Happy Tuesday!

Hey Hey – Happy Tuesday!!! It feels like Wednesday to me since I’m taking the day off on Friday.

Off to California with Dawn, Nicola, and Melissa!!  These are my high school girlfriends – I think the last time the 4 of us were all together was Dawn’s wedding. Wow. Its been a while! That was BEFORE we even left for London tour. 

So recipes this week – 

I made turkey and dumplings in the crockpot Sunday and another batch of protein pancakes for the week. Here is recipe : http://www.bhg.com/recipe/turkey-and-dumplings/ - Now I only did half the dumplings that go on top, used white wheat flour, and added a lot more chicken broth to make it more soupy – oh and 2 TSBP of cornstarch to thicken it up later. hehe

Protein pancakes are so yummy and taste much better than eating plain greek yogurt with berries!  Be warned – they take FOREVER to cook on a very low temperature.  http://www.bigoven.com/recipe/236144/flaxseed-protein-pancakes. Perhaps I like them because of the agave I cover them in…oh well. 

Oh, I also made this gingerbread cookies with Katie and James which we rolled out. Awesome.  http://www.bhg.com/recipe/big-soft-ginger-cookies/

 

Enough bragging…I also tried to make this fresh baked “quickbread” to bring to my bosses superbowl party.  Thank goodness I took a little off the top while it was cooking to taste it.  It was TERRIBLE. Like Burr had to spit out white bread terrible – and Burr loves white bread.  WOW – now this is why we TRY recipes before bringing them to other people’s homes – hehe. So definitely a flop of the weekend. I will not share that recipe.  

I have decided we need to start trying recipes for Thanksgiving since we will probably have about 20 people and 1 oven.  Does anyone have any amazing recipes that we need to try? Please send them my way!!!

Last night I made brownies from scratch. I’m not actually sure I’ve ever done this. How pathetic is that?!  And you know what?  After I made them I thought “I have been ROBBED!”  Seriously, there are 100 types of boxed brownies that I’ve bought over the years and they are perhaps more time to make when you factor in the time it takes to purchase the box and bring home. Unbelievable.  I will no longer be buying boxed brownie mix when I can just use the stuff in my cupboard.  I know you are all thinking “Hello – why didn’t you know this” but I guess I just always thought the box was the way to go. Never again. No, I say that but I haven’t actually tried the brownies yet – they are for girls night tonight. SUPER excited!  Hopefully the brownies will be more like the gingerbread cookies vs. the quickbread.

Kisses

Anne

PS - One week from today is VALENTINE'S DAY! Do you know what that means?  Hello McDonald's and movie night. I already know what I am getting - Cheeseburger Happy Meal with a chocolate milkshake. BRING IT ON. Oh, and the Movie I want to see is "The Vow" but I lost movie privileges for a while after we saw "New Years Eve" on opening weekend....not sure I have been forgiven yet.