A Taste of Summer Goodness

My mother makes the best potato salad I've ever eaten.  She uses Marzetti's Potato Salad Dressing. She doesn't really have a written recipe  but she uses 6 potatoes, 1/2 chopped onion, 2 stalks celery, and 4hard boiled eggs. Add 1/2 jar of the dressing.  Sprinkle with paprika.  It is so much better than grocery store deli potato salad.  Last year I email the Marzetti company about their packaging (narrow opening and ribbed top making it difficult to get all of the dressing out of the jar) but they didn't take my advice.

Wordless Wednesday

My current favorite breakfast

In an effort to work on my cholesterol and weight, I have been having oatmeal for breakfast more frequently.  Here's a link to a fav recipe spot of mine, Kalyn's Kitchen.  http://www.kalynskitchen.com/2009/05/recipe-for-steel-cut-oats-in-crockpot.html

It's easy to make a batch for the week
1 cup steel cut oats
5 cups water
1/2 tsp salt
Cook on low in crockpot for about 3 hours. 

I like my oats with a Light and Fit Greek Yogurt (80 cal).

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day............thought this was nice.

Nordic Ski with Mere and Clyde Feb. 2013

We went up to Crested Butte this past weekend to ski a couple of days and to see Meredith since it was her birthday.  We skied two days and also went cross country skiing on Sunday  in Washington Gulch.  We all had a good time , especially Clyde.  We tried the new place to eat in the Plaza - the Iron Horse Tap. We thought it was great.  Sure wish we'd get some snow at home.

Whole Wheat Jam Muffins

I just tried a new muffin recipe and it turned out very well.  It''s a way to use up jam, apple butter, etc.  I tried it because I had some leftover cranberry sauce from Thanksgiving.  The homemade sauce was fresh cranberries, orange juice, and sugar.  It was more like a jam or relish.   I like the recipe because it uses whole wheat flour.  I added flax meal too. Here's the link. http://www.withinthekitchen.blogspot.ca/2012/11/quick-and-easy-jam-muffins.html#

I pinned the recipe too.  It was a very quick and easy recipe.  We'll see what Arn thinks tonight when he asks for 'booyah'.

Happy Birthday Meredith Ann!

Today is Mere's 25th birthday. It was really fun skiing with Mere, Tim, and Mia and meeting them at the Avalanch and having Avy PainKillers? and Horny PainKillers?.  Looking forward to dinner tomorrow night, seeing 'big baby', and cross country skiing on Sunday.