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Girls Night Out

We are going for our monthly girls night out. I think we will hit the Blues bar this month. I have to see what the consensus is with everyone else first though. I do vaguely remember on our last night out, we had said Blues Bar this time, so we shall see.

My mother is going to keep the kids over night, so I do not have to worry about them. I can crash at a friends if I choose and not even go home till morning. That is a good thing, since one of my friends lives in town and I can park at her place, then take a cab to the bar. No drinking and driving for us.

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Cheesy Goodness

One of my absolute favorite kinds of cheese is provolone cheese. I think that this cheese goes really great with almost any sandwich. Personally, I prefer to use it the most in my sandwiches. Provolone has a nice mild flavor that mixes quite well with turkey and roast beef.

Another kind of cheese that I use a lot in Italian dishes is ricotta cheese. The dish that I use ricotta the most in is lasagna. I have tried multiple types of lasagna recipes and I think that recipe that ricotta works the best in is crock pot lasagna. The cheese melts really well in the crock pot especially because it is able sit for hours and melt amongst the rest of the ingredients.

Amongst all of the delicious cheeses to choose from I usually try to pick low fat cheese. Cheese although, good for you is also very high in fat. In moderation cheese is good for you. However, many of us have a hard time because cheese is nearly found in all dishes we eat.

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New Gum

Has anyone tried that new Stride gum?  I bought a pack of it a few days ago.  The package says it is a mystery flavor.  I was curious so I had to try it for myself.

After I tried the first piece I was pleasantly surprised.  It tasted pretty good.  It is a fruity flavor verses a minty one.  I will have to try another piece before I reach a conclusion on what fruit it might be representing.

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Store Brand TV Dinners

Tonight I tried one of the store brand television dinners.  It was absolutely terrible!  Originally, the only reason it was purchased  was because I grabbed it out of the frozen section by accident.  The box I meant to grab and the  box I did grabbed looked a lot alike.  Usually, I would have caught my error as I was checking out but this time they slipped right by me.

I was thoroughly disappointed and will never make that mistake again!  The worst part of the dinners was the meat in the meal.  It was definitely not genuine meat and was very fatty and chewy.  In other words gross!  The name brand dinners may not be real meat but at least they taste like it and have the consistency of genuine meat.  Next time I will look more carefully at what I grab because it was a terrible experience!

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Bring Me an Eggroll

I’m the first to admit that I’m not a big fan of Asian food. I think part of it may be that where I grew up there was no Asian food. I never had anything remotely Asian until I got into college, and that was the cheap take out food that you eat by ordering combination #1 or combo #2. The only food I was willing to try was sweet and sour pork. That was OK, but the best part of the meal was the eggroll. Don’t ask me why, but I like eggrolls.

So tonight we went to an upscale Asian restaurant and I didn’t know what anything on the menu would taste like. They did not have a sweet and sour pork, but they did have eggrolls. So I ordered a chicken dish with a funny name and the eggrolls – the eggrolls were awesome. The best I’ve ever had!

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Yummy yummy

My friend just popped by on her way home from work and brought me some goodies from her job. She works at Buffalo Wild Wings and I just love there food and she knows it. Lemon pepper wings, onion rings and potato wedges. So fattening, but soooo good. I am in heaven. =)

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Movin right along

Well, I am cooking like a fiend already. Baking even before the holidays arrive. I made a pumpkin pie already as well as cookies. I have the makings for a Flan that I am going to make soon as well. Plus, I have to get a new food processor so I can make some of my Christmas cookies this year. You would not believe how much I use a food processor. I totally burnt the other one out in just two years. That is totally amazing.

My mother just laughs about it and says I am doing well if I can burn out a FP in that amount of time. Personally I think I need to buy a much better one than the last one was. Anyway, I am sure to gain some weight with all of this cooking.