Hash Brown Breakfast Cups Category: Food & Drink, Life, Meals, weight watchers Servings: 12 Muffins A great way to start the day! These muffins are great straight from the oven or reheated in the microwave. Ingredients Hash browns; if frozen, thaw Eggs, whisked Turkey Bacon, cooked Reduced Fat Sharp Cheddar Cheese salt and pepper to…
Read moreGo To Munchy Snacks
So it took a while for me to really find something that satisfies my munchies. But I think I’ve managed it with these 2 things. When I have the Desert Munchies I go after the Sensible Portions Cinnamon Apple Straws. With those you can have 38! Yes that’s right 38 of them for just 4…
Read moreSo I joined Weight Watchers…
Yes, I finally took the plunge. I’ve been trying to get rid of the weight I gained before and during my pregnancy and it just hasn’t been going well alone. Thus here we are with the Smart Points program. I’ll admit the last 4 days have been a roller coaster of emotions for me. From…
Read moreBeing Beer-venturous
So I’m working on a beer recipe. I’m going to enter it in Next Year’s Queen of Beer Homebrew Competition. I’m looking at doing one of the “ancient” beers. Something along the lines of an alcoholic chocolate drink. I have to formulate it myself without help from the mighty one. I’m thinking I’m going to…
Read moreThe unfortunate omelet
So I was just going to make scrambled eggs, but for some bizarre reason that intention turned into an omelet. A very very salty omelet. Everything started fine. The cheese was good and the Krab was well… the only protein available, but it still wasn’t bad. The problem item was the olives and my lazy…
Read moreSalsa
Along with the squash I had some tomatoes that needed to be used or they were going to rot, so…. I made some salsa. I usually make a fresh salsa or a table salsa, but I decided to get adventurous and blend the 2 together. I had about 8 tomatoes, so right there I’ve got…
Read moreButternut Squash Soup
I made the Alton Brown Squash Soup last night. I had squash and I really wanted some soup so you can see where that went… I ran out of chicken stock after 2 cups and I needed 3, so I fished some dashi stock I made a little while back out of the freezer and…
Read moreLemon Cordial-2 & Lime Cordial-3
I made some cordials yesterday and decided to play with the recipes a little adding some low glycemic level agave nectar to the Lemon and Raw Cane sugar to the Lime. Since the Simple syrup makes up about half of the liquid for the cordials, making them differently like this could have a major affect…
Read moreLemon Ice Cream, YUM!
So today was the day of citrus… I made a Lemon ice cream The lemon ice cream is a little different than what I usually make. It wasn’t heated prior to putting it in the ice cream maker. I used this recipe from www.bellaonline.com: 3 cups milk – whole milk or 2% 1 cup evaporated…
Read morewow I didn’t think it would be that hot…
I forgot my lunch today and so I went to the Rice Kitchen, which is one of my more favored Chinese restaurants. I got my normal Lunch special, but I thought I would try something new. So I got the Hot and Sour Soup… ummm wow. I think my lips may burst into flame. I…
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