Cari's coming over for dinner tonight so we have a meatless menu. She loves Fontina cheese, so first is a baked pasta dish with fontina and mascarpone. It's guinea pig night (I've never made this recipe before) but I don't know how it won't be a big hit with her. Here's the recipe.

And I had 3 ripe bananas and one egg so this is what I made with it. I'm sending the leftover muffins home with her so she'll have some breakfast this week. I made these about an hour ago and they came out perfectly. My kitchen smells heavenly at the moment! Have a great week and thanks for stopping by.

Pasta recipe adapted from Cooking Light and Muffin recipe adapted from AllRecipes.com

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Beef & Peas

If you're going to add any recipe to your rotation, this is it! It was so good and really easy to make. I made this last night (inspired by The Pioneer Woman's version-here) and it took about 15 minutes from start to finish. I served it over Jasmine rice (and I did leave out the green onions because I didn't have any.) I added the recipe to my online WW builder to calculate the points and it was 8 in the Points Plus plan ~ so reasonable that I ate the leftovers tonight. Delish!

If you click the card, you should get a larger version.

Here's to 2011!

It's that time of year when I must put a little note on my computer to check the date on every document I prepare because I will write 2010 until April if I don't! Wow! 2011. I hope it slows down and doesn't fly by as quickly as last year, well the first half can fly by and then let's slow down the second half. The first half still finds Josh in a war zone and I will rest easier when he & Peggy are home again. And I get to visit them in Germany this summer when they finish their deployment. I am so looking forward to that!

Resolutions? Well, I have my ongoing resolutions (along with the rest of the world) to lose weight and save money, but I'm going to listen to Dr. Phil this once and take this arbitrary day to think about what is really important and focus on that. I am going to be happy and I'm going to savor the little moments in life that slip by so quickly that if we don't will be gone from our memories. I'm going to pay it forward when I can and I think that will all be for the good for me. And of course I'm going to scrap and cook and read and watch movies and all the stuff that I enjoy so much! Yesterday, Scot & I went to the movies at 9:00 in the morning. We do like to beat the crowds LOL! We saw the new Coen Brothers movie, True Grit. It was really good; I recommend it highly. I only had to cover my eyes a couple of times at a bit of violence. You should see it.

Tonight for dinner, we are having Asian Pork Tenderloin, with Jasmine Rice, Spring Rolls, and Sugar Snap Peas. And for luck I'm going to make the Zannie's Black Eyed Peas dip that I got this morning here from the Pioneer Woman. Here's the recipe for the Asian Pork Tenderloin, but I haven't made a card for the dip yet. Go to the Pioneer Woman's site and you'll be hooked for sure. Happy New Year!

Recipe card from Aimee Harrison, available at Scrapable.

Pumpkin French Toast

Well, I'm slowly getting better. I'm recovering from my surgery and my cold is slowly going away (thanks a bit to Aleve-D!) My entertainment is TV, scrapping, and naps. Love those naps, LOL! I started thinking about the holidays that are quickly approaching ~ Thanksgiving, Josh's birthday, and Christmas. Before I know it, I'm going to have to remember to write a new year on my checks! I don't know why that is always a struggle for me, ha! Anyway, in anticipation of the upcoming holidays, here's a recipe for Pumpkin French Toast. (Click the card for a larger image.) It's delish and easy enough to have any time of year. Enjoy!

The card was made with the Scrapable Collab, Homegrown.

What's for dinner?

Gail, this is for you. I promised I would start writing to my blog more often so here we go. It's been about a week since my little surgery (had my gall bladder removed) and wouldn't you know that on about day 5 of my recovery, I caught a cold! Dang it, I can't stop coughing. I want to go back to work, but I think I might need another day or two. The four holes in my belly are healing up pretty well, though, I'm happy to say! Anyway, tonight's dinner - first one I've cooked in over a week - is Dijon Chicken. Here's the recipe if you want to try it. (If you click it, it will get bigger.) I'm going to serve it with biscuits over rice. I love making recipe cards and one of these days I'm going to put a book together for Josh & Cari. Until next time...

Scot & I had a lot of fun at the Concerts at the Grove at CSULB and I had a couple requests for the recipes of the food I brought. So here are the recipe cards for anyone that wants them. Click on the picture for a full-size version that you can use in the kitchen (and then right click to save to your computer)! Hope you enjoy the recipes!