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Spaghetti Sauce and Muffins

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We’re only a few days into February (not November, which I had started to type), and I’ve made spaghetti sauce and chocolate chip pumpkin muffins!  I’m already halfway to my food goals for the month, which is amazing.  I’ve learned that my kitchen doesn’t have the best lighting for pictures, even in broad daylight, but it’s something I’ll have to work with.

Spaghetti Sauce

I obviously didn’t do the best job pouring it into the container, but that’s okay.  This is seriously the best spaghetti sauce I’ve ever had in my life.  I actually like my spaghetti sauce really simple (and that’s when I eat it).  I’m not the biggest fan of any kind of sauce with my spaghetti.  I tend to like my spaghetti with just parmesan cheese.  But I thought I’d try making spaghetti sauce, and this recipe jumped out at me because of it’s simplicity- tomatoes, butter, and onions.  And the onions don’t even stay in the sauce, although I suppose you could chop them up and throw them back into the pot. 

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins

I’ve made pumpkin muffins before, but never with chocolate chips!  I think next time, I’m not going to put in so many chocolate chips, because the 1 cup that the recipe called for overwhelmed the flavor of the pumpkin.  The pumpkin was frozen, since I meant to use it for something else, and never did.  I had taken it out a couple days ago, and much to my dismay, the pumpkin was still slighty frozen.  It was just as well that there were a lot of chocolate chips, to balance out the watery-ness of the pumpkin.  You couldn’t tell that the pumpkin wasn’t completely thawed, which may or may not have been due to the chocolate chips.  But they are something I’d make again.

Stuff I’ve Made

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Today, I thought I’d share some pictures of some of the stuff I’ve made.  Going through some of my favorites from Stumble Upon (one of the best things ever!), and from a bunch of food blogs I follow, I’ve realized I have a lot of potential food to make!  For the time being, I think it’ll be 2 or 3 things per month.

So, I made sugar cookies a couple days ago, and they’re already gone.  I’m not kidding when I say that these sugar cookies are some of the best that I’ve ever made.  I found the recipe over at Butter Sweet Melodie’s blog, if you want to check it out.

So, the above picture is a breakfast casserole, and it’s seriously one of the best things ever!  It has eggs, cheese, sausage, and the bottom layer is biscuits.  I found the recipe through stumble upon, and it’s buried deep in the 10 pages I have for food/cooking.  It’s pretty good as leftovers too.

And finally, taco soup, topped with sour cream and cheese!  Also very good; yet another recipe I found with stumble upon.  I have to say, I love the crockpot.  Seriously, you just throw everything in the crockpot, let it sit for most of the day, and then it’s ready!  I must find more crockpot recipes.

I already have 3 winners for November, and anything that goes in the crockpot is a winner in my book, just because in the few things I’ve made in the crockpot, there’s been minimal prep work.  Anything that’ll save time in November is a good thing.  Plus, with soup, I can make it in October and then take it out in November.  Cookies also freeze pretty well, so maybe this year, I’ll actually make stuff ahead of time, freeze it, and then I’ll have stuff pre-made for November.

Food!

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Don’t worry, I haven’t disappeared off the face of the earth.  

Food is really important to writing, at least for me.  Last month, I averaged 5033 words a day, which only took about 4 hours or so.  Food’s pretty important, since I don’t write well when I’m hungry.  Every year, I tell myself that I’m going to cook ahead, and make enough food for the month.  I never do, but I imagine it would be helpful because then I’d just need to heat everything up, and wouldn’t actually have to cook anything.  And since I’m the only one who’ll actually eat what I make (it’s the byproduct of being vegetarian/fairly healthy eater- no one will go near it with a 10-foot pole), food tends to last me for a while, especially since I tend to make everything exactly as is stated in the recipe. 

November, though, is when I want to bake and cook, interestingly enough.  Cookies and any other baked goods make excellent snacks for several hours of writing. 

Snacks of any kind are essential.  I tend to go for stuff like crackers (Cheez-its and wheat thins are especially yummy!), fruit snacks and other finger foods, since I can type with one hand while eating with my other hand.  It’s pretty hard to write when both hands aren’t free, in which case, it would be a most excellent time to take a break.  Nothing too greasy of course, because it’ll get all over my keyboard, and grease all over my keyboard bugs the heck out of me. 

As for as actual meals, though, it depends on my mood.  Cereal is the best, because it takes no effort, and I could eat cereal all day.  TV dinners/hot pockets/microwave burritos/veggie burgers are also something I rely a lot on, since they don’t require a lot of effort, and if I can put it on a napkin or in something I can throw away, it means more time for writing, because I don’t have to clean anything up. 

Maybe next year will be the year that I make enough food for the month.  I’ve been on stumble upon a lot the last few days, and I’ve definitely found a bunch that look good, so I’ll have to try them out.  Maybe I’ll end up putting a list together, and leave a couple of things to make during November as a nice break from writing.