Pancake Tacos

Luckiest Girl Alive, right here!

The boy cooked for me again! And it was breakfast again!

He made pancakes using Bob’s Red Mill pancake mix.

Then I gussied them up with some almond butter and banana!

Originally, I had planned to make a Shepherd’s pie for dinner, using ground turkey, but I just wasn’t feeling it. I didn’t do a very good job with meal planning. I had ground sweet Italian sausage in dinner last night, and ground beef and ground hot Italian sausage in lunch! I am all ground meated out! Fortunately,  I don’t have class this Wednesday so our need for leftovers was significantly decreased so we could get away with this dinner. And my belly was mucho happy!

Our afternoon was spent like this:

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Sorry to bombard you with scrabble boards but I love love love looking at them when they are complete! You can tell that there are a few words that we use continually.

I think my goal for our next game is to use that damn triple word in the top left corner. We rarely use it! I think we managed it last night but that’s like the only time! What a waste!

-L4L-

Ragout For You!

 

Nope. Not Scrabbled out yet!

We slept in this morning, I mean, yesterday was completely exhausting!

I started off the morning with a cup of eggnog coffee + nutmeg.

And somehow I convinced Jodus to make me breakfast while I dinked around on the internet! Skillz!

He made a scramble with spinach, onion, garlic, mushroom, and bell pepper with homemade wheat toast and some turkey sausage links.

He done good!

Then we pounded out a bunch of chores. Like the yucky ones you only do every blue moon. We successfully packed up 3 boxes + 1 suitcase of stuff to give-away to Goodwill. Tis the season! I also did ridiculous things like bleaching the ceiling of the bathroom (sucky ventilation + moisture = gross mold). I am quite satisfied with the amount of work we got done this morning.

We broke for lunch and I had a Sausage + Bean Ragout on the menu.

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 pound hot Italian pork sausage, casing removed
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 3 1/2 cups Swanson® Chicken Broth (regular, Natural Goodness™ or Certified Organic)
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil leaves
• 2 (14.5 ounce) cans diced tomatoes seasoned with garlic, oregano and basil
• 1 (16 ounce) can Great Northern Beans white kidney beans (cannellini), rinsed and drained
• 1/2 cup uncooked elbow pasta
• 1 (6 ounce) package fresh baby spinach leaves, washed
• 1/3 cup grated Romano cheese

Directions

1. Heat oil in saucepot over medium-high heat. Add beef, sausage and onion and cook until meats are browned, stirring to separate meat. Add garlic and cook 30 seconds.
2. Add broth, basil, tomatoes and beans. Heat to a boil. Cover and cook over low heat 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add pasta and cook until pasta is done.
3. Add spinach and cook just until spinach is wilted, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and stir in cheese. Serve with additional cheese.

 

I followed this almost exactly (minus not having fresh basil and using great northern’s instead of cannellini’s).

 

It was quite tasty. We give it a B+. Jodus said it was warm + hearty but also vaguely resembled Hamburger Helper which I can sort of see…

 

We are off to more Scrabble! Yes, we are currently obsessed. I think we are just more on each other’s playing level so we are quite competitive!

PS – - – >

Happy Birthday, Opa!

-L4L-

Scrabble + Spaghetti + Syrah Saturday

Hi loves!

Here was our afternoon.

We did manage to shower around four… and then we got back in our PJ’s!

We made some spaghetti for dinner! Yum! While we worked, I cracked a bottle of wine for the first time in FOREVER.

Like mother, like daughter!

We even pulled out some wine accessories for the occasion!

 

This is a deliciously smooth (and cheap!) wine, in case you were wondering. Ok, on to dinner!

Spaghetti!

Started by chopping an entire head of garlic and one onion.

 

Sautéed those in some EVOO. (Ignore the black specks, that’s just burnt garlic.)

Then add some meat given to you by your fabulous parental units.

And some chopped mushrooms.

We like our sauce thick and chunky!

I drained all the juices out.

To do something a little different this time, I reconstituted some sundried tomatoes, chopped them, and added them to the sauce.

Then I added a jar of sauce, a can of diced tomatoes that was very well drained.

 

Mix it all up, add salt and spices to taste.

(This plus a whole pack of noodles made 7 decent size servings, btw.)

Grate some parmesan.

 

Serve over whole wheat noodles and lots of wine.

(HI!)

I am sure that more wine and possibly some Hemp Ice Cream will be in the near future. And definitely more Scrabble!

-L4L-

Scrabblin’

I think today is devoted to Scrabble now. Jodus beat me, AGAIN!

I can’t be having any of this! When we very first started playing together over a year ago, I would annihilate him. And he was soooo slooooow. He’s so much better now. Practice, practice, practice!

Lunch was a quick and easy between games.

Spinach salad with smoked salmon, tomato, and cilantro lemon dressing with a few croutons.

 

I am chasing it with some Ginger Ale and FSTG chips.

I hope your Saturday is going as fabulously as mine!

-L4L-

Egg Nog Morning

This morning has been filled with Egg Nog!

I started the morning off with a shot.

Then I added it to my coffee + nutmeg. I’m on my third cup!

Then I made egg nog battered french toast! Egg + eggnog + cinnamon + cloves + nutmeg + ground flax with homemade wheat bread!

Topped with butter + syrup + powdered sugar.

With half a pear on the side.

 

I got schooled by Jodus at Scrabble last night. So I kicked his butt at a game again this morning! I think this might be what we do all day! I LOVE not having plans this weekend!

-L4L-