Yep! I’m back in the Midwest. In this post, I detail my current projects and what I’ve been cooking lately.

I’ve been quiet these last few months because life has been a little mundane lately. We’re going through a lot of transitions at work, not all of them good. The last six months have, on a number of levels, mostly just been about holding on and keeping things going. It was tiresome enough to live [...]

My weekdays tend to be a little unpredictable so I try to take the time to experiment in the kitchen on the weekends. Two weekends ago, it was African Chicken in Peanut Sauce, a recipe I found on CookEatShare. SO good! I would up shredding the chicken and mixing it all up with the couscous [...]

Once again… I bombed out on a project. Project 365 just didn’t work out. I had a stretch of a few weeks when I just couldn’t get it done. Kind of a bummer but I do have some good news to balance it out. With regards to my Resolutions, I am 100% on the wagon! [...]

One of my resolutions this year was giving up fast food. It was not as hard as I thought it would be. Sure, sometimes I get the urge to pull into a drive-thru when I’m tired and on my way home. That habit wasn’t tough to break. I really have two motivations in giving up [...]

I sometimes suffer from kitchen apathy when cooking for myself so I’ve started Cookbook Dipping. I pick a random cookbook and a random recipe from it. I think this will be a great way to try recipes I might have otherwise overlooked. This week… The Barefoot Contessa’s Fresh Corn Salad!

While I was visiting the parents, my mother made a meal that I’m sure I’ll be making for myself soon… an at home version of gryos. The following recipe is made in loaf form. I will be trying this out in my twinkie pan, for smaller individual portions. The smaller loaves I’ll wrap up and [...]

This morning I’m stuck in my apartment while waiting for a workman to get here. It is pouring outside so I can only hope they’ll show up this time. I’m bouncing off the walls because I have anunbelievable amount of work to be done today and, had I realized I’d need to be here, I’d have taken work home with me last night. Grrrrr…

In the meantime, I thought I’d take a moment to mention a recipe that has become one of my current favorites. I recently picked up a copy of EllieKrieger’s The Food You Crave. I figured it was a good sign that she focuses on healthy cooking and, upon leafing through the book, I picked out a dozen recipes that I couldn’t wait to try. The first was her Green Pea Soup.

If you only knew how many ‘tastes like chicken’ jokes my Dad knows. That in itself has become something of a family joke. Tonight is the night before my first weigh-in and I’m trying to keep it healthy. I wanted pizza and coffee ice cream. Instead I had a Quorn ‘Chick’n Cutlet with Gruyere’. In case you’ve never heard the name, Quorn produces a faux meat from myoprotein, which is a type of fungus. And yes. It does taste like chicken. Rather disconcertingly so, in fact. It is the most realistic faux chicken I’ve ever tried. Fresh from the oven, the cutlets are pleasantly crisp. I like them with a bit of lemon juice squeezed over them. For those of you following Weight Watchers, a Gruyere Chick’n Cutlet is 6 points.