big doings

After hearing about the fabulousness of spaghetti squash for a long time and having tried it a few times, I finally bought one.  

Well before I got to the purchasing step I had to figure out what they looked like so I could find it at the store.   They are right next to butternut squash.  WHO KNEW ALL THE SQUASH WAS TOGETHER? So I have a butternut squash (because I couldn't resist it) and a spaghetti squash ready to go.

In case anyone else is as ignorant as I am when it comes to spaghetti squash,  this is what it looks like:

(image comes from this blog, which is also the recipe I will be following tonight)

Kind of looks like a summer squash (or yellow zucchini, however you roll) on steroids.  But feels more like a butternut squash. 

Never say this blog isn't full of riveting information.

Anyway, back to the point.  Tonight I will be cooking spaghetti squash for the first time.   I really hope its good, because we will most likely be eating it for the next few nights.  I may have bought one that could easily feed a family of 8 and we are only a family of 3.5 and Baby Girl will eat approximately 2 bites.

It wasn't until I was married that I learned that I liked vegetables.   My entire life I thought I wasn't a veggie fan until I realized that it wasn't the vegetable that I didn't like, but the way my mother cooked them.  She and I have a difference of opinion as to whether or not canned French cut green beans are one step above torture.  Canned vegetables are NEVER OKAY.  NEVER.   Fresh or frozen.  That's the only acceptable method of buying/purchasing/eating vegetables.   She also cooks the hell out of her vegetables - as in boils them until all color/taste/nutritional benefits are long gone.   Gag.   Vomit.  

I'll usually roast my veggies so they still have flavor.  And crispness.  And nutrition in them.  Sometimes I will steam broccoli or asparagus,  but it's not my preferred method.   Actually I love my broccoli blanched and then sauteed but that's a lot of work and sometimes it's just easier to steam them.  I still make gagging noises while I eat it even though I'm the one that made it.   It doesn't annoy Andrew at all.  Really. 

It took me probably 27 years to learn it,  but I do like vegetables.   Oh, I still prefer them raw dipped in copious amounts of ranch dressing - but I'm willing to eat a cooked one now and then as long as my mother hasn't been in the kitchen.

I will say vegetables aside, my mother is a good cook.  She cooks her vegetables the way she likes to eat them.  It's just that she just likes vegetables that taste disgusting.  Who knows, maybe in 25 years my kids will lament about how they never got canned vegetables growing up.

I highly doubt it.

In case anyone was wondering,  we still have not caught Mickey.   In fact,  he is mocking us by walking around the glue traps and eating the peanut butter off the snap traps without setting them off.  Jerk.

* Possible spoiler alert for Mad Men * does anyone know why Don hit the elevator button and then when the door opened he stuck his head in the door and saw that there was just a big hole with no elevator car there?  I really did not understand the point of that scene.   Then again,  most of Mad Men goes over my head.   And I'm undecided on whether or not I liked Rory Gilmore  Alexis Bledel's character.

On the way home tonight I thought about having pork chops and broccoli for dinner and I kind of wanted to drive my car into oncoming traffic.  Normally we roast fresh broccoli with some lemon and garlic,  maybe some soy sauce.  It's good,  but it's literally the only way we ever cook fresh broccoli.   I knew there had to be another way to cook it, and I had to find it because I was going to lose my mind if I had to eat roasted broccoli again.  Neither one of us enjoys broccoli that's even the slightest bit soggy (steamed broccoli would have made me actually drive into oncoming traffic,  not just kind of want to) so I was on a mission to save my dinner.  And my sanity.

With the help of Google and Allrecipes.com,  I did find a pretty good recipe - basic,  yes,  but it left me with non soggy broccoli that wasn't roasted with lemon and garlic.    Which was pretty important tonight since we didn't have any lemon.

My culinary skills are lacking when it comes to fresh vegetables.  I can roast,  I can steam (though I really don't like any steamed veggies, they get mushy and then I gag), and I can cut them up and eat them with lots of sour cream dip.   But apparently the latter isn't the "healthy" option.   I'm excited to have another way to cook broccoli.    Next up - fresh brussel sprouts!  We current only have brussel sprouts if they are frozen and microwavable,  but fresh vegetables are just so much better that I really need to figure out how to cook them.

