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This was our Valentine’s Day dinner! We had bacon wrapped Filet, lobster tail, broccoli and Brazilian Cheese Rolls.

I think there is not a dish more perfect than a simple dish of roasted red potatoes. To call it a recipe seems wrong but this is how I do it. I take red potatoes and cut them up. Place them in a baking dish. Season them generously with Pappy’s seasoning (or any seasoning blend you like). Douse with oil and toss them all together. Place in a 400 degree oven for 1 hour. Cheap and easy.

This is a great gluten free throw together dish on a weeknight It is a little spicy and satisfying!! Nom nom.

Ingredients:

2 packages of rice noodles
3 8 oz packages of Farmer John sausage links (we are a meat heavy family)
1 10oz package of frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
2 tsp salt
1 tbls dehydrated onion
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp minced garlic

Process:

Prepare the noodles (soak them in boiling water, then rinse them in cold water and drain). Crumble and fry spinach. Do not drain!!! Throw in onion and garlic. Then toss in noodles and stir. Coat the noodles in the sausage and oil from the sausage. Then add the salt and paprika. Stir again. Then add the spinach. Toss and continue to cook until it is all heated through. Then serve.

So easy! So good!

And I am home from CES! So my first home cooked dinner was a steak bowl! It was made with leftover steak, rice, broccoli, a little shredded cheese and taco sauce. The magic with the steak is to originally cook it only to rare. Then when you reheat the steak it is perfect! So the last time we had made steak we cooked a little extra.

Yummy and so very easy!

Tonight we Zuppa Toscana knock off soup with tapioca cheese biscuits (I will put that recipe up this week). I did switch out the kale with fresh spinach!

Ok, I said I would try to do a picture a day but I didn’t promise they would be great food;). Today was a Starbucks kind of day!

So tonight we stopped at Red Robin in Turlock on the way home from the family Christmas celebration.
Did you know that they have a gluten free menu? I got a mushroom burger on a gluten free Udi’s bun. It was pretty good! I should have gotten mayo on it though;). I got the fries without the seasoning (the seasoning has gluten;). The strawberry daiquiri helped with the slightly dry bun;).

I have a small Starbucks problem but I want to be a little healthier and a little frugaler. So I decided to start making my own blended drinks. I love the Rocket/single serving blender that I invested in. Considering that 1 blended drink ranges from $4-$5, it hasn’t taken long to make my money back.

I put in crushed ice, coffee (that was cold & leftover in the frig), left over creamer, a shot of chocolate sauce and blended. Then I topped it with low fat chocolate whipped cream. Delish! A cheap and easy way to replace my Starbucks frap!

Ok, so I still take stinky pictures. This New York steak tasted way better than it looked!!! After NerdDad was done cooking it on the flat griddle I halved some grape tomatoes and threw them on the griddle. I paired it with a salad and it was so good!!!!

So I have decided to do a sort of 365 project. Every day I will post a picture of food from my day! Today we let the kids each decorate a gingerbread panel. This is the Nerdster’s. It is pretty cute and he ate a lot of candy while he was doing it;).

I love the candy rocks and candy covered sunflower seeds that I got at Winco.