by twopeas on March 10, 2010
We don’t eat out very often. When we do, we usually support local restaurants. We have our favorites and sometimes it is nice to let someone else do the cooking:) I don’t like chain restaurants or fast food-sometimes I wonder if they even serve real food:) So when we were eating at our friends house the other night and they told us we were having the “Olive Garden’s soup”, I had no clue what they were talking about:) Sure, I have been to the Olive Garden, but it has been many, many years.
Our friend created a copycat recipe of the Olive Garden’s “famous” Zuppa Toscana soup. I didn’t try it because of the meat, but Josh loved it. It was right up his alley-spicy Italian sausage, bacon, cream, and kale. At least he got his greens in:) He ended up having two bowls-I gave him my share…ha! And don’t worry, our friends made sure I had a veggie option-they are too nice:)
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by twopeas on March 8, 2010
Josh was out of town for a couple of days last week. I always hate it when he is gone, but there is one, and only one benefit-I can eat and bake with peanut butter:) The last time he was out of town, I made vegetable spring rolls with peanut dipping sauce-soooo good! This time I wanted to do some baking. I had a hard time deciding what to bake, my peanut butter list is very long. Of course, I ended up baking cookies:)
I wanted a hearty, old fashion, good cookie, so I baked peanut butter oatmeal cookies. I was going to add in chocolate chips, until I looked through my hidden stash of peanut butter goodies:) I found mini Reese’s peanut butter cups-yahoo! They were the perfect addition. The cookies were filled with peanut butter and the oats kept them wholesome. I used chunky peanut butter, the peanut chunks gave the cookies a nice texture. I added in a little bit of cinnamon which added in an extra bit of deliciousness.
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