Here is the recipe,  in case you also are looking for a non-soggy and non-roasting broccoli recipe.  Just so you know,  you do have to blanch the broccoli - but what is more fun than giving some broccoli an ice water bath?   Also,  I think it called for way too much Parmesan cheese,  I only used 2 tablespoons and it was plenty.

April Fools!

This month's picture was taken on our recent trip to Virginia.   It's not really April-ish,  but I have not been taking great pictures lately and the beach always makes me happy, so there you go. 

I need to get better about using my camera... the fancy one,  not the iPhone.  The problem is my iPhone takes really good pictures and it's so much easier to grab my phone than lug my DSLR around.   My goal is to use the camera on Easter morning - though I barely remember how to use it,  I'm going to have to rely on Andrew taking back up pictures with the iPhone.   Maybe I should flip through Canon Rebel for Dummies this week and see what I can re-learn!

I will be 26 weeks pregnant tomorrow,  meaning I have 14ish weeks to go!   I feel like it's never going to end,  and that has everything to do with work being a constant source of soul crushing stress and less to do with this pregnancy being a pain in the neck.   Though I do really miss being able to have a glass of wine every day once in awhile. 

The PW Friday night did not go well.  The Barbeque Quesadillas were fabulous,  but the rice was a dismal failure - it was all user error though,  nothing to do with the recipe.  Although I don't even know what the recipe is supposed to taste like,  we burned the rice since we don't have the right hardware.   I had no choice but to try to make it in a Wok which.....  didn't work.  We'll just leave it at that.    The cinnamon I added instead of cumin was just icing on the cake.   Hopefully this Friday will be better!

Happy April! 

Friday night

Andrew and I are going ahead with our April Friday Night PW Recipe (I'm aware that Friday is still March, but sometimes we walk on the wild side like that) and are going to make this and this.

What I find amusing about this is the Mexican Rice recipe was originally posted in November of 2009 and the Quesadillas were posted in May 2010.   I never would have made them just from reading the blog, even though her recipe posts make me want to eat everything she makes.  But for some reason now that I have her cookbook, I'm all "BRING ON THE FOOD!".   I'm loving this cookbook,  it's actually getting me to make these recipes that I normally just drool over.

(Um, Ree.... even I can tell the lighting is not right in this picture!)  Mmmm....  We will most likely use canned pineapple and skip the cilantro,  but still.   Yum.  

Too bad it's only 8:50am on Thursday and I have to wait two more days!

1,000 apologies

 I'm not really sure how two weeks got away from me.  I have no idea what I was doing for the first week and the second week I was getting ready for, and then taking a road trip to Virginia.   Round trip, we spend a total of 22 hours in the car.   That's really 22 more hours than I care to spend in a car,  but seeing as the cost of planes and trains are prohibitive,  it was our only option!  

Much like most of the eastern seaboard,  Virginia was having higher than normal temperatures late last week.  We took advantage and had some fun at Virginia Beach.   Baby Girl had a blast and is still talking about how cold the water was!  (it may have been almost 90*,  but no one told the Atlantic that we were having a heat wave)

Of course it was all fun and games until someone took a header into one of the waves,  but we recovered quickly.  

If you read her blog (and why wouldn't you?),  you know that The Pioneer Woman was doing a book tour - actually I think she still is on it - for her new cook book.   I couldn't make it to the Boston signing because I have to save my vacation time for the arrival of the Little Guy,  butI saw that she was going to be in Virginia Beach...  As luck would have it, that date was before my whirlwind trip south of the Mason-Dixon line.  However,  my fabulous sister-in-law whom we were visiting (along with her family,  obvs) DID go down to her book signing to get a book signed for me!!!  Unfortunately,  the line was like 9 hours long so she wasn't able get it signed, but I STILL HAVE THE BOOK!!!  And a picture of my SIL with Ree in the background.  Win-win situation for me!   I've been going through the book and I'm pretty excited about what's in there.   Andrew and I are going to try to go through and pick out a different recipe to try on Friday nights in April.   We'll see how they come out!

Lastly,  Andrew has been running again,  training for the road race.  He was going to guest blog about his training,  but hasn't yet gotten around to it.   I have been trying to get him to guest blog for awhile because he is a much more talented writer than I am,  but I can't seem to talk him into it.   If you could leave a comment explaining how much you'd love to see a post with actual content written by someone who proofreads his work and fixes typos,  I may be able to convince him! 

some pictures of the weekend:

The palest girl on the beach - she can thank her Irish ancestors and the long New England winters for that

having fun splashing in the waves!

