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I'm always looking to try a new recipe around the holidays or when I'll have family over for a big meal. This year I decided I w...

Tis the season for fresh garden tomatoes!  I used to be a tomato-hater, but in recent years I've begun to like them. So much so that I...

So, I made this while I was on vacation a couple weeks ago:  Cinnamon Sugar Baked Oatmeal . Just click on the name to go to the recipe....

Never in my life had I heard of baking oatmeal until I started following Budget Bytes . I follow her on Facebook, as well as browsing her we...

As I've mentioned in a couple other posts, I'm really struggling with eating right and not overeating lately. Mostly due to my minds...

My last attempt at making baking powder biscuits didn't go so well, mainly because I hadn't checked the expiration date of the bak...

So, apparently this is what you get when you don't check the expiration date on the baking powder:  very flat biscuits. Today is m...

I'm happy to say I'm 100% on track with eating AND exercise this week. I'm sticking with 1,200 calories per day, and that's ...

I've kept up with my goal to make recipe per week from my cookbooks; however, I forgot to take pictures of two recipes I made recently. ...

I went to the grocery store Friday night after working out with my trainer. Bob was working a double shift and wouldn't be home until mi...

Well, actually Friday's breakfast. But who's keeping track? I went to Stew Leonard's Wednesday night and bought some of their ...

We had tacos last week, so I had a bunch of stuff in the fridge to use up. What better way than to make egg muffins?  You can throw prett...

Whenever Bob goes camping, like this weekend, I usually make a special breakfast for when he gets home on Sunday.  He usually stops for a...

This morning I was looking for information about how to fry an egg in butter without the grease splattering everywhere.  It seems I get a lo...

  My poppies are blooming! I'm at the tail end of my vacation from work. Vacation was scary for me this time around.  Normally I l...

I'm not mom to any humans, but I'm mom to my kitties.  I was hoping they would make me breakfast in bed, or maybe clean their own...

When I went to New Hampshire for Easter, I stopped at a store on the way and picked up some fresh maple breakfast sausage and fresh Polish k...

Today I ate something I almost never eat anymore:  salad.  I very rarely eat it nowadays, for several reasons.   I ate tons of it when ...

I haven't posted this in a while, so figured I would do so today.   I'm trying to get back on track so maybe this will make me a l...

Over the weekend I bought some hummus from Whole Foods. It's lemon flavored.  It's so good! Very garlicky and lemony, but not overp...