Raise your hand if you grew up with a box of Bisquick in your pantry.  We used it for biscuits, pancakes and the popular Impossible pie.

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It’s impossible for me to cook for less than an Army as evidenced by the inordinate amount of leftovers in my refrigerator.  No wonder I’ve become a master at re-inventing the leftover.  The problem is, my family is shrinking.  I’m not talking about “Honey I Shrank the Kids”, I mean my babies are all growing up and flying the coop.

McGyver and I have been making adjustments, downsizing and all that.  However, I seem to have problems downsizing my cooking.  With McGyver at work or doing Scouts and my Baby boy with a full schedule as teenagers tend to have, I’m finding myself eating alone more often than I used too.

I instinctively grabbed two eggs, then I put one back.  I could have had a huge deli style egg salad sandwich, although my family is shrinking, my waist is not until they get a targeted shrink ray I have to refrain from indulging.  Or I could have some leftover, but then my hubby would come home after a hard week at work and rummage through the fridge and  find it, then eat it and wash it down with a beer.  Needless to say that I don’t really want McGyver having beer and eggs at the same time (hopefully I don”t need to explain that one further).

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Yesterday I posted homemade gnocchi, the incredibly pillow like gnocchi that melts in your mouth and forces you to over eat because you can’t stop yourself but somehow you can’t seem to make your self feel guilty abut it because it’s so good gnocchi.  There is also a bonus, a bi-product of making the gnocchi is having leftover potato skins.

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For Valentine’s Day, it was Lobster Palooza at our house (expect several more recipes).  I wanted to make something special, out of the ordinary and luxurious.  Then lobster tails went on sale…we bought 10.  That’s 10 tails for 3 people, nearly ridiculous, but only nearly.  The tails were small, not langoustine small, but definitely on the small side.  We started off our meal with these refreshing Lobster Verrine.

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I was making some black bean soup in my amazing pressure cooker.  The soup takes a total of one hour start to finish and no soaking the beans; the pressure cooker has basically changed my bean eating world.  But I’m not posting about pressure cooker/bean love today, however when you have a pressure cooker to do all the work it gives you time to make other things.  Things like Chipotle Cornbread Muffins.

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Confession time.  My husband and I started Weight Watcher’s 1 1/2 weeks ago.  I haven’t really talked about our change because so many people are on their New Year’s Resolution Band Wagon to get healthy and fit.  The decision to do WW isn’t about any New Year’s resolution, it merely was about the fact that we need to shed some pounds, seriously need too.

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