Worth the 11 hour drive.

Really Paula Deen? 

REALLY?

You have been cooking and promoting  food that is really really really bad for you for a long time.   It's really a shame you developed Type II Diabetes,  but you were diagnosed three years ago.   And yet you continued to show people how to follow in your foot steps?   That's awful.

You didn't have to be a spokesperson for diabetes,  though it would have been nice if you were.   But the fact that you went on with life as usual,  told people how to make DONUT HAMBURGERS, and pretended everything was hunky dory?  No.  Not cool.   And only coming forward when you are being paid to do so by Big Pharma - even worse.   If you want everyone to know you developed Type II Diabetes,  why didn't you say something three years ago?  Why didn't you develop recipes that were healthier and diabetes friendly?  What, do you not think there is a market for that in the US?   You waited until you were going to be paid for it.  Classy.

Not that I ever watched your show before,  but you'll probably now be put on the list of people who are Not Allowed On My TV,  which includes Peyton Manning (though he can probably come off now, since he and I have a lot in common when it comes to playing professional football) and Sarah Palin.   

I rarely watch Anthony Bourdain either,  but I might have to now! 

Dr. Mom

Trying to decide if Baby Girl has an ear infection is like trying to diagnose fibromyalgia: next to impossible. She doesn't grab her ears, she doesn't run a temp, she doesn't do anything that most kids do when they have ear infections. Which means by the time we bring her in to get checked out, she has a "raging" double ear infection.

We're trying to figure it out now. Last night I was convinced that she had at least one ear infection. She woke up crying at 11:30 which she never does. We asked her teacher to keep an eye on it, and apparently she did put her head on her shoulder once and said "ow". But no one has any idea what that means. I guess tonight will be the deciding factor. If she wakes up, off to the pediatrician we will go, to pay $20 copay at the visit and $10 for the amoxicillan. We are going to run out of money in our flexible spending account before May!!

I'm in a cooking rut. I need some variety - anyone have any recipes that are easy to throw together and don't have a million calories? anyone? Tonight we had turkey meatloaf - and I make a pretty good turkey meatloaf, if I do say so myself - but I somehow messed it up tonight and it was terrible. Add the fact that the greenbeans (which are one of my least favorite vegetables to begin with) were undercooked and we very rarely have a starch with dinner... and you get one lousy dinner. I need something tasty, yet not fattening!

American Chop Suey!!

mmmmmmm........

When I was a kid, we didn't have American Chop Suey, we had something my mother called chop suey that was made with these chow mein noodles:
Whatever that dish was, I didn't like it, but I loved those noodles. I would put way more on my plate than I was supposed to! I could ask my mother what it was, but I guarantee she will not remember. She doesn't remember anything from my childhood. It's very strange...

Anyway, today I'm making American Chop Suey in the crockpot. I've never tried it before, but a friend passed along a recipe that cooks it in the crockpot. It's not really different from how would normally make it... you just throw it all in the crockpot and add the elbows at the end. I have high hopes for it though.


1 lb. lean ground beef
5 bacon strips, diced
1 large onion, diced
1 green bell pepper, diced
14.5 oz can diced tomatoes--any flavor or plain
1 can water (empty tomato can)
6 garlic cloves, chopped
26 oz jar prepared pasta sauce
16 oz package elbow macaroni
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese (optional)

Use a 6 quart crockpot. In a large skillet, brown the beef, bacon, and onion all together until the meat is no longer pink. Drain well and put in crockpot. Add everything else except for the pasta and the cheese. Stir to combine. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or on high for about 4 hours. Stir in the raw pasta and cook on high for approximately 30 minutes or until the pasta is bite tender. Serve with a handful of cheese on each serving.

** I always use ground turkey instead of gound beef and I skipped the bacon, because who has ever heard of bacon in American Chop Suey?? Also, per usual, I added way more garlic. But we're garlic lovers!

I will let you know how it turns out!

