Pork Chops for dinner

I made pork chops and salad for dinner this evening. I think I accidentally bought real potatoes rather than sweet potatoes, so the salad was not functioning as designed. It was still excellent.

Making favorite cake recipe using Splenda

I got up early this morning to make my favorite cake recipe, substituting two cups Splenda plus one cup nonfat dry milk plus 2 teaspoons baking soda for the intended two cups sugar. Have to see how it turns out.

turkey soft tacos for dinner

I perhaps overstayed my welcome a bit in taking the person whose dogs I was caring for up on her offer to "make yourself at home" and cooked myself dinner this evening. Rachael Ray's pork soft tacos, except I used turkey. I was hungry for a real home-cooked not-eaten-out meal.

Cauliflower never tasted so good

Dad and I made Rachael Ray's pork with fig sauce and cauliflower puree this evening. It was delicious. We finished off the Poirot disc, a couple episodes of Have Gun Will Travel (season two), and an episode of Hustle (season 2). It's a television binge but I got home too late this evening to head over to the Desert Botanical Gardens, which dad visited today and he says plants are in bloom and beautiful. I hope to make it over there soon to check it out.

Guedo's

I left work a little early today to tidy up and then picked up my dad at the airport. We went to Guedo's for a fish taco dinner and then made Rachael Ray's mustard crusted salmon without the mustard, which was very good, as an after dinner snack and leftovers lunch to take to work tomorrow. For once it was really a thirty minute meal. We watched a couple episodes of Poirot (from NetFlix) before dad fell asleep on the couch; figures with the time differential.

Chicken-Peanut Soup

Today I made Rachael Ray's Chicken-Peanut Soup, minus the chili pepper. It was really pretty good, in that recipe-to-make-once-every-couple-of-years kind of way. Plenty of leftovers.

Guy Food

I made the first recipe in Rachael Ray Top 30 30-Minute Meals: Guy Food today: outside-in bacon cheeseburgers with green onion mayo and beefsteak tomato & vidalia onion salad with steak sauce dressing. Tasty and plenty of leftovers to take in my lunch this week.

Wolfgang Puck's Curried Chicken Satay

I made Wolfgang Puck's curried chicken satay this evening, as instructed in the February issue of Every Day with Rachael Ray. I'm unclear how many servings it was supposed to make, since I ate them all myself while watching Jarhead from Netflix with no trouble.

Jarhead was disturbing but worth watching. Affords some perspective.

My favorite cake recipe

My favorite cake recipe:
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
6 T cocoa
0.5 t salt
2 t baking soda
2 t vanilla
2 t vinegar
2/3 cup veg oil
2 cup lukewarm water
Bake at 350 degrees 30 to 40 minutes.