Sylvia's Scenario

, I love salads with edamame (soy beans) and I buy them frozen at Trader Joe's.  They are great to throw into salads or just eat plan.  You'll often see them still in their shell as appetizers at restaurants which we also love and they are very popular in Japan.  I made this salad last night for a family dinner and thought it also looked perfect for a Christmas salad because it's red and green. Deck the Halls! I got it from  Hannah Freese, RD  but I changed it a lot from the original.  I mainly changed it because when I went shopping at Trader Joe's, the Italian parsley was in the spot where the cilantro was suppose to be and I didn't notice until I got home.  (It looks like cilantro.)  So, I used Italian parsley even though the recipe called for cilantro. The recipe also says to serve it warm but I always make my salads ahead of time so mine wasn't warm and it still tasted great.  And then I used lemon juice instead of lime juice since I was...

Here is another spring-like recipe that I've made a couple times lately, including for our Easter dinner.  It's an easy side dish that you can add to any meal and everyone will love it.                      It's a recipe from my  Hannah Freese, RD  collection that I've been following since September.  It makes life so much easier following her plan because I'm not thinking about if something is "healthy" or not.  Sure, I still make desserts occasionally for special occasions but for daily life, her plan is right on.  I feel so much better physically and I definitely have more energy now that our weather is getting nice.  I've pulled out my summer clothes and many are baggy on me now.  I'm not planning to shop for more, though, because next month I'm having my other knee replacement surgery, so I will be rehabilitating again for most of the summer.  I won't be going anywhere soon.  I'...

This salad was so good for our Easter dinner that today I plan to make another batch just so I can keep on eating it.  It's a perfect Springtime dish because it's so fresh with the parsley and mint and then the lemon dressing is so refreshing.  Everyone loved this salad yesterday.  I made Ina Garten's  Herb-Roasted Lamb  for the main dish that was amazing to say the least, especially the crusty coating on it made with butter, rosemary, and garlic.  You can't go wrong with that combination, especially when the lamb was cooked perfectly.   I made four side dishes to go along with the lamb including my family's favorite "cheesy potatoes" that is basically a thick cheese sauce with cooked potatoes added to it.  I plan to post the other three side dishes because they were all so delicious and I will definitely make them again.  We had an incredible Easter dinner to say the least.  Lauren, Nick + family came over and the grandkids were thrille...

Tonight, I made a high protein vegetarian dish to take over to Lauren and Ari's house for dinner and we all agreed it was blog-worthy, which means it passed the taste test.  They both had to work today so I thought a meatless, 17 grams of protein per serving, cheesy, gooey, hot dish would hit the spot after a weekend of celebrating the New Year.   They had a New Year's Eve party at their house and spent yesterday cleaning up so I did what moms do; make dinner.   Their party included a sit down dinner of pork roast for eleven friends, karaoke, a photo booth and even played outside in the snow after it started snowing Saturday night. Fun times.  And Bruce and I couldn't even stay up until midnight...oh, to be young again.  I got this recipe from  skinnytaste  blog that is full of delicious, healthy recipes with Weight Watcher's points listed for each recipe so it's a good blog if you want to watch your calorie intake after all this holiday ...