Hello All!!
I am sort of AMPED UP today! I took my first B12 injection this morning! Well, I injected myself with my first B12 injection this morning, and I am working on the equivalent of my 3rd and 4th cups of coffee... AH! Hahahaha... yeah... A little buzzed right now!
It's been 7 days since my last post, and the whole, "Do better at posting on the blog," kind of falls under posting at least once a week if not more! (At least to me it does!)
I haven't been doing much since the New Year started. On Thursday I had an absolutely LOVELY day! I got to sleep in while George took Autumn to school, and then when he got back and I got up we mixed everything together for the stuffed bell peppers that were going to be our dinner. The ingredients are 2lbs meat--I used 1/2 pork and 1/2 beef; 2 carrots, grated; 1/2 head cauliflower, grated; dried diced onion (probably the equivalent to 3Tbsp; but next time I will use at least half a real onion); minced garlic; garlic powder; salt (would up this a bit); and will probably add pepper next time--just didn't have it this time... I mixed everything together, and then let it sit mixed together while I cut the tops off of the peppers and made sure the extra seeds and bits were out of the main cavity of the peppers before stuffing them. Then I just took handfuls of meat and stuffed the peppers! There was probably half a cup or so of meat mixture left over in the bowl. After arranging the peppers and piling the extra meat mixture between then I added the alotted 1/2 cup of water to the slow cooker, put the top on, turned it on to low, and forgot about it for about 9hrs.
After the peppers were set and cooking, and George had washed all the pots and pans and cleaned out the dishwasher, I got the mixing bowl back out and took some eggs out. While I was whisking the eggs together George cut up some black forest ham sandwich meat that we had and some nice slices of cheddar into bite-sized pieces. When the eggs were just about almost done I added the ham and cheese to them (next time I will whisk the ham and cheese in with the eggs before putting them in the pan to cook). They turned out so delicious! It was a GREAT breakfast! Scrambled eggs with ham and cheese with a small glass of Trop50 orange juice followed by a cup of coffee.
George and I snuggled on the couch for a while, and then I got the baking bug. So while a movie was on in the background I assembled Trader Joe's Blueberry Muffin Mix, got the mixture into the muffin pan and baked for 22mins. (I set the timer for things from packages like that, and cake mixes and what not, for at least 5mins LESS than what the package says... I like to take things out of the oven when they are JUST done because they keep cooking themselves while they're sitting on the counter. That is how my cupcakes and cakes and what not are so moist and tasty--I haven't OVER baked them!)
After the muffins were out of the oven it was time to start another movie so George and I found one that we both wouldn't mind having on. At this point I think we both napped for a little while on the couch. At about 5:30p George put one of Trader Joe's freezer bags of potatoes with hericot vert (aka green beans) on to cook. They took about 10 or 15mins to cook, and by that time the peppers were perfectly done. We both got a pepper and some of the potato, mushroom, and green bean mixture. Then we put on Wild Target with Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, and Dumbledor (the "new" one, not the original). It was a delicious dinner and a good movie.
When dinner was done, cleaned up, and left overs put away I mixed together one of the World Market scone mixes (lemon poppyseed), and baked them for about 12minutes. The scones are absolutely delicious as well! I was very productive on Thursday in terms of cooking!
This weekend--meaning Friday, Saturday, and Sunday--, George and I have to work, so the muffins and scones have been completely perfectly portable breakfasts for us. The peppers that were made on Thursday, and the lasagna that George made from scratch on Wednesday have traveled well, and if I do say so myself the stuffed peppers were better yesterday than they were Thursday night for dinner. The flavors had time, while in the fridge waiting for consumption, to meld together and marry and become an even more satisfying meal! The flavors in the lasagna also had a lovely time playing together and were just as delicious if not better on Friday as they were on Wednesday! Last night's dinner was a quicky of basmati rice with Trader Joe's Cuban-style Black Beans. HOLY CROW are those beans good!! The only thing I did was add slightly more than a dash of Mrs Dash's Fiesta Lime seasoning to the beans! SO. TASTY! I was in the mood for something quick and that was the quickest, healthiest thing that I had.
I am working on doing better about cooking, and I am trying to do better about a lot of things in my life. Baby steps are what I'm taking. Food. Money. Start small, get used to it, and make it a life style change, and not just a quick-soon-to-be-over thing!
Sorry for the lengthy post, but with B12 and coffee coffee coffee I couldn't help myself!
