Author Archive: Elise

I don’t know what happened but sometime mid-week I lost my breakfast appetite.  It is the weirdest thing.  I wake up hungry, but then I work out so my stomach falls asleep or something.  And then I make tea and feed P and wait for my body to feel like food…and it takes a LONG TIME!  So bizarre.  Usually my breakfast cravings are my strongest.  It’s my favorite meal after all. I only ate eggs two days this week!  It’s like I’m teething too.  [P has had a mediocre appetite as well thanks to what is… Read more >

I haven’t posted anything substantial in a while because I keep forgetting to take photos of my meals.  Isn’t it weird that NOT capturing my food on camera is my abnormal?  It used to be second nature.  Oh to be a food blogger… I assure you I am still eating.  In case you had your doubts. This week started off with lots of seafood dinners.  P loves fish and shrimp so they are always winners to make. Backing up to last weekend, my mom made salmon with a mustard sauce, which we served over quinoa, sautéed chopped spinach,… Read more >

This post will have zero to do with ketchup, I’m just in a weird mood. Let’s CATCH UP. Desserts are all I want to make this time of year.  I need a good [but EASY] fudge recipe that doesn’t involve condensed milk.  Anyone?  Also, why does every brittle recipe require a candy thermometer.  I am not going to do that, but I want brittle.  Dilemmas. Ok, so real food. Ha.  Still not quite the “real” food I was hoping to get to.  But Costco just started carrying these for about half the price they usually are, so… Read more >

Kyle was out of town the week before I went to NYC so I ate the same thing for lunch and dinner for four days in a row.  I am a creature of habit and thanks to the leftovers from Thanksgiving at my parents’ house, I had turkey for days. P was over the turkey by day two though. I took a few pics, but I can assure you there were plentyyyyyy more I didn’t photograph. I made a mayo/cranberry sauce chutney of sorts to eat with the turkey since I didn’t have gravy.  That and avocado… Read more >