Pork

I have to admit, I’ve never really had an authentic banh mi sandwich.  There are a lot of variations around, some have pate and sardines, some use ground pork, but in the end it’s a spicy pork sandwich with pickled veggies and a spicy mayo. Side note:  I don’t like mayo.  When my step-son was little and I asked him one time when he was...

  Let’s go back in time for a bit, shall we?  Maybe 25 years ago, I ate TWO apple fritters on the way to work.  Then I would get a frappuccino with my co-workers when I got to work.  That would be 41 points right there and it wouldn’t even be 10:00 a.m.! Lunch would be Sbarro – it was right by my old office...

I am thrilled that the editors of Nicole’s new cookbook asked if I would be interested in getting a copy of her new cookbook, and a second one to give away, and I didn’t have to think twice about that – yes please! This is Nicole’s third cookbook – I’ve already made the Italian Bolognese sauce which was so delicious and nearly zero points.   I...

Yes, you are reading correctly, I added chives to these mini cheddar chive bacon biscuits - so good and only 3 points each.

Sausage stuffed chicken parm will be on the top of your recipes you need to make. While I didn’t fully meal plan this week, I definitely meal prepped.  Some weeks the meal plan comes to me in minutes, and other times I struggle to come up with ideas – and all I do is look at food, Pinterest, blogs, you would think that it would...

I know I am going to get called out on my soup not being a true “ramen” but it has a spicy broth, has noodles, so I am going to call it quick pork ramen!  But first, I have to tell you guys I am working for The Chopping Block on Saturday, December 9!  It’s the One of a Kind Show at the Merchandise Mart...

I love foggy mornings.  What I don’t like is driving through fog.  I remember driving home from my brother’s house in Iowa – Hannah was probably about 6 – and I drove through what seemed to be about 100 miles of fog.  I or course was on the right side of the road, flashers blinking the whole time, when cars on the left of me...

It was my first full day working for three partners, but as luck would have it, one of them didn’t come in – whew!  I think I may need to rethink the idea of eating breakfast at work – it’s just that I am usually not hungry when I wake up and coffee holds me until I eat breakfast.  But I hit the ground running...

Another train delay caused me not to get into work until 9:30.  Second day in a row.  This time it was the train in front of us, which was a local train, so they dumped all the people off at one station, we picked them up, and my express train was now a local train and made all.the.stops to Chicago.  Gah. I brought yogurt to...

Going into this weekend, I had a couple of events that I knew could throw me off my plan, but that I semi planned for.  The first one was a birthday party on Saturday – I enjoyed two beers and half a sandwich, and managed to avoid the cheese tray and the ice cream cookie dessert. On Sunday, my twin sister and I met up...