It has been a long time since I’ve posted a “Menu Monday”. Time to resurrect that tradition. Lately, I’ve been making a lot of recipes from Eating Well. I’ve subscribed to their email service and have been pleasantly surprised with the suggestions that they send. I’m trying to do a better job of using fresh… Read More Menu Monday!
Lately, my desire to grocery shop has gone out the door, down the stairs, into the elevator, and landed in the basement. Then, it’s been crushed by one of the cars backing out of the car-park and rolled like a tumbleweed onto the sidewalk, where it’s been further kicked around by passing pedestrians. Can you… Read More Grocery Shopping + Cooking
First up – the giveaway! I’m probably decreasing my odds of winning by doing this, but you should head on over to Miller’s blog and check out her giveaway {it’s for a great book}. She’s a sweet Southern transplant who’s moved to the Midwest and takes amazing pictures. I love reading her posts and hearing… Read More Menu Monday… and a giveaway!
Shortly after coming to New Zealand, I noticed something. There seemed to be a lot of carrot cake – in coffee shops, at restaurants, served at get-togethers, at the hospital cafeteria… you get the idea. Not surprisingly, I found myself dreaming about cream cheese frosting and nutty, delicious baked goods. When I mentioned this to… Read More When Good Carrot Cake Goes Green {It’s the Baking Soda, Stupid!}
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… Read More Why Absent-Minded Professors Shouldn’t Cook
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… Read More Cheesy Pasta with Roasted Squash and Bacon
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. … Read More 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… Read More 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,… Read More Menu Monday
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… Read More Pioneer Woman Lasanga
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… Read More Menu for the Week
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… Read More Low-Fat, Low-Cal: 3 Amazing Recipes
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… Read More Have a Happy, Yummy, 4th of July!
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… Read More I’ve Lost My Brain
