Food, food, and more food

Still on a baking roll this week, so far I made cream cheese banana bread (amazing), more roasted chickpeas, pumpkin donut holes (from www.twopeasandtheirpod.com, so yummy!), pumpkin bread (from www.mybakingaddiction.com, oh yeah pumpkin heaven), chocolate chip bars, roasted acorn squash risotto, and roasted tomato soup (from www.smittenkitchen.com, so good on a cool day!). Hubby and I also made sausage gravy and biscuits yesterday for breakfast.... so it has been a quite a culinary couple of weeks. I have really enjoyed baking and cooking, it has been a nice stress reliever and a lot of fun getting my little angel to help. The key that I have to start doing, is not to eat everything I bake.... it is making maintaining weight a bit challenging if I eat three servings of the yummies I am baking! That is the goal for next week!

Weekly recipe update

It is Sunday, hope to watch some football later, very happy that the Hokies won yesterday!!!! I have been very culinary this week; Wednesday I made apple pie muffins (amazing) and roasted cauliflower soup (OK, but I might look for another recipe, it has too much or not enough of something), Thursday was chocolate chip cookies for my little angel's preschool, Friday I made my husband's family recipe cheesecake (absolutely amazing), and Saturday I made a pumpkin cheesecake (Paula Dean's recipe, just sinful, can't stop eating it) and roasted chickpeas (from www.whatsgabycooking.com, sooooo good). Today I will probably make the roasted chickpeas again, so I have a snack for football! It has been a good baking week!

I am not sure what I will be making next week, but I have some broccoli and cauliflower to use up, maybe try another soup. Also have some squash and mushroom, believe they will go to risotto one day for lunch, and I have some chicken breast thawing out for a good faux fried chicken recipe from http://www.thepioneerwomencooks.com . The fall weather is really hitting me, I love it, all I want to do is walk around outside and enjoy the beautiful crisp air!

Apple pie muffins!

The apple pie muffins are amazing! They made the house smell so good and the muffins themselves were just yummy! The recipe came from http://www.mybakingaddiction.com/. Highly recommended!

Hershey and food

Spent last weekend in Hershey, PA for family birthday party. Grandma is turning 80 and Grandpa is turning 85. It was fun, but family wears me out.... There is a bit of tension between some of the family, but it was really good to see everyone, because no matter what, they are family and I love them! The drive was beautiful, the trees are starting to turn and it was a gorgeous day. Had a great time spending the weekend with Hubby and little man. It was really nice to get out of town and get a change of perspective. On Saturday there is a big fleamarket outside of town, there are lots of Amish farmers and bakers and we ate ourselves silly on whoopie pies, cookies, and cake!

Work is a little frustrating this week, sometimes the politics just get to me. When it got too bad this week, I just thought about the yummy recipes I was going to try this week: roasted cauliflower soup, apple pie muffins, and maybe some chocolate cupcakes! Speaking of, time to preheat the oven!

Food, food, and more yummy food!

The past couple of weeks, hubby and I have been tossing around the idea of opening up a restaurant in the retirement stage of life, granted that is not for around 20 years, but it is best to plan early! Just some fun, nothing to serious, but we love to cook and entertain, so why not?

We have been trying different recipes out and learning to do some basic things. One of the first was fresh whipped cream and homemade caramel sauce. Amazing! The caramel sauce is so good drizzled on ice cream, brownies, pretty much anything we could fine.

Also made a wonderful roast tomato soup, homemade macaroni and cheese, and some tasty cube steak sandwiches. It has been a really good food month! I will post any recipes that are amazing!

Been awhile....

OK, it has been a couple of months since the last post. I can't believe this summer has just flown by, it is already almost October!!! I am happy that the heat is going away, I love fall!

The weight loss journey is at a stall right now. I just can't bring myself to start up WW again. So, I am trying to be mindful about what I am eating and exercising. My goal is to maintain where I am now until I am focused on losing again.

Work is work, nothing too interesting, sometimes I feel like I am back in highschool though (and I did not really like highschool). We are supposed to get a new Tower Ladder truck soon, that will be awesome to be on and play with!

Family is great, little man started preschool (can't believe it!), he loves it! Darling Husband ruptured his Achilles tendon a couple weeks ago, so it has been a very interesting and challenging couple of weeks.

That is all for this post, the next one is going to talk about the food we are trying!

May 31

OK, my first weight goal has been accomplished, 20 pounds down!!!! I am very excited! Also bought my reward books, read Kiss of Snow this morning....words cannot describe how much I loved this book. It was fantastic! Nalini Singh has created the most amazing world and her characters incredible.

Well, since the book rewards have been working pretty good for me, I am going to continue on (I still have 20 -25 pounds more to go!). I will post some more titles next week.