With very few days left to harvest these fresh garden tomatoes, I am incorporating tomatoes in any recipe I can like in an easy guacamole recipe. There are a few favorite recipes that I am eating while on Weight Watchers that taste great with guacamole. One of those recipes is Taco Salad. {I will have to post that recipe very soon.} The awesome thing is that guacamole is a great healthy condiment to eat while on Weight Watchers. You just have to be careful how much of it you eat. Weight Watchers … [Read more...]
Wisdom Teeth Extraction
source Not a fun week. When is it fun to get 3 wisdom teeth pulled out, extracted, surgically removed? Especially after 30!!! My big highlight this week? My wonderful husband made me homemade vanilla ice cream! {Soft foods really is getting old! Praise God for Ice Cream!} We bought an Ice Cream Maker for 30% off at Target: Homemade vanilla ice cream recipe: makes 4 quarts {and yes he used organic ingredients!} 2 cups milk 1 3/4 cups sugar 1/2 … [Read more...]
Basic Italian Polenta Recipe
I have not had Polenta before. I recently saw it being cooked on TV and it really sounded good. So when I saw a bag for just over $2 at the local grocery store, I couldn’t resist. I had to try it. It is simply ground corn. The only ingredient is corn! I used the following recipe (in half) and made 4 servings. Each serving is 130 calories (without butter). Basic Italian Polenta Recipe (from the back of the Bob’s Red Mill bag) Ingredients 3 cups of water 1 tsp. salt 1 cup of … [Read more...]
