Eating like a dietitian

Stopped at Kroger today on my way home from work. My shopping bag was filled with: Clementines – on sale, I hope this was a good batch! Broccoli – also on sale. my garden’s broccoli have gone to seed, I guess it’s too hot to grow them now?? Zucchini – in a few months I’ll [...]

Comments on the day

Massage Was pure bliss. Loved it. It’s located in a resort here, nestled among the smoky mountains. We should rent a cabin there. Oh wait, there’s this whole house in the mountains I live in. haha. Back to the massage – I left feeling so refreshed and relaxed! But I do feel like my morning [...]

Harmo Houdini

So far, I’ve had 3 days of work since my parents left, leaving Sheff and Harmony on their own all day. Day 1 – I rushed straight home from work. Harmo was in the crate, all is good in the world. Day 2 – Harmo was waiting at the garage door for me. wait! How [...]

Not Eating Out in East Tennessee

If you remember my recent post about my latest reads, you’ll know that I just read Cathy Erway’s book “The Art of Eating In”, based on her successful blog “Not Eating Out in New York”. It was a great read. I’m not about to go on any restaurant-fast anytime soon, but as someone who eats [...]

New Uses for Squash

No need to remind any of you that I’m being overrun with squash this summer – both the straight neck, heirloom yellow squash, and the zucchini that I planted a few months ago. This week I decided to tackle pizza as my next use for squash. I present to you the results. Squash Pizza #1 [...]

Today’s creations

A creative day – both in nutrition and needlework (haha, I know I’ve been killin’ it with the recent alliterations. They’re too much fun!) E is for Embroidery I took my newly purchased embroidery supplies to work today, and practiced some of the basic stitches today at work while patients were in group therapy. I’ve [...]

Meatless Monday

I talked to my best friend this weekend about trying out Meatless Monday – a simple idea to just choose vegetarian meals one day a week. My meatless meals today? Breakfast: fried egg and provolone sandwich Lunch: Almond and pumpkin butter sandwich with a banana and birthday cake :) Dinner: homemade falafel with tzaziki sauce! [...]

A Whole Week of Lentils!

I declare this week to be Snobby Joes Week! What is Snobby Joes, you may ask? It’s the wonderful vegetarian-friendly version of Sloppy Joes, written in the highly respected vegan cookbook, Veganomicon. You can check out the recipe here. Sloppy Joes are one of those meattastic dishes that I miss, being a vegetarian (along with [...]

Recipe Review: “Break-Up Bars”

Obviously… snowy weather slushy weather calls for some baking. On my obligatory grocery shop before the storm set in, I wandered down the baking aisle.. not sure what I wanted to make, but sure that I needed to pick up some ingredients. I already have all the flours, sugars, and seasonings at home, but added [...]

A girl’s night in!

Wednesday afternoon. I took the day off from exercise and decided to spoil myself on this rainy day – a little shopping on the way home, lots of time reading this afternoon (with tennis on in the background, of course), pumpkin pancakes for dinner, and my first netflix movie tonight!! After work I stopped by [...]