...]
22 Mar
Favorite recipe ever!
I pink puffy heart my slow-cooker. It’s like magic, I swear. All I do is chunk a bunch of stuff into it (sometimes even frozen stuff) at 6:00 a.m., and when I come home at 5:00 p.m., it’s FOOD!
Magic, I tell you.
This recipe comes from my Weight Watchers leader, but don’t let that throw you. [...]
27 Nov
Thanksgiving
Every year we go to my grandparents’ farm for Thanksgiving. It snowed on us on Friday! We had about two inches that stuck through the night and into Saturday. We’ve done Thanksgiving there my whole life, and I don’t remember it EVER showing.
Being a born-and-bred Texas girl, this was me.
My favorite part of the weekend, [...]
10 Aug
Can you tell that school started?
I started going back to work a little on August 1st, and we officially started inservice this past Wednesday. It’s par for the course for the rest of my life to suffer for this period of about three weeks… family, blog, house… you name it. Several years ago, I finally realized that this [...]
24 Jun
Hooray for Eggplants!
I just have to brag on myself in this post. I’ve discovered the local Farmers’ Market, and it makes me happy.
Last week, on Thursday (the Farmers’ Market Day), I picked up blueberries, cherry tomatoes, corn on the cob, cantaloupe, and eggplants. The corn was fabulous last night as part of Jet’s birthday dinner, the blueberries [...]
18 May
Gotta love bureaucracy
Wanna see something silly? Click here and scroll down to “Nutritional Information for Ice Cream Lovers in New York City”.
Go ahead and read it. I’ll wait….Basically, because Coldstone publicly provided nutrition information at the time the law was passed in NYC, they were required to put all caloric information on their menu boards. [...]
23 Jan
… and those Lemonades? They’re awful. I promise.
It’s Girl Scout Cookie Time again. They’re smart to start selling them right around the time that people’s resolve about their resolutions starts to falter.
My sister brought over some of the Lemonades. They’re shortbread with lemon frosting on the bottom. As a favor, we finished them for her. Saved her from the temptation. That’s what [...]
16 Jan
Calorie-Free Cuppycakes
This one is too cute!
For what it’s worth, I did find a low-cal sweet treat that is amazing. Jello makes Dulce de Leche pudding cups that are vanilla pudding with caramel sauce. They’re sugar-free and only 60 calories per cup… the trick is not sitting around and eating three of them in one sitting because [...]