My husband has done many wonderful things over the 11 years we've known each other (okay, the first year didn't really count... as we found as many ways to avoid each other as humanly possible...). He's given me an appreciation for the fall, was willing to be my sidekick when I was bound and determined to learn how to ski, listened to me when I told him that the green swatch was the perfect color for our furniture and then didn't say I told you so when the most ugly furniture in the world was delivered....

But most important of all, he has shown me that no matter how empty your kitchen is, when you haven't gone grocery shopping in a month... there is usually SOMETHING you can throw together if you are creative enough. And also... sometimes you just have defrost that piece of chicken breast and cook it if you want to eat lunch. If left to my own devices, I probably would have had crackers for lunch today, and instead I got to have a pan fried chicken sandwich!

Okay, I know most of you are thinking that it takes a pretty big moron to eat crackers instead of simply cooking a piece of chicken, but in my mind chicken breast = dinner. To cook it for lunch is against everything I know. Or knew.

a quickie

I had to pass this link on. I had to. I may not have time to make this recipe any time soon, but you HAVE to, and you have to tell me how it was

Shredded Buffalo Chicken Tacos

dinner time!

Oh what a snow day....

here's a picture of my girl waiting patiently for Daddy to cook her grilled cheese sandwich for lunch. You can see how thrilled she is with all us... That's definitely the face of a girl who misses daycare!
But being at home all day (though still working) did give me the opportunity to make something other than the meatloaf I had planned. I still had defrosted a pound of ground turkey, so it had to be somehow related to that. Other than stir fry (which Andrew doesn't really like) and tacos (didn't have the ingredients necessary, other than the ground turkey) I was coming up with nothing. To the trusty internet I went!

Stuffed peppers!

I followed a very simple recipe, but of course I made some changes. It's such an easy recipe, I almost didn't blog about it, because I'm sure everyone has some version of this laying around, and if not it's a simple google search away. But it was really REALLY good and worth mentioning.

ingredients:

• 1 pound ground beef
• 1/2 cup uncooked long grain white rice (we had Uncle Ben's Boil in a Bag rice - I honestly don't know how much rice that is, we used one bag)
  
• 8 ounces sliced mushrooms
  
• 3 green bell peppers (only because 1 was huge, we only needed 4 medium ones)
  
• 16 oz tomato sauce
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce (generous)
  
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder (we don't have any - I used a spoonful of minced garlic)
  
• 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning

Directions
1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
2. Cook rice according to packaging
3. Brown turkey, add the mushrooms when it's mostly browned


OPTIONAL STEP! Realize the constant banging into your leg by something small and hard is your daughter repeatedly banging her empty sippy against it. Also realize that the small high pitched noise you've been tuning out is her saying "milk! milk! milk!" over and over again. Demand that she say please, and then, finally, pour the child some milk.


4. Remove and discard the tops, seeds, and membranes of the bell peppers. Arrange peppers in a baking dish with the hollowed sides facing upward. (Slice the bottoms of the peppers if necessary so that they stand up. Like this:

ooohh... pretty peppers. If red or yellow ones are one sale, I highly recommend those for stuffed peppers, but most of the time green will have to do!

5. In a bowl, mix the browned beef, cooked rice, tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder (or minced garlic, whatev), onion powder, salt, and pepper.

this is everything except the rice... starting to look yummy! boil, rice, boil!

6. Spoon an equal amount of the mixture into each hollowed pepper. (NOTE - the original recipe calls for 6 peppers, and we definitely had some left over. We froze the remainder for 2 more peppers on some night when we are rushed)

7. Cook for one hour!

Finished product - it was SO GOOD!

haiku. For you.

Chicken Paella
cooking in the big crockpot
the onion smells good

boneless skinless thighs
Shaws does not seem to have them
mine had skin and bone

I took out the bone
and peeled off all the skin (ew)
it took forever

I hope it's yummy
It is very colorful
pepper tomato

fall: autumn

Yesterday it was pushing ninety degrees. Today is barely hitting 70. I love New England.

(except during the months of January, February, and March. I hate New England during that time)

I bought a new sweater yesterday. I felt guilty about spending the money. And then I realized it was $17.50 and I was buying it from Old Navy. Then I stopped feeling guilty; though I kept thinking that for $17.50 I could buy Baby Girl 2 complete outfits (I'm a big fan of the Circo $4 pieces). But Mama needs some clothes too, right? Plus it's a cute sweater:
I also went out to dinner with a bunch of people to celebrate our 30th birthdays. I am not yet 30, but I still got to celebrate. It was a whole night all for me! Shopping for me! Out to dinner with just me! (and my friends, natch). Yay for me!

