The coolest thing ever!

Is not dried banana chips....sorry, I just don't like them!

I did just stumble upon this site while between blog posts.  It's the neatest thing!  You can turn your blog into a book!!  It's called...wait for it...Blog2Print!

Okay, I've got that out of my system...now onto the real reason for the post...DINNER!

Doesn't exactly look like the recipe pictures did but it tasted pretty good.  The red stuff in the bottom left is frozen raspberries that I defrosted at the last minute because the couscous was a total bust.  I'm not sure why because I've never cooked it before but I'm pretty sure I didn't let the water boil hard enough.  I'm going to try again because I'm determined to eat it one day!  Oh yeah, a couple other alterations I made the the recipes.  I used honey on the carrots instead of maple syrup because I didn't have enough syrup and the asparagus has a touch of garlic and a bit of lemon juice (instead of just the lemon wedge required in the recipe).

After dinner I ate a very small bowl of vanilla bean gellato - like only 1/2 a cup.  I really shouldn't have because I'd done so well today with eating no dairy but I managed to find a pint of it at Earth Fare and I had a coupon.  Besides, I won't eat it often and I'll probably let the leech have some as a special treat tomorrow.  Speaking of the leech, he ate up those carrots...asked for 3 helpings!

Ooooh!  The Symphony is tomorrow...I can't wait!!!

Dinner tomorrow...or maybe Sunday night!

I'm in the mood to experiment...and I have a ton of food in my cabinets that I need to use up.  I have this nifty gadget in my iGoogle homepage that lets me input what ingredients I have and it finds recipes for me and through this amazing tool, I've decided I'm going to make this! (Click for the recipes)

Oregano-Lemon Chicken

Roasted Asparagus

    

Maple-Glazed Carrots

and Couscous with Cilantro

All of it seems super easy to make and it's all within my dietary restrictions - with the exception of a little bit of butter because I couldn't see the point in throwing (or giving) away the ginormous tub of butter I already had. Once that's gone though, I'm sticking with margarine.

Speaking of being within budget.  This is a great book for those of us who want to eat healthy and not spend an arm and a leg, and you can get it cheap at Amazon.com!


I'll let you know how the dinner goes and maybe even try and take some pictures of it on my phone.  Fair warning though, the pictures will be extremely low quality.  Maybe one day I'll get another camera.

4am...yet again

So I'm going to try and sleep now. Tomorrow (today) is going to be nice. I get my godson for the night and Vic and I are going to just rent some movies and cook dinner and hang out at her house with the kids for NYE. Did I use too many 'ands'? Too bad. I should dig around in my cookbook and see if I can find something new to fix.

Going to see my sister for the first time in a couple of years in 14 days. I can't wait. Of course, classes start up again at the same time and I'm taking a 5 day weekend to go see her but oh well. I need to see my baby sister and my girls.

I really have nothing else to say right now. I'm thinking of creating another blog for my Star Wars characters. I post journal entries for them on a forum but I think it'd be fun to stick them in a real blog. Plus that way you can read all the exciting stuff that's going on in the game... lol.

Ok, I've deflected enough. I'm going to bed.

PS. today was pretty good...aside from my bowels deciding that I was going to be sick for a few hours.