Category: What to Eat

  • Salad Saturday #1

    Yesterday I decided that I would try out a new salad each week and post about it every Saturday. My goal in doing this is to find healthy eating options without getting stuck in a rut. Are there enough salads so I can actually try a new (healthy) one and write about it each weekend?…

  • A Virtual Cookie Exchange

    Getting ready to bake for Christmas and need some tried and true, really yummy cookie recipes? Or do you have a recipe to share? Below you’ll find a sampling of cookies my friends and I have baked through the years for Karen’s Annual Cookie Competition Exchange. If you have any cookie recipes to share, please post on…

  • Menu Plan for December 15- 21

    Dinner: Honey Pecan Chicken, brocolli Honey Pecan Chicken ½ cup pecans 2 Tablespoons cornflake crumbs 2 Tablespoons honey 1 Tablespoon reduced sodium soy sauce 4 5-ounce chicken breasts Non-stick spray 1 Preheat oven to 425. Line baking sheet with foil. 2. Finely chop pecans in food processor. Combine with cornflake crumbs and sprinkle onto waxed…

  • Get ready for a virtual cookie exchange

    Fire up those ovens (or at least your keyboards)! Today I attended a ninth annual cookie exchange (I’ve only missed one through the years) and it got me thinking… we need to have a virtual cookie exchange! I bet you have at least one, if not more, tired-and-true cookie recipe you would be willing to…

  • Reunited and it tastes so good…

    Many years ago, when I was a sweet little undergrad at the University of Florida, (I can’t help but to fit that UF thing in a lot right now. Go Gators! Anyhow, back to the story…) I loved to bake a secret peanut butter and chocolate cookie. These cookies ROCKED. A little crispy yet still a tad chewy chocolate on…