Banana Protein Pancakes
This morning, Jim over slept. I depend on him to get me up as he is always up by 8. I needed to be up by 9:00 as I wanted to make this breakfast and get to Belle Meade plantation for the children’s Opera, Goldie B Locks and the Singing Bears by 1:00 PM. I…
Skinny Thai Lettuce Bowls
What a day. Jim and I spent the entire day cleaning house and we still are not done. I wanted to hire a cleaning team as the baseboards were really in terrible shape, but Jim said he would clean them. We did not get done, but what is done looks great. Then we went to…
Andouille Sausage and Pepper Pouch
Last night we had an excellent meal by Trisha Yearwood. I got this one off of FoodTV from her show. The sequence was called Girls Night. This was just the first course! I gathered the ingredients and immediately divided it in half. The recipe says for 4. Usually, with Jim, I look for recipes that…
20 WW Point, Oyster Stew
Yesterday we had a delightful dinner with Jim’s second cousins Chris and Al at the Cork & Cow in Franklin. I’ve never gotten to know these two very well since coming to TN and really enjoyed their company. Jim has been bitching that my oyster stew is not white enough, “like I used to make. 
Slow Cooker Southwestern Stew
I had a Opera board meeting in the AM. It was my turn to bring brunch/munch things. For the first time ever, I actually bought everything. I went to Publix and bought cherry and blueberry scones, raspberry coffee cake and a pecan circular coffee cake. I also bought a large bowl of mixed cut up…
Fish in Cartoccio
Haven’t really cooked since Monday. Tuesday, Jim announced we were going to the dance club then changed his mind. So we had leftover tomato soup and cheese sandwiches. Wednesday, I had a Guild meeting followed by an afternoon of bridge. So we ate the leftover lentil stew. Thursday when we were supposed to have the…
Soup & Sandwich, Italian Style
Stated early on dinner as I realized it was going to take a lot of time doing this soup and sandwich meal. Both these recipes are from RR’s new cookbook. I understand she was on Dr. Phil talking about doing this book today. Unfortunately, I did not know in time to record it. I will…
Shrimp with Sage and Pancetta + Brussel Sprouts with Lemon and Thyme
This morning when I told Jim what we were having for dinner, he said, “That’s weird.†Tonight he thought it was wonderful. I would not have usually paired shrimp and Brussels sprouts, but it was good. They had a lemon connection. The shrimp came from my new RR cookbook called Everyone is Italian on Sunday.…
French Toast
Ever looking for that perfect french toast recipe, tried one from the new Fine Cooking magazine this morning. Morning is defined as 1:00 PM. I modified this as they wanted you to roll it in cornflakes. Did not appeal to me. However I found it interesting to include the maple syrup in the egg mixture.…
Oyster Stew with Rosemary
I mentioned that Jo decided to eat my stale year old gingerbread house. I was going to put it out for the squirrels as I couldn’t face mixing icing just to fix the fence and glue the saved pieces on the house. My brother suggested I just use a glue gun. I mean, we are…