Weekend Edition

Not feeling much like cooking the past few days. Yesterday I opted for takeout pizza from my fav. pizza place – Napoli’s Flying Pizza, on Memorial Drive, along with an ear of corn (gotta have at least one/day, since I brought home a dozen ears from Indiana! )  🙂 Off to a local waterpark today,…

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Friday Dinner – simple and easy

Friday’s dinner was simple and easy.  After being out of town, I didn’t feel like making anything much, and the electricity kept going out, so I didn’t want to put something on that would be ruined if the electricity went out again. I ended up with 1) corn on the cob and 2) scrambled eggs…

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I’m Back!

Been gone for over a week, off to my hometown to visit family and attend my niece’s wedding.  We had a great time, but of course, I was not able to stay on my “eat only what I have in the house” plan. I have done a pretty good job of cleaning out (i.e. eating…

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Broke down and had fast food…

Well, yesterday got away from me, come 10 p.m. at night I was really hungry, what is open at that time of night (didn’t feel like cooking either),  none other than McDonald’s drive-thru.  I don’t get food from McD’s very often, but last night was an exception… Today I actually went grocery shopping for some…

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Catching up on the weeks dinners…

Well, Wednesday was another scorcher here in Houston.  Salad was on the menu for dinner, much like the salads on Monday and Tuesday. Thursday I dropped by my neighbors and was invited to join them for dinner – Pizza was on the menu that night.  Thanks Mary and John! Friday night I couldn’t decide what…

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Too Hot to Cook

And that means – SALADS! Monday and Tuesday I had salads for dinner. Monday’s salad included romaine lettuce, diced ham, pepperjack cheese, artichokes, and tomatoes. Salad dressing was balsamic vinegar and lemon olive oil. Tuesday’s salad was similar, yet different – romaine lettuce, diced ham, feta cheese, artichokes, tomatoes, pepercini peppers, and salad dressing of balsamic…

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Standup Freezer Inventory

Yep – I have a big standing freezer.  Surprisingly, I don’t really have that much in it (anymore – since starting this eat only what I have at home thing). Still I have things in there that I need to use before they get freezer burned. What’s in this freezer?? Well, Watermelon (yep, I froze…

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Artichoke Spinach Cheese Ravioli Anyone?

Last week I practiced making homemade pasta dough and various noodles.  Today, I took it up a notch and made homemade Artichoke Spinach Cheese Ravioli.  I used a recipe for artichoke spinach dip and modified it for the stuffing.  I also need to do a better job of getting the air bubbles out of the…

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It’s All About the Grill

Today was triple digit heat in Houston.  Who wants to cook inside with kind of heat?  Refilled the propane grill tank, and away we go! I also realized I needed to modify my rules (again).  Lettuce is now considered a “staple” so I can have salads as part of my well rounded dinners. With that,…

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It’s “Fried”ay, a day early

Well, today’s theme turned out to be Fried Foods… Fried green tomatoes, French fries, and refried black beans… Good thing I 1) used grapeseed oil for the fried green tomatoes and 2) didn’t use much oil (grapeseed of course) at all in making the refried black beans. The french fries were frozen leftovers from Five…

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