Cracking eggs one carton at a time.
Woo. It has been one heck of a week. If you haven't been keeping up in the news (both national and local), Oklahoma teachers walked out of the classroom on Monday and have not been back since. Instead, roughly 30,000 of them are congregating at the state capitol, pushing for lawmakers to restore funding to… Continue reading Key Lime Powerbars
Snacks are everything in this household. I have to have snacks around me at all times. Just in case. There's nothing worse than being stuck and work and your only option on food is something really bad (calorie-wise) out of the machines. Snacks are a must. I usually have fruit to graze on in my… Continue reading Chicken Avocado Rollups
The thing about eating better, cleaner, and healthier, is you have to have an abundance of good snacks at all times. The last thing you want to do is go hours on end without food, and then binge eat everything in your fridge at once. I've always had a problem with that, but I've been… Continue reading Dill Pickle Zucchini Chips
Call it what you will. One of the greatest inventions of all time. The best thing since sliced bread. A food everyone can agree on. A food with thousands of different versions to choose from. A great battle between Chicago and New York. Pizza. It's the one food in our culture that not a single… Continue reading Portobello White Pizzas
One of the hardest things about eating better is that starving feeling you get in between meals. Usually right before I have my "lunch" (since I work nights, my lunch is usually at 6:30 or 7 in the morning) I get this overwhelming feeling to eat something. Anything. Lay a pile of dirt in front… Continue reading Honey BBQ Chicken Wraps
Every Wednesday our local newspaper has a section dedicated to food. There are local restaurant reviews, what's happening in the food scene, and an old lady that give recipes like "basic bread" and "green bean casserole" that crack me up. They also run a lot of syndicated recipes from bigger papers, and I get a… Continue reading Frozen Yogurt Blueberry Bites
I'm not one for New Year's resolutions. The chances of me keeping them? Slim to none. In fact, I don't think I've ever kept a single resolution my entire life. Does that mean I'm impulsive? Too flakey? Bad at commitment? Or maybe I just set really unattainable goals. Oh well. There's no failing if you… Continue reading Parmesan-Crusted Fried Tortellini
