Sweet Potato Pie and Shut My Mouth
20 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
in family, Food and Drink, Welcome Home Tags: Around the house, family, Friends, married life
Oh, it’s Thanksgiving Week. I love Thanksgiving. Because this former fat girl still loves to eat. NOM NOM NOM.
This year, it’s only going to be my husband and myself. The rest of our family has plans, and to tell you the truth, I’m actually kind of happy it will just be Bob and I. I don’t get nearly enough time with him, and the thought of spending the day with him alone with nothing but good food and football doesn’t hurt my feelings at all.
I have been thinking about our Thanksgiving meal for weeks. We’re having turkey, and stuffing, and mashed potatos and corn (um, hello carbs, I’m your bitch). I’m also baking my husband a pecan pie, and making homemade bread. This year I’m attempting my own cranberry orange relish, and making myself a sugar free sweet potato pie. Luckily I remembered to take the turkey out of the freezer today so I don’t have turkey popsicles on Thursday.
And then we shall watch football.
My husband leaves Friday morning to go on his annual hunting trip. I have plans to do nothing at all. Just me and my dog on Friday (I am NOT a Black Friday shopper). Saturday, I’m having a girls day with some friends. We’re going antiquing, and to lunch, and then we’re watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (or Elf…) and gossiping. Because yes, women do that.
So, I bid you all good eating this week. Enjoy your family and friends. Enjoy your food. And give thanks, for everything you have and everything you hold dear.
Let the holidays begin.
OH – and just a quick update to my previous post – it appears I have a vit. D deficiency. They’ve upped my D supplement and if that doesn’t work, they’ll be adding in Zoloft. Hopefully it will get me over the hump to actually ENJOY my holidays.
Tequilla Lime Pound Cake with Vanilla Glaze
10 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
in Food and Drink Tags: Everyone loves cake
I’m baking one of these for work in two weeks.
Yeah. I know you’re jealous.
Homemade Pasta Fagiole…with meatballs
13 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment
in Food and Drink Tags: home stuff
Filed Under Things You Don’t Want To Hear Two Days Before Thanksgiving
23 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
in family, Food and Drink Tags: holidays, home stuff
“Honey, is the turkey still supposed to be frozen solid?”
*headdesk*
I took it out of the freezer on Saturday and put it in the fridge. Yeah, still frozen. Sigh.
I’m Making These For Thanksgiving This Year
28 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
in Food and Drink Tags: Recipes
Toffee Brownies
Ingredients:
3 (6-ounce) candy bars with almonds and toffee chips (recommended: Symphony brand)
Vegetable oil cooking spray
1 (17.6-ounce) package brownie mix with walnuts
Directions
Prepare the brownie mix according to package directions.
Line a 13 by 9-inch cake pan with aluminum foil and spray with vegetable oil cooking spray. Spoon in half of the brownie batter and smooth with a spatula or the back of a spoon. Place the candy bars side by side on top of the batter. Cover with the remaining batter.
Bake according to package directions. Let cool completely, then lift from the pan using the edges of the foil. This makes it easy to cut the brownies into squares.
Recipe courtesy Paula Deen
Servings: 24 large/48 small brownies
Prep Time: 8 min
Cook Time: 25 min
Difficulty: Easy
Because they have these in them:
My husband is a bonafide Chocoholic…and he loves Symphony bars. So when he saw Paula Deen make these on TV he drooled and begged me to make them for Thanksgiving. Well, those, plus a pecan pie…oh, and a pumpkin pie…and an apple pie (yes, I know, he has a problem). Who needs turkey anyway?
I told him I would make them but he’d have to wear his Joey Tribbiani Thanksgiving pants…
How you doin’?
Yayayayayayayayayayay!
07 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
in Food and Drink Tags: coffee, keurig, obsessions
My birthday isn’t until next month, but my Mom gave me my present early today. A Keurig!
My coffee addiction…let me show you it.
I’m so excited!!
Sandra Lee Ain’t Got Nothin’ on Me
27 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment
in Food and Drink Tags: Recipes
I may not have a tablescape completed, or have re-decorated an already decorated store bought cake, but I can say that I probably have THE BEST Slowcooker Stroganoff in the crockpot this morning…dinners for the next two days and the total cost was less than $5.00 – for the whole thing.
I threw in 2 pounds of cubed venison, diced three taters, 2 celery stalks, button mushrooms, 2 carrots, an onion and 4 cloves of garlic. I added four cups of coffee, a can of fat free mushroom soup, 6 oz of fat free greek yogurt, 1 can of tomato sauce, and a tablespoon of butter. I threw in some parsley, black pepper, and chili powder and cranked that baby on low.
