I spent this entire holiday season pretty relaxed. Besides the cookie swap, I didn’t bake or cook anything specifically for the holidays. The more I think about it the more I believe I needed that.I think I needed to decompress and not think about food, parties, or entertaining. We did set up a little tree…
Category: Entrées
Winter Vegetable Pasta Salad
It’s been a long time since I’ve put a pasta salad together. It’s so hard to fit a bowl of pasta in when I don’t have a lot of room in my diet for it (calorie wise). But, when I add an equal amount of vegetables to pasta it helps a lot! I didn’t think…
Hearty Bean Green and Grain Soup
I didn’t cook for Thanksgiving this year. A couple of weeks ago I roasted a turkey for an early Thanksgiving get together at my Granny’s house. She and my parents weren’t going to be here for the Holiday. Since we didn’t really have plans for the Holiday Ben and I were just going to lie…
Black Bean Penne with Roasted Butternut Squash and Power Green Pesto
The funny thing is, I’m not gluten or lactose intolerant. I don’t have any food allergies, yet, that I am aware of. I’m not vegan nor vegetarian. But, I’m absolutely drawn to these alternative specialty foods! I think it’s great how the industry caters to all kinds of diets and dietary restrictions! The choices…
Twice Baked Spaghetti Squash
I’ve been on this vegetable loving health kick for awhile now. I’ve been “accidentally” making a lot of vegetarian dishes. I’m not a vegetarian but meat tends to be high in fat, and therefore, high in calories and I’ve been trying to keep my calorie intake in check lately. I’ve gained a few pounds in…
Italian Chili Soup
Lately, on Facebook, I’ve been tiring of peoples’ snippy comments/quotes or re-posts of comments/quotes describing, defending, and denoting their “beliefs”. “8. Beliefs are nothing to be proud of. Believing something is not an accomplishment. I grew up thinking that beliefs are something to be proud of, but they’re really nothing but opinions one refuses…