Category: Thoughts
Raspberry White Chocolate Muffins, revisited
So. It’s been a few days. This whole cookbook writing sure makes it hard to keep on top of everything. But the stress is worth it, even if it means I don’t post every single day. But I am working on balancing everything so I can get back to nearly daily posts. Anyway, since the [...]
Odds and Ends
On Monday, I sat at my desk after lunch wondering how I could have possibly eaten all that leftover (roasted) garlic that was with the roasted asparagus I ate . . . a few chocolate covered ginger mints and a cup of coffee later, I was dealing with a slightly better bad breath problem. On [...]
Random Bits
On vegetarians: I have a new found respect for vegetarians who work in my office complex. See, I have been lax about bringing lunch to work over the past week and have had to use the cafeteria to fulfill that dietary requirement. However I had quickly learned that the cafeteria isn’t always a vegetarian-friendly place. [...]
Seared Tuna with Sesame Soy Drizzle
After discovering a few recipes for seared tuna recently, which are strikingly similar in cooking method but different in serving, I decided to try my hand at my own variation. There is nothing like a good slab of ahi tuna, seared just right – as in rare. It’s a delicious and firm fish.I used some [...]
A Little Request . . .
I am borrowing an idea from Kalyn’s Kitchen, who borrowed the idea from The Amateur Gourmet. See, when an idea is really good, it gets used again and again. And Adam from The Amateur Gourmet had a really good one: who’s reading? So I am asking, as nicely as can be, that you fill out [...]
Broccoli Cheese Bake
So there I was, sitting at my desk at work. Idly clicking through Cooking Light‘s recipe archive when I found it: a broccoli recipe that I had to try. And when I say “had to” I mean right away, walk don’t run, need to do this now. Broccoli and Three-Cheese Casserole was calling me. So [...]
40 Days: Simple Lunch
Lunch. It was a lot simpler before – if I had time I would throw together a quick salad of lettuce, meat and cheese. But I am trying to lose weight and also not eating meat for Lent so the majority of my salad just went down the drain. And besides, I need more vitamins [...]
40 Meat Free Days
For those of us who are Christian, Lent began today (Ash Wednesday). And for some of us, that means giving up something. This year, I have decided to part ways with meat for the 40 days of Lent. Though I was a vegetarian as a teen and young adult, it is a much harder thing [...]
Rough Weekend
I intended on posting a few times this weekend but two things thwarted that plan. First, my laptop’s Internet Explorer began malfunctioning (wouldn’t go to webpages at all). Finally I discovered that there was an upgrade that Microsoft REALLY wanted me to download (do you sense a conspiracy here, because I do). When I finally [...]
Mama Always Comes Back.
I just returned from my first business trip ever. It was more than a week and took me to Miami, away from my son, my husband, my dogs . . . And I missed them all like crazy. When Will was a newborn, my husband was traveling all the time for long periods. It was [...]
