Brave

Have you heard this song by Sara Bareilles?  I liked it and wanted to share.

Summer Produce

I love summer produce.  I am happy to report that my garden is surviving!  I am so excited! 

This was my dinner tonight.  Not the best pic, but you get the idea.  Italian zucchini with a little salt, pepper, and garlic salt sprinkled on top.  I spritzed a little olive oil in the pan and voila!  Goodness in a pan.  I cannot wait until my garden starts producing!

Kabobs

It is summer.  It is hot.  I hate using the oven in the summer because I can't even remember the last time I had air conditioning in my house.  I was at the store the other day and they had a sale on kabobs.  Loved them!  I used the George Foreman grill and voila!  No heat, almost no mess, and healthy goodness. 

If you haven't grilled kabobs this summer you might want to give it a try!

Pintrosity

Okay all you pinaholics.  This one is for you.  Come on, you know you've tried something on Pinterest at least once that did not turn out exactly how you had planned or like the beautiful picture you pinned.  This, my friends, is one of those stories.

Let me begin by showing you the picture from Pinterest.  It looks amazing, right?  100% whole wheat bread.  I've been wanting to try some new bread recipes and this one one looked like just the ticket!

http://www.redstaryeast.com/our-best-recipes/whole-grain-healthy-breads/100-whole-wheat-bread?tid=105

It was a disaster from start to finish.  I am not exaggerating.  The recipe called for 1/2 cup of molasses.  Have you ever tried to work with molasses?  Have you ever smelled molasses?  Blah!  At any rate, I made through the molasses.  Through more painstaking struggles I finally got the bread in the oven to bake.  I'm sure I did it all wrong.  And, well, I'll just let you see the picture.  This is the bottom of the loaf.  I have pulled a piece off so you can see the inside that is somewhat...I don't even know what it is.  So, chalk this one up to epic fail.  I'll try again another day...with a different recipe.  Maybe I'm just not a bread baker. On a lighter side note, I told this story to a colleague and she said, "Well, duh.  That's what Great Harvest is for!"  Yes, I think I will take myself down to the Great Harvest tomorrow!