OM NOM NOM NOM
Paula Deen…You Are The Devil
20 Jul 2010 2 Comments
in Food and Drink, Friends Tags: Recipes
This woman…I don’t know how she doesn’t weight 4,857,740 pounds.
Since I promised Bluz I’d make him cookies for bailing me out in a sticky situation last week, I decided to try a new recipe. Paula Deen’s Five Layer Bars.
Of course, I couldn’t use Bluz as my guinea pig, so I used my husband. I made some tweaks to the recipe. For my husband’s batch, I made them with vanilla wafer crumbs instead of the graham cracker crumbs He also requested that instead of butterscotch chips, I use hershey’s mint chocolate chips. So for his, I used one and a half cups of mint chocolate chips and half a cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips. So, here’s what went in his…
2c of vanilla wafer crumbs mixed with half a cup of butter…
topped with 1 1/2 cups of mint chocolate chips
1/2 c of semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup of chopped pecans…
1 c. of shredded coconut
and a can of sweetened condensed milk
I baked them for 30 minutes and then had to keep Bob away from them for the next couple of hours. When I finally let him have one, his eyes glazed over with glee and he started to twitch. He said they taste like a thin mint macaroon. He’s in love with the cookies. I think even more than me.
When I made them for Bluz, I tweaked the recipe again…using 1c. of reeces peanut butter chips…
and a cup of the semi-sweet morsels in place of the 2 cups of chocolate morsels that I used in my husband’s recipe.
They definitely came out just as rich looking…but I guess time will tell how they really taste.
Come to the dark side…we have cookies.
My Day is Now Complete
13 May 2010 1 Comment
in Food and Drink, Total Randomness Tags: Random Funnies
If you haven’t checked out Cake Wrecks…well, why the hell not?
I would so like this to be my next birthday cake…because I’m twisted and whatnot.
Recipes
07 Mar 2010 2 Comments
in Food and Drink Tags: Recipes
I don’t usually post much about my Weightloss Surgery here, but I did post this over at I’m Being Bypassed this morning and who doesn’t like recipes?
I got my new ObesityHelp magazine yesterday and there are some yummy recipes in it from Megan. I can’t wait to try these this week – they really sound good.
I plan on making these mini-fritatas -
1 potato, chopped (I may omit the potato and add mushrooms instead)
1/2 onion, chopped
1 cup mixed peppers chopped (red, green and yellow)
5 eggs or 1 1/4 c. egg substitute
1/3 c milk
salt and pepper to taste (I’ll substitute Mrs. Dash because I love it in eggs)
1 tbsp oil
cooking spray
Preheat the oven to 350. Heat oil in the skillet. Spray muffin tin with cooking spray. Saute veggies in the skillet. Whisk together egg, milk and seasonings. Spray a 12-cup muffin tin with cooking spray. Divide sauted veggies evenly in the pan. Add egg mixture just to the top of the veggies. Bake in the oven for 10 to 12 minutes and then broil for another minute or two. They are done when the edges start to pull away from the pan. These freeze well so you can pull out a serving at the time. I think to those I’m going to omit the tater, and add a little more protein via some turkey sausage or maybe add some shredded low fat cheese. They sound yummy. I’m gathering that a portion size is 2 frittatas.
I’m also going to try this one:
Chile Relleno Pie
1lb extra lean group beef or turkey breast
1 cup chopped onion
2 4oz cans of green chiles
salt, pepper
1 tsp chili powder
1/2 c shredded pepper jack (I’ll use a 2%)
3/4c of non-fat milk (I’ll use 1%)
1/8c flour
2 beaten eggs (I’ll use egg substitute)
more salt and pepper
2-3 shakes of hot sauce
Brown ground beef (or turkey) and add onions, chilis, and seasoning. Cook until onions are tender. Spray a 12-cup muffin pan with cooking spray and divide beef mixture into the tins. Top with cheese. Whisk eggs, flour, milk, salt, pepper and hot sauce until smooth. Pour over the beef mixture. Bake at 365 for 15 minutes. Take a knife to loosen the edges of the pies, and let cool in the pan. Remove from muffin tin once completely cooled. Apparently these make 6 servings – 2 pies per serving. But it will all depend on what pouchy can hold down.
This sounded good too:
Zucchini Meat Loaf (I LURVE zucchini!)
1lb ground beef or turkey
1c break crumbs
1/4 c nonfat milk
1 medium zucchini, grated
1 small onion, grated
1/2 tsp italian seasoning
pinch of salt
Preheat oven to 350. Mix all ingredients together. Spray a 12-cup muffin tin with cooking spray. Divide mixture evenly in muffin tins. Bake for 30 – 35 minutes. Freezes well. Makes 12 servings.
I plan on venturing over to Megan‘s website later this morning too. I’m not a bandster, but it sounds like I can enjoy some of these high protein recipes!
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