Moving, and Kitchen Ideas

Sorry for my lack of posting in the last few weeks!! We are moving next week, and it's been a little crazy & busy! I haven't done too much cooking since we've been packing, so nothing much to post on either!

Normally this time of year, I have long started indoor planting my seeds/seedlings for my spring garden of herbs & veggies. However, since we're moving, I didn't start them...so they don't get shocked and die, or get knocked about too much. So, I wanted to come up with some way to grow something, anything easily and where I wouldn't feel guilty about it dying in the move.

So, I was thinking (actually a month ago, on my anniversary) that if you get flowers and you put them in water, what else can you put in water to last longer? So, the day after my anniversary I was cooking and used some green onions, and you know how you pretty much never end up using them all..., and I put them in a glass of water on the window sill. They're still growing now!  A month later! With the exception of a weekly "haircut" to keep them from growing too much (which is why they look all scraggly in my picture, because they just got their hair cut), they have grown beautifully and non stop! There are actually some new little onion bulbs growing on the roots right now. I just clean out the glass every couple days too keep it from getting to green, and give it a hair cut. All from one $0.89 bunch of organic green onions!

Then, I was thinking about a week ago, that if you can grow green onions in a glass like that, what else can you grow?? So, I cut up some celery and stuck the bottom of that in a container on the window sill. Look!! This much growth in a little less than a week!! It's just started shooting out little roots too! Super cool!

Yesterday, I cut up some pineapple and stuck that in the window sill too. Not sure what will happen with it, but we'll see!! I'm interested to see what else I can throw in my window sill in water and grow successfully! 

Any suggestions? =]

Grilled Mahi Mahi

I've never really liked fish (with the exception of canned tuna...but that doesn't count)....not going to lie about that. I actually despise fish, and would rather not eat than eat fish. BUT, recently the hubby's aunt made some Mahi Mahi that transitioned me...big time, and I couldn't get enough!! Then, right after that Mahi Mahi was on sale at Kroger and I got a giant almost 3 foot long filet with the skin on one side for $7. It's sat in my freezer for about a month because I had no idea how to prepare it, let alone cook it!! Well, like I said we're cleaning out our kitchen, so I finally had to give in. It was wonderful!!

Ingredients
-Mahi Mahi filet with skin on one side, cut into individual portions
-Vegetable Oil
-Lemon Pepper Seasoning
-Saltgrass Seven Spice Seasoning

1. Rub filet pieces on meat side with oil.
2. Sprinkle generously with lemon pepper and seven spice.
3. Grill over Medium High heat meat side down for 4 minutes.
4. Use grill flipper spatula thing & flip and grill skin side down for 4 minutes.
5. Use a meat thermometer and make sure it's above 140*.

This was delicious and was great reheated in the microwave the next day.

Let me know what you think!!

Healthy Quick & Easy Pizza

Everyone loves pizza!! I'll do an "unhealthy" homemade pizza blog post soon, but  here's my healthy one first! I love doing this kind of easy and quick pizza for lunch or dinner if I don't feel like cooking.

Ingredients
-Tortilla
-Spaghetti Sauce
-Shredded cheese (I've done it with sliced too...just ripped it into several pieces and spread it over)
-Whatever else toppings you would like (I had leftover mushrooms from my salad stuff)

1. Set oven for broil.
2. Put tortilla on a greased cookie sheet.
3. Spoon some spaghetti sauce and spread it around.
4. Add cheese & toppings.
5. Broil until cheese is melted.

Super delicious and easy!!

Try it, and let me know what you think!!

Easy Weeknight Spinach Alfredo

We are moving soon, so we're doing our usual thing where we don't want to buy any groceries because that's less to take to the new house. So, we're having to get creative with what we can find in the pantry/freezer/fridge. This includes making random assortments of things...which I'm going to do blog posts on...probably tonight...maybe tomorrow....no worries!! :)

Ingredients
-1 bag of shell pasta (or whatever kind of pasta you have floating around...make sure it's not full of weevils like my first bag was..yuck!)
-1 jar of alfredo sauce (we used Ragu)
-1 can of spinach

1. Cook pasta according to package.
2. Drain pasta and put back in pot.
3. Pour in whole jar of alfredo sauce.
4. Drain can of spinach and add like 3/4 of can to pot.
5. Stir around on medium until hot/warm.


We took some bread we had and toasted them with butter, parmesan cheese, and garlic powder & cut it up for "garlic bread". This was super yummy and took maybe 30 minutes to make...tops! Mostly though because I had to wait for the water to boil twice being that my first bag of pasta had unwanted inhabitants.

Let me know what you think!!