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Goodbye Live Journal *sniffle*
For several years I have been posting my blog both on Live Journal and Blogger. I always considered this my main blog and just copied & pasted the posts on Blogger to try to reach new readers. But times are changing! Over the years almost all of the friends I made here have left. Whenever I share a blog post or my blog address, I link over to ( Read more... ) -
Low-cal Creamy Italian Dressing (15 calories per Tbsp.)
Over the last year I've played around with many different low calorie salad dressing recipes, tweaking existing recipes and making up my own. I now have a few that I love and make regularly, and it was high past time that I share them ( Read more... ) -
5:2 Shirataki Pad Thai (203 calories)
Recently I talked about how to prepare tamarind paste for recipes. Now I can share the yummy Pad Thai that I made with it!
I posted a low-cal Cabbage Pad Thai on here before, but this time I wanted to see how Shirataki noodles would work in a stir-fry noodle dish. I've only used them in soups before, but I'm happy to say they worked just as well ( Read more... ) -
Pumpkin Rolls
Our family does holidays pot-luck style, and this year an email went around for everyone to tell what they wanted to bring. Turkey, stuffing, potatoes, green beans, multiple desserts... everything filled up quickly, and as I looked over the list I realized the only thing missing was bread. Well, if I'm going to bring bread, I'm at least going to ( Read more... ) -
Cooking With Tamarind Paste
Pad Thai is my favorite Thai dish, and I can make a mean plate of it at home using pre-made Pad Thai sauce. A few times I've tried to make my own sauce, usually following an Americanized recipe with no tamarind paste, but the results were never quite as good. Recently I was working on a low-calorie version and decided it was time to figure out how ( Read more... ) -
Meatball Sub Cups
Last time I shared my first failed attempt at these yummy Meatball Sub Cups. The second try went much better, though I tried garnishing with cheese only and it rolled right off the frozen meatballs (gotta have the sauce!). By the third batch I'd worked out the kinks, and everyone agreed these are delicious!
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Meatball Sub Cups - Fail
Do you ever have those times when you're trying a new recipe, and your gut is telling you something's not right? I'm not usually one to follow a recipe to-the-letter, but a few months ago I made these Meatball Sub Cupcakes and decided to trust the directions, in spite of a few nagging doubts ( Read more... ) -
Halloween Costumes, 2015
For Halloween this year my 2-year-old wanted to dress as Daniel Tiger (from PBS) and my 5-year-old wanted to dress like a pickle!
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Creamy Chicken & Bacon Crescent Blooms
One day I was eager to make something in our muffin tins, so I grabbed some crescent roll dough and made the filling from these yummy pastry pockets. There are a lot of different ways to arrange the dough, but I decided to drape squares of the dough in each cup & ended up with a very easy & pretty shape that reminded me of flowers. These 'chicken ( Read more... )
