New Orleans

The view from my room of the Mississippi and some river traffic. I wish I could post my Bourbon Street video but it's too long ( 10 minutes ). A riverboat docks right at this spot and goes out for an hour at a time, full of sightseers.

Chicken Piperade

A recipe from Gordon Hammersley's book : " Bistro Cooking at Home ". Chicken, onion, garlic, tomatoes, red pepper, smoked ham, and watercress. It smells so good I almost stopped cooking and took it off the heat and started eating it. If there's any left, I will bring it to work so my faithful readers ( and you know who you are ! ) can see it.

It's kind of frightening that both the before and after photos look the same. Nonetheless, this is some good lasagna, despite my lack of Italian upbringing.

Lasagna ( I have also seen lasagne ). This photo is pre-oven; the next will be post-oven.

A quick dinner. Birdseye Chicken Alfredo. Compared to the "other" stuff I consumed today, this is healthy eating. One item ( roast beef hash ) contained 50% of my daily requirement for saturated fats. That was per serving, and I ate both of them, so I might be in trouble ( ha ha ). Oh well, a day off tomorrow will take care of that !

Finished product. It has been tested (briefly); full scale workouts begin around 6:00 if I remembered to buy food this week.
This has been a long time coming. Now I can cook things like meatloaf and roasted chicken and lasagna again !

Part 2 of the new stove means goodbye to the old one. She did not want to leave; I had to turn the gas back ON to get around the handle of the shut-off ( it's removed in the photo ) and pull her out while the room filled with gas. Luckily I was almost done with my cigarette anyway, so I put it out, slid the stove out, and reached behind and turned off the gas.

I am getting a brand-new stove tomorrow so I had to cook one last time on Old Faithful. She is making Birdseye "Voila!" Three Cheese Rotini.

A make-your-own salad from Sudbury Farms ( ** Free advertising alert ** ). I can take a perfectly healthy meal and turn it into a high-calorie fat fest !

We got about 6 or 7 inches of snow today (notice the car across the street). The ride in to work this morning was a little more exciting than usual as a consequence.

Sorry I haven't posted in so long ! Here is today's lunch, leftover Kielbasa over rotini pasta with pesto sauce and tomatoes. Doesn't rotini pasta sound better than spiral pasta (which is what my friends call them) ? **Diet Tip !** I have now satisfied my daily requirement of trans fats and carbs in one sitting (ha ha).