A crazy week!

Well I did have intentions on trying out the Fluted Polenta and Ricotta Cake for this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie, chosen by Caitlin of Engineer Baker, but then on Friday of last week we found out we were going to become parents….PUG parents!  Saturday morning we brought home our first baby, Toby the Pug.  He [...]

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Broccoli-Cheddar Quiche…revisted

I’m revisiting another recipe that I’ve made before. I’ve calculated the WW points using e-tools and taken some new pictures. It was a quick and easy dinner for a Thursday night (Office night!!) and I served it with spinach salad with warm bacon dressing. Best part was I got to use one [...]

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A Spinach Salad

I know I said we weren’t really trying any new recipes this week but I lied!  Tyler requested I buy a bag of spinach last weekend and since we’d gone 4 days without using it I figured it was time I took matters into my own hands.  So I got a recommendation for what to [...]

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Another Amazing Bruschetta Recipe

This was a delicious bruschetta recipe!  So glad I remembered that I had seen it awhile back.  I just typed in “bruschetta” in my google reader search and it came up, even though I hadn’t actually bookmarked it.  Love that Google Reader!  I whipped up the mixture fairly quickly and managed not to burn the [...]

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TWD: Carrot Cake

Carrot cake was a challenge I knew I could handle! Unlike the marshmallows last week this recipe gave me very few headaches, and it turned out wonderfully. Now as much as I love a huge slice of carrot cake layered with cream cheese frosting, I only let myself join TWD on the condition [...]

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Menu Plan Monday (April 21, 2008)

Not trying many new recipes this week, decided to stick to what I know to save time. Monday night my new cooking club is meeting for the first time, I’m excited! It’s basically just a group of other newlyweds that want to learn new skills and figure it’s cheaper to teach each other [...]

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Pine Nut Pasta

Oh sweet mercy this pasta was so so so good!  The toasted pine nuts truly made the dish, they are small but packed with so much flavor!  Kind of high in WW points, but worth it!  Tastes great reheated for lunch the next day too!

Spinach-Feta Pasta with Pine Nuts (adapted from recipezaar)
Ingredients:
8 oz pasta (I [...]

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A Fluffy Flop

Well I tried to make this week’s recipe for TWD! 2 attempts at sweet, fluffy, vanilla marshmallows and neither of them turned out I had never worked with egg whites before so I think that’s where I went wrong. (I was allergic to eggs as a kid and have never [...]

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A WW winner

Love this recipe! Hallelujah! I actually didn’t make it since Tyler is the “stir-fryer” in this household, but I chopped up some stuff and “supervised” and ate it and oh my it was delicious! This is from the “15-minute dishes” portion of the cookbook. Can’t wait to have it again [...]

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Menu Plan Monday (April 14)

I am optimistic that I will spend more time in the kitchen this week actually cooking our meals instead of scrounging around or ordering take-out! I’m also optimistic that spring weather will return here in Kansas and we will have NO MORE SNOW until at least November. One can only hope! As [...]

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