What can I say but that peppers were on sale, and I had a couple things of spinach to use up. I did go by a recipe for curried stuffed peppers, but I veered way away from it with the spices section and the use of rice instead of orzo- I ran out of orzo, and out of time, so sadly, minute rice was used. But this pepper came out so good! A little creaminess from coconut milk, and the spices I threw in were some tandoori spices I had a jar of. I was pressed for time so couldn't grab all the individual spices in the cabinet that the recipe called for. So I threw that in, and the result was delicious!

I would probably eat this most nights if it wasn't filled with gobs of calories. Butternut squash soup sounds healthy enough, but I added cream cheese to this one! And not just any old plain cream cheese. I had a package of sp[inach and artichoke cream cheese I needed to use up, so in it went- along with some onions and vegetable broth. The result was the yummy, yummy, soup.

Normally I don't like sundried tomatoes, but apparently, I've just been eating the wrong kind! In the past I've had the dried stuff, but I recently had some leftover dried ones that I reconstituted and threw in on this dish. They were so good! Definitely opened the door for sun dried tomatoes again :D I just sauteed them with some onions and then seared up some cubed tuna and tossed it all with penne. Yum.

Another favorite of mine, lemon lush. It's one of my grandmother's favorites, too. Lemon pudding (but not too lemony) with cream cheese and cool whip. The crust is all buttery; just a delicious combination! I ate more than my fair share, but then, maybe it was fair since I was the cook for this one :D

A super yummy Polish Easter tradition. Hard boiled eggs with a dollop of chzran; beets and horseradish! It's one of my favorites and I downed about five of these babies! The spicier, the better!

It just wouldn't be Easter without a shot of vodka!! Anyone else here relate with a Polish background? Mom, I know you're reading this! I think this was your drink!

This was a mismash of foods the girls wouldn't eat. The cherry tomatoes got "wrinkly" and no one would touch them. The noodles were leftover from the night before and the spinach was on sale for a buck so I picked it up with no plan in mind. The dinner came together pretty nicely, though!! I think I should eat rejected food more often ;)

I thought these rejected tomatoes were too pretty not to post them. Of course, the wrinkles disappeared as the tomatoes cooked.

No one had eggs for dinner, but we did do some crazy egg decorating! Not with the brown eggs, though- I did make egg salad for the girls to see if they liked it. A big ol' NO on that one... but the egg decorating was a big success, with only one spill, too!!

While I was feasting on pierogi my husband had turkey. I know, not quite the season, but I had picked it up at the store at a good price, and cooked it up for him. I had to take a picture considering it took me SO long to cook it (and I had to cut my shopping time early to be home and put it in the oven! the nerve!).

Ooooh, yummy! Pierogies!!! These are the last of the homemade ones I had made and frozen by the dozen. They were so good!! It's the cabbage kind, and sauteed with onions until very delicous. I must admit, I make a good pierogi!

The girls were in charge of cooking dinner tonight since I was eating leftover soup. They decided on this concoction, which they considered to be somewhere between a muffin and a cupcake. It was just crescent roll dough in a mini muffin tin, filled with cheese, tomatoes and bacon. None of the girls liked them, of course.

So, after chatting with a friend on how I rarely eat pretend meat products, I went and made some up for dinner. Truth be told, however, it wasn't the "meat" is was longing for- I just love the condiments!!! I could probably eat a plate of ketchup, mustard and relish. Relish is my favorite on a hot dog! So imagine my sadness when I discovered we were clean out of relish?? What's a girl to do? Get a slice of pickle. It just wasn't the same :( I need to buy a good supply of relish, I think.

Inspiration struck wne I was tidying up the kitchen and saw my bananas starting to turn. I didn't really want to make banana bread, so I looked to a cookbook I haven't had much time to play with, really. It's a coffee cake book and contained a recipe for banana, peanut butter muffins. I was even more excited when I read that one of the ingredients was mini chocolate chips. They were super yummy, but the banana taste didn't shine through that much. Maybe my bananas hadn't brownedenough...

This was a spinach, pea and coconut milk soup. It was very tasty, although I made the green curry pea soup which tastes very similar, and I prefer just a little more. But I really love this great vibrant green color, don't you??

It's time for Green Curry!! And I am hoping to have a lot of this in the weeks to come. My husband bought be a big tub of green curry paste! This was yummy, but I am looking forward to trying it in other recipies, rather than a curry over rice. We'll see :D

Salmon; three ways. Really, this is my life. The small back portion is for the girls. One is determined to never try salmon. Another eats it sometimes and the third could probably run into the water, grab a sharpened stick and harpoon her own salmon, wrestle it into submission before filleting it and adding too much salt. She pretty much ate that whole "bare" piece back there. Did I mention she just turned four? The other back piece was mine and man, it was yummy. It was an easy recipe of Caesar dressing with basil, Parmesan and olive oil. I added crushed croutons to mine, and the one in the foreground (belonging to Atkins-boy) was left without the crouton topping.

veggie fajitas!! sauteed peppers and onion with portabellos smothered in salsa, tomaotes, jalepeno, sour cream, avocado and hot sauce! And did I mention the scattering of cheddar cheese? Fajitas are always a good idea.

Green bean salad chock full of yumminess! radishes and bleu cheese! It really was so good, I was sad when it was all gone :(

Who doesn't love a good panini! Well, really I suppose it was just a grilled sanwhich, but yum! succhini, roasted red pepper and mozzerella. Super good :D And finally my tummy was able to handle solid food :D

More soup! And man, it was an ugly, ugly soup. I can't even remember what kind it was! Some kind of mushroom soup, and the problem was that I had to add sour cream. The sour cream was added after using a blender to liquefy the soup. But, unfortunately I used an immulsion blender, which is all well and goo (easy), but I failed to consider that the blender method would have cooled the soup- thusly allowing the addition of the sour cream to not separate. My soup was hot, so, viola! separated sour cream. Not to mention this was also not a good choice for a stomach rehab dinner.

Ah. Neon soup. Because I still was not feeling better, and I didn't really want to eat, I "made" this. I had the nagging feeling I should eat, but in the end, I think I only had about two or three spoonfuls. It was V8 tomato soup, so not like I actually cooked it or anything, but again, might be a good long while (never) that I even have this again. Besides, a neon dinner is not a good way to get a tummy back on track.

I know what it looks like, but it's not what you think. It's a black bean burger :D My first try at making my own veggie burger, and it was ok, except that this was the night I ended up with a stomach bug, so... well, you can imagine what happened all night, and I am not sure when I will be ready to make (or eat!) another veggie burger. Not for a good long while, methinks.