Creative Cookery with Carolyn -- Spaghetti Squash

I love it when people post what they are cooking/eating on their lj's. I love food, and over the last months have learned to control it rather than it control me. The best part of eating the way I do now is that it has taught me to have fun and experiment, often with limited ingredients (despite going to the store constantly).

Today's creation? Spaghetti Squash Beef Bake. Spaghetti squash, some hamburger w/onion, crushed tomatoes, muenster cheese (because that is what I had cheese-wise)...everything was pre-cooked except the cheese, then tossed into a 425 degree oven in my fav baking dish that I found recently under my son's couch in the loft. Reunion was sweet!

It was really really good. The pics are slightly blurry, but it was really, really good. Need to break out my camera next time! If you've always wondered about spaghetti squash, which looks like a big pale yellow dinosaur egg (and great fun to split open) you should try it. It is packed full of stringy goodness.

Creative Cookery with Carolyn -- Cream Cheese Muffins

lawsontl asked me to share my Cream Cheese Muffin recipe and so decided to make a post. This recipe is actually a recipe that is not mine, but is a really popular recipe from low carb cooking sites. So I am not the creator! But, I have tweaked it to make my tastebuds happy by adding pureed fruit, yum!

First, here's pictures so you know what I am yammering about! The first is after the batters are poured into their muffin tins. Strawberry (red!) and blueberry (blue!). The two other muffins, cream and brown, are my leftover cinnamon ones. One can also add lemon juice for lemon cheese cake muffins. Or make them plain, and top with whatever jellies (sugar-free in my case) you have handy. Yummy!



And here they are in the oven, fresh and hot:



And a close-up!



( and here is the recipe! )

And in other news, my daughter found this little girl trotting down the street, close to getting hit. No collar tags, but a pretty collar, with a bow, and she is well-fed, and smells like she just had a bath. Tiff will post pictures of her tomorrow and take her to our vet--hopefully she'll have a microchip. Fingers crossed--she is super-sweet, and surely would've been hit. Of course, my pups are being kept in my room. Shelby would chomp her up in one go. Cute isn't she though? We'll find her home, I hope. Someone around here is freaking out I am sure.



PUPDATE: She is a 1 year old undocked tail Yorkie, no microchip, just home from a groomers (will be calling around shortly thanks a suggestion), nails fresh-clipped. Daughter said she only barked 1 time, this morning when Tiff fetched her from upstairs to take her to the vet's. We have a taker for her, one of the vet techs, if we don't find her home. Poor little girl woulda been smashed! Safe now, so we'll do the flyers tonight.