Month: May 2009

How to Make Homemade chicken tenders

How to Make Homemade chicken tenders

I mentioned the other day that I make pasta a lot. This is another recipe that gets requested fairly often. My famous home made chicken tenders. Usually it is requested on nights that my sons will have their friends over for a sleep over and 

Double chocolate muffins

This recipe was inspired by Recipe Girl’s post on chocolate banana bread a few weeks ago. It sounded so good, but instead of making it into bread, I made muffins of course! I adapted the recipe, but it still turned out great! Ingredients: 5 ounces 

Pasta with mini meatballs + southwest bowl

Pasta with mini meatballs + southwest bowl

I make pasta a lot. Different pastas, different variations of sauce, some with ground beef, some with Italian sausage, etc… I knew I was going to make my pasta sauce, but I decided on mini meatballs instead of the regular size I usually make. Why, 

Duo Dishes Cookies

Duo Dishes Cookies

As I was reading your blogs yesterday, I was so happy to see a recipe I needed to make. I had the task of making desert for my son’s school. Today is the teacher appreciation luncheon and since I couldn’t help, I told them I 

Memorial Day Weekend Re-cap!

Memorial Day Weekend Re-cap!

Holy cow I had a busy weekend! And wonderful! Except for rain in the afternoon on Monday, the weather cooperated and it was perfect this weekend! So, I will fill you in on my activities! Party pizza Friday, Water friends yard while they are out 

Party Pizza Friday!

Party Pizza Friday!

I think I’ve mentioned before that my family orders pizza every Friday night. My husband and I started that tradition when we first met 16 years ago, and through getting engaged, getting married, having 3 kids, its always been a tradition that we look forward 

Lemon bow tie and shrimp pasta

Lemon bow tie and shrimp pasta

Sometimes when I don’t know what to make for dinner, I will go to Food TV or Cooking Light and just type a few ingredients I have on hand and then get some inspiration from there. I had shrimp, and pasta, so that’s what I 

A great day!+ Chicken breasts with feta cheese sauce!

A great day!+ Chicken breasts with feta cheese sauce!

I had a great day today! It was gorgeous outside, not a cloud in the sky, so I decided to ride my bike to work! Then when it came time for lunch, I just had to get out again, so I jumped back on my 

Lemon Pepper chicken salad!

Lemon Pepper chicken salad!

When I got home from work, well even before I got home, I told myself I was going to work out before dinner. I announced it to my family when I walked in the door, immediately got changed and got busy! I did 20 minutes 

Greek Quina and Avacodos

Greek Quina and Avacodos

What a busy weekend! I didn’t go on-line at all! But I wanted to share a great recipe I found from Fitness Magazine. I wasn’t able to download my pics because as I was downloading them, I have no more space on my computer! Maybe 

Great buy!

Great buy!

Do you know what’s in that bag? There is a bread store in my town, Great Harvest Bread which is going out of business and their last day open is tomorrow. I stopped in yesterday just to tell the owner how sad I was that 

Savory breakfast muffins

I’ve posted so many muffin recipes that are sweet, I decided to make a recipe that is savory instead. I consulted a few places, and ended up finding one I liked as a base to go off of from Eating Well Magazine. I’m going to 

Lemon Poppyseed tea cakes

Lemon Poppyseed tea cakes

I saw a post from Hayley at www.buffchickpea.com for these awesome looking tea cakes. I love anything with the lemon/poppyseed combo, so I knew I would make them. I switched a few of the ingredients and still got great results! I used: 3/4 cup flour 

Tortellini Soup!

Tortellini Soup!

I printed out a recipe from Spark People for what I thought was tortellini soup, but it turned out to be a recipe for a side dish that was just called β€œtortellini with vegetables.” Since I still had soup on my brain, I read the 

Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce

Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce

I’m so excited because for Mother’s Day I got two Topsy Turvey Tomato plants. Have you seen the infomercial about it? It’s a hanging bag, you put the seeds at the bottom, fill it with soil, hang it from a hook, and the plants grow 

My internet was down all weekend!

For someone who likes to blog, read blogs, check e-mail, etc… it’s been rather frustrating! After several calls to the cable company who said it was a local area problem and it should be back up in several hours, well two days has passed when 

Dinner from bags!

Dinner from bags!

Sometimes when its a busy day at work, or big homework night I like to keep things in the freezer that will take no time to cook. I was so happy to see these things in my freezer! I had Butterball Turkey Smoked Sausages. They 

I didn’t bring lunch to work + Jennie-0 mini turkey meatloaf!

I didn’t bring lunch to work + Jennie-0 mini turkey meatloaf!

99% of the time I make and bring my lunch to work. Today, I was running late, didn’t plan last night since I watched The 2 hour episode of the Biggest Loser. So as it was approaching the lunch hour I started to think what 

Lasagna for one! (mexican style)

Lasagna for one! (mexican style)

My husband and younger son are out of town on a camping trip field trip with my son’s school, so when I got home from work tonight I was thinking about what to make for myself. I asked my other two kids if they wanted 

How I make Pot sticker pillows

How I make Pot sticker pillows

Using wonton wrappers – these came out what I am calling pot sticker pillows!Β  Filled with a yummy vegetable and ground turkey filling. I had every intention of getting to bed early, but while watching β€œDiners, Drive-Ins and Dives” on Food TV, one establishment made 

Orzo with spinach and feta

Orzo with spinach and feta

This orzo with spinach and feta pasta salad is so delicious – I’ve made it so many times over the years, and I love it more eachΒ  time I make it! I’ve mentioned before I am a magazine-a-holic. Until the last year, I had stacks 

Turkey bacon bbq chicken pita sammie with home fries

Turkey bacon bbq chicken pita sammie with home fries

I had bought a huge package of chicken, so even though I had chicken in my mac n cheese yesterday, I was going to make it tonight. I was tossing around ideas in my head, so I thought I hadn’t done chicken breast sandwiches is