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I had to blog about supper. I was gonna wait until tomorrow but I am bored and it was outstanding. I made Spicy Goulash. I love spice! There are several ways to tone down the spicyness. A different kind of sausage, a different kind of sauce.. etc.

My Ingredients. Besides the Parmesan and Romano Mix I added at the end, this is all I used.

hamburger, spicy sausage and large cut onions

Draining is definitely neccesary because of the pork sausage

This makes a lot of meat sauce, so I froze half of it for another day. This would even be good on an Udi's pizza crust topped with mozzarella.

I put half of the sauce....

Then the pasta.....

In the pan I cooked the pasta in and mixed them together.

Added my Red Pepper Flakes and shakey cheese (this is how I will refer to the Parmesan and Romano mix from here on out because I am a lazy typer...lol) Yum. Except for the Canned Asparagus that Del Monte provided. YUCK. I thought it was green beans when I opend the can. I have never tasted anything so gross. Well, lately anyways...

I also want to say that I don't usually cook this much italian food. I guess tomorrow I will make BBQ Chicken and Potatoes for supper. Time to mix it up...lol

A New Food

Today I tried a new food. I bought Rice Chex with Cinnamon. VERY GOOD! There is even a recipe on the side of the box for 'Snickerdoodle Chex Mix'. I highly recommend this cereal. I missed cereal, although I did like the Envirokids Peanut Butter Panda Puffs I bought at Kroger a couple of weeks ago...





We are having a nice snowday here at my house. I decided to have a no-cook lunch. I had GF Turkey sliced lunchmeat, raw baby carrots, 2 pieces of string cheese (I LOVE THIS STUFF), and Smokehouse flavored Blue Diamond Rice and Nut Crackers. I can only find the Smokehouse flavor at Cub Foods.



In this picture you will notice a tea box. It is Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime Extra. I love the spearmint in it and it really will calm you. It was on sale at Country Nutrition last week for $2 something.


Oh! Cub Foods is doing a lot better at being gluten free. I found a small shelf full of GF pastas. They even have my Quinoa Pasta! it was between 3 and 4 dollars for a 10 oz box. All GF stuff is expensive. I bought the spiral noodles and tonight we are having Spicy Goulash. I will take pics and post tomorrow.

Today's Food

Breakfast is the most difficult meal for me to eat. I am not a morning person so I usually just run out the door at 630am every weekday morning. Right now I am using snacks as breakfast. I drive a schoolbus so if I don't eat anything before work or at least bring something with me on the bus, I get very sick to my stomach by the time I go home at 1030am for lunch break. My go-to's? Raw unsalted almonds. Aldi's has the for 3 bucks a bag and they are actually decent sized bags. One bag lasts me a little over a week if i take about 20 nuts per day. I also take either a fruit or a yogurt with the almonds. Today I took Blue Diamond cheese flavored crackers and deli chicken lunch meat and 2 thin slices of Muenster cheese. Blue Diamond crackers are a new type I just found and LOVE. They are nut and rice crackers! Gluten free but still flavorful. I have tried the cheese flavor, don't expect a 'Cheezit' flavor.. it's a light cheese flavor. Very good though. I also have tried the smokehouse flavor, very good with light cream cheese! I have found these at Country Nutrition and at Cub Foods.

Lunch~ a rice noodle soup, not unlike a ramen bowl but much healthier. (They are also available without the bowl, not unlike a pack of Ramen noodles... I prefer the Spring Onion flavor. Yum... I find these at Kroger and Country Nutrition.. (Kroger is cheaper) I cracked a raw egg into the water before microwaving this and cooked for 5 minutes. The soup perfectly poaches the egg and it reminds me of egg drop soup! I had this idea one day when I wanted protein really badly and hadn't been to the store for a while. Definitely worth a try.

Snacks - Aldi's has Light and Fit String Cheese. GOOD. Cuties Clementines... Perfect and Today I had a Snickers. YES, they are gluten free!!! I don't eat them often but i realllly needed my chocolate fix today.

Supper~ I sauteed sliced, fresh mushrooms and diced onion in 2 tbls of salted butter and a squeeze of lemon juice. (I do most of my recipes without measurement. SIMPLE... just add more if you like it and take some or all away if you don't) I had already cooked my Quinoa Pasta (found at Country Nutrition!) so when the veggies were soft and brown in the butter I added the pasta and tossed it until they were mixed well. Add pepper. I used coarse ground pepper but whatever you like would work. I also mde salmon patties. A small can ( this kind from Aldi's) one egg yolk, about a tbls of mayo and a tiny squeeze of lemon, dash of salt and a couple pepper grinds. Then mix well with a fork and pan fry them in a bit of oil. Whatever kind is fine. just make sure it's good and hot so that the patties will cook without getting too greasy. Flip once a smash a tiny bit to flatten. Dont cook it to death! The only thing needing to be really cooked (salmon is precooked) is the egg. Eggs cook fast in hot oil and all you will do is dry the salmon and make it fall apart or burn.

Here are my pics for today :)