the mood around casa mar-tine has improved greatly. sunday was just a bad, bad day and everyone is entitled to one now and again. a good cry and a long talk with the bear helped, and then a snuggle nap clinched the deal. i'm back to dealing with things one day at a time and life doesn't seem quite so bleak.

i made a delicious spinach and pea soup ( Read more... )

made rockin' good dinner tonight for me, myself and i.  was starving and couldn't deal and the hormone beasties were chanting "sausage, sausage, SAUSAGE!!"  i quieted them with pasta and sauce.  sauce: sauteed mushrooms, fennel, peas, garlic, chicken-asiago sausage (the beast slumbers), a bit of broth, salt and pepper, a dash of crushed red peppers ( Read more... )