Speaking of me time, it's currently naptime which SHOULD mean it's Mama's naptime too, but it really means it's time go to make my chili for lunches for the week.

January

I know I should have a nice snow picture for January, but I can't bring myself to take a picture of the snow right now. It's only January 2nd, and I'm already done with winter. So instead I found this picture, it was taken in Maine at Val's wedding in September. It's one of my favorites from that weekend. Maybe by February I can get a really nice snow picture. I'll try, at any rate.

In an effort to not get so much take out, Andrew and I made homemade fish and chips last night. We over cooked the fish, but it was still good. And the fries were really yummy. While it was no fish and chips platter from the British Beer Company it was still pretty good. I'm not in love with it yet; the recipe still needs tweaking, but once I get there, I'll post it for you.

This weeks starts 5 months without a single day off. The powers that be at my company have deemed it unnecessary to have a single day off between January 1st and Memorial Day. This has never mattered to me before because of my flex time - but now that I am not on flex time, I'm a bit concerned. I don't want to take vacation days in the winter so I can sit at home and stare at the TV all day, but I may have to. It's not healthy to work 5 full months without a day off. I will try to work as long as I can though and hopefully wait until late March before I take a day or two.

And that's all I have today.

PS

As I will be cooking more often from now on (sorry, Center Pizza, I realize I am taking away a good chunk of your take out business...) I've linked another blog to the right. It's no longer updated, but it's a food & recipe blog so it really doesn't have to be up to date in order to be useful. Her WW friendly recipes are good, I've made some of them before.

Even if you aren't on any sort of diet, the author makes yummy food. This particular blog also has a lot of Jewish foods, so that may interest some people as well.

snowy Sunday and turkey chili

Last night was the first significant snowfall of the season. We got a few inches, just enough to make the world look like a Winter Wonderland. And I made my turkey chili today, so it's officially winter. I make a really good turkey chili - it's a Weight Watchers recipe, but you wouldn't know it. It has a lot of flavor and you can easily add or subtract ingredients so anyone will like it. We don't add the chili flakes, and we put 3 times as much garlic as it needs. Yummy. Here it is - I'm telling you, it's easy to make, it makes at least 6 servings so it's great for leftovers and lunch, and it's a guaranteed crowd please. You'll thank me.

1tsp canola oil
1 large onion (chopped)
2 medium garlic cloves, minced (I buy jars of pre-minced garlic. It's worth it)
2 medium carrots, thinly sliced into rounds
1 pound lean ground turkey
2 tbsp chili powder
1 tbsp paprika
1 tsp ground cumin
1 1/2 tsp ground red pepper flakes (I leave this one out, and add more garlic instead)
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
1 cup canned tomato sauce
1 cup fat free chicken broth (okay, I will admit it. I don't use fat free)
1 1/2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 1/2 cup cooked kidney beans, rinsed and drained (I just use the whole can, I don't know it that's 1.5 cups or not)
1 medium bell pepper, chopped)
1/2 tsp table salt, or to taste
1/8 tsp black pepper, or to taste

heat a lard pot coated with cooking spray, over medium heat. Add oil and onion; saute onion until soft. Add garlic and carrots and cook until garlic is softened. Add ground turkey and brown meat, about 5 minutes. Stir to break up lumps.

Add chili powder, paprika, cumin, and red pepper flakes, tomatoes and tomato sauce, broth and vinegar. Bring mixture to a boil and reduce heat. Cover and simmer until meat is tender, 30 to 45 minutes.

Add beans and pepper. Simmer, uncovered, until peppers are done, about 10 minutes. Season to taste. Yields about 1 cup per serving

I'm not currently following weight watchers, but if you are, this is a Core recipe, or 4 Points per serving.

Betty Crocker

If this baby has changed one thing about me, it's my never-before-present sweet tooth. I didn't dislike sweets before pregnancy, but I never sought them out and could walk right past a cake, cookie, chocolate, or anything else like that if I wasn't in the mood. Now, that feat is impossible. For the first 20 weeks I treated chocolate as it's own food group (or layer on the pyramid, whichever one you want to use) and I've actually purchased ice cream to eat at home. I don't think I have ever done that before.

Despite my new fondness for sweets, I haven't made any at home - up to now. I passed by the Funfetti Valentines Day cake mix at Stop and Shop (and I lurve me some funfetti cake!) and I was sold I HAD to have them. So today, I pulled out my cupcake pans (which I have used exactly once since I got them as a wedding shower present, yet somehow they are in terrible shape) and went to town. Making cupcakes from a box isn't really that hard, but it's more baking than I've done in a long long time. I had to get out my mixer! I don't actually think I've ever used it!

Here they are unfrosted.Unfortunately, Blogger is not letting me upload any pictures at the moment, so I can't show you the finished product. That figures, because during the entire frosting process, Andrew was really really mean to me. I'm actually not sure I've seen him be that mean and cruel before - I have no idea why, or why he decided to take it all out on me and the cupcakes, but Blogger not uploading the photos is really just icing on the cake (pardon the pun!!!) on the wrap up of the cupcake adventure. I'm actually sorry I set one aside for him.

busy busy busy

Weekends go by too quickly. Luckily for me I took this coming Friday off so I only have a 4 day week coming up. 5 day weeks are a bitch.

My effort to eat cleaner (ie with natural ingredients) has led to an increase of cooking. I know I can't eat 100% clean - life gets in the way - but I try to do so at every opportunity. This weekend I made (okay, Andrew and I made it together) stuffed peppers. Unfortunately, our local S&S doesn't carry quinoa, so we had to substitute brown rice, but they still came out very good

I love orange peppers. Red and green peppers are cheaper so they are my default peppers, but I picked u 4 of these for the stuffed peppers. They look like little pumpkins! That is the finished product. They were so yummy. It's stuffed with the brown rice (should have been the quinoa) and a turkey sloppy joe recipe. The actual recipe can be found on this blog. It was really good, but definitely time consuming, as the sloppy joe recipe takes awhile to make and then you have to do the stuffed peppers. But if you have the time, it's well worth the effort.

We did a bunch of little projects this weekend. Andrew installed blinds in our second bedroom and we hung up his diploma. That end of the room looks much better now. We also hung pictures in the living room - but I haven't taken pictures of that.


And today was Molly's Christening! This is me doing my godmotherly duties and wiping all the water off her face. The priest used like a gallon of water per child! Ignore the dumb look on my face, I don't really know what I was thinking.


No running this weekend... but this is spring break for me, so hopefully I'll get some in this week. If the weather cooperates with me!

Bleck-a-do!

Bleck-a-do means some type of food sounds/looks/tastes disgusting, by the way. My father says it, I have no idea where it came from.

I consider myself to be a reasonably good cook. I'm no foodie, and I never went to culinary school, but I can hold my own in the kitchen. I used to fail at making easy mac, so I've come a long way. Because I get home before Andrew, I make about 80% of our meals. Aside from using too much Chinese 5 spice (which I like, but apparently he doesn't) Andrew's never complained, so I think I'm doing an okay job. The only thing I don't make is anything Mexican. Andrew reigns supreme with the Mexican dishes (aside from nachos, because let's face it, anyone can throw some cheese on top of Tostitos and throw it in the microwave), and I have never questioned his authority. He makes really good Mexican.

My problem starts here: I was craving quesadillas all day. With fresh peppers and onions, chicken, and cheese. Yummy. But Andrew has class tonight. "Doesn't matter" I thought, "how hard can quesadillas possibly be?"

Famous
last
words.

I ruined them. No, that insinuates I actually made them. I didn't even get that far. I had peppers and onions cut up, chicken boiling, and tortillas warming. It just couldn't come together.

I haven't failed at anything food related so badly since I was in high school and I was making chocolate chip cookies and I read 2 1/2 cups of flour as "two half cups" instead of "two AND a half cups" of flour.

I don't evn know how I messed up, I just did. I simply couldn't get it to come together. I'll have to get Andrew to teach me how to do it. I feel like I want to throw up after eating what I concocted.

But in better news, I have boiled chicken and pepers and onions all cut up for a stir fry tomorrow night. Less prep work!


P.S. Heath Ledger. What a damn shame. He quit us :( I hope it wasn't suicide. I hope it was an accident. That poor little girl has to grow up without a father now.