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Why Absent-Minded Professors Shouldn’t Cook

Remember yesterday how I told you we’d be having Southwest Pasta Bake on Monday night?  I generally try to make stuff in advance when I’m working, so I was planning to make this Sunday afternoon.  However, I was volunteering on Sunday morning and Chris had said he’d be happy to cook a meal sometime.  So [...]

Posted 31 August 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Absent-Minded Professor § Chris § Funny ‡ Comments (20) °

Cheesy Pasta with Roasted Squash and Bacon

I’ve mentioned before that since moving to New Zealand, I’ve started branching out in some of our recipes.  One particular ingredient that I’ve been using a lot of is squash {or pumpkin, as it’s called over here}.  I’ve turned to Cooking Light many times for meal ideas and recipes, and they were the source for [...]

Posted 18 August 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Food § Recipes ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Menu Monday!

Hey everyone – hope you had a great weekend.  Ours was busy.  I went to a cute cafe in Ponsonby called “Agnes Curran”, stopped in at Milly’s Kitchen Shop, checked out a store called “The Mad Butcher”, went to Mitre 10 for some things {the equivalent of a Lowe’s in NZ}, and looked at furniture.  [...]

Posted 16 August 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Food § Menu Monday § Recipes ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

Menu Monday!

Hello, my lovely readers :-)  I hope that you all had a great weekend! Here’s what’s on our plates this week… Monday Paula Deen’s Broccoli Casserole – I like many of Paula Deen’s recipes {Perfectly Imperfect, don’t hate me!}.  And I was feeling the need for some Southern Cooking this week, so this menu relies [...]

Posted 02 August 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Food § Menu Monday § Recipes § Restaurants ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Menu Monday

I had my first online grocery shopping experience this weekend, and I’m hooked!  It was so cool to shop in my pajamas while watching “Friends” on Friday night.  That’s right – I just admitted that I was watching re-runs in my PJs on a Friday night.  In my defense, it was rainy, I was tired, [...]

Posted 26 July 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Menu Monday § Recipes ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged: , , ,

Pioneer Woman Lasanga

Hello my lovely readers!  As you know, I’m on a busy schedule these days.  I don’t have much time for cooking.  Rather than making several meals throughout the week, I’ve started to make several meals on one day.  I try to put them in smaller pans so that Chris can pull them out of the [...]

Posted 14 January 2010 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Cookbooks § Recipes ‡ Comments (8) °

Menu for the Week

Since starting the night shift, the amount of time that I have available to devote to cooking has gone way, way down.  However, I’ve noticed that if I shop from a menu, our grocery bill is much more manageable.  So it’s a quandary – to cook and save, or to spend and have extra time [...]

Posted 30 November 2009 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Recipes ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: ,

Low-Fat, Low-Cal: 3 Amazing Recipes

I’ve been preparing and shopping from a weekly menu for the last several months now. This is a fairly recent development in my life. At first I was skeptical, but I kept reading other bloggers’ menus and thought, “What the heck – I’ll give it a try”. It’s turned out to be a great thing [...]

Posted 21 August 2009 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Food § Healthy Cooking magazine § Recipes ‡ Comments (8) °

Have a Happy, Yummy, 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July everyone! Chris and I don’t have any special plans for today – just hanging out, making hamburgers, and eating some good food while hopefully watching some fireworks. If we were at my parents’ house we’d be surrounded by about 20 people and everyone would be engaged in different activities: jumping on [...]

Posted 04 July 2009 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § 4th of July § Desserts § Food § Recipes ‡ Comments (11) °

I’ve Lost My Brain

I’ve lost my brain. Do you know where I might be able to find it? Seriously – yesterday was bad to begin with because of my cold, but then I did something kind of embarrassing. I was just getting out of the shower when I heard a knock at the door. I knew it was [...]

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Posted 03 July 2009 † Jenny @ Practically Perfect... § Chris § Embarrassing Moment § Food ‡ Comments (9) °