Ok, maybe lazy isn't the most accurate word....it sure isn't the most flattering! So instead, let's go with busy. I am a busy cook. I like to eat. I love food. I even like to cook. But I also have a job that keeps me really busy, so don't have a ton of time to spend preparing meals. But I also don't like eating a lot of packaged or pre-prepared foods, because they are just so bad for you.

I don't have little kids to try to feed, but I do have an 18 year old nephew living with me. So the trick is to try to balance meals for me and for him. On my side, you've got an adult female who is trying to eat in a healthy way and lose weight. On Josh's side, you've got an 6', athletic teenage boy who could happily eat 4,000 calories a day and stay slim and athletic. Sometimes, he makes me crazy! And let me add that I love to try new things and be adventurous in my cooking, and Josh would be happy always eating the same 5-6 meals, every 5-6 days. So the happy medium is that I cook healthy meals, making them in ways that make Josh's teenage boy appetite happy, provide lots of veggies, and always have a batch of cookies in the cookie jar.

So anyway, to wrap this up. I know I have a lot of friends who find themselves to be in the same meal preparation situation as me. I've found and collected some really great, simple recipe's. And, since I like to play with things when I'm cooking, I've created some dishes of my own that are pretty darn tasty! Soooo....I figured I'd start a blog to share those recipe's with my friends. I'll only post recipe's that I've made and have passed approval from my family. If they're my own creation, I'll claim credit. If I lifted it from somewhere, I'll give credit to the culinary genius I stole from!

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Yummy Baked Potato

I live in Idaho.  We eat a lot of potatoes.  I've never been able to get my nephew to eat baked potatoes.  He likes them mashed, roasted, and as fries, but not never baked.  So recently I decided to try something new. 

Wash the potatoes and pat dry with a paper towel.  Put a dallop of olive oil on the potato and rub it around so that the entire skin is covered in olive oil.  Then do the same thing with the Paula Deen seasoning.  bake the potatoes in a 450 oven for approximately 55 minutes, until the potato skin is crunchy, but the inside is soft when poked with a fork.  Cut open the top of the potato and slip in a little bit of butter to melt.  I top with fat free sour cream.  The seasoning cooked into the skin adds so much flavor.

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