It's Saturday and I've been cooking...

I thought I would give you a quick update on the delicious/yummy creations I've made today for the family.

First for breakfast...

We had Mini Puffed Oven Pancakes...  or as we call them in my family mini dutch babies.

And here they are straight out of the oven, before the delicious and oh, so simple berry sauce is added.

My parents and I absolutely loved these and I highly recommend you make them yourself

{ hello little brother... I'm talking to you }

And before I forget... get the recipe for the puffed pancakes/ dutch babies and berry sauce here.

I strayed from the recipe and directions a tad...

Instead of using a mini muffin tin, I used my regular sized one and I was able to get 7 pancakes out of it, but I kept the cooking time the same.

I also added a touch (about a 1/4 tsp) of vanilla extract.

I chose to make a raspberry sauce, so I used about a cup of frozen raspberries and 3 tbsp of raspberry preserves.

ENJOY!

Lunch was at Subway, followed by a quick trip to Country Village to visit the chicken, duckies and choo-choo store.

And for dinner...

Creamy tomato penne with shrimp

(aka Penne a la Betsy by The Pioneer Woman)

Another delicious meal to add to the recipe "box" to be made again.

Get the recipe here from The Pioneer Woman.

Ok, now I've got to get back to the family...

have a wonderful weekend, lovelies!

2012 Resolution { update }

hello lovelies!

It's now been almost 2 weeks since the prince and I started our partial-vegetarian lifestyle

and it's going well-- { REALLY well! }

I've been surprised how easy it's been to find recipes that sound yummy to me and are also

hubby friendly/approved.   There's the pappardelle pasta and tomato basil sauce that we had last week... I was raving about it here.  Along with these meals...

Tortellini spinach bake in a creamy basil garlic sauce.

The original recipe from Our Best Bites is a creamy lemon sauce, but seeing as how we're not really fans of lemon for our pasta sauces I used considerably less lemon than it called for in the recipe, get it here, so instead the sauce became a creamy basil garlic sauce for us.

Petite lasagnas, recipe via Can You Stay for Dinner?...  get it here.

Delicious and lowfat, what could be better?!  Oh wait!  EASY to make, too!  And I now have lunches for a  few days in the freezer

Baked pumpkin pie oatmeal.

{ this is not a hubby fave... he doesn't like pumpkin pie }

I'm loving this oatmeal, I froze the extras and can now take it to work or just warm it up at home.

{ very yummy }

The recipe is from Inside NanaBread's Head, get it here.  FYI...  I didn't have any raisins on hand so instead I substituted the dried cranberries I had and they are fab!  

If you would like to try any of the fabulous recipes I've found, then check 

out my board on Pinterest here.

I love trying all of these new recipes, it makes dinnertime a lot more fun for me { smile }

And the prince has been having a lot of fun cooking with Mommy, too { even bigger smile }

Have a wonderful weekend lovelies!

A week in { Instagram }

hello lovelies!

It's been over a week since my last post, so I thought I would devote this post to catching 

you up on our happenings/doings for the last week.

So... with the help of Instagram { my new fave iPhone app } 

here's a peek at what we were up to this last week...

beautiful pillows I need at Target { I especially love the Chevron print }

baked pumpkin pie oatmeal, get the recipe here

ingredients for black bean brownies { thumbs down, must find a better recipe }

the prince's cookie from Central Market, almost to pretty/cool to eat { almost }

yummy little satsuma/mandarine/cutie, my morning snack

all the goodies for Mom Woods' birthday dinner { it was a hit }

the prince reading his george books

petite lasagnas { yummy & EASY to make } get the recipe here

waiting for our { yummies } at our fave teriyaki place

absolutely amazing cookies made by the prince & grandma Woods

cannellini bean soup { my work lunch }

veggie sandwich w/ roasted garlic hummus & homemade kalamata tapenade

{ FYI- we've been doing great with our resolution...  specifics in an upcoming post }

So what were you up to this last week?  I can't wait to here everything { smile }

Have a wonderful end to your week, lovelies!

Day 1- 3 recipes down...

On our first day of trying our new semi-vegetarian lifestyle, the prince and I had some yummy meals...

For breakfast, we shared an egg and avocado breakfast sandwich.

Quite delicious and a nice start to the day.  

Get the recipe here if you would like to try making one yourself.

Then it was on to my mid-day project, Cannellini Bean soup...

A tad bit of prep work, but well worth it.

All packaged up and now in the freezer, ready to take to work for my lunches

{ yum }

Get the recipe here if you would like to make a batch.

AND, last but not least, the masterpiece pasta we had for dinner...  

I'm telling you this dinner was 5 star, also hubby and prince approved!

Pappardelle noodles in tomato basil sauce with ricotta and italian chicken sausages...

{ DELICIOUS } and so very easy!

Here's what I used...

This type of pasta was a bit harder to find, luckily Central Market had it, all be it a tad pricey, but dinner was so yummy that I would totally buy it again!

Along with two cloves of garlic (minced) and 2 Open Nature Italian chicken sausages and this recipe.  

FYI, the recipe calls for 4 cups of marinara sauce, but the jar is only 24oz = 3 cups, don't worry just add the same amount of water and everything will work out fine...  you can also use less noodles, that's what I did, afterall.

Here's another glimpse at our dinner in the making...

SIMPLE, QUICK and DELICIOUS...  you must try it!!

We also had some wonderful rolls with dinner...

Also a must try! We warmed them in the oven for about 5 minutes at 325 degrees = scrumptious!

Have a wonderful week, I'm headed back to work tomorrow and the prince is now telling me he is ready for bedtime... so, goodnight!