Bucket List

6.  RV Roadtrip!
I have never been on a serious roadtrip where the destination was not what was important, but the journey was the adventure.  This idea really appeals to me and I would love to get in a RV and experience the states via roadside attractions, state parks, and local flavor. 

7. Travel the Mandolin Trail:  My great grandfather fought in World War I.  He brought his mandolin with him, upon which he inscribed each town he visited during his time in the war.  I don't have the actual mandolin, but I do have a copy of a drawing he did with the all the places he traveled through listed.  This would be one extreme trip.

Mini Quiche Recipe

I am a total foodie.  I love to eat.  I have a serious carbohydrate habit.  Dipping a crusty baguette into olive oil and spices is a delicious pleasure that is not very Weight Watchers friendly.  The same goes for potato chips and macaroni and cheese.  I also enjoy cooking and experimenting with new recipes, but I am usually cooking for one and while leftovers are delicious, I don't want to be eating the same thing for a week and not everything freezes well.  Currently, I am trying to overhaul my recipes and make them "healthier."  I also have developed an obsession with wonton wrappers.  It started with trying to make crab rangoons, but baked instead of fried.  So far I have not been successful in creating a rangoon filling I am happy with, but I have found many other brilliant uses for these little wonton wrappers.  One of which is using a wonton wrapper as the crust for a quiche. 

Mini Quiche:

Makes 4 quiche. 
Serves 2.
Weight Watchers Points Plus: 3 points per serving.

Ingredients:
4 sprays olive oil cooking spray
4 wonton wrappers
1 large egg
3 tablespoons 1% milk
2 teaspoons grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
5 or so leaves of spinach
1 slice of Canadian bacon
4 baby bella mushroom slices
pinch of any herb or seasoning you like - I used rosemary and black pepper


Spray 4 of the cupcake holes in a cupcake pan.  Push a wonton wrapper into each hole. 

In a bowl, combine the egg, milk, Parmesan cheese, garlic, and any seasonings desired.

Divide the egg mixture among the 4 wonton lined cups.

Chop the spinach and Canadian bacon.

Evenly distribute the spinach, Canadian bacon, and mushrooms between the 4 cups.  Make sure to give each cup a gentle stir so that everything has a coating of the egg mixture. My baby bella mushrooms were pre-sliced, but I thought they were a little thick, so I sliced them again and put both halves in each cup.  Here they are right before going into the oven.   

 

 

Bake at 375 degrees F for 20 minutes (be sure egg is cooked through).  The quiches (quiche?) will look fluffy.  They will deflate some as they cool. 

 

 

They taste pretty good reheated. 

At only 3 points for 2 mini quiche, I think they make a good breakfast with some fruit.

Yum.

 

 

 

 All photos were taken with my iPhone in my tiny apartment kitchen with zero natural lighting.  I know, total bummer.  And I would also like to point out that my cookie jar is empty.  Another bummer.  I have found some one point cookie recipes that Manfred the Moose cookie jar is itching for me to try. 

How to not get a second date.

Slacking on the posting: shame on me.  My last post was about setbacks and I am sad to say I am still struggling.  The month of May was rough, full of graduations, Mother's Day, my brother's birthday, Memorial Day, a visit from my best friend . . . all month I have been gaining and losing the same 3 pounds.  It is enough to make me want to scream!  So instead I am going to talk about something even more embarrassing than my yoyo-ing 3 pounds: dating.  Specifically, first dates.  I don't know if this makes me jaded, superficial, or a cynic; by no means do I walk into a date with a checklist in hand, but these are a few things have have actually happened to me that I found to be unforgivable. 

1. You are dangerously close to a TLC special and needing a forklift to get around.
2. You did not tell me I looked nice (okay, I am a little superficial, but I put forth the effort to look good for you and you showed up in shorts with a bleach stain and plastic shoes).
3. You call your plastic shoes Jesus sandals. 
4. You compared basketball to NASCAR (it is not just a bunch of dudes running back and forth, oh my GOSH!).
5. You made a 12 on the ACT. (how is that even possible?)
6. You took me to Wal-Mart.
7. You took me to Best Buy (not the same dude that took me to Wal-Mart, I swear! Wal-Mart was actually a double date).
8. After eating dinner, you get the largest bucket of popcorn sold at the movie theater.  Upon realizing the butter is self serve, you do a happy dance and proceed to drown the popcorn.  Then spend the rest of the evening exclaiming how it needed more butter. 
9. You live in your van and sell bonsai trees by the side of the road. 
10. You eat the raw, dried out corn off the cornstalk at the corn maze.
11. After eating the raw, dried out corn off the cornstalk at the corn maze you try to kiss me.  I am pretty sure there were still kernels in your mouth. 
12. You tell me you have a fiance (that was one hell of an icebreaker).
13. You spend the evening telling me stories that start with "you're not a man until . . ." and end with a sledgehammer to the face and a visit to the emergency room.  All the while laughing hysterically. 
14. You push me down on the ground and declare: "HOEDOWN!"
15. You want me to meet your parents on our second date.