Changing my ways

I signed up for Weight Watchers online two weeks ago. So far, so good. That is, so good if you consider I am completely obsessed with food and not very nice anymore. Tonight I sliced zucchini, onion, and tomato on the mandoline the spouse bought me for Christmas last December. I sprayed each layer with [...]

Behold the perfect oatmeal cookie

oatmeal cookies

Oh, sure, everyone knows chocolate is pretty much the best food on earth, but for some reason I’ve had oatmeal raisin cookies swimming in my head the last few days. Today I broke down and made some. They were meant to be a bribe for son #2, but when he came by this morning, he [...]

The first set of true leaves

basil

Basil, of course! I planted the first round a few days after surgery, and have followed up with a planting every two weeks. If you look carefully, you’ll see the first set of true leaves coming on the group on the left: I know I whine about it a lot, but this has got to [...]

How do you burn tomato soup?

You get caught up in HGTV’s Saturday Design Studio while the spouse is watching NCAA basketball. It’s a really informal evening around here. I’m still not at my culinary best, so I warmed up a can of tomato soup and threw a couple of Aldi’s pot pies in the oven. (Aldi’s has awesome pot pies.) [...]

Six weeks bran muffins

One of the first things I ate post-surgery was an amazing bran muffin at the hospital. That meant when I came home, I sent the spouse on a mission for bran muffins. He bought two. He ate one. This created a bran muffin craving that was finally satisfied this morning. The recipe calls for raisin [...]