That Time I Made Fettucine Alfredo...

It's time for another 20sb Cooking Challenge! This round is "Homemade Fettuccine Alfredo with Italian Breadsticks"

Okay so, cards on the table, I don't have anyone at home to eat the food I make, nor does my schedule easily allow to organize friends to come over to do the eating. Since I was already going to have a bunch of pasta to eat [so. many. carbs.], I opted out of making bread sticks. I know I lose a lot of points for that, but my waistline won't like it so that's how its gonna be. The Chicken and Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo did, however, come out amazing. It was the first time I made an Alfredo sauce, and it was delicious, so that makes doing the challenge worth it!...

That Time It Was Instagram Day...

I've decided to start a new series. Strike that. I decided months ago to start a new series and I am just now actually doing so. It's a monthly Instagram Day for me to post all of my Instagrams that month. I frequently forget that it is a thing which is a) why it took me so long to start this (have to have them to post them!) and 2) there will not be a million for me to post which is why I'm not doing this weekly....

That Time I Made Pepperoni Pesto Mini Pizzas...

You guessed right! It's 20sb Cooking Challenge time again!

Today's challenge:


Chopped Appetizer Round
1) Enlist a significant other/roommate/sibling/parents/grumpy cat lady from across the street to put together a “mystery basket” with four ingredients that you MUST use — if they want to shop all ingredients cannot exceed $20 TOTAL (or £10 or €15 depending on your country). They must include a protein and a fruit/veggie...

What Show From My Childhood Would I Bring Back?

So, I didn't have cable until high school. I think my parents thought they were helping but I just watched non-age appropriate sitcoms at an early age because there was nothing in between those and PBS kid shows. Which makes my answer Mad About You because that was my favorite show as a child. But I'd want them to go back to before Paul and Jamie had a baby. The show was more fun in the beginning.

Enjoy.

That Time I Had A Plastic-Dilemma Bag...

What? You thought that because it's no longer July that I was going to stop saving the world? Ahahahaha. Okay, so with July over I will stop collecting the plastic I do get forced upon me in a bag. But during Plastic Free July, I collected all the plastic that was unavoidable in a "dilemma bag" that I could then go through at the end of the month. I'm gonna be honest. I think I did pretty damn good. And I included stuff that I bought in June. Though to be more honest, some of it I bought on June 30th in anticipation of July. So I included it and felt bad and will no longer buy tortillas and pita bread. 

So there's all the food packaging scrunched together on the left, packaging from online purchases on the right. At the bottom is some more packaging, a candy wrapper from a Flake bar that I didn't know it was possible to get in the US but I found at Wegman's, and then all the yellow stuff is the caps and seals from my milk bottles, a plastic fork and if I'd thought of it, there would be several straws that I either failed-to-ask-to-not-have or were failed-to-not-be-given-to-me. Yes, that was a sentence. It looks like a lot of milk for a month, but half was used to make yogurt, so one little cap replaces a quart-sized plastic tub. That's something right?...