Since I’ve been here, I’ve made it a practice most nights to have some sort of a refreshing drink ready in the evening. I’ve been keeping busy during the day and MamaInBlue works a full day at a stressy job, so it is nice to relax with a cool drink. And sometimes water just doesn’t [...]

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

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 [...]

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.