The house has eaten my life! We've done several projects and bought some furniture. This weekend, we're having recessed lighting put in the kitchen. I went to San Antonio for work and discovered that I'm quite capable of eating an entire order of tableside guacamole and tortillas all by myself. Serves four, hah! I haven't been cooking that many ( Read more... )

One of my friends gave me this recipe a while ago. I was excited about it right away since it involves putting peanut butter in soup. But, it called for a side order of jicama slaw, and I lacked a food processor at the time. Since then, my mother in law got me a food processor, and I love coming up with excuses to feed unsuspecting vegetables to ( Read more... )

I actually made this a little over a week ago, but I've been continuously busy for so long that I've neglected to put it up. The challenge was a cold soup. I've made Asian gazpacho and regular gazpacho many times, so I decided to try something new. A long time ago, before I started taking pictures of my food, I made a cucumber-dill soup that was ( Read more... )

Last week, I ate pasta almost every day, sometimes twice, due to work lunch outings. So this week, I really, REALLY did not want to set eyes or fork on a noodle. I saw this recipe for spinach soup on eatingwell.com's RSS feed in Google Reader (which, along with Google Calendar, Owns My Soul ( Read more... )

These are from two different nights, I never remember to upload pictures ( Read more... )

tincow's Mom gave us her recipe for tortilla soup a while ago. We love it, and whenever we make it, side dishes usually don't happen because we wolf down way too much soup. The "optional" garnishes are shredded chicken, grated cheddar cheese, and avocado. I was skeptical about tossing some cubed avocado into my soup, but it was quite tasty. The cold ( Read more... )