Sorry, no entries for a while, guys. Boy has been sick (has missed this whole week of school and tomorrow’s not looking good either) and we are leaving for a ski vacation on Friday, so I won’t be cooking anything for a while. We’ll be back next Wednesday and I’ll be ready to get cooking again. I already have some good-looking recipes picked out that I want to try.The town where we ski does have some great restaurants, though, so maybe I’ll sneak a photo or two, if I can, and let you know what kind of yummies we’re snacking on apres-ski.
Quick tip:
We used to LOVE eating at Panera (www.panerabread.com) when we lived in Northern Virginia (for those of you that don’t know, locals add the “Northern” for a reason), but when we moved back to Texas, they didn’t have them here. Well, we just got one in our neighborhood and we are thrilled. (If only we could get a Noodles & Company here now!) Panera is a great, quick, kid-friendly (and pretty healthy option) for busy nights. Their soups, served in a sourdough bread bowl, are SO yummy. All four of us LOVE the Black Bean Soup. Well, today they just came out with new “Peanut Butter Banana Crunch” bagels. Mmmmmmm……. Boy and Hubby are SO happy – two of their favorites together. Girl hates peanut butter AND bananas, so she just ignored them, but they are SO good. I like to buy different flavors of bagels: cinn. raisin (Girl’s fave), blueberry, asiago, spinach, etc, cut them in half, put the halves in a sandwich baggie and then put all of the little individual bagel-baggies in a LARGE Ziploc in the freezer. This is a tip that I got from my BF (in NoVa), Eileen. On busy mornings, the kids can pull out half a bagel by themselves and throw it in the toaster and I am free to pour myself another cup of coffee (my 5:30 am boot camp class started up again this week – ugh!). Anyway, I highly recommend trying Panera out if you haven’t been before and I VERY highly recommend the PBB Crunch bagels.