Nuts

Over the course of my life I have traveled between California and Utah approximately one million times; I do not exaggerate.  Trust me I know the road.  I know where the best bathrooms are; I just don’t “go” anywhere.  I know where the (relatively speaking of course) best places to eat are.  And now I know where the best nuts are.

If I could stop eating them I would, but I can’t. They are that good!!

Where is the Fire?

Where is the Fire?? That’s what I remember asking my mom when we sat down for dinner. It was like she was always in this huge rush to get finished eating because “the baby” might start crying. So I’m thinking back and thinking………..what baby? I have three siblings and we are all like only children because of the number of years between us. That said I wonder now what the real reason was……it is too late to ask but I have found I have developed that same problem of “speed eating!” This is a problem for me because I really want to taste and enjoy what I’m eating but I find myself eating so quickly that I don't even get to savor what I just inhaled............... I hate when this happens. And I really hate it when I'm eating a sweet treat because it is gone and I don’t even remember tasting it not to mention it can really wreak havoc on one’s waistline. I need to STOP rushing to put out that fire……….I have a fireman in my family now………he’ll take care of all fires and cry babies. Thanks S2 now I can finally slow down and enjoy my food!

How do you know

It is so hard to know what is good to eat anymore.  Good for you I should say!  I know what is good to eat!  I don't have a problem with that.  I know that I can no longer eat candy after nine; no hiding candy bars to snack on in bed!  I watched an episode of Bonnie Hunt the other day and she had on Author David Zinczenko, he wrote the book"Eat This Not That" scary..........this isn't a diet it is just knowledge of what is good/ok to eat and what we should avoid!  Take this quiz.........you might be surprised and what you learn Eat This Not That Quiz.  I think I just might need to check out this book..........

My Goal

I came home tonight with a goal. The goal was to bake for two hours - from 6:00 to 8:00. I felt that in that time I could bake some mini crème puffs and mix up some wonderful lemon curd. Simple enough....on paper it was anyway. You see everything I'm baking this week needs to be mini sized. Usually I'm really good about doing a little test beforehand but tonight I was confident my crème puffs would be the perfect size..........hello they were not the perfect size. They were not a bad size just too big to be in the mini category. No worries I say to myself I will whip up another batch and still reach my 8:00 goal. I've made crème puffs a million times! However, out of my next batch of 48 only 15 survived........hello I burned them.........are you kidding me. I've been hovering over the oven like a buzzard and for one minute I turn my back; yes the timer was on but for that minute that my attention was elsewhere my baby crème puffs burned. Thank heavens for tomorrow when I whip up round three.

Oh, by the way the lemon curd turned out splendid!