Hello! And thank you for joining me as I share with you another typical day in our life. Arguably, these times are anything but typical, but we are continuing to take things one day at a time. Morning Routine: I have been using the Notes feature in my iPhone to keep my morning and evening…
Month: April 2020
Kale & Tomato Tortellini
Ingredients: 2 lb. frozen cheese tortellini 1 Tbsp. olive oil 6 cloves minced garlic 2 c. fresh chopped kale 2 14.5-oz. can diced tomatoes, undrained 1 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. pepper 1 Tbsp. dried basil 1 Tbsp. minced onion 4 Tbsp. flour 3 c. half and half 3/4 c. feta cheese First, prepare tortellini according…
Chocolate Milkshakes
Ingredients: 2 c. vanilla ice cream 1/2 c. milk 2 Tbsp. Nesquick powder Add all ingredients to the blender. Blend until thoroughly combined. Serve. (You can add whipped cream and a cherry, if you’d like.)
Easy No-Bake Peanut Butter Pie
Ingredients: 8 oz. cream cheese, softened 1 c. creamy peanut butter 1 c. powdered sugar 1/4 c. milk 1 tsp. vanilla 2 8-oz. containers of Cool Whip, thawed 9″ chocolate Oreo pie crust, ready-made 1/4 c. chocolate chips In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar, milk and vanilla together. Fold in…
Buttermilk Waffles
Ingredients: 4 eggs 2 c. buttermilk 2 c. flour 1 Tbsp. baking powder 1 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. salt 1 c. butter, melted In a large bowl, lightly beat the eggs. Then, add the buttermilk and stir together. Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix until combined. Stir in the melted…
A Day in the Lifestyle – April
Hello! And welcome to another day in our beautiful life! I love that you took the time to join us today! Morning Routine: We started the day by running 2.5 miles. We’ve been running more, so we’re probably going to increase this in the next couple days. We’ll see. Afterwards, I used this great new…
Garlic & Butter Pasta
This is one of the easiest, cheapest recipes I have in my stockpile. Perfect for nights you realize you forgot to plan something, have too much planned, or didn’t get a chance to get to the grocery store. Ingredients: 16 oz. pkg. pasta, uncooked (any kind of pasta will work for this) 2 sticks of…
Hamburger Gravy on Toast
Most of you probably know this by another name, especially if it’s made with chipped beef. But I didn’t have any chipped beef and this is what we wanted for dinner. So I made it like this. Ingredients: 1 lb. hamburger 1/4 c. flour 2 c. milk 2 c. water salt and pepper to taste…
Pineapple Sangria
Martha Zepeda, a lovely person in one of my favorite online book clubs, Paper & Glam Book Club, shared her recipe for Pineapple Sangria with me a couple of weeks ago. And if quarantine in this beautiful weather has got you dreaming about cool waves and sunny beaches, here’s a perfect summer drink for you!…
A Day in the Lifestyle – April
Hello, and welcome to another day in our life! We have really been enjoying all this extra time we are getting to spend together! So glad you chose to join us today! Morning Routine: For our morning workout, we did a 2.5 mile run. I then followed this with yoga (Dan did not participate in…