Salad!!!!

I bought lettuce this week because it was on sale, and I have ate (eaten?) a salad every single day.
I am addicted!
I guess that is a great thing to be addicted to though.
I think it's mostly because I have found the most delicious salad dressing. and shockingly enough it is not caesar - formerly the ONLY dressing I ate.
Wishbone Creamy Italian = delicious.

and I made homemade pizza the other day.
the last time I made homemade dough it didn't rise enough this time it raised too much!
well Lee thought so anyway, I like a nice thick pizza dough

Cajun Chicken Alfredo

Today I found Cajun seasoning at the grocery store so I was excited to use it.  Lee and I really like spicy pasta dishes.... especially  Cheesecake Factory's Chipotle Chicken Pasta and Red Lobster's Cajun Chicken Linguine... sooooooooooooo good!

If you have never had either one then you are missing out on two incredible meals. haha.
Cheesecake Factory is over the top good because they use honey glazed chicken, asparagus, red and yellow peppers, frozen peas, and onions.... and topped with little crunchy tortilla chip slivers. 

This is a picture of me eating it the day after our wedding, in Columbus, OH on our way to the airport. See how happy I am? and it's not all because I was a newlywed :)

anyway.... it's good.
I didn't quite match up to that tonight, but I came close.
I made a really good creamy, cheesy alfredo sauce using butter, milk, garlic, cream cheese, parmesan cheese, and I used the local "cheddar" cheese that I get at the grocery store... which is 0 like cheddar, but not like mozzarella, but it turned out really really good!  I don't really measure... I just added more cream cheese or milk as needed.
I sauteed onions and red, yellow, and green bell peppers and then added it to the sauce while I cooked chicken and the noodles.
It's difficult to make a meal with only 2 burners, 1 pot, 1 skillet, and NO oven! I had to wash my pan out twice during this process!
and to top it off I found the most incredible breadsticks today at Foodfair for only $3EC for like 8 breadsticks! I froze the rest to use another day...
and as I mentioned we have no oven... I creatively put the breadsticks over top the pot of noodles to let the steam melt the butter and warm them!

did I mention that they were GIANT breadsticks? We were stuffed!

ice cold.... salad

lately I have wanted to eat nothing else but salad!
I was really sad to find out that they don't sell caesar dressing here! it is Lee and I's favorite! so instead I got creamy italian and it's very good also.

I like my salad really really cold. like Ruby Tuesday's salad bar... it's always packed in the ice & so fresh and cold! I like to cut up my lettuce and/or spinach and put it in the freezer while I chop up the other stuff so it's gets super cold!
For the most part I am not very adventurous with my salad. I just started eating salad about 4 years ago when Lee forced me to take a bite of caesar salad, but I was instantly hooked! I LOVE caesar salad... how I went 19 years of my life without eating it I will never know... and I got my sister Molly, who is equally as picky, to eat it & her little girls eat it now too! especially from Texas Roadhouse. mmmmmmmmmm they have the BEST!
My salad usually consists of the following... lettuce and/or spinach, carrot shreds, cucumbers, cheese, boiled egg, and croutons.  Lee doesn't like egg, but I love it!

for dinner the other night I just wanted salad, but I made hamburgers too because Lee is a big man who needs more food than that :) and we had our star fruit!  I recently found star fruit that is a lot more orange than what we've had before and it's a lot sweeter... but we still sprinkle sugar on top of it, it's like dessert!

sure this dinner wasn't fancy, but it's a typical night for us

Sometimes I feel bad because I like to eat my hamburgers plain, with just ketchup so I forget to give Lee any toppings... usually he doesn't even get cheese! I just forget... but he never complains.  The yellow bottle is banana ketchup, it's made locally. It takes almost exactly like regular ketchup... I was a little disappointed, I wanted it to taste crazy, but instead it's just ketchup, only yellow.