I am sort of AMPED UP today! I took my first B12 injection this morning! Well, I injected myself with my first B12 injection this morning, and I am working on the equivalent of my 3rd and 4th cups of coffee... AH! Hahahaha... yeah... A little buzzed right now!
It's been 7 days since my last post, and the whole, "Do better at posting on the blog," kind of falls under posting at least once a week if not more! (At least to me it does!)
I haven't been doing much since the New Year started. On Thursday I had an absolutely LOVELY day! I got to sleep in while George took Autumn to school, and then when he got back and I got up we mixed everything together for the stuffed bell peppers that were going to be our dinner. The ingredients are 2lbs meat--I used 1/2 pork and 1/2 beef; 2 carrots, grated; 1/2 head cauliflower, grated; dried diced onion (probably the equivalent to 3Tbsp; but next time I will use at least half a real onion); minced garlic; garlic powder; salt (would up this a bit); and will probably add pepper next time--just didn't have it this time... I mixed everything together, and then let it sit mixed together while I cut the tops off of the peppers and made sure the extra seeds and bits were out of the main cavity of the peppers before stuffing them. Then I just took handfuls of meat and stuffed the peppers! There was probably half a cup or so of meat mixture left over in the bowl. After arranging the peppers and piling the extra meat mixture between then I added the alotted 1/2 cup of water to the slow cooker, put the top on, turned it on to low, and forgot about it for about 9hrs.
After the peppers were set and cooking, and George had washed all the pots and pans and cleaned out the dishwasher, I got the mixing bowl back out and took some eggs out. While I was whisking the eggs together George cut up some black forest ham sandwich meat that we had and some nice slices of cheddar into bite-sized pieces. When the eggs were just about almost done I added the ham and cheese to them (next time I will whisk the ham and cheese in with the eggs before putting them in the pan to cook). They turned out so delicious! It was a GREAT breakfast! Scrambled eggs with ham and cheese with a small glass of Trop50 orange juice followed by a cup of coffee.
George and I snuggled on the couch for a while, and then I got the baking bug. So while a movie was on in the background I assembled Trader Joe's Blueberry Muffin Mix, got the mixture into the muffin pan and baked for 22mins. (I set the timer for things from packages like that, and cake mixes and what not, for at least 5mins LESS than what the package says... I like to take things out of the oven when they are JUST done because they keep cooking themselves while they're sitting on the counter. That is how my cupcakes and cakes and what not are so moist and tasty--I haven't OVER baked them!)
After the muffins were out of the oven it was time to start another movie so George and I found one that we both wouldn't mind having on. At this point I think we both napped for a little while on the couch. At about 5:30p George put one of Trader Joe's freezer bags of potatoes with hericot vert (aka green beans) on to cook. They took about 10 or 15mins to cook, and by that time the peppers were perfectly done. We both got a pepper and some of the potato, mushroom, and green bean mixture. Then we put on Wild Target with Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, and Dumbledor (the "new" one, not the original). It was a delicious dinner and a good movie.
When dinner was done, cleaned up, and left overs put away I mixed together one of the World Market scone mixes (lemon poppyseed), and baked them for about 12minutes. The scones are absolutely delicious as well! I was very productive on Thursday in terms of cooking!
This weekend--meaning Friday, Saturday, and Sunday--, George and I have to work, so the muffins and scones have been completely perfectly portable breakfasts for us. The peppers that were made on Thursday, and the lasagna that George made from scratch on Wednesday have traveled well, and if I do say so myself the stuffed peppers were better yesterday than they were Thursday night for dinner. The flavors had time, while in the fridge waiting for consumption, to meld together and marry and become an even more satisfying meal! The flavors in the lasagna also had a lovely time playing together and were just as delicious if not better on Friday as they were on Wednesday! Last night's dinner was a quicky of basmati rice with Trader Joe's Cuban-style Black Beans. HOLY CROW are those beans good!! The only thing I did was add slightly more than a dash of Mrs Dash's Fiesta Lime seasoning to the beans! SO. TASTY! I was in the mood for something quick and that was the quickest, healthiest thing that I had.
I am working on doing better about cooking, and I am trying to do better about a lot of things in my life. Baby steps are what I'm taking. Food. Money. Start small, get used to it, and make it a life style change, and not just a quick-soon-to-be-over thing!
Sorry for the lengthy post, but with B12 and coffee coffee coffee I couldn't help myself!
