Italian Bean Soup

Italian Bean Soup

1 lb white beans

1 onion

1/2 lb ground meat or ground sausage

1 large can crushed tomatoes

1 lb spinach

italian seasoning

Garlic

S & P

Brown onions with 2 tbls italian seasoning in large pot. When they are done add ground meat and garlic. Rinse beans (i like northern beans but any white bean will do) and add to pot. Add 6 cups of water 2 more tbls of italian seasoning tomatoes and spinach. Bring to a boil and then simmer till beans are done. Usually between 2 and 3 hours. 

Healthy Chili

Again no Pic

Sorry

I am really bad at taking pics at all but worse at taking pics of food

Healthy Chili

1 chopped onion

1 chopped bell pepper

1 chopped zucchini

1/2 lb turkey sausage

1 large can of tomato sauce

1 large can of crushed tomatoes 

1 can tomato paste

1 can beans (I like black or red beans best)

1 can corn (optional)

Chili powder

cumin

salt & pepper

4 cloves of garlic

Cook onion bell pepper and zucchini with 2 tbls chili powder and 1 tbs cumin in a stock pot or dutch oven until they start turning translucent. Add sausage and garlic *I use a lot of garlic but you can use what tastes good to you* When the meat is cooked add all the cans and s & p and more chili powder and cumin *same measurements. Keep on medium heat until it starts to boil then let it simmer as long as possible. At least an hour. Then serve with cheese or sour cream. 

Broccoli Cheese Quinoa casserole

I am posting this for a friend

And so I can ziplist it

Broccoli Cheese Quinoa Casserole

I don't have an awesome pic to post with this (unless I steal one) because most often my food looks bad but tastes great. I am ok with that.

2 Cups cooked quinoa

4 cups cooked broccoli

1 1/2 cups fat free greek yogurt

2 cups cheese 

(Note: you can change recipe as wanted/needed)

Add everything together adding more yogurt if not wet enough. Put into baking dish (13x9) and sprinkle with cheese. Cook at 350 until hot.

To add extra flavor you can add cream of anything soup or a dry seasoning packet. I added Ranch seasoning once and it was really good.

Its really good!

So much win

So I had an appointment with my Dr today

Turns out I am severely depressed again

I guess thats why I have had nothing to say on here

One good thing about my appointment was I got a prescription for trazadone 

YESSSS!

I am excited for tonight

I am not sleeping good at all

Today was the kids first day at "school"

We are putting them in daycare 2 days a month starting today

Freaking awesome!

I have a lot to do today 

I am going to do my best

THe only things I have to do are working and grocery shopping

I am going to get started

I want time to do nothing at some point today

Oh that's why

I found out on tuesday that my dad's heart has shown no improvement even though more of it is moving than before his procedures.

Yesterday and today have been super shitty days

I was a little scared by the thoughts I was having today when I realized why I was having them

I will try to ride this out

But I am not sure how.

The only thing I can think to do is eat cake, but sadly I do not have any

I am trying to see if Jim Beam will do the trick but probably not

I may have to go on a midnight cake run

I am so tired

I wish I could pull a sleeping beauty and sleep for 100 years

It's been so long since i've felt ok that I am losing hope I will ever feel ok

Pic

I am posting this pic today because another blogger who had twins posted a blog today about how giant her belly was. And it was GIANT. Because she said singleton bellies are not as big as twin bellies. I would agree with this except for this:

That is 1 9lb 2oz baby in there.

That is pretty damn big!

Poop

Today for the first time Louis went poo poo in the potty

I cannot tell you now excited I am. This is one of the best things that has ever happened to me.

I am that much closer to only cleaning up my poo.

I have cleaned up so much poop in the last 3 almost 4 years.

A lot of it has been documented here but not all of it.

We have been potty training hardcore for a while now. He is a pro at peeing on the potty but until today he had not been able to poo on the potty. I knew I would just have to wait him out so today when he asked me for a diaper I knew the time was here. So I said no and asked if he wanted to go to the potty. It took over an hour and then he disappeared from my room. Carmen yelled from the kitchen that Louie had pooped. It was such a tiny poo I knew he still had to go. So I picked him up and put him on the potty really fast. Before I could clean up his turd Carmen had to step in it. That sucked. But I had to leave Louis alone to clean the floor and Carmen. I left him alone for a few minutes and He started yelling "I go poo poo" over and over so I went in and by golly he had. I am so excited about it.

I know we still have a little work left but we are over the hump.

And one day much closer in the future than before I will only have to wipe my own butt