Mmmmmm Mmmmmmm Good!

I found a new food website last week with healthier recipes. Check out http://www.skinnytaste.com. Despite busy weekend plans, I selected 4 recipes to make over the weekend. An ambitious undertaking perhaps, but they were all fairly easy to make. All my guinnea pigs....um....I mean guests loved everything.

I spent the day working on cleaning out the scrapbook room. Saturday night I made Chicken with Shallots in Red Wine Vinegar for my parents. They never mind coming to my test kitchen! Brent spent the whole time bemoaning the fact that he didn't know what to wine to serve with all that vinegar in the recipe. Such whining. Whatever would possess me to make something like that on the weekend when he likes to crack a good bottle of wine. Well, crack away buddy! He researched the recipe and found that a good bordeaux would be perfect.....and yes it was! I served the chicken with garlic/cheese mashed potatoes and roasted cauliflower. Definitely mmmm mmmm good!

After getting all the dishes cleaned up, Mom and I put together this delicious Creme Brulee French Toast Casserole. Like many of these type of breakfast casseroles, you toss it together the night before, refrigerate, and bake the next morning. This was very simple to do. My buddy Kim came over to help me clean up and reorganize the scrapbook room. The least I could do was butter her up with a good hot breakfast. She was going to need all her energy!


Ok, I have more stuff than I imagined. The hallway is lined with precious scrapbooking items and some other stuff too. Boxes of stuff to sell, stuff to donate to a school, stuff to give to Kera, stuff to keep, stuff, stuff, stuff....Help! This yummy broccoli potato cheese soup hit the spot. My strategy is that if I keep feeding Kim great food she'll keep on helping me! It's working so far.


The neighbors came over for dinner and tonight I made the spinach lasagna rolls. Brent didn't seem overly fond of them, but I thought they were great. The picture only has sauce across the top, apparently for aesthetic purposes because the recipe calls for 32 oz. of sauce. Yeah, those heavenly little bundles are covered in sauce and mozzarella cheese. I served this with a goat cheese/date salad and broccoli. Perfect!

I doubled the recipe and baked one. I took the rollups and froze them as is without sauce or anything, and will run them through the foodsaver tonight. This will make a quick and easy dinner some weeknight.

I had a really productive weekend. Brent and I ran errands Friday night (again, despite all his complaining). Saturday I managed 2 loads of laundry, worked on the scraproom, had guests for dinner, cleaned up and made breakfast for the next morning. Sunday, another 2 loads of laundry finished up that chore, more scraproom drama, cooked 2 more great meals, and flopped on the couch exhausted after the dinner dishes.

We watched the A-Team last night with the neighbors. It was funny. I was stiff and sore getting up from the couch last night. I overdid it I guess, but I'm happy with the progress.