Day 10 of January

It's Saturday night and the house is quiet.
Ashley and Ethan have switched parent houses tonight and Bill is reviewing some paperwork.  Even Maya is just hanging out with me in the office.
It was a quiet day today.  I bought a new cook book "Hungry Girl" by Lisa Lillien.  She appeared on the Anderson Cooper show on Friday.  I was impressed with the quickness and and ingredients on her recipes she did on the show.  So I purchased the book to my I-Pad.  Mistake number one.  I haven't quite figured out how to go to a recipe quickly; but I'm sure I can keep working on that.  So I decided to try out a few of the recipes for dinner, and who better to help critic them, then Bill.
  The first item was an onion bloom.  I had never heard of these before our last holiday, but Bill ordered it at Margaritaville.  It's basically one big onion ring.  You cut the onion except for the bottom so everything stays attached, and when it cooks, it looks like a flower.  It's quite impressive.  Now this is supposed to be a low calorie, cook book.  So instead of using your normal coating for an onion ring, you use egg substitutes and "fibre one" cereal that has been ground up. Then instead of deep frying it, you bake it.  Sounds healthy - tastes - not like real onion rings.  That's not to say it tasted bad, but it is one of the recipe's I won't be repeating.
  The next meal item was egg foo young in a mug.  This recipe I thought was good - very filling - and very easy to make.  To mix all your ingredients and put them in the microwave in a mug.  There is your meal.  Bill said it tasted good, but no need to remake that one (I would recommend this one)
  The last item I tried was a desert.  It was a brownie muffin.  You took a devils food cake mix, add puree pumpkin and bake.  Yup that its.  It has a brownie texture, and a little boring in taste, but then we added whip cream around it, and it was delicious (might bring the calorie count up just a little)  I think if you put some fresh rasberries on top, that would make it even more delicious.  So that one I would make again; might even serve that one to company.
  I've got to investigate the recipes a little more.  I like the quickness and the fresh ingredients.  Not crazy about some of the add in items (refined), but will see what turns out next.
  Off to work on my "Mom Story"
Stacey