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Well, I've been off my publishing, but that's okay! I might not do a daily interest piece because sometimes... I really eat easy things or leftovers not worth mentioning again... =)
But today I had my leader from church's oldest child over for some fun and games. We made a pizza together:

It had a lot of herbs, onions, pepperoni, and much cheese. I let her pick out the toppings, and she was an excellent pepperoni placer. After that was starting to cook we made some punch and I cleaned up. The pizza was so good.

After pizza, I got a few free copies of cooking light & I looked through it and found a cookie recipe I liked the sound of! It's actually considered a very healthy cookie. I had to tweak it to fit what I had on hand, but it wasn't major things that I changed. If you want the recipe... let me know! I bet I can get it for someone who wants it. I could just copy it. 

The Cookie is Called a Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookie (The 4 C's anyone???)

I totally drank some milk! It has whole wheat flour, regular flour, lots of oats, dried raisins (That was one substitution for the dried cherries I didn't have), walnuts (just because we wanted them there), and semi-sweet chocolate chips (No coarsely chopped dark chocolate available)! Now, there was more oats than flour & they do a strange thing with melting the butter and the brown sugar together. They're chewy granola like cookies. My leader said maybe like the breakfast cookies Quaker puts out. I thought about it and I agree with her! They're similar for sure, but surely tasty and no high fructose corn syrup or random things I don't understand like preservatives. Overall a healthier, chewy, most tasty cookie!

Junk Food I'm deleting from my diet

So I've decided to cut certain foods from my diet, as in I won't buy them for myself, no matter the desire to so!

• Ice cream -Blue Bell is MY WEAKNESS! Especially chocolate chip cookie dough...the best in the country.
• Chips - Cheetos Popcorn have been the most destructive staple of my life.
• Fried Food - stuff like french fries, onion rings, chicken fried steaks... oh dear. Southern cooking
• Fast Food - I'm cutting way back, I'm only going to eat if I'm beyond desperate. 

That's it for now, I mean that's a big enough change, include my anti soda thing... it's a whole lot of healthier eating going on here.

Pulled Pork sandwiches

So, what do you do with a bunch of leftover pork meat that you slow cooked the day before and shredded? Why pulled pork sandwiches! I got to have one  of those little things for lunch, and to make it awesome I added a slice of smoked gouda on my whole wheat bread. I laid it out in two halves, and broiled it for about 2 minutes on high just to goo the cheese and heat the pulled pork. The bread was a little crunchy on the edges and it was delicious with a large glass of water.

BBQ Pork

Mmm, BBQ Pork Ribs. I made my own. =)
So, the recipe was really a package of pulled pork mix and it said to add a little ketchup, some brown sugar and let it sit 8 hours. I added half a cup or so of pinot grigio, a teaspoon of lemon and then I left it alone. It smells and tasted wonderful. I've decided to finish pulling it apart so that I can have some sandwiches this week. The wine... added goodness.

Mmm Poptarts!

Poptarts... the quick easy breakfast food. =) I don't eat them unless that's all that's supplied. But When I eat them, I eat the edges first then the filling last. MMMM the only way to eat them.

Denton #2

Another local favourite, this time... for BBQ: Metzlers. While they have a large amount of wine... they have plenty of other alcohols for you non-wine buffs. Otherwise, I go for the BBQ. Each person in my family has a meat that makes a place good to eat BBQ. My mom's is the brisket, my father's the ribs and mine is turkey. Brisket is the perfect BBQ meat, and always will be the Texas staple.  Ribs are a tough meat to get, just because here, we want it off the bone. =) But for me, the hardest meat to cook BBQ style is the turkey. The bird in general is difficult, always easy to over cook (which is why I prefer the deep fried turkey, it holds moisture) and it shows me that the place really knows how to cook if they keep it tender and moist. Metzler's bird by the pound... awesome. It most definitely holds the moisture that I crave in a turkey and the BBQ sauce gives me some tang.
So if you need BBQ fix and you're around Denton... You best head on over to one of the two locations! On the site, the original is off londonberry.