Another day, another bite.

I haven't felt much like cooking the last couple days. My big cooking accomplishment was fixing alfredo with mushrooms last night. I went an easy route today with a salad for lunch and a less than healthy dinner of cheese pizza bites. They were easy, they were there, and I just haven't had the inspiration for cooking something.


For a treat (or punishment, depending on how you look at it) I decided to chare a poem I wrote about my beloved lima beans.

"Lima Beans"

Green I am & from pods I came, the life of a lima bean is never done.

From the ground I come, towards the sun I grow.

Plucked from pods 7 either fresh, frozen, canned, or dried.

A lot of people dread my appearance.

A lot of people turn up their noses.

Bit I am the bean most over-looked.

Love me, eat me, make me yours.

I ho,d more magic than you may evern know.

Doesn't make you wish you were a lima bean all green and purdy and yummy.

A Night In

Tonight was a little "Guitar Hero," a little air hockey, a few beers, a couple rounds of "Apples to Apples," and the company of a few good friends. We put out some chips, cheese and crackers, and popped some pizza bites in the oven (they make meatless ones). Yet, everyone's minds seems to be on what to do tomorrow night. (I am still hearing crap for chasing those deer away Christmas Eve that my brothers wanted to shoot in the backyard. I couldn't bare to watch them kill something or attempt to kill something right before my eyes out the kitchen window. I feel like an oddity among these hunters.) I am loving that I have leftovers in the freezer to live off when I don't feel like cooking. Hope ya'all are celebrating the dawn of the New Year in your own fabulous way.

Here's a super easy recipe for Homemade Potato Skins (especially if you are looking for some New Year's Eve recipes).

Easy Potato Skins (easy to make vegan using olive oil or soy margarine and soy cheese)
Cooking potatoes
Butter, margarine, or seasoned olive oil
Cheese (or soy cheese)
Other optional toppings such bacon or sausage-like crumbles (ex- Morningstar or Boca), chili, sliced green onion, steamed broccoli, sautéed vegetables, etc.
* Slit or poke washed potatoes with fork or knife. Microwave (or bake) potatoes until soft (10-15 min approx depending on size, amount, etc). Quarter with knife. Scoop out excess leaving a shell and skin (approx ¼ in) and place skin-side down on baking sheet. Spoon or brush potato skin shells with melted butter or olive oil. Top with cheese and any other optional toppings. Bake at 400 degrees until cheese is melted and bubbling.

Paul Harvey: "Ever occur to you why some of us can be this concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote."