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# Kait Nolan

Spicy Southern Comfort

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- [Blog](https://kaitnolan.com/blog/)
- [Übersetzungen ins Deutsche](https://kaitnolan.com/2025/11/19/ubersetzungen-ins-deutsche/) - book 1 book 2 book 3 book 1 book 2 book 3
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Beef Barley Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/12/31/thoughtless-thursday-beef-barley-soup/) - I know I made a beef barley porcini soup recently (and it was lovely), but hubby and I were in the mood for something light and savory (that didn't necessitate the 800th run to the grocery store). This more classic beef barley soup was exactly right. I cannot extol the virtues of cooking with stock
- [Ground Lamb Stew](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/03/ground-lamb-stew/) - The recent rash of cold weather (DUDE, what do we know about having temps in the single digits in Mississippi???) has lit a wicked craving for Irish stew. Now traditional Irish stew has nice, meaty chunks of lamb. Not something readily available in my small town grocery store. But I did find ground lamb, so
- [Chorizo and Manchego Mac and Cheese](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/01/chorizo-and-manchego-mac-and-cheese/) - The imported cheese sales at Kroger get me into trouble. At my latest run, I picked up a wedge of manchego, which I've never had before. I know it is a sheep's milk cheese, nice and firm and a little salty. I decided the ideal choice of dish was a mac and cheese. To go
- [Review of Adagio's Children of Lir Tea](https://kaitnolan.com/2017/06/13/review-adagios-children-lir-tea/) - Children of Lir. This one comes in a delightful little tin illustrating the cursing of Lir's children to be turned into swans. I found it really hard to get the tea OUT of the tin without making a mess (it is packed full to the brim). I love the smell of this tea. The hazelnut
- [Review of Adagio's Thai Chai Tea](https://kaitnolan.com/2017/06/11/review-adagios-thai-chai-tea/) - I am a lucky duck! Being that I'm a big fan of tea, the fabulous folks at Adagio gave me a chance to review some of their teas. Of course I said HELL YES! Teenager and I pored over their catalog and picked out samples of about ten different teas and have been slowly working
- [12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 12](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/12/12/12-days-christmas-giveaway-day-12/) - Celebrate Christmas with 12 fabulous Christmas romances and a grand prize giveaway! Today, we’re celebrating, well, me and Dance Me A Dream in the Romancing The Holidays Boxed Set! As guardian to her two younger half siblings, Tara Honeycutt has forgotten what it’s like to be a normal twenty-something. When a major gas line breaks,
- [12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 11](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/12/11/12-days-christmas-giveaway-day-11/) - Celebrate Christmas with 12 fabulous Christmas romances and a grand prize giveaway! Today, we’re celebrating Alannah Lynne and Christmas Heat Wave! All Samantha Mazze wants for Christmas is to create the perfect Christmas Eve celebration for her friends and family. The house is decorated, the meal has been prepared, the guests are arriving… and then
- [12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 10](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/12/10/12-days-christmas-giveaway-day-10/) - Celebrate Christmas with 12 fabulous Christmas romances and a grand prize giveaway! Today, we’re celebrating Amy Lamont and Heating Up The Holidays! The ultimate collection of sexy Christmas romances! Let seven of today’s hottest contemporary romance authors help keep you warm this holiday season. Each story is a standalone and contains a heartwarming Christmas romance
- [12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 9](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/12/09/12-days-christmas-giveaway-day-9/) - Celebrate Christmas with 12 fabulous Christmas romances and a grand prize giveaway! Today, we’re celebrating Jamie Farrell and Merried! Merry’s the daughter of a jewel thief. Max’s family guards the infamous Mrs. Claus diamond ring. And a Christmas wedding will give these unlikely reunited lovers a second chance at love! Visit Jamie at @JamieFarrellBooks, and pick up
- [12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 8](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/12/08/12-days-christmas-giveaway-day-8/) - Celebrate Christmas with 12 fabulous Christmas romances and a grand prize giveaway! Today, we’re celebrating Jennie Marts and A Cowboy for Christmas! Holiday magic happens in this heartwarming Christmas romance that combines a wounded widow, a hunky cowboy, and Santa going incognito as a coffeehouse barista! A Cowboy For Christmas is a perfect story to
- [12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 7](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/12/07/12-days-christmas-giveaway-day-7/) - Celebrate Christmas with 12 fabulous Christmas romances and a grand prize giveaway! Today, we’re celebrating Kimberly Kincaid and The Sugar Cookie Sweetheart Swap! Two sexy chefs competing for one grand prize...and things heat up in more than just the kitchen! Plus recipes to keep you coming back for more! Visit Kimberly at @AuthorKimberlyKincaid, and pick
- [12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 6](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/12/06/12-days-christmas-giveaway-day-6/) - Celebrate Christmas with 12 fabulous Christmas romances and a grand prize giveaway! Today, we’re celebrating Tracey Alvarez and Christmas With You! The Kiwi barbecue isn't the only thing sizzling this summer... Carly Gatlin doesn’t want to spend another holiday alone so she’s come to New Zealand to be with her step-family. Kip Sullivan’s big, boisterous
- [12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 4](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/12/04/12-days-christmas-giveaway-day-4/) - Celebrate Christmas with 12 fabulous Christmas romances and a grand prize giveaway! Today, we’re celebrating Heatherly Bell and Crazy For You! What do a washed-up L.A. cop and a celebrity stylist have in common? Christmas magic. He needs a break. She needs a date. Fallon McQueen needs a date to a wedding. Then she meets...Santa
- [12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 3](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/12/03/12-days-christmas-giveaway-day-3/) - Celebrate Christmas with 12 fabulous Christmas romances and a grand prize giveaway! Today, we’re celebrating Melanie Shawn and Christmas Wish (a Hope Falls Novella)! For the movie star and the single mom, can a Christmas Wish become reality? Visit Melanie at @ melanieshawnbooks, and pick up your copy of Christmas Wish at… Amazon iBooks Barnes
- [12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 2](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/12/02/12-days-christmas-giveaway-day-2/) - Celebrate Christmas with 12 fabulous Christmas romances and a grand prize giveaway! Today, we’re celebrating Kylie Gilmore and Kissing Santa! Samantha Dixon is about to confess her most secret, romantic Christmas wish to Santa. Heck, what’s she got to lose with her disastrous romantic history? Like that player from her horrible blind date last week
- [12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 5](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/12/05/12-days-christmas-giveaway-day-5/) - Celebrate Christmas with 12 fabulous Christmas romances and a grand prize giveaway! Today, we’re celebrating Liz Kelly and Kissing Cooper! She was the one that got away. This Christmas Cooper's determined to get her back. Visit Liz at @ Author.LIz.Kelly, and pick up your copy of Kissing Cooper at… Amazon iBooks Barnes & Noble Kobo
- [12 Days of Christmas Giveaway: Day 1](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/12/01/12-days-christmas-giveaway-day-1/) - Celebrate Christmas with 12 fabulous Christmas romances and a grand prize giveaway! Today, we’re celebrating Michelle Major and Christmas on Crimson Mountain! Being named guardian of two motherless girls just before Christmas has upended April Sander's world. Add Connor Pierce to the mix--a mysterious, brooding writer claiming he wanted to be left alone while going
- [All About Us by Tracey Pedersen](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/11/24/us-tracey-pedersen/) - Next up in our Romancing The Holidays countdown is All About Us By Tracey Pedersen For Ryan and Jenna life has finally settled down and they're looking forward to a fun family Christmas with Ruby. Minus the drama that has plagued their small family ever since the two of them first met. In the usual Aussie
- [Melody Grace and The Gratitude Givaway](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/11/22/melody-grace-gratitude-givaway/) - In addition to rolling out the forthcoming Romancing The Holidays boxed set, I am also so blessed to have the chance to work with THIRTEEN other amazing authors in an effort to spread more GRATITUDE in the world! Today, I want to share with you Melody Grace's Unforgettable. Melody is a new to me author, but after
- [Kate Perry and The Gratitude Giveaway](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/11/23/kate-perry-gratitude-giveaway/) - In addition to rolling out the forthcoming Romancing The Holidays boxed set, I am also so blessed to have the chance to work with THIRTEEN other amazing authors in an effort to spread more GRATITUDE in the world! Today, I want to share with you Kate Perry's Stars Shining Bright Above. I discovered Kate first
- [Melissa Foster and The Gratitude Giveaway](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/11/21/melissa-foster-gratitude-giveaway/) - In addition to rolling out the forthcoming Romancing The Holidays boxed set, I am also so blessed to have the chance to work with THIRTEEN other amazing authors in an effort to spread more GRATITUDE in the world! Today, I want to share with you Melissa Foster's' Touched By Love. Melissa is an absolute POWERHOUSE author. Seriously,
- [Kathleen Brooks and The Gratitude Giveaway](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/11/20/kathleen-brooks-gratitude-giveaway/) - In addition to rolling out the forthcoming Romancing The Holidays boxed set, I am also so blessed to have the chance to work with THIRTEEN other amazing authors in an effort to spread more GRATITUDE in the world! Today, I want to share with you Kathleen Brooks' The Keeneston Roses. Most of you probably think of
- [Dance Me A Dream by Kait Nolan](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/11/23/dance-dream-kait-nolan/) - Next up in our Romancing The Holidays countdown is my own contribution to the set, the 7th story in my Wishful series, Dance Me A Dream. I have a serious soft spot for this story. I actually wrote it LAST Christmas when I couldn't find what I wanted to read or watch (and hoo buddy, you can
- [Hollywood Snowfall by Heather C Myers](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/11/22/hollywood-snowfall-heather-c-myers/) - Next up in our Romancing The Holidays countdown is Hollywood Snowfall By Heather C Myers It's getting cold in Hollywood, so cold, there's a good chance the City of Angels will finally get snow. Erin Sanders is content with her life. Going to community college and working part-time at the Chinese Mann Theatre fills up the majority
- [Lost In Christmas by Cherie Marks](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/11/21/lost-christmas-cherie-marks/) - Next up in our Romancing The Holidays countdown is Lost In Christmas By Cherie Marks Can you lose your heart on the way to finding yourself? Or, more specifically, finding your grandmother? It’s Christmastime, and Sunny Willis, New Falls’ resident librarian and soon-to-be doctoral expert on classical, nude art, can’t locate the woman who practically raised her.
- [Home For Christmas by Mel Hammond](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/11/20/home-christmas-mel-hammond/) - Next up in our Romancing The Holidays countdown is Home For Christmas By Mel Hammond When Saskia McKinlay returns to the town she was born it’s to keep a promise to her best friend, nothing more. She doesn’t care about the man who fathered her, then walked away, and with any luck she will be home in
- [A Magical Christmas in Jerusalem by Joanne Dannon](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/11/19/magical-christmas-jerusalem-joanne-dannon/) - Continuing our countdown to the release of Romancing The Holidays (just 99 cents for SEVEN holiday novellas!), today we have... A Magical Christmas in Jerusalem By Joanne Dannon When falling in love isn’t as easy as falling in love. Australian project manager Kiara Lonsdale is career focussed and determined to provide and care for the grandmother who
- [Introducing Romancing The Holidays!](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/11/18/introducing-romancing-holidays/) - I know, I know, it's not past Thanksgiving yet. Don't pelt me with dinner rolls. I have a REASON for bringing up Christmas! So it's been a BUSY BUSY year on the writing front for me and I have ONE LAST RELEASE coming up--the Romancing The Holidays Boxed Set, which contains the 7th Wishful story, Dance Me A
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/11/16/midweek-row80-check-2/) - Where, oh where, has our little Kait gone I haven't been posting. Well, obviously. We shifted formats for ROW80 to the FB group, so I've just kinda let the blog languish. The name of the game all year has been buckle down, nose to the grindstone, get stuff done. And I have. Grand total, I
- [A New Release and New Book Series!](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/11/01/new-release-new-book-series/) - I meant to post about this last week when the book actually released, but I was traveling for work on launch day and apparently it slipped my mind. I am so excited to announce the launch of a brand new spin-off series from my core Wishful Romance series. When I started Wishful, I set out
- [The Story Toolkit: The Last Book Planning Tool You'll Ever Need](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/10/04/the-story-toolkit/) - The Story Toolkit So, anybody who has followed me for any real length of time through the writing of a book or six, has probably heard me talk about The Story Toolkit that I use to plan out all my books. This is the brainchild of my long term crit partner and editor, Susan
- [Round 4 #ROW80 Goals](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/10/03/round-4-row80-goals-2/) - Time for Round 4 already. It's been a hella productive year so far, and I'd like to finish out strong. So, without further ado... Write 20 out of 30 days. I never seem to have trouble meeting this. Finish expansion of Wish I Might. I just got this novella back from the Virtually Yours anthology and
- [Final Round 3 #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/09/22/final-round-3-row80-check/) - I have been generally lousy at actually checking in this round. Not because I didn't have things to report, but just because I was busy DOING said things and not taking time out for anything else. So, to review Goals for Round 3 Oldie but goodie, write 20 days out of every 30. Finish writing Turn
- [Gluten Free Dairy Free Butter Dip Biscuits](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/09/06/gluten-free-dairy-free-butter-dip-biscuits/) - About a month ago, I came across this recipe for Butter Dip Biscuits posted on Facebook. It's one of those video recipes that leaves you with an unattractive rope of drool hanging from your mouth. What? Only me? :wipes chin: Really good biscuits are something I've been in search of for the past six years
- [Brand New Wishful Novel--Turn My World Around!](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/09/01/brand-new-wishful-novel-turn-world-around/) - Hola readers! I know, I've been quiet for ages. It's because I've been head down writing writing writing! This is the first of those products, a book that wasn't even on the production schedule this year. :gives Tucker the side eye: Nevertheless, here it is, Wishful #6, Turn My World Around. What's the statute of limitations
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-in](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/08/03/midweek-row80-check/) - The last couple of days have been the kind that make me want to punch something. I finished up the clean up pass on Turn My World Around and got that sent off to my editor. And I did the final proofread of Dance Me A Dream, the holiday novella I have coming out in the Romancing The Holidays
- [If Jason Bourne Were Written By A Woman](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/08/01/jason-bourne-written-woman/) - I went to see the new Jason Bourne movie yesterday as part of hubby's birthday festivities. We actually marathoned all its predecessors (except for Legacy) before going so that teenager would be caught up on the storyline, so all the details of the originals were fresh. I was really looking forward to this because I love
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/07/31/sunday-summary-row80-check/) - I finally hit THE END on Turn My World Around! Is there actually anything else to day besides that for an update? Well yeah, I guess so. Awesome Editor can't get to it until Friday, so I've been making the clean up pass. Already completed my search and destroy mission on a lot of my overused
- [On The Subject of Profanity In Fiction](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/07/28/subject-profanity-fiction/) - As an author, you know when you put any book out there that somebody, somewhere, isn't going to like it. You can't please all the people all the time. And that's fine. There are readers out there for everybody and everything (as proved by the popularity of the dino erotica, but that's another matter). As
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/07/17/sunday-summary-row80-update-100-4/) - First off, according to trending on Facebook, it seems that today is National Ice Cream Day. Since we have entered the part of summer that's hot as blue blazes, this seems like an excellent idea. And I JUST made a fresh batch of coconut milk ice cream yesterday. It's been a busy busy week at
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Round 3 Goals](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/07/10/sunday-summary-row80-round-3-goals-2/) - Well, how's this for crazy? I set up all the stuff for Round 3 over at the ROW80 blog and never got around to actually posting my goals. A lot of that is because I went immediately on vacation down to the coast for some writer time with Lisa Kroger. We had a spa day
- [Operation Goddess In Training Reboot](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/06/25/operation-goddess-training-reboot/) - In the beginning... Several years ago, I started a self directed goal of taking better care of my body--through fitness, better nutrition, skincare, the works. And I dubbed it Operation Goddess In Training because the idea was to treat myself like the goddess I know I can be (this would be before the term for
- [Final Round 2 #ROW80 Check-In and Accomplishments](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/06/23/round-2-row80-accomplishments/) - Wow. It's already the end of Round 2. Where is the year going? I swear it was March just yesterday. Okay, not really. It was over 95 yesterday... SO let's check in on the goals I set for this round and what my actual accomplishments were. I said I would... Post at least twice a
- [Hell on Wheels Writers, Do You Hate Women?](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/06/04/hell-on-wheels-writers-do-you-hate-women/) - I am gearing up for a big, fat spoiler-filled rant about Hell on Wheels. If you want to avoid spoilers and plan to watch the show, then I send you elsewhere for your daily dose of interesting. Chuck Wendig has a nice post about YA this morning. Also, Leigh Bardugo's much anticipated Siege and Storm is out
- [Late Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/06/13/late-sunday-summary-row80-check/) - I'm just getting around to this over a quick breakfast before running in to work. It's been a super busy week with the teenager moving in. She's just about settled. We got art hung yesterday. Now she's just working on organizing her desk and office supplies. Hubs and I took her to see Ghostbusters (original 1984
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/06/08/midweek-row80-check-67/) - It's been ages since I did a proper check-in. May was full of preparing for teenager's arrival. I got edit notes back on Sooper Seekrit Project Book 1, which is (as I was afraid) going to take more intensive revision than I had hoped. I'm not done with my plotting for Sooper Seekrit Project Book
- [Ch...Ch...Ch...Changes](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/06/07/ch-ch-ch-changes/) - I haven't posted in ages. The last six weeks have been full of LOTS of changes in the Nolan house...because we have acquired a teenager. One of my closest friends has joined Teach For America and is moving to Louisiana. Her daughter, who is much like a niece to us, wasn't keen on going and
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/05/22/sunday-summary-row80-update-100-3/) - I've been enjoying some much needed hermitude this weekend. There's just been a lot of social this past month, so I'm finding the quiet very restorative. I've been in the kitchen this morning. I haven't actually gotten around to my menu for the week yet, but I made up some fresh turkey sausage to freeze,
- [Bookish Ennui](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/05/20/bookish-ennui/) - I am presently hanging out in the reader's version of when you are noshy and standing in front of the fridge but absolutely nothing is quite right and you don't have any idea what you want. I keep picking different things up and putting them back down because nothing is quite hitting the right note
- [Belated Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/05/16/belated-sunday-summary-row80-update/) - The last week has been super busy catching up on All The Things that got put off, either in the name of finishing that first draft or because we were on vacation or whatever. So the story of my life the last week has been GO GO GO GO GO. I've got approximately 2 weeks
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/05/08/sunday-summary-row80-update-100-2/) - Our last day of vacay in Charleston (a week ago this past Friday) was lovely. We spent most of the day at Magnolia Plantation, wandering the gardens, checking out the Audubon Swamp Garden, and taking pics of the wildlife (we got several good ones of gators). We ended the day with a stop by the
- [Charleston Vacay Day 2](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/04/29/charleston-vacay-day-2/) - No early morning wake up today. Well, just before 8 rather than 6:30. Hubs is still sleeping. It's another gloriously sunny day. Probably muggy, though I haven't stepped out on the back porch yet. Yesterday we went into downtown Charleston to the City Market. I wound up getting a nice leather composition book cover as
- [I Need Some Practice At This "Relaxing" Thing](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/04/28/need-practice-relaxing-thing/) - It's official. I suck at relaxing. I exist at such a high RPM most of the time, constantly going, constantly working, constantly doing. There's this voice in my head that drones on ad nauseum about all of the things that need to be done. If I'm not napping (which is rare), I'm never idle. The
- [Sunday Summary, CampNaNo and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/04/24/sunday-summary-campnano-row80-update/) - So this happened. 53577 words in 23 days. Thank you CampNaNo. Also, THE END on Sooper Seekrit Project Book 2. I've got some semi significant revisions to tackle when I get back from vacation because my antagonist's motivations got muddy in the middle and I've got to clear that up. But it's done. 71757.
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/04/10/sunday-summary-row80-update-100/) - I've spent my weekend camped out in my chair, cranking out words. 16.5k in the last week. A little over 6k in the last 2 days. I crossed 40k on the Sooper Seekrit Project Book 2 today. Thanks CampNaNo (21k since the start of the month). And that's a lot of numbers. Whatever, I'm cranking
- [Another New Release! Virtually Yours](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/04/08/another-new-release-virtually/) - Okay, so I'm a little late in reporting the release of Virtually Yours. It actually came out the day after Just For This Moment, but I didn't want to overwhelm with the awesome. Virtually Yours is a Virtual Match anthology. What's Virtual Match? Virtual Match is your one-stop shop to convincing those nosy relatives,
- [Kicking Ass and Taking Names (a #ROW80 Check-In)](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/04/06/kicking-ass-taking-names-row80-check/) - So we are barely out of the gate on Round 2 and I am on FIRE. Totally kicking ass on my word count. Part of this is because I already had some momentum going with Camp NaNo (which started on the first), but also because my sweet hubs decided we should take a short vacation
- [Round 2 #ROW80 Goals](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/04/04/round-2-row80-goals/) - So it's start day for Round 2 of A Round of Words in 80 Days. It also happens to be Day 4 of CampNaNo, which I decided to participate in to try and get properly adjusted to morning writing on Daylight Savings Time. I managed 5:35 this morning. I'm rotating back by 5 minutes a
- [It's Release Day! Just For This Moment](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/03/31/release-day-just-moment/) - It is HERE, y'all! Just For This Moment, the exciting conclusion to Myles and Piper's story (begun in Once Upon A Setup) and the fourth book in my Wishful series. OMG, I love these two so, so much. Myles is my favorite Wishful hero to date (I know I say that with every one but still). I've
- [End of #ROW80 Round 1](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/03/26/end-row80-round-1/) - I'm only just now getting around to writing this post, which says a lot about how my week has gone. So, let's review the goals I set this round. Successfully complete Whole 30. Done. I finished this in early February to great success. And promptly fell off the wagon with birthday yummies. March has been
- [Canine Trauma](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/03/15/canine-trauma/) - It's been a stressful couple of days. Sunday, our baby dog Huck started acting...odd. He'd vomited twice in the morning (as they sometimes do when they inhale their food faster than the speed of light). And by dinnertime, he ate REALLY slowly (totally out of character) and wasn't even interested in sniffing our dinner plates.
- [Sorry I've Been MIA](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/03/11/sorry-ive-mia/) - I haven't been around lately. I've been a busy busy girl! I've been working my way through a marketing class, which has led to some changes around here. This is kind of the in between version of my website. I have actually started building a brand new site with Cloudpress. Cloudpress is a nifty concept.
- [Still Alive](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/02/24/still-alive/) - I have been a lousy example this Round of ROW80. Missing check-ins left and right. Barely blogging at all. I promise I'm still alive. In the ten days since my last check-in, I've finished outlining Sooper Seekrit Project Book 2 and written the opening scene of that. Then yesterday, a different bunny reared up and
- [Something Southern: Three Degrees of Separation](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/02/15/something-southern-three-degrees-of-separation/) - You've probably heard of the theory of six degrees of separation. It's this idea that everybody and everything is connected by six degrees or less. There even used to be a social media site around this back in the late 90s, early 2000s (it's where I met my husband, actually). In the south, it's a
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/02/14/sunday-summary-row80-update-4/) - Look at me. I'm actually remembering to blog ON Sunday for the Sunday check-in. This is largely because I have actual progress to report. I officially hit THE END on Just For This Moment Friday night. Myles and Piper were a lot of fun and I look forward to seeing them out in the world. The
- [Approaching The End](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/02/08/approaching-the-end/) - Clearly I am just not in a blogging frame of mind. The longer I'm at this, the more I get immersed in whatever book I'm writing, until writing Other Stuff just...doesn't enter my consciousness. Until I surface and need to start digging out the house again. The #ROW80 Update While I am approaching the end,
- [Cheeseburger Quiche](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/12/cheeseburger-quiche/) - When I tweeted about this last week, everybody was like SAY WHAT? Instant intrigue because, really, quiche is one of those dishes that sounds kind of elegant and a cheeseburger...well, isn't. But let me tell you, this was so good you're lucky there's a picture at all because we DEVOURED the WHOLE THING between the
- [Chicken Pasta in a Three Mushroom Cream Sauce](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/01/12/chicken-pasta-in-a-three-mushroom-cream-sauce/) - Rotisserie chicken is one of those great, versatile ingredients to have on hand. Rather than throw it on a salad, I decided to pair it up with a package of baby bellas I had in the fridge and some dried chantrelles and porcinis in the pantry to create a lightened cream sauce that's just bursting
- [Turkey Sausage Bolognese](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/01/26/turkey-sausage-bolognese/) - Ok this is probably technically NOT a bolognese, but it seemed like a close enough approximation to me. It's a nice, simple sauce, one that has a much richer flavor for something that actually doesn't simmer all that long. A great one for splashing in some of whatever red wine you're sipping while cooking. The
- [Fajita Fried Rice](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/12/06/fajita-fried-rice/) - I have had a beef fajita kit in my freezer for like two months now. The seasoned meat, the veggies. And I haven't done a thing with it because, well, even though I love fajitas, hubby doesn't do peppers and onions. I know, it's a failing. I had been thinking that if the beef hadn't
- [Beer Brined Turkey](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/04/25/beer-brined-turkey/) - Okay, so it's not Thanksgiving or Christmas, and we're just past Easter, so let's just face that I will never get a turkey recipe up in advance of the holiday. But hey, it's the thought that counts, right? I love oven roasted turkey. Sadly I don't have it but a few times a year because
- [Chicken and Black Bean Tacos](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/04/27/chicken-and-black-bean-tacos/) - We're always on the hunt for new forms of tacos. Beef, pork, turkey, chicken, and even a vegetarian lentil taco that I liked but did NOT fly with Mr. Carnivore. This one was a sort of throw-together no brainer because I had a couple cups of stewed chicken left from...some dish or other I cooked.
- [Chicken Biscuit Pie](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/11/chicken-biscuit-pie/) - This is definitely not a gluten free recipe (although you could replace the biscuits on top with gluten free biscuits to make it so). It was an adaptation of this recipe from All Recipes, which I fixed on because I found a can of Grands biscuits hanging out in the back of the fridge from
- [Beef and Mushroom Stir Fry](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/18/beef-and-mushroom-stir-fry/) - Over the weekend I hit up our local Asian Market. I love this place. Seriously. They have some unique produce and fabulous prices. One of the things I found were some marvelous fresh oyster mushrooms. I simply HAD to make a stir fry centered around them. OMG, SO GOOD. Serves 2. Ingredients: 2 Tbsp canola
- [Asian Meatballs](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/25/asian-meatballs/) - In our household we adore Chinese dumplings. But they are an ENORMOUS amount of WORK. All that rolling and crimping and stuff takes forever, which makes it totally impractical as a weeknight meal. However, sometimes you just gotta have that flavor, so I got the bright idea to try adapting my dumpling filling into a
- [Börek: Guest Recipe By Deniz Bevan](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/01/borek-guest-recipe-by-deniz-bevan/) - I've invited some of my writer pals to drop by from time to time with guest posts. This recipe for Börek is being shared by my pal Deniz Bevan. Now according to Wikipedia, Börek (also burek and other variants) is a family of baked or fried filled pastries made of a thin flaky dough known as
- [Chili Rubbed Salmon](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/08/chili-rubbed-salmon/) - I love salmon. It's not hubby's favorite fish, but I think it may be mine. It's chock full of Omega-3 fatty acids, which are great for you, and is such a variable fish. This go round, I decided to rub it with ancho chili powder and pan sear it. The end result was a fabulous
- [Creamy Italian Sausage Pasta](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/15/creamy-italian-sausage-pasta/) - Continuing my trial runs using Philadelphia Cooking Cream, for this dish I tried out the plain variety. According to the website, there is some kind of reduced fat version. Our grocery didn't have that, so I got the regular kind. Naturally it had to be tried in a pasta. This was your classic, run of
- [Pan Seared Bay Scallops](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/07/18/pan-seared-bay-scallops/) - Until this weekend, I had never had scallops before. I'm not sure why. I love seafood. But whatever, I've been seeing them cooked at hibachi for a while and decided to finally try them at home. Since I wasn't sure how they'd turn out, I picked up bay scallops from the freezer section rather than
- [Gyro Pizza](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/31/gyro-pizza/) - We have a local tavern here that's famous for New York style pizza. They have one called the Aphrodite that's like an gyro, but a pizza. I always adapt it to use pizza sauce instead of the cucumber sauce, and add mushrooms to the lamb and onion. It's awful for you but SO SO GOOD.
- [Pepper Jelly Shrimp](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/21/pepper-jelly-shrimp/) - A few weeks back, I had the idea to use pepper jelly as a marinade for chicken. It was delicious. I decided I'd give some shrimp the same treatment. It came out milder than the chicken, probably because of the smaller surface area for the peppers to stick to, but the caramelization is marvelous. It's
- [Jambalaya](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/12/jambalaya/) - I had some really lousy jambalaya in one of those freezer kit meals a couple of weeks ago and it had me hankering for the real deal. As it happens, I had a real hard time finding a recipe for some that wasn't creole (which includes tomatoes) and didn't have "jambalaya mix" in the list
- [Smoked Gouda, Bacon, and Veggie Mini Quiche](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/23/smoked-gouda-bacon-and-veggie-mini-quiche/) - The name of the game this week has been to clear out room in the fridge to make way for the big ass bucket I use to brine the Thanksgiving Turkey. One of my favorite ways to use up random bits of this and that is unusual quiches. I had half a package of fresh
- [Herb Butter Turkey](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/12/07/herb-butter-turkey/) - I have already waxed eloquent elsewhere about the glories of brining the turkey. I believe in it absolutely. Except there's the small matter of the fact that when I brought my bucket in and started scrubbing it down to brine this Thanksgiving's turkey, I found that it was dry rotted and it broke into many
- [Southwest Chicken Skillet](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/12/14/southwest-chicken-skillet/) - This was one of those "my oven is full of bread, what can I cook on the stovetop?" inspired dinners. It's quick, easy, and a great use for leftover rice. Hubby absolutely declared this one a keeper. I served it with a side of Bush's Grillin' Beans, the Black Bean Fiesta flavor, which were...okay--better when
- [Walnut Crusted Tilapia](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/01/09/walnut-crusted-tilapia/) - Nut crusted fish is something you often see on the menus of swanky restaurants. I've never tried making it before but it's just as easy as breading fish in anything else and it makes a gorgeous presentation. This is definitely a company meal because they'll think you slaved. Given the price of nuts, this isn't
- [Perfect Potato Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/10/perfect-potato-soup/) - As soon as cool weather hits, I start thinking soup. It's easy, warm, and filling. I didn't actually make this batch for us, but for some neighbors who recently had a baby (welcome Carter!). This makes a massive batch and is easily frozen, so it makes a GREAT food to take to others. Ingredients: 5
- [Basic Turkey Meatballs](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/13/basic-turkey-meatballs/) - I've been really into the concept of freezer meals and making stuff ahead of time to try to streamline dinner prep a few nights a week, but so far I've been completely lousy about the execution. I recently had the idea of making up some basic turkey meatballs that would work well with multiple sauces
- [I Survived Whole30 (and a #ROW80 Check-In)](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/02/03/i-survived-whole30-and-a-row80-check-in/) - Well, I did it. I survived Whole30. It was easier than I expected...although part of that was because 2 and a half weeks in, after all the caffeine headaches had passed, I decided that one cup of proper tea, exactly as I normally drink it, wasn't going to derail my progress (unlike all the other
- [On Tacos and Getting Back on Track](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/01/27/on-tacos-and-getting-back-on-track/) - I keep...not posting. There's been a lot of getting caught up at the Evil Day Job (a LOT). Last week was a short week anyway because of MLK day, and then I was supposed to be on the road to Natchez. And then that trip got cancelled. And there was a bunch of rescheduling. And
- [Out of Routine and Impending Snowpocalypse](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/01/21/routine-impending-snowpocalypse/) - Updated: OMG, I have been trying to get this post written for two days! I don't know what it is about holidays that just pull me totally out of routine for DAYS. We were closed for MLK Day on Monday. I spent THE ENTIRE DAY in my JAMMIES. I can't remember the last time
- [Spicy Pulled Pork and White Bean Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/28/spicy-pulled-pork-and-white-bean-soup/) - I'm pretty regularly playing around in my kitchen and developing new recipes. I've got a whole Evernote Notebook devoted to ideas--stuff to convert to gluten or dairy free or just "ooo, this might be good". Usually I have a bit of lead time such that I've got a few recipes in the hopper, as it
- [The Food Blog Is Functional!](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/01/15/19608/) - When I made the decision in early 2015 to combine all my blogs into one, self-hosted site, it simplified some stuff for me, bringing everything under one umbrella. Which de-simplified things for many of my readers, as I had completely separate audiences for my food blog than I did for my writer's blog and merging
- [Creole Chicken Vegetable Stew (aka Kitchen Sink Soup)](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/11/25/creole-chicken-vegetable-stew-aka-kitchen-sink-soup/) - The soup/stew (stoup as Rachael Ray would call it) was absolutely one of those inventive products of necessity. About four years ago, my husband was down with pneumonia and his little brother was in town visiting. This boy loves vegetables more than anybody I have ever seen. Not wanting to leave D.H. for long, I
- [Coq Au Noodle Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/12/coq-au-noodle-soup/) - When I made the crock pot coq au vin and had all those lovely onions, carrots, and celery leftover, and all that gorgeous wine and broth that had reduced down and gotten all the flavor of the chicken, I knew I had to come up with a way to use it rather than toss it.
- [Taco Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2007/11/13/taco-soup/) - As the weather cools down (yes, even in Mississippi), I always crave Mexican style dishes. One of my family's all time favorites is taco soup, which is actually a year round staple meal. This is one of those recipes that's great for crock pot cooking or can be made in about half an hour on
- [Rotini and Cheese With A Primavera Twist](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/10/rotini-and-cheese-with-a-primavera-twist/) - I have been jonesing for homemade mac and cheese ever since The Pioneer Woman posted this sinfully delicious looking recipe for hers. It is, I believe, a moral imperative. But being me, and being that we are going to Savannah in two weeks for our Anniversary and are going to do the Paula Deen tour,
- [Corn Casserole (Otherwise Known As Heaven In A Casserole Dish)](https://kaitnolan.com/2007/11/16/corn-casserole-otherwise-known-as-heaven-in-a-casserole-dish/) - This recipe is courtesy of Paula Deen (gotta love the Food Network) by way of my neighbor Jackie. It's a popular and wonderful dish for holiday dinners and there's never, ever any leftovers. The original link to the foodnetwork site is here. Ingredients: 1 (15 1/4-ounce) can whole kernel corn, drained 1 (14 3/4-ounce) can
- [Thoughtless Thursdays: Crock Pot "Fried" Rice](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/23/thoughtless-thursdays-crock-pot-fried-rice/) - We're having Chinese Dumplings for dinner. Since those are very time consuming, I thought I'd try doing the rice this way, so I wasn't dirtying up or juggling so many pans. I got the idea from Stephanie over at A Year of Crockpotting, but I changed a few things up to make the flavors more
- [Spicy Corn Chowder](https://kaitnolan.com/2007/10/29/spicy-corn-chowder/) - The weather has FINALLY started to cool down and that has me craving soups, stews, and chowders. This is one I created last winter that is a good warm you up meal for a cold day. Ingredients: 1 can creamed corn (no sugar added if you can find it) 1 can whole kernel corn (no
- [Perfect Pizza Sauce](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/03/15/perfect-pizza-sauce/) - I got this recipe for pizza sauce from my old aikido instructor's wife. It's fantastic! Ingredients 2 (15 oz) cans diced or crushed tomatoes 2 (8 oz) cans tomato sauce 1 (6 oz) can tomato paste 1 tsp garlic salt 1/2 tsp ground pepper 1/8 to 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper 1 tsp oregano 2 tsp
- [In A Pinch Chicken Salad](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/02/03/in-a-pinch-chicken-salad/) - Uninspired for lunch or dinner? Looking for something easy? This is a good, fast recipe that came about because my mother was trying to lighten up and duplicate the chicken salad at La Bagette in Memphis (which is her all time favorite). She mixed it up and asked what I thought and I (being the
- [Grilled Cider Brats](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/11/18/grilled-cider-brats/) - I have never been that big a fan of bratwurst. The couple of times my hubby has cooked them, they tasted like giant breakfast sausages on buns. I'm not opposed to breakfast sausage, but I don't want it for dinner. I'm more of a keilbasa kind of girl. But last grocery trip he begged, so
- [Gluten Free Friday: Chicken and Mushroom Pot Pie](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/11/gluten-free-friday-chicken-and-mushroom-pot-pie/) - Who doesn’t love chicken pot pie? It’s one of those classic comfort foods. I confess, I actually love the ones straight from the freezer section. But it’s one of those that doesn’t just scream “gluten free” OR healthy. Now I have a light and healthy version using Phyllo dough for me, but that doesn’t meet
- [Easy Onion Side Dish](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/01/06/easy-onion-side-dish/) - I got this recipe from my mother in law who got it, I think, from Southern Living. It's so simple and surprisingly delicious. A fantastic accompaniment to, well frankly, any kind of meat other than fish. It's particularly yummy served with beef or chicken. Ingredients: 2 medium to large Vidalia or other sweet onions. You
- [Creamy, Meaty Baked Ziti](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/09/26/creamy-meaty-baked-ziti/) - We had people over for supper this past weekend, and I'd planned to make my Extra Meaty Baked Ziti. Well, this is what I get for not checking my ingredients before I went to the grocery. I didn't have the cottage cheese or fresh mozzarella. Rather than change the menu entirely, I just opted to
- [Black Bean Burgers](https://kaitnolan.com/2007/10/30/black-bean-burgers/) - Ingredients: 1 can (or approximately 2 cups of home cooked) black beans, drained, mashed 2 Tbsp salsa ½ small onion finely diced 1 small potato, boiled and mashed 1 tsp cumin ½ tsp garlic powder ¼ tsp paprika ½ tsp cilantro Fresh pepper to taste 1 egg Breadcrumbs or corn meal or whole wheat flour,
- [Orange Poppy Seed Bread](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/18/orange-poppy-seed-bread/) - I have a bowlful of oranges I needed to do SOMETHING to. I don't eat oranges as a fruit (though I like the flavor), and I am not actually big on orange juice. So I decided to adapt a recipe for lemon poppy seed bread and use the oranges for the citrus flavor. Ingredients: 2
- [Thoughtless Thursdays: Sausage and Lentil Minestrone](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/09/thoughtless-thursdays-sausage-and-lentil-minestrone/) - From a diet standpoint, I have been a very bad girl the last two or three weeks. No way am I approaching a scale for another couple until I have mended my wicked, fattening ways. I may simply mend my ways and just avoid the scale until fall. In any event, I have vowed to
- [Thoughtless Thursdays: Chicken Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/02/thoughtless-thursdays-chicken-casserole/) - This week I decided to try to adapt another one of my recipes to crock pot. Chicken Loaf, which my husband prefers I call Chicken Casserole (as he says anything called "loaf" that isn't bread sounds gross), adapted beautifully. I wound up taking this over to a friend who'd broken her arm, and it was
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Crock Pot Chicken Nuggets](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/14/thoughtless-thursday-crock-pot-chicken-nuggets/) - Sometime last year, I started following Stephanie over at A Year of CrockPotting. When I saw her make CHICKEN NUGGETS in the crock pot, I have to admit my skepticism. Chicken nuggets. Seriously? But then I didn't think you could make bread in a crock pot either, and I proved that wrong last week, so
- [Thoughtless Thursday: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To The Crock Pot](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/09/03/thoughtless-thursday-a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-crock-pot/) - So I was wracking my brain earlier this week trying to think of something new to cook today. I have a whole lot of standby favorites, but I've done most of them here already and I wanted to do something new. After considerable pondering and a trip to the grocery, I decided to introduce you
- [Retake Homemade: Thanksgiving Prep Edition](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/20/retake-homemade-thanksgiving-prep-edition/) - I do not have a new recipe for you today, I am sorry to say. And my weekend is going to be consumed with early prep for Thanksgiving. Wait, Kait it's Saturday. What are you doing FIVE WHOLE DAYS before Thanksgiving? Well, I shall tell you. I have two main purposes today: Make chicken stock.
- [New Weekly Recipe Event](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/14/new-weekly-recipe-event/) - I'm a big fan of weekly recipe round ups. Not only is it a great way to find fabulous recipes all in one place, it's a wonderful way to build exposure to your food blog. Currently, I participate in Kahakai Kitchen's Souper Sundays as well as Presto Pasta Nights, and occasionally the Rachael Ray Roundup
- [Sausage Dip](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/10/25/sausage-dip/) - In the category of things that make you go mmmmmmmmmmmm, I present to you, my mother-in-law's sausage dip--lightened up, of course. This pairs great with homemade tortilla chips or, as my husband prefers, Fritos Scoops. With sausage and cheese, what's not to love? Your favorite carnivore will thank you Ingredients: 1 lb turkey sausage (original
- [Tortilla Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/04/tortilla-soup/) - As much as my husband and I love Mexican flavors, I have no idea why we've never tried tortilla soup. I got a recipe for it in my email earlier this week, which got me thinking about it, and since we had a mass quantity of chicken we needed to use up (we're still on
- [Three Mushroom Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/08/three-mushroom-soup/) - I had a HUUUUUGE SQUEE today because my dear sweet hubby bought me the table top light studio I've been lusting after for months. Now I can learn how to take more professional photographs of my food! So in honor of the squee, I pulled out the dried porcini mushrooms that I reserve for special
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Tuscan Potato Soup I](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/30/thoughtless-thursday-tuscan-potato-soup/) - We're down to the dregs in our kitchen this week. I'm trying REALLY hard to come up with meals out of the things we have left. We're down to several pounds of ground beef, chunks of ham, a ridiculous quantity of canned tuna, and some Italian sausage in the freezer. As we're out of at
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Steak and Vegetable Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/11/05/thoughtless-thursday-steak-and-vegetable-soup/) - How happy am I that fall seems to have finally arrived, and with it weather conducive to all the soups and stews I love to make? After the weekend's excesses (can we say Halloween candy, roasted marshmallows, and more hot dogs than I care to admit that I ate?), I was in the mood for
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Hawaiian Pork Chops](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/04/thoughtless-thursday-hawaiian-pork-chops/) - I've been on a latin kick this week due to an influx of fabulous latin flavor ingredients. In particular I had some chayote squash I had no idea what to do with. So in that vein I sort of threw together this Mexicanish themed lasagna. Well that was a huge disaster. So my plan B
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/03/04/sunday-summary-and-row80-update-23/) - Today is supposed to be a running day. So not happening. My feet are KILLING ME. Yesterday hubs and I shot a wedding and I was on my feet from 8 until 3:30. In loafers rather than dress shoes (I had the sense to realize that I'd be crippled in that time span if I
- [Review: Classico Light Alfredo](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/14/review-classico-light-alfredo/) - Light alfredo sauce sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it? I mean, everything about alfredo sauce is rich and delicious. My prior attempts to make it lighter just didn't have the right texture or taste, so I admit my skepticism when Classico Light Alfredo sauce came up as an option for the Foodbuzz Tastemakers Program. I
- [Review: Marzetti Simply Dressed](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/23/review-marzetti-simply-dressed/) - Foodbuzz is going to think I'm a bad food blogger. I was supposed to post this by the 20th. But, well, I live in a small town and despite the generous coupon for a free bottle of Marzetti Simply Dressed salad dressing as part of the Tastemaker's program , I had a devil of a time
- [Quinoa Paella](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/01/31/quinoa-paella/) - In my pursuit of trying quinoa in my usual rice dishes, tonight I tried paella. I've been meaning to try one with shrimp instead of our usual sausage, so tonight I did. The end result was flavorful and filling. It came out at 3 servings at 386 calories and 5.9 calories per serving. Now...there was
- [Product Review: Gluten Free Bisquick](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/02/02/product-review-gluten-free-bisquick/) - So in pursuit of gluten free baking (while I wait for my assortment of weird flours to get here from Amazon), I picked up a box of Gluten Free Bisquick from Walmart (I also saw it in Kroger). This thing was about a third of the size of a regular box of Bisquick and twice
- [Lay's Dip Creations: Review](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/23/lays-dip-creations-review/) - So my latest Tastemaker opportunity from Foodbuzz was for Lay's Dip Creations. I've had these for quite a while, but like everything else, when we listed the house for sale, stuff got put out of sight and I can no longer find squat. So it took me a while to actually use them. There are
- [Gluten Free Friday: Round Up](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/09/gluten-free-friday-round-up/) - I had intended to post my gluten free adaptation of my favorite poppyseed chicken recipe today, but it turned out...incredibly bland. So that one absolutely needs more work before I release it to the world. The original version takes a lot of its flavor from the canned cream of chicken soup. The gluten free alternative
- [Crock Pot Lentil Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/03/29/crock-pot-lentil-soup/) - I have no idea what's got me in the mood for lentil soup. Perhaps the cold front that's come through this weekend and put temps back in the 50s. I'm sure this is the last hurrah of comfortable weather before "spring" (AKA 80+ temps) arrives for good in Mississippi. C'est la vie. I'm a weirdo
- [15 Bean Soup With Sausage](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/03/13/15-bean-soup-with-sausage/) - We had a package of 15 bean soup mix in our Angel Food order this month. When I've bought such things before it was the expected mix of pintos, white beans, split peas, lentils, kidney beans, etc., but when I see "mix" on the package, I expect, you know...seasonings and instructions. But no. It was
- [#ROW80 Midweek Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/23/row80-midweek-check-in-2/) - Thanksgiving is, um, TOMORROW, and I've been cooking all week. So nothing written much, but cooking time is great plotting time, so I've had some breakthroughs on that level on a YA trilogy I'm plotting. Things just got more complicated and interesting. AND I had a major cooking triumph in that I PULLED OFF THE
- [Gluten Free Friday: Blueberry Peach Crumble and a Review of Melt Spread](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/06/22/gluten-free-friday-blueberry-peach-crumble/) - Right around the time we moved, I was offered an opportunity to try out Melt Organic Spread. It took me a while to connect with the company owing to the whole lack of internet thing, and then the getting my kitchen organized thing. But receive my free sample, I did, and I proceeded to try
- [Product Comparison: Daiya Mozzarella Shreds vs. Go Veggie! Vegan Mozzarella Shreds](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/11/22/product-comparison-daiya-mozzarella-shreds-vs-go-veggie-vegan-mozzarella-shreds/) - I recently received a box of Go Veggie!'s entire vegan line of alterna-cheese products to test out (thank you Go Veggie!). This is a brand my local grocery carries, but they only have the Lactose free line (it has been my experience that unlike gluten intolerance, the average person has never heard of casein intolerance
- [Help For The Gluten and Dairy Allergic](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/26/help-for-the-gluten-and-dairy-allergic/) - I've been largely absent from social media for much of the last week. Some of that's been because of family in town, but a lot of it is because I've had my head down, working hard on a new project that I'm really passionate about. Tell me if any of this sounds familiar. You've been
- [Is There Life After Cheese?](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/04/15/is-there-life-after-cheese/) - Okay, so that hiatus went on a whole lot longer than I'd originally planned. Short version: Life has been--crazy. 2013 was a very full, very stressful year and I really needed that time off from blogging. I'm still crazy busy, and I don't know if I'll be coming back even now, but I have
- [Gluten Free Friday: Hot Dog Buns](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/17/gluten-free-friday-hot-dog-buns/) - A few weeks ago, I blogged about Jeanne's fabulous hamburger buns, which have been a life-saver since we went gluten free. The next logical step in that chain was to find a way to make hot dog buns. Well Jeanne was kind enough to point me to the New England bun pan from King Arthur
- [Whole Grain Sourdough Bread](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/01/06/whole-grain-sourdough-bread/) - Sourdough bread is a huge favorite in our house. I've played with recipes over the years, adapting my mom's recipe to be lower fat and lower calories (substituting applesauce for oil and Splenda for sugar), and adding in whole wheat flour (up to 50% typically doesn't affect the rising). But earlier this holiday season I
- [Perfect No Knead Pizza Dough](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/02/01/perfect-no-knead-pizza-dough/) - I am very fond of my pizza dough. Everyone who has ever eaten my pizza or calzones agrees. But it's a serious pain in the ass and very time consuming, so I don't make it very often. But since my introduction to Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes A Day and the fabulous concept that gluten
- [Granola Bars](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/12/31/granola-bars/) - Well I'm having cravings for yummy baked goods tonight, and as I've been trying really hard to avoid making the cookies I REALLY want, so I decided to try making granola bars. It was an experiment in healthy. Ingredients: 2 cups rolled oats 1/4 cup + 2 Tbsp packed brown sugar Splenda 1/2 cup wheat
- [Thoughtless Thursdays: Crock Pot Beer Bread](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/07/thoughtless-thursdays-crock-pot-beer-bread/) - Ever since Rachelle from Pantry Eats shared her recipe for Crock Pot Bread last week, I have been intrigued by the concept of making yummy, homemade bread in the crock pot. And since Wednesday night rolled around, and I'd given no thought whatsoever to what my own contribution would be this week, I decided to
- [On Leveling Up and Finding The Way](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/01/13/leveling-finding-way/) - Operation G.I.T. My brain has been all over the place this week. I'm closer to back in the groove of normal schedule, but not quiet there. Mornings after taekwondo are always the hardest for sticking to my vow to get up and write before walking the dogs and the gym. I don't get to bed
- [Belated Sunday Summary: Cooking All The Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/01/11/belated-sunday-summary-cooking-all-the-things/) - I totally didn't get around to posting this yesterday. I didn't even get around to writing yesterday other than about a hundred words of expansion on a previous scene. I spent Sunday cooking All The Things. Now I cook a lot to begin with since I make a bunch of stuff from scratch that most people
- [Some Friday Fun](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/01/08/some-friday-fun/) - So while I was at the gym this morning in the wee hours, Uptown Funk came on the radio. So of course I started dancing--as you do. And then turned around and realized the gym wasn't as empty as I thought. Whoops. [iframe src="http://giphy.com/embed/14aUO0Mf7dWDXW" width="500" height="362" frameBorder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen][/iframe] But whatever, it's a good song
- [Whole 30 Day 3 and a ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/01/06/whole-30-day-3-row80-progress-report/) - It's been a rough transition back to work this week. There's no such thing as a slow start...it's like jumping headfirst into the deep end of a pool and being electrocuted. My uncaffeinated brain hasn't been dealing too well with that (not that caffeine is verboten on Whole 30, but everything that goes in my
- [Bring It 2016! Round 1 ROW80 Goals](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/01/04/bring-it-2016-round-1-row80-goals/) - Because I work for a university, one of the epic perks is a long Christmas break. Since we're off until after New Year's, it doesn't ever REALLY feel like a new year until I get back to work and into the normal routine. Today is that day and I'm raring to go. I've got eleventy
- [Manifesting the Positive in 2016](https://kaitnolan.com/2016/01/02/19187/) - Welcome to 2016. It really won't feel like the new year for me until Monday, when I dive into the new/old routine that is daily life. I've enjoyed my holiday, gotten some rest and some quiet. Done some reading (knocked out Tawna Fenske's latest, The Fix Up and Tara Sivec's Seduction and Snacks, both of which were
- [Goodbye 2015!](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/12/31/goodbye-2015/) - Goodbye 2015! It's been a...full year. On the last day of the year, I always like to do a quick inventory, looking at highlights of the year. This often involves data--because I'm me and we've talked before about my potentially unhealthy love of spreadsheets. So if that's not your bag, have a fantastic and safe
- [Recipe Indexing and Whole 30 Prep](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/12/28/recipe-indexing-and-whole-30-prep/) - Recipe Indexing I love cookbooks. And cooking magazines. And food blogs. Which all stems from the fact that I love food. I have this habit of getting new ones, going through and sticky tabbing the recipes I want to try, but I'm terrible about not checking them when making my weekly menus and shopping list. This is
- [Final ROW80 Round 4 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/12/27/final-row80-round-4-progress-report/) - I meant to do this on the 24th but I was writing down to the wire before company arrived and left myself with only 45 minutes to do everything I'd blown off so that I could finish what I was doing. Company's gone now and I'm enjoying the glorious quiet, while my dogs snooze on
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/12/16/midweek-row80-check-in-66/) - Obviously one of my goals next round of #ROW80 should be to blog more consistently. But whatever. I'm kicking ass and taking names on the writing front. About 9k into this little Christmas novella (yeah, the one that was supposed to be a Meet Cute--that one) and still going strong. I've made some really great
- [Will Star Wars: The Force Awakens Meet the Fans Demands? Guest Post by Elizabeth Eckhart](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/12/17/will-star-wars-the-force-awakens-meet-the-fans-demands-guest-post-by-elizabeth-eckhart/) - Just ONE MORE DAY (or a few more hours for you lucky ducks who live somewhere that's doing a midnight release) until EPISODE 7! WOO! I don't know about you, but I'm going to have to avoid social media until hubs and I can go see it. Meanwhile, I'm leaving you with this guest post
- [And We're Off...A New Shiny and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/12/10/and-were-off-a-new-shiny-and-row80-update/) - Okay so I'm late with this #ROW80 update, but it's because I have started a new shiny. The holiday themed story that was SUPPOSED to be a Meet Cute has evolved into a full novella. Because OF COURSE. [iframe src="http://giphy.com/embed/3o85xozRUKxoFSxODe" width="500" height="202" frameBorder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen][/iframe] I'd been worried since I knocked out my NaNo novel
- [Delayed Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/12/07/delayed-sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report/) - Let's get the important bit of this #ROW80 progress report out there first--I finished my NaNo novel. This is the first in another contemporary romance trilogy that's unrelated to Wishful--but is set in the Colorado town where Once Upon A Snow Day and Once Upon An Heirloom take place. There are totally a few Easter eggs in there
- [Post NaNo Dig Out and Christmas Prep](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/12/05/post-nano-dig-out-and-christmas-prep/) - We had a good, hard frost this morning. This is a sign we're heading on into my favorite time of year. No, I don't mean Christmas. I mean all the stuff I'm allergic to is going to stop growing and for the next three months, I'll be able to breathe! Also, I'll look fetching in
- [On The Back Side of NaNo](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/11/29/on-the-back-side-of-nano/) - I realize I haven't actually posted since the first week of November. At all. No check ins. No funny stuff, no nothin'. I decided a few days before the start of November that I was going to actually seriously try NaNoWriMo this year. My tactic was to actually try getting up early to write, something
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/11/08/sunday-summary-and-row80-update-99/) - I haven't been posting much lately. Evil Day Job has been nuts and I've thrown myself whole hog into National Novel Writing Month. I cleared 18k words last week. My secret? When Daylight Savings Time left...I kept getting up at the same time. So 5:15 I sat down for my first writing sprint of the
- [5 Tools to Increase NaNoWriMo Productivity](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/11/02/5-tools-to-increase-nanowrimo-productivity/) - Whether you're participating in National Novel Writing Month or not, chances are, if you're a writer, you suffer from procrastination and having the attention span of a squirrel on crack. [iframe src="http://giphy.com/embed/39CqBhycuM5kQ" width="500" height="202" frameBorder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen][/iframe] When your writing time is limited, it's important that you make the most of it! Here's a
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/11/01/sunday-summary-and-row80-check-in-32/) - I had something of a crisis of writer faith this week. One of those panicked points where I worry that nothing I'm working on right now is...well, working. This makes me particularly paranoid because the last book I was this invested in was Daughter of the Hunt, which was a hot mess and I didn't realize
- [Ashamed of My Shame](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/10/26/ashamed-of-my-shame/) - *Image by Carlos Portos Y'all, I kind of hate myself this morning. I need to back up and give context. So one of my evil day jobs is as an online college instructor in psychology. I've been doing this for...nine years now? Anyway, from time to time, the university requires that the teachers take a
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/10/25/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-19/) - I am officially ready to move into a bubble. After last week's cold, I ended up with a 24 hour stomach bug Thursday of THIS week. I have since bought more probiotics and immune booster vitamins in gummy form (because I'm a lot more likely to take my vitamins if they're gummies). Also got my
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/10/18/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-18/) - With the exception of a couple of forays out for supplies, I have been in my pajamas, sitting in my favorite chair with a cold. Usually when I'm home sick, I end up binging on period drama--it's how I got through the first three seasons of Downton Abbey. But that wasn't what I was in
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/10/14/midweek-row80-progress-report-16/) - I feel like I'm a good cautionary tale for "Be careful what you wish for" today. As I was going to sleep last night, I was thinking about how it would be nice if I could just take the rest of the week off and avoid trying to do this thing my boss wants done that's
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/10/11/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-17/) - Nothing like sitting down to write a PROGRESS REPORT and having to say "I cut 5,500 words of the 7,000 words I had on this new novel." But that's where I am with Something's Gotta Give. The first act JUST WASN'T GELLING. I've reached a point where if I have trouble for more than a couple
- [Organized Life, Organized Mind](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/10/10/organized-life-organized-mind/) - Dear God is it ever a two cup morning. It's all gray outside, such that I expect it to be winter and cold enough for a nice cheerful fire. Which it SO IS NOT. It is, however, 63, which is a heck of a lot better than the 85 we had all week. I'm satisfying
- [Crock Pot Teriyaki Meatballs](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/31/crock-pot-teriyaki-meatballs/) - It's no secret that I've been on the hunt for easy weeknight dinners. Stuff that can be fixed in 30 minutes or less or crock pot stuff I can toss on when I come home at lunch. I've got a zillion crock pot recipes for winter, but summer...I'm a little short on options. Since I've
- [Quiche](https://kaitnolan.com/2007/10/29/quiche/) - Quiche is one of those foods that is awful if you don't have a good recipe. My dear hubs swore he hated quiche. Then he had my mother's recipe and changed his mind. There are many crustless versions you can try, but to me those simply don't taste like real quiche. I gotta have my
- [Cran-Almond Oatmeal Cookies](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/01/26/cran-almond-oatmeal-cookies/) - This is a variation of a recipe for chocolate chip oatmeal cookies (courtesy of The Mixer Bible) that came about because I had no chocolate chips. Ingredients: 2 cups unbleached, all purpose flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt ½ tsp ground cinnamon ¼ tsp ground nutmeg 1 cup unsalted butter, softened (or 1
- [Seriously Comforting Chicken Noodle Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/02/03/seriously-comforting-chicken-noodle-soup/) - Guess I've got chicken on the brain. I've also got the infamous Crud (that sort of ubiquitous allergy/sinus/cold thing everyone here has this time of year), so I decided to make up a batch of my famous homemade chicken noodle soup for myself. Normally this is reserved for taking to sick friends and family but
- [Perfect Pizza Dough](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/03/15/perfect-pizza-dough/) - (These pics are from DH's latest calzone efforts!) Ingredients: 1 (.25 oz) package active dry yeast 1 Tbsp white sugar 1/3 cup honey 2.5 cups warm water (110 degrees F) 2 Tbsps olive oil 1 Tbsp salt 1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour 1/2 cup milled flax 4 cups bread flour Directions: In a large
- [Black Beans and Rice](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/03/29/black-beans-and-rice/) - My husband loves red beans and rice, but I am very much not a fan of red beans. I do, however, love black beans, so tonight I threw this together. We decided it was a keeper. Serves: 4 (if served with a side, such as a salad), 3 if served alone Ingredients 1 pound smoked
- [Roasted Red Pepper, Tomato and Goat Cheese Bruschetta](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/04/01/roasted-red-pepper-tomato-and-goat-cheese-bruschetta/) - This was a recipe born of needing to use stuff up before we leave on vacation. I had 2 roma tomatoes and a going to stale baguette, which isn't quite enough to make bruschetta for more than one. So I decided to toss in roasted red peppers (which hubby will eat) and some of my
- [Easy Beef Stroganoff](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/04/03/easy-beef-stroganoff/) - I was looking for something simple to cook for supper tonight. This came together with a lot of household staples and is like a bit more upscale version of homemade hamburger helper. Ingredients: 1 pound lean ground beef 1 package of fresh baby portobella mushroom 8 oz whole wheat extra wide noodles 1/2 cup light
- [Second Time Around: Bruschetta](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/04/03/second-time-around-bruschetta/) - So earlier this week I made bruschetta with roasted red peppers, tomatoes, and goat cheese for a small dinner party I was hosting. It was such a hit, I made a second batch for hubby and myself last night (and to save myself some work, I used a can of drained, diced tomatoes--I still think
- [Stuffed Bell Peppers](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/04/24/stuffed-bell-peppers/) - This is one of those meals that's good if you've got leftover rice--as we frequently do. I tend to batch cook brown rice because it reheats well and goes in a lot of stuff. It's a good one to try on both the Sonoma Diet and South Beach Diet because it's chock full of good
- [Zucchini Chowder](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/05/18/zucchini-chowder/) - This is actually an adaptation of this recipe for cream of zucchini soup, but me being me, I had to try to lighten it up a bit and make it my own. The original recipe called for butter--I used extra virgin olive oil. It also called for 4 oz Monterey jack, which was delish, but
- [Pita Pizzas](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/05/28/pita-pizzas/) - In the name of trying to cut back on our fat intake, yet still keep some of our favorite foods on the menu, I decided to try a mini version of pizza. It's not the real deal (you can't beat real, homemade crust), but it's darn good considering. I did use my pizza sauce and
- [Philly Cheesesteak Sloppy Joes](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/06/01/philly-cheesesteak-sloppy-joes/) - This recipe is courtesy of Rachael Ray. I saw it on her daytime TV show recently and had to try it. My husband and I liked them so much that we've had them twice this week! They're a quick and easy and very tasty meal. There's a salad she devised to go along with it
- [Homemade Tortilla Chips](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/06/28/homemade-tortilla-chips/) - I know, I know...it's been ages since I updated. It's not that I haven't been cooking--I just haven't made anything new or interesting enough that I felt it merited posting about it! But I made a happy discovery recently. Sometime last year, I got into the notion of buying corn tortillas (one of those packs
- [Shepherd’s Pie](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/06/28/shepherds-pie/) - This is another one of those dishes that's great to make ahead and freeze. I'm doing a bunch of cooking this weekend to try to make next week easier on me (as work is going to be insane). Ingredients: 1 lb lean ground beef 1 large onion, diced 3 ribs of celery, diced 1 medium
- [Cinnamon Nuggets](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/08/23/cinnamon-nuggets/) - We made calzones the other night and I've got an enormous amount of pizza dough left over. I wasn't planning on making more pizza, and I haven't really been in the mood to make homemade hot pockets, so today I decided to try making homemade cinna-stix. Or nuggets rather. Ingredients pizza dough splenda cinnamon buttery
- [7 Layer Dip](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/08/23/7-layer-dip/) - One of our good friends has his 30th birthday coming up (well actually, it was yesterday, but the party is tomorrow), and his wife has requested my 7 layer dip. I took this to the New Year's party, where it disappeared in about fifteen minutes. I can't claim it as my original recipe. My boss's
- [Whole Grain Banana Bread](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/08/31/whole-grain-banana-bread/) - We always have good intentions in our house of actually eating the bananas as...well bananas. But more often than not, we wind up letting them get brown and mushy--absolutely perfect for banana bread. This is an adaptation of the classic Better Homes and Gardens recipe for Banana Bread. Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- [Chicken Loaf](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/09/01/chicken-loaf/) - It's kind of an uninspiring title isn't it? This dish is an adaptation of my college friend Lauren's mom's casserole (yes, called Chicken Loaf), which was always a huge favorite when we went home on weekends. I suppose it's supposed to be a chicken version of meat loaf? It's a fantastic dish for all those
- [Crock Pot Tomato Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/09/21/crock-pot-tomato-soup/) - I've been getting into the crock pot lately. That whole fix it and forget it quality is a wonderful thing. As fall is finally arriving, I'm starting to get in the mood for soup, so I devised this simple tomato soup. Ingredients: 2 28 oz cans of whole tomatoes in juice 1 medium onion, diced
- [Roasted Potatoes](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/10/23/roasted-potatoes/) - Potatoes are an inexpensive, low-fat food. Forget low-carbing it. As far as I'm concerned, a life without potatoes is just...sad. We wind up having this dish at least twice a week. It's a serious family favorite. Ingredients: any type of thin-skinned potato (I normally use either red potatoes or Yukon golds) olive oil kosher salt
- [Lo Mein](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/11/03/lo-mien/) - At last! I have been trying for SEVEN YEARS to duplicate the sauce my favorite Chinese place uses for their lo mein. Finally, courtesy of The Crepes of Wrath , I have a base for a good lo mein sauce. I adapted her original recipe for garlic noodles and wound up making this three days
- [Homemade Yogurt](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/11/04/homemade-yogurt/) - Any dieter knows that yogurt is one of your best friends (well the fat free and low fat varieties). Packed full of good bacteria and nutrients, yogurt is a powerhouse of a diet food. We've all seen the ads on TV lately about how yogurt can regulate...things. But let's face it. If you eat a
- [Whole Grain Beer Bread](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/11/08/whole-grain-beer-bread/) - Dear Hubby recently played a show for Halloween for his folks. As a thank you, he and his band were paid in beer. Hence, we've got loads around the house, so I get to indulge in one of my favorite quick breads. It uses the yeast in a single can of beer to make it
- [Smoky Swiss Mushroom Burgers on Beer Bread](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/11/13/smoky-swiss-mushroom-burgers-on-beer-bread/) - We've been on a sandwich kick with the beer bread this week. After some fantabulous grilled chicken, roasted red peppers, and swiss sandwiches the other night (which I will duplicate and photograph, I promise!), we polished off the last of the loaf with these burgers. They were a bit messy to eat, as the bread's
- [No Cinnamon Crock Pot Applesauce](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/11/19/no-cinnamon-crock-pot-applesauce/) - (Yeah,I know, the picture isn't much to look at.) D.H. got on an apple kick for his lunches a while back, and just as I bought a 5 pound bag of Granny Smith's he decided he was sick of them. I left them in the fruit bowl for a while to see if he would
- [Dark Hot Cocoa Mix](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/12/02/dark-hot-cocoa-mix/) - I love hot chocolate. It's one of my passions in winter. It's also a favorite gift in a jar. Last winter I discovered Hershey's fancy hot chocolate in Mayan (basically dark chocolate) and LOVED IT. But I can't quite bring myself to pay the steep price regularly. But I've been in search of a really
- [Roasted Red Pepper Bolognese Sauce](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/12/03/roasted-red-pepper-bolognese-sauce/) - DH and I have been doing Angel Food Ministries for a couple of months, which we've really liked. This month's order had a package of Italian sausage, which is something I never buy, so I've been trying to figure out what to do with it. I finally decided that I'd do something with pasta because
- [Bangers and Mash](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/12/16/bangers-and-mash/) - I make no claims as to the authenticity of this dish. I glanced at a handful of recipes online and eventually made this one up based on what ingredients I had on hand. What started the whole thing was this package of "authentic English sausages" that came in our latest Angel Food shipment. Now I
- [M&M Envy Cookies](https://kaitnolan.com/2008/12/21/mm-envy-cookies/) - The holidays have been horrible on my sweet tooth this year. I've had a barely controllable urge to devour anything and everything with sugar and butter this season. Tomorrow is my official Holiday Baking for Gifts day, but I was still craving cookies tonight, so I threw these together. I have a package of holiday
- [Cran-Apple Oatmeal Muffins](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/01/02/cran-apple-oatmeal-muffins/) - Okay, I'm on another experimental kick. I'm trying to make some muffins for DH to take to work for breakfast without having to hit the grocery for the 800 things I'm out of. Ingredients: 1 packet Quaker weight control oatmeal: maple brown sugar 1/2 cup oatmeal (I used Scottish oatmeal, which is stone ground) 1
- [Crock Pot French Onion Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/01/25/crock-pot-french-onion-soup/) - It is crock pot central in my kitchen today. It's Sunday, and I'm trying to get some batch cooking done so that I have something healthy to eat for lunch the next couple of weeks. The name of the game is veggie type soups. I've already got a batch of my Crock Pot Tomato Soup
- [Chinese Dumplings](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/02/02/chinese-dumplings/) - After watching Kung Fu Panda yesterday, Hubby decided that he wanted to try Chinese dumplings, which neither of us had ever had, and he was even in the mood to help. So I dutifully picked up the ingredients and we set up in our tiny kitchen to try our experiment. Ingredients: -Dough (makes approximately 50
- [Mexican Manicotti](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/02/10/mexican-manicotti/) - I just got over a really hideous cold, during which my programming of choice as a couch jockey was the Food Network. Lord knows why. I couldn't taste a thing. Maybe I was hoping to stimulate my other senses. In any event, I saw Sunny Anderson of Cooking For Real make this recipe of "Maniladas",
- [Hubby Does Valentine's](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/02/18/hubby-does-valentines/) - I've been getting evil looks all week because I promised to post about the fabulous dinner he cooked me for Valentine's Day. Aren't I a lucky girl? It was delicious. So he totally gets to start cooking more often :D He made this recipe for Parmesan Crusted Pork Chops from Everyday Italian, my roasted potatoes,
- [Dressing Up Store Bought Spaghetti Sauce](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/02/21/dressing-up-store-bought-spaghetti-sauce/) - Spaghetti sauce is one of those things that makes me think of large Italian grandmas with secret recipes that take hours to properly simmer and meld flavors. I have no idea why I have this image, as growing up, spaghetti sauce in our family came out of a can or a jar with a bit
- [Thinking Outside The Boxed Mac And Cheese](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/03/06/thinking-outside-the-boxed-mac-and-cheese/) - I've had the flu this week, so the peak of my culinary demands have rated somewhere around canned chicken noodle soup and saltine crackers. I tend to add some cayanne pepper and a pinch of dill to add a bit of taste to that. But I'm on the mend today and was in the mood
- [Cheesy Hash Brown Chili](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/03/07/cheesy-hash-brown-chili/) - For my birthday I asked for a subscription to Rachael Ray Everyday. I get such a kick out of that magazine, and I wanted an actual subscription. My first issue came in the other day and I entertained myself by looking through and picking out all the stuff I wanted to cook when I could
- [Roast Chicken With Crispy Drippings Croutons](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/03/13/roast-chicken-with-crispy-drippings-croutons/) - I have a number of food blogs that I read on a daily basis looking for inspiration for that age old question, "What's for dinner?" Some of the recipes I see make me instantly drool, the gastronomic version of porn. Elise over at Simply Recipes and Deb over at Smitten Kitchen are often guilty of
- [Chicken Fried Rice](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/03/15/chicken-fried-rice/) - Leftover rice in the fridge. Roast chicken too. An assortment of veggies. What's that spell? Oh yeah, you guessed it. Fried rice. The ultimate dish for using up leftovers and making something better than the sum of its parts. You could use whatever veggies you like, this just happened to be what was in the
- [Turkey Meatballs in Paprika Tomato Sauce](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/03/17/turkey-meatballs-in-paprika-tomato-sauce/) - This is an adaptation of another recipe from this month's Everyday With Rachael Ray. I was missing a few of the ingredients from the original recipe, so I made a few changes based on what I had on hand. Ingredients: 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 onions finely chopped (original recipe called for 2
- [Maple Oatmeal Muffins](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/03/21/maple-oatmeal-muffins/) - To continue my experimental streak, today I'm trying maple muffins. I've got a box of instant maple brown sugar oatmeal to do something with (as I tend not to eat them on their own unless it's freezing outside and in Mississippi this time of year its....not). Ingredients: 3 packets maple brown sugar oatmeal (this is
- [Rotini With Pancetta, Onions, and Mushrooms](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/03/23/rotini-with-pancetta-onions-and-mushrooms/) - I love, adore, cannot get enough of pancetta. I see it on the Food Network all the time, but it's hard to find in my tiny town. So when I do, I buy it with the intention of doing something wonderful with it. Well, I found it a while ago, got busy, threw it in
- [Orange Dijon Pork Chops](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/03/24/orange-dijon-pork-chops/) - I don't know where I came up with this particular concoction as a marinade for pork, but it was something I threw together one night when I was craving something that was savory and sweet. As a general rule, I hate mustard. I won't allow it to touch my sandwiches (I don't eat ketchup or
- [Rustic Pear Tartlet](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/03/25/rustic-pear-tartlettes/) - Two words: Puff Pastry. I actually saw a deal earlier today on Twitter where you could get a free copy of Rachael Ray's Big Orange Book if you sent in a UPC of one of her sponsoring products. One of those products was Pepperidge Farms Puff Pastry. Of course, I immediately thought of tarts for
- [Homemade Apple Pizza](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/03/28/homemade-apple-pizza/) - Since my plan for freezing my last big batch of pizza dough did not go QUITE as expected (despite being oiled, all the balls froze together in the bag), I wound up having to defrost more than I had intended, so I've been developing new ways to use it. I tried out a Mexican themed
- [Pan-Seared Chicken with Shallots and Mushrooms](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/03/30/pan-seared-chicken-with-shallots-and-mushrooms/) - I have no idea what induced me to get fancy with dinner tonight. Maybe because I'm on my own for supper tonight, and I could experiment. A few months ago, I had this great chicken with a pan gravy from a local restaurant, and I've had an itch to duplicate it. This wasn't it, but
- [Whole Grain Banana Yogurt Oatmeal Muffins](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/05/whole-grain-banana-yogurt-oatmeal-muffins/) - I've been on a quest to make the perfect healthy muffin for my husband. Thus far I've been able to sneak in whole grains and oatmeal along with his favorite banana bread. Now I'm trying yogurt. DH is not a huge yogurt fan, but we've recently read that getting sufficient probiotics helps trim the waistline,
- [Low Fat Peanut Butter Cheesecake Brownie Babies](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/06/low-fat-peanut-butter-cheesecake-brownie-babies/) - I got this quarter's issue of Kraft Food & Family in on Friday and immediately decided to make these fantastic looking sweet treats. Of course, being me, I had to lighten things up a bit. A few cook's notes: 1) Use the foil muffin cups. They stand up better on their own. If you HAVE
- [Mango Tartlets](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/09/mango-tartlets/) - Continuing the theme of nummy desserts made with puff pastry and the general decimation of our fruit bowl, now we're trying mango tartlets. These didn't turn out quite as pretty as I'd hoped becuase I rolled the puff pastry out too far and didn't have enough filling (only one mango in the bowl), but they
- [Sour Cream and Dill Potato Salad](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/12/sour-cream-and-dill-potato-salad/) - I have a long-standing, deep, and abiding hatred of mayonaise. I see the jar of white glop and all I can think of is cellulite. Like, that's what it looks like to me--not that I'm thinking about adding to mine. So you can understand if I'm not keen on traditional potato salad. Since my mother
- [Loaded Potato Croquettes](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/13/loaded-potato-croquettes/) - So there was potato salad left over after our Easter gathering. My different take on the usual did not go over well with my picky, plebian family. Although my husband, who typically hates real potato salad, ate all of his. Thank you hubby. Anyway, since it was full of potatoes, sour cream, scallons, and bacon
- [Thoughtless Thursdays: Pintos and Ham](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/16/thoughtless-thursdays-pintos-and-ham/) - Welcome to the first ever recipe round up for Thoughtless Thursdays! Thanks for stopping by. Here you're going to find a collection of mouth-watering recipes for your crock pot that are intended to make your life easier and take the hard work out of the question "What's for dinner?" My own contribution this week is
- [Spinach and Red Pepper Quiche](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/19/spinach-and-red-pepper-quiche/) - I've got a friend going through a tough time right now, so I'm in major freezer filling mode this weekend. As her family is vegetarian, it's giving me a chance to experiment a bit with some of my more classic recipes. One thing that is an old standby for freezer fare in our house is
- [Vegetable Lasagna](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/22/vegetable-lasagna/) - Continuing my cook-a-thon for my friend, I also made a vegetable lasagna. I'd really like to try this same recipe of filling with manicotti. Will add it to the list of things to try... Oh, and hey, it's noodles, so I guess this is my submission for this week's Presto Pasta Round Up, hosted by
- [Gorp for the Peanut Wary](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/24/gorp-for-the-peanut-wary/) - Peanuts and pistachios are getting a bad name in the news just now, so with an upcoming road trip, I decided to go for a new kind of trail mix to stave off the highway munchies. Ingredients 1 box wheat Chex (the smallest size) 1 can cashews (not a nut, actually a seed) 1 box
- [Asian Lasagna Rolls](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/04/25/asian-lasagna-rolls/) - Leftovers are the mother of strange inventions. I made Chinese dumplings earlier this week and somehow, despite making 60 wrappers, I still had filling left over. It had been hanging out in the fridge for a day or so, waiting for--something. Well I also made vegetable lasagna for a friend and wound up with 5
- [Breakfast Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/03/breakfast-casserole/) - It's Sunday morning, which means lazy day and time. It seemed like the perfect time to try making a breakfast casserole. I wish I'd thought of this earlier in the morning, as by the time it was fully cooked, we were STARVING and actually ready for lunch. Ingredients: 1 pound turkey breakfast sausage 4 slices
- [Honey Chipolte Chicken Pizzas](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/05/honey-chipolte-chicken-pizzas/) - I was going to use this chicken to make a nice healthy salad, but when I checked out our romaine lettuce it was scary and black on the bottom (clearly I haven't fixed salad in a while). So it was back to the drawing board. I was grilling the chicken anyway, so I thought I
- [Trick Your Picky Eater: Zucchini Brownies](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/08/trick-your-picky-eater-zucchini-brownies/) - I am a self-professed chocoholic. One of my all time favorite diet foods is brownies made with applesauce. I don't have anything fancy, just take the box mix from the store and replace the oil with applesauce, the eggs with egg beaters, and it works out to 3 grams of fat and 145 calories per
- [Whole Grain Cran-Banana Muffins](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/10/whole-grain-cran-banana-muffins/) - Well I didn't have enough bananas for my usual muffins this week, so this turned out as a "what do we have in the pantry" sort of muffin. Ingredients: 3 medium, overripe bananas 1/2 cup oil 1/2 cup plain or vanilla yogurt 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 cup sugar 1
- [Sweet Potato Fries](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/11/sweet-potato-fries/) - I have a passion for french fries. Love them. Adore them. They are a real weakness for me. While I have managed to break myself of the Sonic french fry habit that added at least 5 pounds to my hips about 5 years ago, DH and I still have oven fries on a regular basis,
- [Chicken Rotel: Updated](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/11/chicken-rotel/) - Okay, we can safely add this to the list of foods that I have no restraint when eating. I immediately inhaled two bowls of this stuff as soon as I made it. Something about this combination of flavors just really works for me, and it's so EASY. Sadly, due to said inhalation, there is no
- [Roast Chicken With Crispy Drippings Croutons Revisited](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/19/roast-chicken-with-crispy-drippings-croutons-revisited/) - Several months ago I found this recipe for roast chicken with crispy drippings croutons, originally posted in The New York Times. During that original attempt, I didn't follow the directions to the letter and while the chicken turned out fabulously, the croutons were burned to a crisp. It was a depressing sight--that blackened bread. But
- [Low-Fat Spaghetti Carbonara](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/20/low-fat-spaghetti-carbonara/) - I have recently become addicted to Lifetime's Cook Yourself Thin. These women eat so horribly before the show that they all wind up losing a dress size in 6 weeks. My own eating habits aren't that bad, but I am always interested in checking out lower fat, lower cal versions of faves. One of my
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Crock Pot Chicken Stock](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/21/thoughtless-thursday-crock-pot-chicken-stock/) - This week for Thoughtless Thursday we're going back to basics: Homemade Chicken Stock. This is one of the world's easiest things to do and it will make a huge difference in the flavor of any recipe you've got that calls for chicken stock or broth. I made a post on this before in the context
- [Make Ahead And Freeze Mexican Wraps](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/22/make-ahead-and-freeze-mexican-wraps/) - Hubby's been experiencing some lunch ennui, so in an effort come up with some alternatives to his usual ham and swiss, I found this recipe for wraps that I could make in bulk and freeze. Being me, I had to make a few changes because, OF COURSE, I don't have everything for her version. Ingredients:
- [Build A Better Wrap: Black Bean Wraps](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/23/build-a-better-wrap-black-bean-wraps/) - So I made a ginormous batch of make ahead and freeze Mexican style wraps. Forgot to put in the salt (though I wrote the recipe correctly), and hubby declared them uber bland and that he didn't want to eat them. We still have 12 in the freezer. I know what I'll be eating for lunch
- [Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/24/peanut-butter-oatmeal-cookies/) - I've been on a serious cookie kick lately. This is not like me and is certainly not conducive to dropping the weight I'd like to drop. But the Kitchenaid has been calling my name. It's been in the name of making people feel better. A birthday present. Some sick food (because, let's face it, cookies
- [Vegetable Risotto](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/25/vegetable-risotto/) - So as I have said before, I've gotten into Cook Yourself Thin on Lifetime. Early in the season they made a Risotto with Spring Vegetables that looks wonderful, so I decided I'd make some myself with a few changes to make it more something I wanted to eat. Hmm, I'm starting to see a theme
- [Thoughtless Thursdays: Man Approved Chicken Burritos](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/28/thoughtless-thursdays-man-approved-chicken-burritos/) - I haven't given Thursday a thought at all until now. It's been a crazy awful day at work, and I've been off one day all week because of the holiday. Anyway, please forgive the delay in posting. This week I am sharing a fantastically easy recipe that one of my Twitter buddies shared with me
- [Baked Squash/Zucchini Fries](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/05/31/baked-squashzucchini-fries/) - This is one of my very favorite ways to prepare zucchini. See, fried zucchini is one of my all time favorite foods. But of course, it's not very good FOR you. I found this recipe...well I don't know where actually. I've been making them for years. Oven-fried zucchini. They're light and filling and I often
- [Guacamole](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/01/guacamole/) - I had a few perfectly fresh avocados, a bunch of fresh jalapenos, onions and garlic and LIMES. Of course that means guacamole! Guac is my favorite universal topping for...well...everything from sandwiches to chips to chicken to wraps. It's wonderful stuff. And full of all those healthy omega 3 fatty acids. If you can restrain yourself
- [Cilantro-Lime Chicken Cutlets](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/02/cilantro-lime-chicken-cutlets/) - Continuing with my Latin flavors theme, I decided that lime and cilantro would be a fantastic summer combo. And I was RIGHT. This chicken is really wonderful in its simplicity. Top with a dollop of fresh guacamole and serve with a side of Mexican rice and mmmmmm. Ingredients: juice of 4 key limes (or 2
- [Mexican Rice](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/03/mexican-rice/) - And to round out the Latin theme, homemade Mexican style rice. I served this with the Lime-Cilantro Chicken. If you like a sweeter rice, add more tomato paste. This is really tasty and very filling. I'd love to try it in a wrap as well. Ingredients: 2 cups cooked brown rice (you can certainly use
- [Turkey Meatballs with Quick Tomato Cream Sauce](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/09/turkey-meatballs-with-quick-tomato-cream-sauce/) - For this week's offering to Presto Pasta Roundups (hosted by Katie of Thyme For Cooking), I decided on turkey meatballs. You know how they say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? Well Kelly, you should be flattered because DAMN these were awesome. I made a couple of minor changes based on what I
- [Low Fat Key Lime Icebox Pie](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/10/low-fat-key-lime-icebox-pie/) - Let it be stated that I do not make claims that this is in any way an authentic Key Lime pie (apart from the fact that it contains Key Lime juice). I have been seriously craving pie for a few weeks now (I blame it on True Blood--someone is eating pie every other episode), and
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Atypical Coq Au Vin](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/11/thoughtless-thursday-atypical-coq-au-vin/) - I actually had every intention of making traditional coq au vin this week. Saw it on one of the DVRed episodes of...some cooking show or other (I watch many), and I thought it would be perfect to adapt for the slow cooker. Naturally, I decided this AFTER the weekly grocery run. I am, in fact,
- [Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/13/roasted-garlic-mashed-potatoes/) - If you have never roasted garlic before, you've been missing out. The clearest directions I have found for it are here and you simply cannot go wrong with anything Elise cooks. Read that? Okay good, keep going. Now roasted garlic is awesome and can be used for many things, not the least of which is
- [Chess Squares](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/22/chess-squares/) - In honor of Father's Day, I mixed up a batch of these for my father in law (who still calls them lemon squares every time even though there's not a drop of lemon in them). These are his absolute favorites, and, in fact, we all love them. The blasted things are crack. If I wasn't
- [Baked Fish Sticks](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/23/baked-fish-sticks/) - When I started out with this recipe, I had every intention of making the Baked Fish Tacos from Evil Shenanigans. But when I got started I realized I didn't actually have half the ingredients, so I wound up just making homemade fish sticks. The results were certainly better than when I have tried breading and
- [Turkey, Swiss, and Roasted Red Pepper Sandwich](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/24/turkey-swiss-and-roasted-red-pepper-sandwich/) - This is a favorite quick fix hot sandwich of mine. It's simple with several layers of flavor. Plus I love the splash of color the pepper gives. Ingredients: 1 whole grain roll 3-4 oz. deli smoked turkey 1 slice Swiss cheese roasted red peppers oregano Directions: Layer the meat, pepper, cheese, and oregano on the
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Beef and Black Bean Burritos](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/25/thoughtless-thursday-beef-and-black-bean-burritos/) - After the prior success of the Man Approved Chicken Burritos, I knew I had to try it with beef. So for this week's Thoughtless Thursday post I went with that. After last week's debacle with the black beans and rice, it was nice to have a success. I loved the addition of the black beans
- [Presto Pasta Nights #119: Roasted Veggie Pasta Salad](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/26/presto-pasta-nights-119-roasted-veggie-pasta-salad/) - I am so excited to be hosting Presto Pasta Nights this week! Thanks for allowing me to host Ruth. :) I decided on a stuffed shells recipe as my own contribution this week. I made them. They were wonderful. And we promptly ate them all before I remembered I needed to take a picture. :headdesk:
- [Grilled Potato Salad](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/06/30/grilled-potato-salad/) - I hate traditional potato salad. All that globby mayo. Ugh. Horribly fatty and bad for you. For some reason, for most family functions, I am often assigned the potato salad. I have no idea why. I always make some non-traditional version that no one but my mother in law will eat (because she is awesome
- [Vegetable Quesedillas](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/01/vegetable-quesedillas/) - Hubby is mowing the lawn tonight, which means he won't want dinner for a couple of hours after he cools off. That automatically means I am eating on my own tonight, and that I can fix something he won't eat. One of my favorite things to eat out is vegetarian quesedillas at our local Mexican
- [BBQ Sauce Take 1: Everything But The Kitchen Sink](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/06/bbq-sauce-take-1-everything-but-the-kitchen-sink/) - I have always wanted to try making my own barbeque sauce. I've seen it done on TV, had friends make it. I've just never done it. The final straw was when Bullseye stopped making their Honey Smoke sauce, which was my favorite store bought sauce. That actually happened quite a while ago, and I really
- [Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/07/homemade-vanilla-ice-cream/) - Nothing says summer or 4th of July like homemade ice cream. It's a family tradition, a once a year treat. My recipe always seems to vary somewhat because I can never find my mom's original no egg recipe, so it's usually an experiment. This version made a light and airy ice cream that wasn't at
- [Baked Taco Shells](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/10/baked-taco-shells/) - I don't know where I came across the idea for baked taco shells, but on some website SOMEWHERE, I read that you could just bake corn tortillas straight on the rack at 325 for 10 minutes and boom. So I decided, I definitely had to try it. It was...um, a process. I started with a
- [Eggplant and Zucchini Noodleless Lasagna](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/11/eggplant-and-zucchini-noodleless-lasagna/) - I picked up some eggplant at our local tomato farm the other day. My absolute favorite way to eat eggplant is fried. My hubby's grandma makes amazing fried eggplant. But yeah, not part of the diet way. So I asked my Twitter pals for suggestions and someone suggested slicing the eggplant thin and using it
- [Whole Grain Blueberry Muffins](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/15/whole-grain-blueberry-muffins/) - When we first bought our house (our first house ever, thanks very much), our initial introduction to our neighbors (soon to be great friends) was when they showed up on our doorstep one morning while we were renovating (which we did for 2 months before moving in) with a giant batch of the most amazing
- [Thoughtless Thursdays: Soy Ginger Chicken](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/16/thoughtless-thursdays-soy-ginger-chicken/) - I've been on a chinese kick this week. Had it out for lunch on Monday, made vegetable fried rice for supper last night (which I then had for lunch today), and now made a soy ginger chicken for supper tonight. Maybe tomorrow will be Mexican. In any event, I'd been wanting to try some kind
- [Focaccia Bread Pizza](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/20/focaccia-bread-pizza/) - On my weekly grocery run this week I found day old focaccia on clearance. I adore focaccia and it makes delightful pizza out of leftovers. We had an assortment of veggies and some leftover roasted chicken, so dinner was a no brainer tonight. Ingredients: 1 loaf of focaccia pizza sauce toppings of choice (we used
- [Cream Cheese Sausage Dip](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/21/cream-cheese-sausage-dip/) - I'm sure there's a more eloquent name for this dip somewhere, but I don't know what it is. This was a recipe my hubby picked up from a coworker, I think. Either way it's a nice change from the traditional rotel dip and keeps well in a small crock pot if you have one. It
- [Thoughtless Thursdays: Tuscan Bean Salad](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/23/thoughtless-thursdays-tuscan-bean-salad/) - I have no idea why I was in the mood for a bean salad. It's not something that usually crosses my mind as something to eat. But it's summer, we're doing another cookout this weekend, and I wanted something besides the grilled potato salad that has become the fave. We've had it 2 weeks running
- [Crustless Quiche](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/27/crustless-quiche/) - Given that the crust is my favorite part of a quiche, the idea of having a crustless one just seems like blasphemy. But as Phase 1 decrees no crust allowed and that I'm supposed to have vegetables with breakfast (which I'm not particularly keen on unless I'm having omelets), I figured I'd put one together.
- [Garlic Ginger Pork Skewers](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/28/garlic-ginger-pork-skewers/) - Originally I was going to make these into a stir fry, but the grocery was out of bok choy that didn't look like it'd been beaten to death and, frankly, the thought of stir fry without having rice to serve it over was just too depressing to contemplate. So I decided to skewer these and
- [Desperate Deviled Eggs](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/29/desperate-deviled-eggs/) - They're desperate because I am. I finally figured out that these fit within the parameters of South Beach and they're something that I like, on their own, without some carby side to go with it. After some serious hunting in my cabinets, I finally located my egg dish on the top shelf, at the back,
- [Thoughtless Thursdays: Pintos and Sausage](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/30/thoughtless-thursdays-pintos-and-sausage/) - I feel like I've been scraping the bottom of the barrel to come up with interesting meals that fit within Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet. It's Day 4 now, so at least the I-Want-Carbs shakes have stopped. Last night I threw together this recipe according to the directions of my friend Cyndi, who
- [Penne with Italian Turkey Sausage and Summer Veggies](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/07/31/penne-with-italian-turkey-sausage-and-summer-veggies/) - Happiness, thy name is pasta. High, fiber, whole grain pasta (not a whole lot actually) couched in a lovely, light, veggie laden sauce with just enough sausage to add a nice layer of flavor without adding a lot of fat. It's a fantastic return to the world of HEALTHY carbs. And it's a great example
- [Quick and Dirty Sort of Risotto with Summer Veggies](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/08/03/quick-and-dirty-sort-of-risotto-with-summer-veggies/) - I will say right off the bat that this is not a traditional risotto. When I got down to it, I was originally planning to make a pilaf. But frankly I couldn't remember what makes a pilaf and I didn't feel like looking it up. I was going for a rice and veggie side dish
- [Beef and Mushroom Kebabs](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/08/05/beef-and-mushroom-kebabs/) - We got in late last night, so I needed something fast and easy for dinner, preferably something that didn't heat up the kitchen. Kebabs fit the bill. This is a favorite of my husband's, particularly when I don't load it up with other stuff like onions, peppers, and zucchini (which is how I prefer my
- [Thoughtless Thursdays: Black Beans And Rice](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/08/06/thoughtless-thursdays-black-beans-and-rice/) - Black beans and rice is one of our favorite hearty dishes. It's a standard when there's leftover rice and I"m not in the mood to do all the chopping for fried rice. It's a pretty forgiving dish, so it seemed like a good one to try to adapt for the crock pot. My first attempt
- [Pasta A La Yum](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/08/09/pasta-a-la-yum/) - Yeah I know, silly name, but really there are only so many things you can call pasta dishes that have so many ingredients. And since I'm coming back to my calorie counting and lifting the ban on assorted stuff (like GOAT CHEESE! YAY!), I am doing a little happy dance. A sandwich for lunch AND
- [Thoughtless Thursday: I'm Feeling Pitiful Beef Vegetable Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/08/13/thoughtless-thursday-im-feeling-pitiful-beef-vegetable-soup/) - I'm feeling kind of lousy today. Since no diet on earth allows my mama's chicken and dumplins (my preferred comfort food), I had to come up with some other form of soup for comfort food. Yeah it's August, but sick or feeling lousy still calls for soup. So here's my entry for Kahkai Kitchen's Souper
- [Horseradish Marmalade Pork Steaks: A Review of Emeril's Horseradish Mustard](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/08/18/horseradish-marmalade-pork-steaks-a-review-of-emerils-horseradish-mustard/) - So the very last thing in my latest Tastemaker's box was Emeril's Horseradish Mustard. It took me a while to come up with something to do with it because neither hubby nor I are big fans of horseradish. Ultimately I decided that I'd do with it what I often do with dijon mustard--mix it up
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Fiery Roasted Tomato-Red Pepper Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/08/20/thoughtless-thursday-fiery-roasted-tomato-red-pepper-soup/) - I'm in the midst of computer crisis, so I am amazed I remembered that I hadn't scheduled this post. This soup about matches my temper regarding the morally-repugnant sociopath who's out there sending viruses to responsible, computer savvy people who keep their antivirus and such updated. Grrr. Okay on to the soup. This is a
- [Mexican Stuffed Mushrooms](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/08/21/mexican-stuffed-mushrooms/) - I'm headed to a little work/party tonight and thought I'd throw together some stuffed mushrooms. As the hosts are providing dinner (something Mexican), I thought I'd add a little zing to these with some Mexican flavors. If my cilantro crop hadn't tanked early in the summer, it would have been even better. Ingredients: 12-15 decent
- [Smoked Catfish and Creamy Dill Sauce](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/08/24/smoked-catfish-and-creamy-dill-sauce/) - For this weekend's round robin cookout, hubby decided to do some smoked catfish as some different and lighter fare than the brisket and pork butts we've been enjoying. We were all a little bit skeptical, but hubby found this recipe on the Food Network, and we set to work. As the catfish you buy in
- [Tomato Corn Salad](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/08/25/tomato-corn-salad/) - I found this recipe in one of my Taste of Home email newsletters. It was a contest winner from some contest they had, and as soon as I saw it I knew I had to make it. The only concession I made to my onion-phobic hubby was to leave the red onion out and bump
- [Tomato Basil Tart](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/08/26/tomato-basil-tart/) - Yes, I know, tarts seem to be the only thing I ever make with puff pastry. Sue me. But this time I put a savory twist on things using some fresh tomatoes and basil from my garden to make this fabulous appetizer. I really wanted to do this with goat cheese, but they were out
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Chipotle Chicken Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/08/27/thoughtless-thursday-chipotle-chicken-soup/) - I have had a hankering to do something with chopotle chilis in adobo sauce. Don't ask me why. I've never used them before. But there is this soup that a local restaurant had a couple of summers ago, Baja Chicken Enchilada, that was fabulous and awesome and they dropped it before I could duplicate it.
- [Sausage, Mushroom, and Rice Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/09/02/sausage-mushroom-and-rice-casserole/) - I adore Honeysuckle White's roasted tomato and garlic turkey sausages. It's got a great flavor that can be adapted to many dishes. I had some mushrooms that were on the verge of turning, so it was absolutely time to do something with them, and I thought a sausage and mushroom casserole with brown rice would
- [Chicken Cutlets Stuffed With Spinach, Mushrooms, and Feta](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/09/08/chicken-cutlets-stuffed-with-spinach-mushrooms-and-feta/) - Before we get to our regularly scheduled recipe, I'd like to provide a Public Service Announcement. Always download all of your digital pictures often so that, in the event something goes totally screwball and gets corrupted, your loss will be minimal. I've just lost the last year and a half's worth of pictures (other than
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Apple Dijon Pork Roast](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/09/10/thoughtless-thursday-apple-dijon-pork-roast/) - Given that I think fruit and mustard go so well with pork, I really wanted to try a mixture with apples (I had 4 that I needed to do something with). I waffled a bit on whether to use chipotle peppers (as I had the other half of that can I used for the chipotle
- [Apple Dijon Pork Stir Fry](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/09/11/apple-dijon-pork-stir-fry/) - Leftovers. Gotta love them. And I gotta love trying to reinvent them. Yesterday's Apple Dijon Pork had such a lovely subtle sweet flavor, I decided it would make a great base for a teriyaki stir fry. Coupled with some nice frozen stir fry veggies it was dinner in less than 10 minutes. Tasty and low
- [Penne With Roasted Garlic and Mozzarella Sausage](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/09/16/penne-with-roasted-garlic-and-mozzarella-sausage/) - We are absolutely in love with the gourmet chicken sausages from Sam's Club. Over the weekend we picked up a package of Chicken and Apple and a package of Roasted Garlic and Mozzarella. Both are awesome. We look forward to trying the other two varieties. So far we've had them straight up, in calzones, and
- [Thoughtless Thursday: White Bean Turkey Chili](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/09/17/thoughtless-thursday-white-bean-turkey-chili/) - When I called for inspiration last week on what I could do with leftover tomato paste, my Twitter pal Mamastephf was kind enough to send her recipe for White Bean-Turkey Chili. It sounded divine and pretty light, so of course I had to make it. I did make a few changes based on what I
- [French Onion Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/09/18/french-onion-soup/) - I have no idea why I've been craving French onion soup lately. Usually I think of it as a winter food and right now it's so humid out, it 's like walking around draped in a wet blanket. But I made up a batch anyway, taking advantage of my husband's absence for the evening, since
- [Mexican Lasagna](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/09/19/mexican-lasagna/) - Earlier this week, I made up a double batch of taco filling (had 2 pounds of ground beef that was frozen together so I had to do something with it). We had, predictably, tacos with homemade shells that night. We could have done the same last night, but sometimes you don't want leftovers. So I
- [Homemade Chicken Strips](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/09/22/homemade-chicken-strips/) - One of our favorite things to eat out is chicken strips. I know, we're not kids anymore, but who cares. Chicken strips (when done properly) are truly tasty things. Since we've been dieting, of course, we haven't had them. Since we had buttermilk left over from the catfish, I decided it would be a great
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Mac and Cheese](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/09/24/thoughtless-thursday-mac-and-cheese/) - From everything I've read about doing mac and cheese in a crock pot, it's one of those "attempt at your own risk" kind of dishes. There seems to be a controversy between it turning out beautifully or getting all curdled and mushy. I will not be here this afternoon while this cooks, so I'm doing
- [Roasted Vegetables](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/09/30/roasted-vegetables/) - After returning home from Oktoberfest and lots of overeating and not healthy food, I'm ready to reset my body with healthy food. I just can't take the greasy, fast food and gas station snacks that are part and parcel of road trips. One of my favorite go to veggie sides is straight up roasted vegetables.
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Baja Chicken Enchilada Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/10/01/thoughtless-thursday-baja-chicken-enchilada-soup/) - Three years ago one of our local restaurants had a soup they called baja chicken enchilada. I got to have it maybe 3 times before it was permanently removed from the menu due to lack of interest. I just have to say how much that totally SUCKED because this soup was awesome. So I have
- [Oven "Fried" Pork Chops](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/10/06/oven-fried-pork-chops/) - My husband was less than enthused when I said we were having pork chops for dinner. So not the reaction I wanted. But he has a point. We've had grilled pork chops out the wazoo. So for something different, I decided to do some homemade Shake and Bake style pork chops. It's a classic for
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Baby Back Ribs](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/10/08/thoughtless-thursday-baby-back-ribs/) - I got home from work today to find my husband practically salivating over the contents of the crock pot. "I don't know what you did to these ribs, but oh my God, I've been drooling for the last hour." He looked at me expectantly, waiting for the big reveal. I am sorry to tell all
- [Potato Leek Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/10/10/potato-leek-soup/) - I saw leeks on sale last week as we had that lovely snap of cool weather and I knew I had to buy some and make soup. I had thought to make cock-a-leekie soup (one of my favorites from when I lived across the pond in Edinburgh), but I've had too much going on to
- [Penne with Sausage for the Really Hungry](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/10/11/penne-with-sausage-for-the-really-hungry/) - I was on my own for the night, so of course I indulged in pasta (it is my favorite go to meal when I"m not feeding hubby). This recipe is for one really hungry person or two not so hungry people. It was thrown together with some staples from our pantry and fridge and it
- [Lemon Poppyseed Buttermilk Scones](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/10/13/lemon-poppyseed-buttermilk-scones/) - I've been craving scones for over a week, but I had to wait until I hit the grocery store to buy butter. We've talked about how I can't actually keep it in the house due to my status as a recovering Cookie Dough Addict. And then I meant to make them yesterday, but I was
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Beef Stroganoff](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/10/15/thoughtless-thursday-beef-stroganoff/) - I promised I'd be back this week with something awesome and if the fact that my husband and I just both had seconds and polished off a meal intended for four is anything to judge by, this recipe delivers. We absolutely destroyed this dish. It's full of classic comfort and totally blows the Hamburger Helper
- [Lapsang Souchong Chili](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/10/16/lapsang-souchong-chili/) - Some chilis are very straight forward with beef or turkey, beans, chili powder, cumin, sometimes tomatoes, sometimes not. Some chilis have ingredients that make you go hmmm. Coffee. Cocoa powder. Beer. Well this chili has tea. What am I nuts? Bear with me. This is not made with your grocery store variety Liptons (I mean
- [Strawberry Jam Scones](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/10/18/strawberry-jam-scones/) - Since the lemon poppyseed buttermilk scones disappeared post haste, I decided to make some more scones. This time I went with a classic jam filled scone. They're not cool enough to eat yet, but I'm absolutely DROOLING over how good they smell. This is another recipe from the Good Housekeeping Baking cookbook. Ingredients: 2 cups
- [Garlic Chicken Soup...Your Cold's Worst Nightmare](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/10/28/garlic-chicken-soup-your-colds-worst-nightmare/) - I've been sick. I tried making up a batch of split pea soup for hubby (his favorite sick food) but managed to forget about it in the crock pot and overcook it. So today I was determined to make GOOD food. When I woke up at 10 I put on a chicken to roast because
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Lasagna Now and Later](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/10/29/thoughtless-thursday-lasagna-now-and-later/) - Okay so my last several attempts for a Thoughtless Thursday post have just not turned out. I seem to be without a brain lately. Well this is my third day home sick, so I'm determined to monitor things to make sure everything is either COOKED or not burned. Since hubby finally had lasagna and liked
- [Sesame Noodles](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/11/03/sesame-noodles/) - A couple of months ago--maybe longer now--The Pioneer Woman posted a recipe for sesame noodles over at her blog. The moment I laid eyes on the recipe I knew I absolutely HAD to try it. So I bookmarked it and it sat for a while. Then one night last week when I was on my
- [Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/11/10/poppy-seed-chicken-casserole/) - I'm really not sure how I have lived in the south my entire life and never had poppy seed chicken casserole before this year. It is, I am told, a staple at pot lucks. In any event, I was first exposed to this dish when at a bridesmaids' luncheon in February of this year, where
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Cheeseburger Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/11/19/thoughtless-thursday-cheeseburger-soup/) - We went camping over the weekend. We were supposed to have campfire burgers Friday night but wound up getting off so late that we just picked up fast food on the way down to Desoto State Park, which meant that when we got home, we had that pound of ground beef thawed and waiting for...something.
- [Presto Pasta Nights #140: Spinach and Asiago Sausage Penne](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/11/20/presto-pasta-nights-140-spinach-and-asiago-sausage-penne/) - Hola folks! I'm thrilled to be hosting Presto Pasta Nights for the second time here at Pots and Plots. We've got an amazing batch of recipes this week. To kick things off, I offer up my spinach and asiago sausage penne. As I have rhapsodized in the past about the gourmet chicken sausages from Sam's
- [Corn Dog Muffins](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/11/21/corn-dog-muffins/) - This is a recipe I picked up from my mother in law. It's one of my husband's favorites and is everything good about corndogs without the irritation of a stick and with the addition of being able to control the fat and calories. Baked not fried and all that. Very kid friendly. Sometimes we'll make
- [Whole Grain Sweet Potato Muffins](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/11/23/whole-grain-sweet-potato-muffins/) - Hubby is out of muffins. The usual is the whole grain banana muffins, but we're out of bananas, and I didn't remember to buy any on my last trip to the grocery. This close to Thanksgiving, no way in hell am I braving the crowds if I don't have to. So, given that necessity is
- [Grandma's Cornbread Dressin' Revisited](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/11/25/grandmas-cornbread-dressin-revisited/) - As I do not have room in the fridge to do a pre-run test on roasting the perfect turkey in time for YOUR Thanksgiving (hope to have one for Christmas), I thought I would repost what I consider to be the OTHER most important dish at Thanksgiving--my grandmother's cornbread dressin'. Note, there is no "g".
- [Cashew Chicken](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/12/01/cashew-chicken/) - We wanted to try something totally different in the wake of Thanksgiving and cashew chicken was just the ticket. This recipe is adapted from this one over at Simply Recipes. I wanted to try to lighten things up a bit so that the dish would actually fit into my daily calorie allotment. I upped the
- [Mozzarella and Roasted Garlic Sausage Spaghetti](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/12/02/mozzarella-and-roasted-garlic-sausage-spaghetti/) - We're back to the Sam's gourmet chicken sausages tonight. I was in the mood for spaghetti since it's cold, but I didn't want to actually thaw out any beef, so sausage it was. The results were quite tasty, though I think I'd prefer a different pasta than spaghetti because I had a hard time getting
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Beef Barley Porcini Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/12/03/thoughtless-thursday-beef-barley-porcini-soup/) - A cold front is passing through and that's got me craving soup. Because we are in an anti poultry mood post Thanksgiving, I opted for a beef based soup. Ordinarily I would use beef stock for this soup, but as I was out and I really hate cooking with just plain water (as it tends
- [Herb and Cheddar Beer Bread Muffins](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/12/04/herb-and-cheddar-beer-bread-muffins/) - I decided I had to have fresh bread with the Beef, Barley, and Porcini Soup. As there was a lone beer hanging out in the back of the fridge that my man overlooked, I decided to confiscate it in the name of bread. Beer bread is one of my favorite things because it's fast, easy,
- [Cheddar, Chicken & Rice Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/12/16/cheddar-chicken-rice-casserole/) - I've been gone for ages! I've been out of town for a week and playing catch up since I got back. But for my inaugural post back, I decided to do my own take on a a Stauffer's casserole I had recently. It had a decent flavor, but not enough chicken and vegetables. So in
- [Saucy Italian Orzo](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/01/01/saucy-italian-orzo-2/) - Part of my New Year's Resolutions this year is to actually start actively cooking from the myriad of cooking magazines and cookbooks I own. This will necessitate some advance menu planning to make sure I have the necessary ingredients (which is the primary reason I don't tend to cook things despite the oodles of sticky
- [Sort of Cajun Paella](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/01/06/sort-of-cajun-paella/) - I've been thinking about paella for a while. It's something I've wanted to try for a long time, but I never have saffron. A while back someone made some with Rice A Roni, but I don't remember where. And in the latest issue of Simple and Delicious there was a version using ready made rice
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Tuscan Potato Soup II (Lightened)](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/01/07/thoughtless-thursday-tuscan-potato-soup-ii-lightened/) - Several months ago, I threw together an Italian themed potato soup that was fabulous. And at 406 calories and 16 grams of fat per serving, it wasn't bad at all on the nutrition scale. But I decided to try my hand at lightening it up a bit more, bulking up the veggie quotient and changing
- [Hearty, Healthy Weekend Hash](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/01/10/hearty-healthy-weekend-hash/) - My weekday breakfasts are pretty staid and dull. Slice of whole grain toast, 1 egg + 1/4 cup of egg whites, scrambled, and hot tea. It's fast, relatively filling, and under 200 calories. When you're on a limited calorie budget of 1,300 calories, that's important. But weekends I sleep in (praise God) and that means
- [Creamy Potato Leek Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/01/11/creamy-potato-leek-soup/) - I know, I know. I've been on a major soup kick. But it's really flipping cold here in Mississippi (I'm not sure it's topped 30 this week as a high and lows have been in the teens), and cold makes me want soup. In an effort to make a meatless meal my husband would actually
- [Baked Pita Chips](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/01/12/baked-pita-chips/) - One of my other sort of resolutions for 2010 is to stop wasting so much food. I have a terrible habit of buying stuff with every intention of using it, then I'll forget about it or wind up eating out or whatever, and then it goes to waste. So this week's effort toward using up
- [Cheeseburger Rollups](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/01/13/cheeseburger-rollups/) - Adapted from the Jan/Feb. issue of Simple and Delicious, these cheeseburger rollups are lightened up from the inspiration recipe (which include bacon). They're a kid and man friendly recipe. The method could undoubtedly be used with all sorts of fillings. It reminded me of a Hot Pocket (but way better). This makes 8 rollups at
- [Thoughtless Thursdays: Smoky Chicken Chili](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/01/14/thoughtless-thursdays-smoky-chicken-chili/) - This one's been on my To Try list for several months now. Someone tweeted it ages back, and I bookmarked it on Delicious. I made a few adaptations to the recipe based on what I had on hand and changed it over to a crock pot recipe (which cut out a bit of the fat
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Roasted Butternut Squash Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/01/21/thoughtless-thursday-roasted-butternut-squash-soup/) - I've been on the search for a new veggie soup that's not my usual tomato or roasted red pepper. Butternut squash seemed to be the ticket. I keep trying to find a way to eat it that I like (as my butternut squash oven fries didn't turn out the way I liked), and I think
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Adobo Beef Burritos](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/01/28/thoughtless-thursday-adobo-beef-burritos/) - On my recent trip to Kansas City, my pal Christine introduced me to Penzey's Spices. It was love at first sniff. An entire store devoted to spices. Ugh. Heaven. One of my acquisitions on this trip was Adobo Spice. Now this is not related to the spicy sauce in which chipotle peppers come in a
- [Spinach and Asiago Sausage Quiche](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/01/31/spinach-and-asiago-sausage-quiche/) - This is another one of those posts cheerleading Sam's Club's gourmet chicken sausages. Today we're talking about the Spinach and Asiago sausages, which I liked but hubby didn't (probably because I put extra spinach in whatever I cooked with it before). Since it's just for me, I decided it would make a marvelous quiche. You
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Unconventional Chalupas](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/02/04/thoughtless-thursday-unconventional-chalupas/) - I don't know about you, but when I hear the word "chalupa", I think Taco Bell. I've never actually had a chalupa from Taco Bell, but I have vague memories of commercials that involved some kind of flat bread or shell or something. Anyway, a friend of mine suggested a recipe from The Fix It
- [Garlic and Herb Cheese Spread](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/02/10/garlic-and-herb-cheese-spread/) - I studied abroad in Paris when I was in college, which was a phenomenal experience on so many levels. The food was amazing. One of the daily eats I got hooked on while I lived there was Boursin garlic and herb cheese spread, which I was ecstatic to find out we have in the States.
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Ponzu Chicken Thighs](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/02/11/thoughtless-thursday-ponzu-chicken-thighs/) - The latest product I've had the opportunity to try via the Tastemakers program at Foodbuzz is Kikomann's new Ponzu citrus seasoned dressing & sauce in Lime. It smelled amazing the moment I opened the bottle and I decided to give it a shot by itself as the star of the show on some lovely, juicy
- [Hummus](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/02/13/hummus/) - One of my contributions to last week's Super Bowl party was a giant batch of hummus and pita chips. It was my goal to offer a healthier alternative to the other dishes available. I knew I'd eat the junky stuff, but maybe less of it. Hummus is one of those things I love, but I'd
- [Spicy Corn Chowder Revisited](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/02/14/spicy-corn-chowder-revisited/) - This is an oldie but goodie here at Pots and Plots. It's one of my favorite winter soups and was one of the first recipes I posted--back before I put in pictures, nutritional info and the like. I haven't actually made it in quite a while, so it seemed like just the thing for this
- [Mushroom Scalloped Potatoes](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/02/14/mushroom-scalloped-potatoes/) - Scalloped potatoes are one of those delicious and decadent foods that I never make. It's that whole real cream thing. It's hell on a diet. But for Valentine's Day I decided to be decadent and scalloped potatoes were the order of the day. I started prowling for recipes and stumbled across this one from More
- [Sesame Noodles Revisited](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/02/16/sesame-noodles-revisited/) - I made sesame noodles several months ago and they were awesome. They were also very very bad for my diet. So I vowed to try it again, tweaking the recipe to see how little oil I can get away with. This eliminates 1 tablespoon of sesame oil, 2 tablespoons of canola oil and about 4
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Prosciutto Wrapped Green Beans](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/02/18/thoughtless-thursday-prosciutto-wrapped-green-beans/) - Okay I know, this isn't a crock pot recipe. But it's so easy, requires so few ingredients, and cooks really fast, so it counts as not requiring much thought! This is nothing more than a dressed up version of the southern favorite green bean bundles. They're easy and delicious and just a little bit different.
- [Oven Fries](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/02/23/oven-fries/) - I have no idea how I've managed to food blog for two years and not actually post my recipe for oven fries. We eat them all the time! They're so simple, so tasty, and so much better for you than the deep fried variety. This makes sides for 4. I don't know the exact nutritional
- [Homemade Potato Gnocchi](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/02/24/homemade-potato-gnocchi/) - I have never made my own pasta before. Well, unless you count the dumplings in chicken and dumplings. Or the wrappers for chinese dumplings. I don't. Anyway, gnocchi is one of those things I've eaten and loved in Italian restaurants, but I've never had it at home. A while back I saw someone make gnocchi
- [Mexi-Mac and Cheese](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/03/01/mexi-mac-and-cheese/) - I love mac and cheese. There's little that says comfort food better than a casserole dish of warm, bubbly, cheesy pasta goodness. But my usual version is time consuming and not something I can usually manage as a weeknight dinner when I walk in the door ready to gnaw off my own hand I'm so
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Burgundy Beef Stew](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/03/04/thoughtless-thursday-burgundy-beef-stew/) - I was in the mood for some variation of a beef stew, and this totally fit the bill. It was easy, filling and with four servings at 292 calories and 6.5 grams of fat, very healthy. I served it with herb and cheddar beer bread muffins. I'll definitely be passing it along to Souper Sunday
- [Cream Cheese Mexi-Dip](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/03/15/cream-cheese-mexi-dip/) - I've gotten into veggie trays and veggie dips lately. It's become my go to thing to take to get togethers so that I am assured there is at least ONE healthy thing there. After the last one, the celery and carrots were decimated, but I was left with a big pile of bell pepper strips.
- [Italian Stuffed Shells](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/03/17/italian-stuffed-shells/) - I actually made these once before--or something similar--and they were so awesome, they totally disappeared before I remembered I needed a picture. This is an adaptation of my original recipe, and as you can see, this time I remembered to take a picture. These were amazing and absolutely hit the spot. The arabbita sauce, which
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Chicken and Black Bean Burritos](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/01/thoughtless-thursday-chicken-and-black-bean-burritos/) - I apologize for my lengthy absence. I can't remember if I've mentioned it before, but my husband broke his leg, so things have been a bit chaotic at home. He's doing much better now, so I'm HOPING to get back to a regular posting schedule! In order to make that more of a likelihood, I'm
- [Chicken and Rice in a White Wine Mushroom Sauce](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/02/chicken-and-rice-in-a-white-wine-mushroom-sauce/) - I was feeling a little ill tonight, so I decided to take a page out of the dogs' book and make up some chicken and rice. Except, being me, I can't just make PLAIN chicken and rice. This threw together a lot of staples in my house and made use of the chicken thighs I
- [Shrimp and Andouille Pasta with Four Cheese Rosa](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/03/shrimp-and-andouille-pasta-with-four-cheese-rosa/) - The other half of my Tastemaker's package from Bertolli was a Four Cheese Rosa sauce. I absolutely had to try this with shrimp. But I wanted something with a kick too, so I added in half a pound of andouille sausage and a bunch of veggies. Hubby declared this a keeper. It makes 2 large
- [Hot Pineapple Salad](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/07/hot-pineapple-salad/) - It's a side dish. No, it's a dessert. No, it's... Well I can't really say for sure what it is beyond the fact that it is AWESOME. This is one of those dishes my mom picked up from a church pot luck when I was a kid, and I got it from her. It's a
- [Sesame Noodles with Shrimp and Vegetables](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/08/sesame-noodles-with-shrimp-and-vegetables/) - I promise I will eventually get myself together and be back on some kind of regular posting schedule. No crock pot today. Instead, I had a wicked craving for Chinese when I got home tonight. As I'm trying to be somewhat GOOD (I say try because I have every intention of polishing off the Cadbury
- [Individual Blueberry Crisp](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/11/individual-blueberry-crisp/) - I picked up my first package of fresh blueberries at the grocery yesterday. I'd intended to use them in muffins, but we had company for dinner and that just demanded dessert of some kind. I opted for individual blueberry crisps, adapted from this recipe from Evil Shenanigans. I didn't have any apples, so this was
- [Croque Monsieurs](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/12/croque-monsieurs/) - This easy bistro dish was one of my favorite things to eat when I lived in Paris (next to crepes). I haven't had one in...lord, 9 years. I bought some grueyere at half off at Kroger a while back and pulled it out of the freezer with the last of the Easter ham to put
- [Not Your Kids' Mac and Cheese](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/13/not-your-kids-mac-and-cheese/) - At any given time, I have at least four types of cheese in my fridge. Often I wind up with a few ounces left of each. This time I decided to use my leftovers to make a more adult version of my traditional mac and cheese. You could do this with virtually any type of
- [Turkey Meatball Subs](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/14/turkey-meatball-subs/) - My hubs is a huge fan of Subway's meatball subs. Since he's been forced into the roll of couch jockey during his leg break ordeal, he's seen a LOT of commercials and has been craving one. Of course, one of theirs does NOT fit into the scheme of our diet. So this is my attempt
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Mexicale Chicken and Rice Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/15/thoughtless-thursday-mexicale-chicken-and-rice-soup/) - It's coming in late, but it's still Thursday! This was a last minute inspiration after making a grocery run for ingredients for something else entirely. I had these two poblano peppers that I was going to turn into some kind of enchilada casserole, but then I decided to make another Mexican themed soup instead. The
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Healthier Purple Hull Peas](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/22/thoughtless-thursday-healthier-purple-hull-peas/) - Please excuse this week's absence. Our internet has been going in and out all week, which has made it difficult to post. I actually had planned on giving you a recipe for slow cooker cassoulet, but it was a total bust, so my last minute pinch hitter is a healthier adaptation of a Southern staple:
- [Jalapeno Cheddar Cornbread](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/23/jalapeno-cheddar-cornbread/) - As I mentioned yesterday, the perfect side to purple hull peas is cornbread. I decided this time to make it with a bit of kick, as I had a few jalapenos I'd picked up and not used for...whatever it was I thought I was going to use them for. And cheddar just goes so well
- [Confetti Salad](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/25/confetti-salad/) - It's coming up on summer, which means the season for salads of all kinds. I get tired of the same old same old traditional salads, so I decided to make up a new pasta salad to much on while my hubby munches happily on his greens. With the combo of beans, veggies, and whole wheat
- [Salmon Croquettes](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/26/salmon-croquettes/) - One of my childhood favorite foods (which is still a favorite) are my mom's Salmon Croquettes. It's an inexpensive dish that uses canned salmon. But hers are fried and we all know that I'm into the healthy. I've tried various options...baking them in muffin cups, which wasn't bad, but just didn't quite do it for
- [Smoked Gouda Bison Burgers](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/27/smoked-gouda-bison-burgers/) - These are the Best Burgers You Will Ever Eat. Yes, I said it. And I stand by it. These are amazing. At 675 calories and 40 grams of fat per burger, these aren't too bad. Yes, 40 grams of fat isn't GOOD, but it's a burger. Burgers are always hefty on the fat. This recipe
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Lasagna Rolls](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/29/thoughtless-thursday-lasagna-rolls/) - I fully intended to make these with spinach, but when it got down to it, I couldn't actually FIND the spinach. I suspect it took a wrong turn at Anchorage and disappeared into the nether regions of my freezer. But these are still chock full of healthy goodness. I made mine single serve, as hubby
- [Naan Pizza](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/04/30/naan-pizza/) - Naan is Indian flatbread. I don't actually eat most Indian food (I hate curry), but I found this garlic naan in the bakery section at Walmart and immediately decided to use it as the base for pizza. They are the perfect size for personal pan, so that you don't feel bad eating the whole thing,
- [Clean Out The Fridge Pasta](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/05/05/clean-out-the-fridge-pasta/) - Cleaning out the fridge is the mother to some interesting dishes. In this case, I needed to use up some odds and ends in the way of veggies before they went from "on their way out" to "science project". A quick pasta was just the thing for a tasty, healthy hot lunch. The zucchini, I'm
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Roasted Vegetable Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/05/06/thoughtless-thursday-roasted-vegetable-soup/) - I've been eating fairly heavily lately, so I was craving something veggie-laden and healthy. My usual tomato soup wasn't quite what I was in the mood for, so I opted for a roasted vegetable soup. It's loaded with different veggies and pureed. This makes a fantastic lunch with a grilled cheese. Makes 5-6 servings. Ingredients:
- [Creamy Chicken Enchiladas](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/05/07/creamy-chicken-enchiladas/) - Canned chicken. I don't have any idea why my mother keeps giving it to me, but she does. She feels compelled to give stuff to me, often things I won't touch. So this canned chicken has been in the pantry for a couple of months. Solution: cover it up with lots of stuff. In honor
- [Corn In The Husk](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/05/08/corn-in-the-husk/) - This is the easiest way of making corn on the cob EVER. No brainer. Truly delicious. You're going to microwave it in the husk. This essentially steams the corn perfectly. Directions: There aren't even steps. Microwave corn in the husk, 3 minutes per ear. Carefully pull the husk and silk
- [Fabulous Baked Penne](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/05/14/fabulous-baked-penne/) - I have been turned into fodder for a Nyquil commercial this week, so I've been living on plain white rice, boxed mac and cheese, and subpar canned chicken noodle soup. :shudder: Yeah, even when I'm sick and can't hardly taste a thing, I'm still a food snob. So last night, as I was feeling better,
- [Tangy Chicken Salad](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/05/19/tangy-chicken-salad/) - Living in the south, I've grown up eating chicken salad. It's a staple in the summer, one which I'm very picky about, as most are laden with mayo (which we've already established I don't do) and absolutely awful for your diet. But I stewed a whole chicken in the crock pot last week in preparations
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Tuscan Vegetable Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/05/20/thoughtless-thursday-tuscan-vegetable-soup/) - I"m getting back on the diet wagon...again. Consequently, I'm craving veggies. Since I've been under the weather, I have some fresh veggies that were on their way out, so soup was the ideal solution. Along with 3/4ths of a pound of Italian turkey sausage that was hanging out in the freezer (left over from calzones
- [Firecracker Pork Lo Mein](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/05/21/firecracker-pork-lo-mein/) - Cross-posted with Jinxie's Kitchen. Despite the name, this really isn't that hot a dish. I just really liked the sound of “firecracker” in honor of the heroine of my latest release, paranormal romance novella, Forsaken By Shadow. She’s a firecaster. If you like it spicy, dial up the chili sauce. Coming in at 2 servings
- [Sun-Dried Tomato, Sausage, and Goat Cheese Pasta](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/05/22/sun-dried-tomato-sausage-and-goat-cheese-pasta/) - I had another night to myself, which automatically means dinner on my own, which means PASTA. I picked up a new variety of chicken sausages from Sams--sun-dried tomatoes and provolone. I figured I'd go with the sun-dried tomato thing, add some of those, which of course meant GOAT CHEESE because goat cheese is just awesome
- [Fiesta Chicken Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/05/31/fiesta-chicken-soup/) - I'm seriously running out of names for these Mexican themed soups. But there are endless subtle variations on these flavors that we just love, so I keep inventing new varieties. This one wasn't cooked in a crock pot (though it certainly could have been if it had occurred to me earlier in the day). It
- [Cheesy Summer Veggie Saute](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/06/01/cheesy-summer-veggie-saute/) - Feeling repentant for weekend excesses? I know I am. (We aren't going to talk about the love affair I had with the guacamole dip and chips at a party we went to the other night) Getting back on the bandwagon is hard when you're making a lifestyle change. One of the biggest challenges is that
- [Health(ier) Nachos](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/06/02/healthier-nachos/) - This is a favorite Friday night dish in our house. It's probably technically like 4 servings but this is us, so really it's 2. We aren't gonna talk about the fat and calories. Just trust that it's less with the low fat substitutions. Ingredients: tortilla chips of your choice (I make homemade ones) 1 pound
- [Panko Chicken Nuggets](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/06/04/panko-chicken-nuggets/) - I'm on a perpetual crusade to make the perfect baked chicken strips/nuggets. I think I've done them with panko before, but previously I used egg as the binding ingredient. This time I went with low fat buttermilk, and I really think this worked best. I think the buttermilk sticks better to the chicken and hence
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Mapuche Roast Beef](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/06/10/thoughtless-thursday-mapuche-roast-beef/) - I admit it. I'm a sucker for trying out new and random spice blends. Always on the hunt for a new flavor. I found this mapuche spice by Merken at a local closeout store. According to the site "Merken since centuries, has been the Chileangourmet copper spice per excellence. This unique blend of dried and
- [Baked Mozzarella Sticks](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/06/11/baked-mozzarella-sticks/) - Possibly our favorite eat out appetizer is cheese sticks. Ooey, gooey melty cheese, breaded in yumminess and fried. Can you get any better? As it happens it can get considerably better for you. Know why? Because--NEWSFLASH--you can bake 'em! Combine that with reduced fat cheese sticks and some marinara sauce and you have a healthy
- [Fiesta Skillet Mac](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/06/16/fiesta-skillet-mac/) - Our grocery store's freezer section is full of these frozen convenience meals. I love the ideas of these because they're so EASY and when I don't feel much like cooking they're something my husband can cook. But, let's face it. A little bit of pasta, not even a full serving of vegetables and usually a
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Homemade Pesto](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/06/24/thoughtless-thursday-homemade-pesto/) - No, this isn't a crock pot recipe, but it comes together in 5 minutes (plus however long your pasta takes to cook) so it absolutely qualifies for a thoughtless dinner. I'm talking about pesto. There are a zillion ways to make pesto. Traditionally they include herbs or greens of some kind, plus a nut of
- [Turkey Mexi-Burgers](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/06/26/turkey-mexi-burgers/) - These burgers were a long time in the making. We've been talking about them for ages and even had a prior attempt using taco seasoning that was decent but not what we wanted. We finally remembered to get all the ingredients for this attempt. And the results were absolutely KICK ASS. We are not ordinarily
- [Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/06/27/peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-cookies/) - My crit partner and I made these last weekend and they were TOP NOTCH. The bulk went to my FIL for Father's Day, but we went through a fair number ourselves. They don't fall into the category of remotely healthy but they are awesome. Sadly, I can't tell you how many it makes because I
- [Peach and Pepper Salsa](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/06/28/peach-and-pepper-salsa/) - My fellow food loving pal Jessica Tudor pointed me to this recipe last week, and I just had to try it. Of course, being me, I had to make a few small modifications based on what I had on hand or personal preferences. You will never see me eat a habanero pepper. The end result
- [Black Beans and Rice](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/06/29/black-beans-and-rice-2/) - I can't remember what I used a partial container of black beans on. Quesedillas maybe. In any event, I was left with a cup and a half of beans that needed a purpose. Usually in our house black beans and rice means a variation on red beans and rice...a spicy dish with sausage. But what
- [Retake Homemade: Chicken and White Bean Enchiladas](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/03/retake-homemade-chicken-and-white-bean-enchiladas/) - Welcome to the first installment of Retake Homemade! Please check out the links at the bottom for additional recipes. Enchiladas are something I don't make too often. I'm more a quesedilla kinda girl. But these are nice for a change with just enough heat to make me happy. Pair each one up with some Mexican
- [Chicken and Peach Pepper Salsa Quesedillas](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/06/chicken-and-peach-pepper-salsa-quesedillas/) - Part of the many dishes I made with last week's Peach and Red Pepper Salsa was a straight up basic quesedilla. It was a classic "use what you have in the fridge" sort of dinner that took advantage of the leftover shredded chicken from the enchiladas, the salsa, and some cheese. The end result was
- [Tomato Bacon Bean and Pasta Salad](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/07/tomato-bacon-bean-and-pasta-salad/) - We got a last minute invite to a cookout for the 4th this weekend and I couldn't make up my mind whether to make a pasta salad or a bean salad. So I went with both. Taking advantage of a bottle of Hidden Valley Farmhouse Originals Garden Tomato and Bacon dressing that I bought a
- [Retake Homemade: Thai Chicken Stir Fry](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/10/retake-homemade-thai-chicken-stir-fry/) - Admit it. You have a secret love affair with the greasy and overpriced takeout from your local Chinese or Thai place. It's okay, we all do. But unless you're one of the rare folks who order everything steamed and off the diet menu (which totally defeats the purpose of Chinese), it's going to blow your
- [Mango Salsa](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/12/mango-salsa/) - After the peach and red pepper salsa I made last week, my daily grilled cheese at lunch seemed positively naked with nothing else on it. So this week I went a bit more tropical and made up a version with mango. I have always adored mango salsa, especially with blue corn tortilla chips. It's just
- [Cheeseburger Pie Lightened](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/13/cheeseburger-pie-lightened/) - It's not what you'd call gourmet. It's definitely not really pretty. This is more along the lines of a classic Mom meal, ranking up there with tuna casserole and spaghetti. Easy and basic, this classic was introduced by Bisquick forever ago (I remember seeing the recipe on the original yellow box when I was
- [Sour Cream Chicken](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/14/sour-cream-chicken/) - This one was on the same page of the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of Simple and Delicious as the Mexican spoon bread. Hubby immediately wanted to try it. I used 4 skinless chicken thighs instead of the cut up broiler/fryer, mainly because that's what I had on hand. According to S and D, this makes 4
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Crockpot Baby Back Ribs](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/15/thoughtless-thursday-crockpot-baby-back-ribs/) - I haven't done a Thoughtless Thursday post in a while. Frankly, I just don't use my crock pot as much in the summer except for routine things like batch cooking beans or making chicken stock. But our grocery store overbought on baby back ribs for the 4th and had a huge sale at $2 a
- [Mexican Spoon Bread](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/16/mexican-spoon-bread/) - Continuing in the theme of recipes from Simple and Delicious, this one comes from the Jan/Feb 2010 issue (pg. 47). It's one where their test kitchen cut down the fat and calories. According to them, it makes 6 3/4 cup servings at 329 calories and 16 grams of fat. The end results were...well, I'm sorry
- [Retake Homemade: Mini Pizza Puffs](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/17/retake-homemade-mini-pizza-puffs/) - The inspiration for this recipe hails from the April 2010 issue of Everyday With Rachael Ray (pg. 83). I offer this up as a homemade alternative to stuff like Totinos pizza roles. They're fresh, light, easy as can be, and a WHOLE lot healthier. I made a few substitutions to the original recipe to lighten
- [Mini Stuffed Sweet Peppers](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/20/mini-stuffed-sweet-peppers/) - I have no idea why I'm so into the mini versions of stuff this week I was really enamored after buying the new mini muffin pan, I guess. In any event, I had a package of sweet peppers in the fridge, plus a few from the garden that were close to the same size that
- [Sausage and Squash Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/21/sausage-and-squash-casserole/) - I'm not sure how I haven't actually posted this before. It's a classic in our household. It's a recipe I adapted from my friend who tends to cook like Paula Deen so I've lightened it up by using turkey sausage, reduced fat cheese, neufchatel cheese, and light sour cream. It's a delicious meal all in
- [Quick Roasted Asparagus](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/23/quick-roasted-asparagus/) - One of the best summer veggies is baby asparagus. That lovely, thin as a pencil variety, tender green and sweet. Asparagus is one of those foods I thought I hated. It turned out I just hate how my mom fixes it. She uses the canned stuff that's slimy and thick and noxious. :shudder: That shouldn't
- [Meatball Sliders](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/23/meatball-sliders/) - I don't know why, but I've been totally into mini food the last week or so. Since we usually have issues with the bun falling apart when we make meatball subs, it seemed like meatball sliders would be a great idea. And they were. Cute, tiny, dippable. And healthy. These would make a great appetizer
- [Retake Homemade: Mexican Corn Muffins](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/07/24/retake-homemade-mexican-corn-muffins/) - After last week's meh Mexican spoon bread, I opted to try a jazzed up version of my mother's Mexican cornbread. Since we were taking it to a party, I thought muffins would be best (and it fits with my obsession for mini these days). Results were moist and flavorful, a nice side to a Mexican
- [Hot Black Bean Dip](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/09/hot-black-bean-dip/) - We went to a party this weekend and as I didn't have what was required for my usual 7 layer dip, I had to come up with something else. What I arrived at was an adaptation of this recipe from Tasty Kitchen. The end results were delicious, lighter than my usual dip, and disappeared just
- [Hashbrown Breakfast Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/10/hashbrown-breakfast-casserole/) - I never eat much in the way of interesting for breakfast during the week. I'm not a morning person, so breakfast is an autopilot affair most of the time. Scrambled eggs, toast, and tea, every day. But weekends, usually Sunday mornings, hubby and I like to have something more interesting. He's a big fan of
- [Mexican Meatloaf](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/11/mexican-meatloaf/) - We liked the turkey mexi-burgers so much, I decided to try adapting it to a meatloaf. I was going to do this in the crock pot but ran out of time and popped it in the conventional oven instead. Hubby declared this one a winner, and at 268 calories and 12.68 grams of fat a
- [Summer Veggies and Sun Dried Tomatoes over Egg Noodles](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/12/summer-veggies-and-sun-dried-tomatoes-over-egg-noodles/) - I made stroganoff the other day and there were leftovers, but not quite enough for two. So my response was to make enough egg noodles for both of us, and whip of a saute of summer veggies to throw over mine. It was a quick, tasty use of assorted odds and ends in the veggie
- [Greek Yogurt Pancakes](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/13/greek-yogurt-pancakes/) - I did a big cleanout of the fridge. See, we have this awful, nano-fridge that necessitates that I squat to see what's in it (I'm 5'4"...that means this fridge is LOW), and it had gotten so stuffed and disorganized that I didn't know what I had. So that led to list of "This must be
- [Retake Homemade: Teriyaki Pork Stir Fry](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/14/retake-homemade-teriyaki-pork-stir-fry/) - In the freezer section, Bird's Eye makes a teriyaki stir fry that's actually quite tasty. It includes everything...veggies, pasta, sauce. As convenience meals go, it's actually one of the better ones. But I still set out to try to replicate this at home by making my own teriyaki sauce. I actually had planned to do
- [Mozzarella, Tomato, Basil Tart](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/15/mozzarella-tomato-basil-tart/) - As one of my fridge clean out "Must Use" ingredients, I had a ball of fresh mozzarella pearls. I wasn't really in the mood for caprese salad, which was actually what I'd bought it for before it got lost in the bowels of the cheese and meat drawer, and I had some puff pastry just
- [Greek Yogurt Corn Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/16/greek-yogurt-corn-casserole/) - I've been on a kick lately of substituting Greek yogurt for sour cream. One of my favorite sides, that I usually only make for holidays, is corn casserole. It's not what you'd call light, but it's OMG so good. The Greek yogurt was a fantastic addition and we demolished this between the two of us
- [Seasoned Couscous](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/17/seasoned-couscous/) - There were so many fantastic recipes in this month's Simple and Delicious (Aug/Sept) that I hardly knew where to start. In search of a quick afternoon snack (yes, snack, I'm weird), I went to this seasoned couscous from page 27. It's a good base recipe, though I think next time I'd like to make a
- [Baked Bacon](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/18/baked-bacon/) - I don't know about you, but I really really SUCK at cooking bacon. It takes forever and inevitably I turn away for JUST TWO MINUTES and turn back to find it totally charred. My mom always did it in the microwave, but I never liked it as well that way. Then I discovered that
- [Pork Chops Stuffed With Smoked Gouda and Bacon](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/19/pork-chops-stuffed-with-smoked-gouda-and-bacon/) - There is not a man alive who would not like this recipe. Well maybe a Jewish man eating kosher...and he'd probably like it if he were allowed to eat it. But every other male on the planet is going to salivate the moment they see you prepping it. It's an adaptation of this recipe
- [Retake Homemade: Smoky Stuffed Potatoes](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/21/retake-homemade-smoky-stuffed-potatoes/) - Down in the south we have a deli chain that started in an old gas station in Oxford, MS. MacAlister's. This place was a college staple of mine since it was only about a mile and a half from campus. In addition to the usual deli fare of sandwiches and salads, they have a line
- [Creamy Tomato Pepper Sauce with Sausage over Penne](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/24/creamy-tomato-pepper-sauce-with-sausage-over-penne/) - This weekend is the Little Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. A lot of people have heard of the Big Sturgis Rally in South Dakota. This is the smaller one held in Sturgis, MS, just up the road from my town. This means that 20k+ bikers roll in (and through) town, and that I am not going anywhere
- [Uber Blueberry Pancakes](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/25/uber-blueberry-pancakes/) - I had the good fortune to receive a ginormous box of Chobani yogurt from the company this week. THANK YOU CHOBANI! I seriously LOVE this stuff and I'm going to be having a word with my grocery store manager to request it. The only Greek yogurt in our stores here is the Stonyfield farms version.
- [Butterfly Quiche](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/26/butterfly-quiche/) - I love quiche. I really adore pastry crust, but that is rarely a good fit with a calorie restricted diet (I just started Round 2 of The Biggest Loser on Wii). I have often used phyllo dough to make mini quiches in muffin tins, but this time I thought I would try something different--making crust
- [Greek Poppyseed Chicken Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/27/greek-poppyseed-chicken-casserole/) - In my subbing greek yogurt for sour cream kick, I used some of the Chobani yogurt I got from the company to make a Greeked up version of Poppyseed Chicken Casserole. This one's loaded with more veggies than my original Poppyseed Chicken Casserole. The end result was quite different than what I'm used to. Nice
- [Retake Homemade: Cowboy Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/28/retake-homemade-cowboy-casserole/) - This one was an adaptation of a recipe from the August/September 2010 Taste of Home (pg. 43). I loved the concept of this recipe, but I needed to make a few adjustments in the name of healthy and grown up. Tater tots are a thing of the school cafeteria and do not come into my
- [Lightened Chicken Rotel](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/08/29/lightened-chicken-rotel/) - Chicken rotel is one of my favorite comfort foods. It is addictive and wonderful and disappears at the speed of light in our house. So much so that the first four times I made it, I didn't get a picture made. Well, I've been on a restricted calorie diet this last week or so as
- [Portabella Pizza](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/09/06/portabella-pizza/) - I love pizza in all its incarnations. When I saw these big, beautiful portabella mushroom caps at the grocery last week, I decided it would be a good base for a single serve pizza that's high on the veggie quotient. I wound up serving these with breadsticks (because I'm me and I can't do without
- [Pork Burritos](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/09/07/pork-burritos/) - I think I've made burritos out of almost everything. This one uses a nice picnic pork roast and comes out moist, delicious and fabulous for burritos and for reinvention as leftovers. I think I actually prefer this to beef or chicken. Hubby declared these a winner as well. Ingredients: 1 2 pound pork roast 2
- [Pork Burrito Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/09/08/pork-burrito-soup/) - Reruns! It's not often that I come up with something that so perfectly turns into something else. But last night's pork burrito filling was so tasty and there wasn't quite enough for two servings of exact reruns. So what else to do? Throw in a bunch of veggies and make a new variation of the
- [Thoughtless Thursday: White Chicken Chili II](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/09/09/thoughtless-thursday-white-chicken-chili-ii/) - I've been on a kick of trying new foods. I'll pick up a new food and figure out what to do with it. This week's new food was Anaheim chilis, which I learned were a mild chili and usually what those canned, chopped green chilis on the Mexican aisle consist of. I've been craving chili,
- [Scalloped Fingerling Potatoes](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/09/10/scalloped-fingerling-potatoes/) - There is nothing healthy about this dish, so if you came by expecting my usual diet friendly fare, you might want to turn around. This was what I decided to do with the other half of the fingerling potatoes I roasted. Scalloped or au gratin potatoes. OMG YUM. I didn't calculate the nutrition info on
- [Retake Homemade: Hearty Tuna Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/09/11/retake-homemade-hearty-tuna-casserole/) - I swear, I'm about to give up on tuna casserole as a dish to be served in our house. No matter what variation I make, hubby just doesn't like it. No matter, this current incarnation made ME happy. It is an adaptation of this Light But Hearty Tuna Casserole from Taste of Home. I'd actually
- [Smoked Cheddar Burgers](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/08/smoked-cheddar-burgers/) - As promised, I am returning to the land of the food blogger! Remember all that fabulous cheese I told you about? Well this was our first meal employing any of it. The centerpiece of the dish is some fabulous hickory smoked cheddar cheese. We've grown fond of stuffing the cheese IN the burger. There's nothing
- [Retake Homemade: Red Beans and Rice](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/09/retake-homemade-red-beans-and-rice/) - Look at that! I'm finally back posting on my own revolution. :blushes: Sorry I've been busy. Moving on! I confess, I have never been a huge fan of red beans and rice. This probably stems from my hatred of kidney beans in my chili, which was then generalized to kidney beans in everything. And the
- [Blueberry White Cheddar Stuffed Pork Chops](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/10/blueberry-white-cheddar-stuffed-pork-chops/) - How's that for a mouthful? Meet Wilbur the happy pork chop. No, seriously. It looks like a smiling clam the way those two blueberry flecks got stuck on the top. This is the second fabulous cheese dish we've cooked, this one highlighting the truly fascinating blueberry white cheddar. This it the kind of cheese that
- [4 Cheese Mac and Cheese](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/12/4-cheese-mac-and-cheese/) - We had a death in the family over the weekend. My husband's 92 year old grandmother passed. She'd been suffering, so this was a blessing. Still, part of the grieving process in the South is cooking, and I could think of nothing more comforting than homemade mac and cheese. This was (as they often are)
- [Beef Oriental](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/13/beef-oriental/) - Rice-A-Roni is one of those foods I remember with apathy from childhood. The chicken flavor frequently appeared on the dinner table in my mom's kitchen. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. It was just kind of there. So Rice-A-Roni is not a product I typically buy. Somehow I wound up with a couple
- [Retake Homemade: Baked Croutons](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/16/retake-homemade-baked-croutons/) - I don't know about you, but I was never a natural salad eater. My dad would eat it, drowned in ranch (thus eliminating the healthy part), and mom wouldn't touch it. So I was 12 or 13 before I was ever really exposed to salad eating families. And what got me through was not dressing,
- [Parmesan Crusted Tilapia](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/17/parmesan-crusted-tilapia/) - I saw this on the menu of a restaurant where we had dinner the other night and thought it sounded delicious. It was definitely a nice variation on my usual baked tilapia, and the breading (what stayed on the fish--DON'T FORGET THE COOKING SPRAY) was quite crispy and delicious. Serves 2. Ingredients: 4 tilapia filets
- [Peanut Butter Banana Muffins](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/18/peanut-butter-banana-muffins/) - Peanut butter and bananas are something that just go together. Elvis liked them on sandwiches. I preferred to try them in a muffin form. When I suggested them to hubby, his immediate response was "Why aren't those in my belly?" So I set about adapting my base banana muffin recipe for peanut butter. The results
- [Irish Nachos](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/19/irish-nachos/) - I know, I know, who's ever heard of Irish Nachos? Well I hadn't either, but I was channel surfing last weekend and hit on some special on the Travel Channel where they were talking nachos, and they mentioned some Irish pub somewhere that made nachos using potatoes. Of course they made theirs by making fries.
- [Roasted Red Pepper and Corn Pasta Salad](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/20/roasted-red-pepper-and-corn-pasta-salad/) - Hubby declared we were going on a picnic this weekend. In the name of "good served cold or room temp" I opted to make a pasta salad. Pasta salad is one of those dishes that is a good "pull random stuff from the fridge and pantry" kind of thing. Every time I make it it's
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Chicken Corn Chowder](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/21/thoughtless-thursday-chicken-corn-chowder/) - We had roast chicken for dinner the other night, which meant we had half a chicken left to do something with. Soup was the thing because I wanted something I didn't have to babysit. Soup is another one of those blank slate dishes where I often start tossing things in to see what I come
- [Smoked Cheddar Drop Biscuits](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/22/smoked-cheddar-drop-biscuits/) - There are some folks who wouldn't say that Bisquick deserves to be featured on a food blog. I say Psh. It's a nice handy ingredient for fast dinners and sides. As long as you're adding something TO it, I say it counts. I made these up to go with the Chicken and Corn Chowder we
- [Retake Homemade: Shrimp and Black Bean Tacos](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/23/retake-homemade-shrimp-and-black-bean-tacos/) - I have no idea what gave me the idea to put shrimp in tacos. Maybe because I keep seeing fish tacos and my brain made the leap? Who knows. What I do know is that this experiment was FANTASTIC and is a dieter's friend. Hubs said it tasted just as good as beef tacos and
- [Smoked Sausage Paella](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/24/smoked-sausage-paella/) - Paella is one of those things I've read about for aged but never made, largely because I couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger on how expensive saffron is around here. Finally bought some when visiting a friend in a larger city, so here I am trying my own variation on paella. Most paellas, from
- [Gluten Free Dairy Free Cowboy Tater Tot Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/09/21/gluten-free-dairy-free-cowboy-tater-tot-casserole/) - This is one of those casseroles that's impossible to give credit for because it's a southern staple. There are lots of different variations with slightly different tweaks here or there. Very kid-friendly (husbands too!). Because of the GF/DF conversion, it takes a LIIIIITTLE more time than the classic version that just uses a can, but
- [Official Proof of My Crazy](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/27/official-proof-of-my-crazy/) - I said I wasn't gonna do it. I have too much to do (which is the truth). Evil Day Job 1, Evil Day Job 2, writing a new course for spring to go with the new book, promo stuff, IBC responsibilities, home improvement projects because we're getting ready to list our house in a few
- [Review Nature's Pride Oven Classics](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/10/28/review-natures-pride-oven-classics/) - One of my favorite parts of being a food blogger is getting the chance to try products that I can't find in my regular grocery store. Through the Foodbuzz Tastemaker's program, I recently had the opportunity to try two different varieties of Nature's Pride Oven Classics line--the Oatmeal and Honey Wheat with Fiber. I can't
- [Ready, Set, NaNo!](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/01/ready-set-nano/) - It's Monday and I totally need a weekend to recover from my weekend. The good news, the cabinets look quite nice and my kitchen is put back together. The bad news, I didn't have time or brain power to even THINK about my WIP prior to this morning. Because, not only is it Monday, but
- [Guest Post by S.L. Armstrong and K. Piet](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/02/guest-post-by-s-l-armstrong-and-k-piet/) - The Challenges Of Publishing Other People One of the biggest challenges is resisting the temptation during the editing process to inject my own writing style. I had to learn to tell the difference between actual grammatical errors and what were merely style choices of an author. Everyone has their own way of writing, after all.
- [Sequestered](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/06/sequestered/) - I am curled up on the sofa this morning wearing my big fluffy robe and snugged up with a blanket because it is 34 degrees outside and we had a good frost last night (YES! I have allergies, sue me). I am four scenes away from the end of Devil's Eye, so this weekend I'm
- [A Little of This, A Little of That](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/09/a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that/) - Hear ye, hear ye! It is Tuesday and I am wearing the first toe socks of the season! They have penguins on them and red toes. How fun is that? Add to that the infinite bonus of wiggling them at my husband, who is supremely freaked out by toe socks, and you have the beginnings
- [Thai Pork Stir Fry](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/10/thai-pork-stir-fry/) - So the Thai Chicken Stir Fry based on the recipe from Simple and Delicious turned out so well, I had to try it with pork. I think the chicken is still my favorite, but this was darn tasty. I make no claims as to authenticity, and am well aware that canola or peanut oil is
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Beef and Salsa Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/11/thoughtless-thursday-beef-and-salsa-soup/) - Okay, technically this should be Beef and Picante soup because I used the Pace Picante Sauce I had a chance to try via the Foodbuzz Tastemakers Program. I've always been a fan of Pace. Love their commercials with the fresh fresh jalapenos. Anyway it made for a fantastic soup. Serves 4-6. Just the right offering
- [If Writing A Book Were A Parenting Project](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/11/if-writing-a-book-were-a-parenting-project/) - You know how some high schools have a parenting project where you partner up and have to learn the responsibilities of parenting using eggs or flour bags or fancy pants dolls that actually wet, poop, and scream and measure what you really do with it? If Devil's Eye was one of those dolls, I would
- [Retake Homemade: Mexi Ranch Chicken Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/13/retake-homemade-mexi-ranch-chicken-casserole/) - When I came home tonight I fully intended to be making Texas Ranch Chicken Casserole from Taste of Home for dinner. And then our internet went out and I couldn't actually get to the recipe, so I wound up making my own variation based on what I had on hand and what I remembered. The
- [A Song of Solitude](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/13/a-song-of-solitude/) - I am on my own this weekend with the entire family out of town to visit other family. I stayed behind to work, get some peace and quiet, and keep all the dogs (4 of them counting ours). With the exception of being woken up at 3:30 because the were all riled about coyotes (I
- [Greek Yogurt Beer Bread](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/14/greek-yogurt-beer-bread/) - I am a huge fan of beer bread. It's fast, moist, delicious, and usually hits the spot to go with some kind of soup when I'm not wanting cornbread. It is versatile, the flavor varying a lot depending on what kind of beer you use. But this, THIS is my absolute favorite. Pabst Blue Ribbon
- [Mexican Corn Chowder](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/15/mexican-corn-chowder/) - This is a slight variation on my usual Spicy Corn Chowder, made "Mexican" only by the addition of a packet of Sazon. It was a tasty if subtle difference from the original. This could totally benefit from some poblano peppers or possibly a chipotle pepper (in which case I'd leave out the Rotel). Ingredients: 1
- [Sausage Mushroom Breakfast Burritos](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/17/sausage-mushroom-breakfast-burritos/) - Hubby has had a bit of breakfast ennui. He's tired of muffins, tired of the sausage biscuits. So we're moving on to breakfast burritos. I recently read The Glycemic Load Diet (as I think hubby has insulin resistance), which made sense as far as the condition it was describing but is an utterly unrealistic diet
- [Chicken Corn Chowder 2](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/18/chicken-corn-chowder-2/) - My first attempt at Chicken Corn Chowder was such a hit, I thought I'd try a slight variation on one without tomatoes that took advantage of poblano peppers, which are a recent favorite of mine. This one is a bit heavier on the calories, as it's got more corn, does not use fat free cream
- [Lentil and Mushroom Tacos](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/19/lentil-and-mushroom-tacos/) - I saw this recipe for Lentil Tacos quite a while ago and am only just getting around to trying it. Vegetarian recipes are always an iffy bet around my classic meat and potatoes husband. But a friend had tried them and swore her son and husband loved them so I thought I'd give it a
- [Hickory Farms Sampler](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/28/hickory-farms-sampler/) - I hope everybody had a fantastic Thanksgiving! I'm surfacing from a nasty sinus infection and lots of family time. We're in holiday decorating mode around here and that means snack time! As part of the Foodbuzz Tastemakers program, I got the fantastic opportunity to try out Hickory Farm's Beef Hickory Sampler gift box. As you
- [Spicy Butternut Squash Sweet Potato Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/29/spicy-butternut-squash-sweet-potato-soup/) - One of my favorite foods is sweet potato fries, something I discovered only last year. I just really dig the play of the faintly sweet of the potatoes against the chili powder. That flavor combo just really works for me. So I set out to try to duplicate that combination in a soup since I
- [Beef and Mushroom Cream Cheese Dip](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/11/30/beef-and-mushroom-cream-cheese-dip/) - Desperation is the mother of invention. Hubby really, really wanted some kind of dip to watch with the game, we had no Velveeta, and I was so not going to the grocery. So, making do with what we have, I put together this man-friendly dip out of cream cheese, beef, mushrooms, and rotel. The
- [The Big Scare and A Thank You](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/12/02/the-big-scare-and-a-thank-you/) - So for anybody who didn't hear the news via twitter or text yesterday, we thought hubby re-broke his leg. He called as I was getting ready for work to say that he'd slipped in the frost and fallen and something cracked and now it didn't feel right and he was almost positive it was broken.
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Italian Chicken and Rice Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/12/02/thoughtless-thursday-italian-chicken-and-rice-soup/) - As you all know I was sick last week. It ended up not being such a bad time to be so, as I'd already batch cooked a bunch of chicken to make the stock for Thanksgiving dinner. That made this crock pot soup a breeze to throw together, even though I felt lousy. Ingredients: 2
- [Retake Homemade: Hamburger Noodle Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/12/04/retake-homemade-hamburger-noodle-casserole/) - I am a big fan of Taste of Home for recipes. They're usually easy, seldom involve "weird" ingredients, and will generally be eaten by my entire family. This one came to me in a recent email and me, being me I had to adapt it a little by adding in some extra veggies and swapping
- [Mexican Chicken Loaf](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/12/05/mexican-chicken-loaf/) - I found peppers in my garden. After waiting since MAY for them to produce anything, I'd given up. But I found 3 small ones hanging out and decided to utilize them along with the chicken pieces I was stewing in the crock pot today for nothing in particular to make a slightly tex-mex version of
- [Cover Reveal: Red](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/12/07/cover-reveal-red/) - I was thirteen when I found out why my mother left me. The letter that came on my birthday that year was such a shock to my poor dad. Given its contents, if I hadn’t been the one to snag the mail that day, I doubt he would ever have let me see it. Given
- [Giveaway: Kindle Kisses Day of Sacrifice](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/12/16/giveaway-kindle-kisses-day-of-sacrifice/) - Today I have 10 copies of the Kindle edition of Day of Sacrifice by Stacey Wallace Benefiel, the author of the Zellie Wells trilogy that starts with Glimpse. Because I have been out of town, I am shamelessly swiping the giveaway info from Susan who wrote it out all nice and clear. Note: Although this
- [Life, Interrupting](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/12/21/life-interrupting/) - I just got back from the vet's office. Oh, don't worry, the girls are fine. It was just time for Daisy's annual checkup and rabies shot. And it's just easier to take both of them than to leave one behind. It was quite funny. Callie pranced right in and preened like "These are my peeps!"
- [Devil's Eye Is Out!](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/12/24/devils-eye-is-out/) - Free Fiction Friday and the remaining episodes of Forsaken By Shadow will return next week. I had to interrupt regular posts to announce that Devil's Eye is, at long last, AVAILABLE! Just in time for the holidays, this short novella is available on Smashwords, Amazon, and Amazon UK for just 99 cents! Presumably Barnes and
- [Embracing My Inner Teen (AKA My ROW80 Goals)](https://kaitnolan.com/2010/12/30/embracing-my-inner-teen-aka-my-row80-goals/) - One thing I didn't mention in yesterday's post talking about what I'd accomplished this year is that I've started a writing challenge. I figured it didn't belong on the 2010 list when it's really starting January 3rd to kick off 2011. I did it for the wholly self-serving purpose of surrounding myself with other writers
- [Monday Grump](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/01/03/monday-grump/) - God, it's Monday. And I'm at work. I am so not cool with that. Boss at least had the decency to ask how my holiday went before she jumped into crap. And it's not as dire as she thought when she texted me over the break because she realized I'd already DONE more than half
- [Get Devil's Eye For FREE!](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/01/08/get-devils-eye-for-free/) - For my previous release, Forsaken By Shadow, I did a huge review copy giveaway to garner honest reviews across assorted retailers, to start building a reputation as an author who puts out a respectable product. Y'all were hugely instrumental in helping me achieve that goal such that the launch of Devil's Eye--which has been so
- [Black Beans and Quinoa](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/01/09/black-beans-and-quinoa/) - For my first quinoa in place of rice dish, I opted to go with an old and flavorful favorite: Black Beans and Rice. We decided this was a keeper. It's different from the black beans and rice, somehow...the texture maybe. But quite tasty and still familiar. And of course, a super source of protein between
- [To Trudge or Abandon?](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/01/10/to-trudge-or-abandon/) - For the first time in YEARS, I am OFF OF WORK for a SNOW DAY! I know, you people who live in the north where it actually snows in winter don't understand the excitement. This is Mississippi. It doesn't snow here. Flurries send people into a panic as if there's going to be a nuclear
- [Amazon (And Readers) Treat Me Right](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/01/13/amazon-and-readers-treat-me-right/) - I'm short on time this morning and only just realized that I haven't posted. So I'm going to let a couple of pictures serve as...a bunch of words I don't have time to write just now. Been there all week. In case you can't quite read it, this is the list of Top Rated Fantasy,
- [Thoughtless Thursday: Cock-A-Leekie Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/01/20/thoughtless-thursday-cock-a-leekie-soup/) - When I studied abroad in Scotland, there was a tea room up the road from my flat that served THE BEST cock-a-leekie soup. It's a classic Scottish dish that has as many variations as there are clans. Many traditionalists use prunes, but I couldn't bring myself to put something sweet in this soup. The version
- [The Care And Feeding Of Writers](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/01/22/the-care-and-feeding-of-writers/) - First, the excitement I woke up to this morning. People, that is Devil's Eye at NUMBER 3 in Bargain BOOKS (NOT just Kindle books, not just Hot New Releases, BOOKS OVERALL). I intend to do a serious happy dance once I have caffeinated and am no longer in danger of breaking anything from my serious
- [Italian Stuffed Mini-Peppers](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/01/24/italian-stuffed-mini-peppers/) - I love these little mini peppers. They're just so cute and bite sized and stuffable. This time I went with an Italian flare. We used them as a main dish along with some Italian herbed potatoes (conveniently cooked in the same oven for the same length of time, fyi), but they would totally work as
- [Retake Homemade: Dirty Rice With Ground Turkey](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/01/29/retake-homemade-dirty-rice-with-ground-turkey/) - Okay, I'm gonna tell you right off that this is not a traditional dirty rice recipe because there are no livers. I really don't care for livers. And truth be told, I'd actually planned to make turkey meatballs for subs or something out of this pound of ground turkey. But we are in the middle
- [Masa Breaded Chicken Tenders](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/02/04/masa-breaded-chicken-tenders/) - We love chicken tenders. They are a favorite around here, and I'm constantly playing with different types of breading, trying to find the best way to make crispy, crunchy baked tenders. These are not baked. I actually pan fried them in olive oil. I never fry stuff. Like EVER. But it seemed the thing to
- [Gluten Free Friday: Biscuit Buns](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/02/11/gluten-free-friday-biscuit-buns/) - I swear I've been cooking, y'all, I just haven't gotten my posts put together. It's been a crazy, crazy week. I signed with an agent. I was buried under several simultaneous major deadlines at work. And there was some major personal stuff going on with a friend who needed support, and posting just didn't happen.
- [Cover Reveal: Riven](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/02/11/cover-reveal-riven/) - As if I hadn't had enough squeeable excitement this week, the fabulous Robin of Robin Ludwig Designs has already created my delectable new cover for the third novella in the Mirus series, Riven. Go ahead, drool. You know you wanna. Aren't Orrin and Dahlia pretty? Yep, Orrin. Remember Mr. Sparky from Forsaken By Shadow? He's
- [Rotel Chicken and Rice](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/02/14/rotel-chicken-and-rice/) - We are huge fans of chicken rotel in this house. It's one of my favorite dishes, one that might as well be crack because I want to eat at least two bowls every time I make it. Of course classic chicken rotel has spaghetti, which is a no-no on a gluten free diet. Naturally we
- [Sausage Corn Chowder](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/02/16/sausage-corn-chowder/) - This dish was a result of my saying "I want to use this ingredient...now what can I do that's different?" The ingredient in question was Conecuh Hot and Spicy sausage. I love this stuff. It's so so tasty. Rather than the usual cajun dishes I make with this, I opted for a spicy kick to
- [A #ROW80 Update and Thoughts On This Inspiration Thing](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/02/16/a-row80-update-and-thoughts-on-this-inspiration-thing/) - First up, the ROW80 update. Blind Sight, the anthology short story I was writing, is done and OUT THE DOOR. Huzzah! So I am back to Red and happy to be there. I'm at about 1100 words since Sunday (yeah, it's Wednesday, I'm uncaffeinated, and frankly, I'm too lazy to look up the specifics just
- [Gluten Free Friday: Pizza Crust](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/02/18/gluten-free-friday-pizza-crust/) - Priority one when we found out we'd be going gluten free was finding a reasonable facsimile of pizza crust and hamburger buns. I'm still working on the buns, but I am happy to report that WE HAVE FOUND PIZZA CRUST!!! The source is Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day, which I already loved for
- [Strange Research](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/02/19/strange-research/) - I write paranormal stuff. To a point this is because I love it and am fascinated by the possibilities. It's also because it tends to require less research. See, I'm GREAT at research. It's part of that Evil Day Job training. One does not go through grad school for an academic degree in a science
- [Spring Fever](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/02/21/spring-fever/) - Over the weekend it got up to nearly 80 degrees. IN FLIPPING FEBRUARY! I object! Seriously, I have embraced the winter birthday. I gave up the notion of pool parties when I was 12 and no longer had any desire to appear in a swimsuit--like EVAR. Ergo I expect it to be, you know, WINTER
- [The Great Flashback Debate?](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/02/26/the-great-flashback-debate/) - Prologues. Now there's something that's been hotly debated in the writing world for YEARS. First they're in. Now they're out. I remember when I was pursuing the traditional publication route that there was a huge backlash against prologues and I was having to consider whether to include one in the book I was writing at
- [Kiss Me, Kill Me Anthology](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/03/01/kiss-me-kill-me-anthology/) - It's announcement time! Those of you who were already on my mailing list have already heard about this (and dude, how cool is it that there ARE people subscribed my newsletter?). For the rest of you, I wanted to let you know that I have a story published in the newly released paranormal romance anthology,
- [Getting It Right](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/03/04/getting-it-right/) - I used to be obsessed with "Getting it Right" as a writer. By which I mean that I wrote romantic suspense based around classic police (and FBI) procedurals, and I wanted to be sure I didn't make some idiotic, newb mistake that would cause anybody in the know to chuck my book against a wall.
- [Guest Post By Nadia Lee](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/03/09/guest-post-by-nadia-lee/) - Walking Away Can Be Hard Yesterday I talked about the necessity of reading contracts carefully on Zoe Winter's blog. Today I want to talk about how difficult it can be (emotionally) to walk away from a deal. To summarize briefly -- last year, I was offered a contract on my contemporary romance novel Carnal Secrets.
- [Sunday Summary](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/03/13/sunday-summary-34/) - The funeral is this afternoon. Family is coming in, so it will be good to see folks. There will be more storytelling, which is the part of grieving that I actually enjoy. Inevitably there are stories I haven't heard about the family yet, and that's kind of fun. I'm about ready to crawl the walls,
- [Closure](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/03/14/closure/) - My grandmother's funeral was yesterday. The service was nice, though the preacher's phrasing when talking about the phases of resurrection totally had me thinking about zombies, which was obviously not what he was going for. Dude, he used the phrase rising from the grave! Guarantee I was the only person there with that thought. Call
- [(Sort of) New Release: Blindsight](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/03/17/sort-of-new-release-blindsight/) - So I posted about 3 weeks ago about the release of the Kiss Me, Kill Me paranormal romance anthology in which my Mirus short story Blindsight is featured. Several of you bought the anthology (proceeds of which are going to GreaterGood.org). Thanks for that! But really, I wasn't getting as much promo mileage out of
- [In The Realm of Awesome](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/03/23/in-the-realm-of-awesome/) - Free-Ebooks.net mentioned Blindsight in their latest newsletter. The downloads have almost doubled overnight. Writer pal Sharon Gerlach tweeted me this last night: For those of you who don't know what you're looking at, that is a post by me that's showing up in Zemanta's Wordpress plugin to find Possibly Related Articles to link to your
- [Guest Post By Zoe E. Whitten](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/03/25/guest-post-by-zoe-e-whitten/) - As a writer, I have this theory that most paranormal mixed couples in fiction are a metaphor for mixed marriages, and as such carry a subtle message of tolerance throughout their many plots. This is a good thing. But I feel like perhaps too many writers rely on a monster and human female mix. I
- [Happy Birthday Forsaken By Shadow!](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/03/26/happy-birthday-forsaken-by-shadow/) - This time last year I was struggling with utter exhaustion, having taken over EVERYTHING since my husband broke his leg on March 7th. But I'd used the down time from being off with him for nearly two weeks to finish editing and formatting my first novella, Forsaken By Shadow. And 1 year ago today, I
- [House Babble](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/04/09/house-babble/) - I am neurotic. I know. You're all so shocked to hear it. Our house has been on the market for 9 days. It has shown 6 times. Still no offers, though all the realtors agree that our price is competitive, and we've done everything under the sun to make it attractive, appealing, and fully up
- [Paranormal Love and The Unknown: A Guest Post by Jeff Bennington](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/04/11/paranormal-love-and-the-unknown-a-guest-post-by-jeff-bennington/) - To begin with, I want to thank Kait for allowing me to be her guest. If she hasn’t told you already, I’m giving away a Kindle on May 15th to a lucky follower of the REUNION blog tour. You can get the details about the book, the tour, and the contest at jeffbennington.com. Good Luck!
- [Mexican Butternut Squash Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/04/11/mexican-butternut-squash-soup/) - You all know I'm nuts about mexican flavors, and I really wanted some kind of soup that was lighter in calories but still filling and heavy on the flavor. Using the last giant butternut squash I had n the fridge, I decided to make a soup. It's thick and hearty and wonderful. And at 144
- [Honey Soy Stir Fry](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/04/13/honey-soy-stir-fry/) - I was seriously graving some heavy veggie based stir fry when we got back from our vacation. While we were gone, we ate at the Ghengis Grill, one of those Mongolian stir fry kind of places. We really love those. I had a fantastic honey soy sauce on mine, so this was my attempt to
- [Gluten Free Friday: Mexi Mac and Cheese](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/04/15/gluten-free-friday-mexi-mac-and-cheese/) - When you're making the transition to a gluten free lifestyle, there's a lot of self pity involved for all the things you can't have. Hubby keeps thinking of things he can no longer have and getting depressed. When he realized he can no longer have an ice cold Strawberry Abita beer after mowing the grass
- [Chicken and Pinto Mexican Stir Fry](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/04/18/chicken-and-pinto-mexican-stir-fry/) - I saw a recipe somewhere recently that was a fantastic sounding vegetarian taco filling. I used that as an inspiration for this Mexican style stir fry with chicken and pintos. Hubby was on the fence about it, and I think it might be better in tortillas (which he can't have) as burritos. But I still
- [Writing in Someone Else's Rut: A Guest Post by Sharon Gerlach](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/04/21/writing-in-someone-elses-rut-a-guest-post-by-sharon-gerlach/) - First, I wanted to say a GREAT BIG THANKS to Kait for hosting me today, and for all the help she's given me in getting my novella, Malakh, out for public consumption. I was entertaining the idea of talking about why I chose to make the novella about angels. In fact, yesterday I wrote almost
- [Gluten Free Friday: Beer Battered Fish](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/04/22/gluten-free-friday-beer-battered-fish/) - In the name of "stuff you thought you couldn't have on a gluten free diet", today I prove that you can, in fact, have beer battered fish. I used this recipe from About.com, with a couple of modifications. Since there were only 2 of us, I cut the recipe in half. The end result was
- [Fellow Writer In Need: Step Up (UPDATE: WE DID IT!)](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/04/22/fellow-writer-in-need-step-up/) - It's Good Friday. As I sit here enjoying a leisurely morning cuppa, I find myself very thankful for my life. Yes, I've worked really hard to get here, but I've absolutely been blessed by opportunity. I hope everybody will be thinking about that this weekend over Easter. It's not our official holiday for thanks, but
- [Unquiet Mind](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/04/23/unquiet-mind/) - It will shock none of you to know that I have a spreadsheet I use to track my word count. It's a straight forward thing. In one field I keep track of actual words written. In another I keep track of actual manuscript words, so that I can see what I'm actually netting (as it
- [The Dark and Early Report: In Which I Enter A Time Warp](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/04/25/the-dark-and-early-report-in-which-i-enter-a-time-warp/) - When I made my declaration this weekend that starting today, I would get up EARLY to try and get my words in before work, you might have imagined that I'd be dragging my fanny out of bed at 5 o'clock. Do you not know me at all? I normally get up at 6:15 and that's
- [Gluten Free Friday: Flour Tortillas](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/04/29/gluten-free-friday-flour-tortillas/) - We love Mexican food. Plenty of our favorites were totally fine when we went gluten free. Corn tortillas are fine. Lots of our rice and bean based dishes are fine. Taco soup is fine. But you know, there's just nothing like a flour tortilla. You can't make a burrito without one. And, I'm sorry, but
- [Potato Crusted Tilapia](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/02/potato-crusted-tilapia/) - The search for a good, crunchy breading for baked fish continues this week with something I never in a million years would have thought to use as breading: ye humble potato flakes. But I got into a discussion with some other gluten free folks on Twitter the other day and someone mentioned this. I admit,
- [Character Arc Conundrum](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/03/character-arc-conundrum/) - Okay first, I think my Wii yoga instructor was trying to kill me this morning. Seriously. Crane pose? At 6:30 in the morning? When I'm no longer 20 and my butt is 25 pounds heavier than it was back then? ON THE FRIGGIN' BALANCE BOARD? You have GOT to be joking. I couldn't do it
- [Blackened Potato Wedges](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/04/blackened-potato-wedges/) - We've been on a Cajun kick lately. Hubby requested blackened potato wedges the other day to go with the andouille and gouda sausages I picked up from Sam's over the weekend (jury is still out on those, btw...they need to be IN something, and I don't yet know what). I did a search and came
- [Gluten Free Friday: Sausage and Cheddar Biscuits](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/06/gluten-free-friday-sausage-and-cheddar-biscuits/) - When we found out hubs had to go gluten free, one of the things at the top of the list for me to figure out was biscuits. Now my go-to recipe for gluten free biscuits comes from Gluten Free Cooking School. We like them exactly as they're listed, but of course I have to play.
- [A Jeans Rant](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/07/a-jeans-rant/) - To the jeans manufacturers directly responsible for EVERYBODY in Walmart, Kroger, and our Asian market knowing that I was wearing blue undies with BUTTERFLIES this morning...YOU SUCK. To everyone who let me walk around all morning WITHOUT telling me that I had a GAPING HOLE in the butt of my jeans...YOU ALSO SUCK. If my
- [Blackened Tilapia](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/09/blackened-tilapia/) - Last week we had blackened potato wedges using this blackening spice mix from All Recipes. Of course it made way more blackening spice than we needed just for the potato wedges, so my next dish to use it was some straight up blackened tilapia. I love tilapia. It's a lovely, mild fish, cheap and easily
- [Efficiency 101: No Wasted Effort (or Do A Little A Lot)](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/09/efficiency-101-no-wasted-effort/) - Mini-G.I.T. update: Down a pound and a half (YEEHA! Thank you God, I needed that); went back to doing New U sans balance board. Much more stable. I can do several poses PROPERLY since I can actually use a proper STANCE without the board. It doesn't seem to limit your exercises, but rather than being
- [Writing, Capri Pants, and Houses, Oh My](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/12/writing-capri-pants-and-houses-oh-my/) - Well after yesterday's sucky all day migraine, I wound up churning out 1623 words during sprints with Claire, who, incidentally, also finished her EPIC BATTLE SCENE that concludes ACT I. We are both rock stars and have earned a synchronized viewing of Serendipity, with large bowls of popcorn, at our earliest convenience. There will probably
- [Gluten Free Friday: Bacon Cheddar Biscuits](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/13/gluten-free-friday-bacon-cheddar-biscuits/) - To continue our theme of biscuit variations, this week I tried out bacon cheddar biscuits. I think these might have been and even bigger hit than the sausage with hubby (I think I prefer the sausage myself--hard to beat something that tastes like sausage balls). They certainly disappeared fast enough. Makes 1 dozen biscuits. Ingredients:
- [I Sold My House on Friday The 13th](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/13/i-sold-my-house-on-friday-the-13th/) - Okay, not really. But today is the open house, so I am using the POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING. I need a lot of positive y'all. I mean, seriously. It's Friday the 13th. It's supposed to be pouring down rain. And I burned the hell out of the cute little house cookies I was baking for
- [Polka Dot Chili](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/16/polka-dot-chili/) - Okay, seriously, I'm running out of names for these different kinds of chili. I went with polka dot for this because it has black beans in an otherwise SUPPOSED to be white chili. But, well, you can see it came out more brown. Looks aside, though, this was a keeper, one of the first white
- [Efficiency 101: The Power of Follow Through](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/16/efficiency-101-the-power-of-follow-through/) - For those of you who have been following the series, today's post may seem like a contradiction to last week's Do A Little, A Lot, but just go with it. We're going to start off with a brief physics lesson. I draw your attention first to Newton's First Law of Motion: Inertia is the resistance
- [Story Engineering by Larry Brooks: Reviewed](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/20/story-engineering-by-larry-brooks-reviewed/) - I am a long time fan of Larry Brooks. Anybody whose hung out here for the last year or two will have heard me talk about his blog Storyfix and his various ebooks on craft. So when Larry offered me a review copy of Story Engineering: Mastering the 6 Core Competencies of Successful Writing (aka
- [Gluten Free Friday: Cowboy Skillet Mac](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/20/gluten-free-friday-cowboy-skillet-mac/) - This is one of those freezer and pantry diving "what's for dinner?" excursions. I had half a pound of ground beef. That's it. There is not much that can be done in this household of carnivores with just half a pound of ground beef. So I added in some beans and...other stuff, tossed in pasta
- [Middle Books of Trilogies: Ponderings](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/24/middle-books-of-trilogies-ponderings/) - I am a big fan of trilogies. Books, movies. There's just something wonderful about having THREE of something. You get more of the same characters, more story, but the guarantee that everything will be wrapped up in 3 books and you don't have to worry about being left hanging if something happens to the author
- [Gluten Free Friday: Hamburger Buns](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/27/gluten-free-friday-hamburger-buns/) - I cannot possibly express the depth of my love for Jeanne of the Art of Gluten Free Baking. You just don't even know. Apart from being just generally awesome and helpful (you can find her on Twitter as @fourchickens), she has THE BEST RECIPE for gluten free burger buns that we've tried (and we've tried
- [Cake Batter Ice Cream](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/05/30/cake-batter-ice-cream/) - I am obsessed with cake batter ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. It is HORRIBLE for you. But OH SO GOOD. Sometime last year I came across a recipe for homemade cake batter ice cream and I never got around to trying it. We had a pre-Memorial Day party with friends today, and I decided
- [Gluten Free Friday: Blueberry Muffins with Crumble Topping](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/03/gluten-free-friday-blueberry-muffins-with-crumble-topping/) - Okay, this is it. My first official attempt at making up a totally gluten free baked good without using somebody ELSE'S recipe. Fortunately, hubby declared it a winner! These are NOT what you'd call low fat, low cal, healthy muffins. But they ARE darn tasty (the crumble topping tastes like shortbread cookies). Makes a dozen
- [Three Mushroom Risotto](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/06/three-mushroom-risotto/) - I love mushrooms. They're such a marvelous vegetable. Okay technically they're a fungus, but who likes to think of them like that? But they're packed with nutrients, incredibly low cal and delicious. So when I found, not only fresh oyster mushrooms, but fresh shitaki mushrooms as well at my local Asian market, I really wanted
- [Gluten Free Friday: Sandwich Bread](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/10/gluten-free-friday-sandwich-bread/) - I'm really really late getting this up. My apologies. I plumb fergot, as the sayin' goes. Today is another of those days where I'm highlighting someone else's awesome gluten free recipe that makes life gluten free SO MUCH MORE BEARABLE. This one is for sandwich bread and comes from Gluten Free Cooking School and gets
- [Woman On A Mission](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/11/woman-on-a-mission/) - Have I ever told you that I've moved fourteen times? No, I'm not a military brat. My parents are just of the build a house, sell for profit, build bigger school of home ownership, so I moved around my home town several times growing up. Then several times in college. Several times since we've been
- [Creamy Chicken and Black Bean Enchiladas](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/13/creamy-chicken-and-black-bean-enchiladas/) - I started seeing ads for Philadelphia cooking cream several months ago in my assorted cooking magazines. I had no idea what to think about it but I was intrigued because I never use heavy cream in my cooking due to the high fat and calorie content. This was a lighter alternative. Still, it took me
- [Late Sunday Summary, #ROW80 and Operation G.I.T.](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/19/late-sunday-summary-row80-and-operation-g-i-t/) - It's been a really freaking long week. I'm just sayin'. I got the updated version of Blindsight uploaded at Smashwords and Amazon. It hasn't yet been approved for premium distribution at Smashwords (because that seems to take FOREVER now), but you can get most formats between Amazon and Smashwords (it's free at both), so if
- [Efficiency 101: A Time To Be Still](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/20/efficiency-101-a-time-to-be-still/) - So much of this series is about getting things done. Cramming more accomplishments into less time. And that's fine. That's part of life. Particularly American life. We're busy people, there's constantly stuff to do, and efficiency is a means of saving our sanity. But sometimes you have to stop. Sometimes you have to NOT be
- [Chicken and Black Bean Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/20/chicken-and-black-bean-soup/) - After a week away from home eating marvelous but not good for me food, I needed something veggie filled and delicious to reset my system to healthy. I was going to make a straight up black bean soup, but hubs is a carnivore, so that demanded the addition of chicken. I thought it was a
- [Recordkeeping and Sales](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/21/recordkeeping-and-sales/) - I feel like I should have a feather duster tucked behind my ear and an adding machine at my fingertips. It's a virtual housekeeping/record updating kinda day. The latest quarter (ish) numbers have come in from distributors at Smashwords, so I've been performing mental gymnastics to sort their spreadsheet (which provides data going back to
- [Pepper, Bean and Pasta Salad](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/27/pepper-bean-and-pasta-salad/) - I love pasta salad. It's just one of those things that says "summer" to me. Toss in some pasta, whatever's in season, some kind of dressing, maybe some cheese, and voila. Instant and delicious side. This one isn't gluten free, though it could be made so easily by using your preferred GF pasta. Serves 5
- [Potato Crusted Chicken Nuggets](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/29/potato-crusted-chicken-nuggets/) - So we tried using potato flakes as a breading for fish a while back and it was wonderful. I only just now got around to trying the same method on chicken. The end result was crispy on the outside and moist on the inside. Hubs prefers the cornflake breading for chicken nuggets, but I really
- [Micajah "Mick" Guidry](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/06/30/micajah-mick-guidry/) - So when I sit down to write books, some characters are clearer than others. Some characters I wind up describing a lot, such that everybody can see the character. Others...well, I just don't describe them much physically. Mick, the hero of Devil's Eye and Gage's BFF in Forsaken By Shadow, was one of these. I
- [Gluten Free Friday: Waffles](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/07/01/gluten-free-friday-waffles/) - And tomorrow, I’m makin’ waffles! Ah the immortal words of Donkey. We love waffles in our house. They represent the WEEKEND and lazy breakfasts. This was one of my first forays into playing with GF baking without a specific recipe. The end results are hearty, tasty, and very very filling. Makes 6 waffles at 150
- [Peanut Butter Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/07/04/peanut-butter-peanut-butter-cup-ice-cream/) - For Memorial Day I made diet crack--aka cake batter ice cream. It was marvelous. But not gluten free. So for the 4th of July, I promised hubs I'd make some ice cream particularly with him in mind (even though there are many peanut butter addicts among our friends and family). That's where this recipe came
- [Operation Goddess In Training (G.I.T.)](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/07/15/operation-goddess-in-training-g-i-t/) - I am very motivated by having badges and making public declarations, so even though I've talked in the past about Operation Goddess In Training, I fell off the wagon in a BIG WAY during all the house stress and in honor of getting back into the groove, I decided to make a badge to post
- [Tamari Chicken Skewers](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/07/20/tamari-chicken-skewers/) - Kroger had a special on fresh chicken tenders last week and I was craving something Asian. Since I recently found a GINORMOUS half gallon bottle of tamari at my Asian market, I wanted to use it on chicken. But instead of the usual stir fry, I opted to make something on the grill. These were
- [What's Your Klout?](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/07/21/whats-your-klout/) - On this whole road of fumbling toward publication and platform building, we try this, we try that, and sometimes we get good results. Sometimes we get crickets. It's often difficult to know whether what we're doing is making any difference at all. We can make smart decisions, like buying my pal Kristen Lamb's book We
- [Gluten Free Friday: Gluten Free Peach Cobbler](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/07/22/gluten-free-friday-gluten-free-peach-cobbler/) - Nothing says summer to me like cobbler. In fact, I actually prefer cobbler to cake or pie most of the time. So when we found out hubs was gluten intolerant, I knew cobbler had to be on the list of stuff I learned how to make. This was my first attempt and it was marvelous.
- [Sesame Rice](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/07/25/sesame-rice/) - I made a sort of Asian themed salmon last week (recipe coming on Wednesday) that I really wanted an Asian sort of rice as a side. But I didn't really have the calorie budget or inclination to make any kind of fried rice. So I tried this experiment in my rice cooker. It was easy
- [Orange-Tamari Glazed Salmon](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/07/27/orange-tamari-glazed-salmon/) - I have wanted to glaze salmon forever. But it seemed like every time I tried, the glaze just slid right off the fish. Well there are these things called directions. It kinda helps when you look 'em up. The secret, apparently, is cornstarch. The end result was a flavorful fish with just the right amount
- [Midweek Check-In and ANOTHER SNB](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/07/27/midweek-check-in-and-another-snb/) - I am feeling BETTER! (Thanks for asking.) Back at work today. Boo. I was really enjoying my movie marathons (North & South--swoon, Van Helsing--way cheesier than I remembered, Letters To Juliet--hits all of my happy buttons for good story). I had all these grand plans of WRITING on my sick days. But...not so much. I
- [Gluten Free Friday: Pizza Dough II and Focacia](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/07/29/gluten-free-friday-pizza-dough-ii-and-focacia/) - Ever since we started this gluten free journey, I've been tweaking recipes I find online and finally got into working out my own recipes. My original GF pizza dough isn't bad at all, but it wasn't what WE like in our pizza, so I've been tweaking it, and I think I've finally settled on one
- [Friday Fitness GIT Update and Smattering](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/07/29/friday-fitness-git-update-and-smattering/) - As you can see by my little badge over there, I am now on a new 2 day GIT streak. Before I left for my work trip last week, I was down 3.5 pounds. I came home up 4. :eyeroll: My uneasy stomach on Monday and Tuesday meant I didn't quite get back into the
- [Confessions of a Workaholic](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/07/30/confessions-of-a-workaholic/) - Thursday night is boys' night in our household. This means that my darling spouse heads out, guitar in hand, for band practice and beers with the guys. Boys' night has been an ongoing thing for most of the time that we've lived in our current house, except for a long stretch when hubs broke his
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/07/31/sunday-summary-and-row80-update-10/) - I just woke up from the most ridiculous, effed up anxiety dream. For some reason, in the dream, we hired these people to fix our fence (I have no idea WHY, there's nothing WRONG with our fence). And we get out there and they are ripping off the perfectly good chain link and putting up
- [Review: The Iron Knight by Julie Kagawa](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/02/review-the-iron-knight-by-julie-kagawa/) - I was a fan of the Iron Fey series long before I became agent-mates with Julie Kagawa. I had, in fact, plowed through The Iron King, The Iron Daughter, and The Iron Queen. I absolutely fell in love with Meghan Chase as a heroine. She is brave, determined, and an all around excellent example for
- [Red: First Draft Finished...Now What?](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/02/red-first-draft-finished-now-what/) - I finished the first draft of Red. And there was much rejoicing. http://twitter.com/#!/kaitnolan/status/98492640567373824 Then I promptly texted my CPs and called the Magnificent Laurie McLean to tell her it was finished and heap on a mountain of warning clauses and codicils amounting to "It's not perfect and needs revision." Then I made the audacious claim,
- [Revisify and Plans for Red](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/05/revisify-and-plans-for-red/) - I totally stole that term from pal Jessica Corra, who just had her first book deal announced the other day in PM. Congrats Jess! I technically started revisions on Red yesterday, but it was really the small stuff. The scenes where there needed to be a line tweaked here and there, typos or punctuation errors
- [Oven Fried Eggplant](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/08/oven-fried-eggplant/) - I've been away. Bad food blogger. But I've been finishing up my latest book, knocking out revisions and getting it ready to go out the door, and sadly, food blogging is what typically slides because I'm back to old favorites rather than creating new recipes. But one of the things I did try was a
- [Pepper Jelly Chicken](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/10/pepper-jelly-chicken/) - Y'all, I have to admit, I was scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas when I came up with this one. I had these chicken thighs and...nothing. And I had to give you guys SOMETHING. And then I saw the 3 jars of homemade pepper jelly in the cabinet that have been sitting there
- [Midweek #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/10/midweek-row80-update/) - So I thought I was through with Red. Spoke too soon. The Pink Hammer has not yet signed off on the final fight scene. Some people might wonder why I listen when others think it's fine the way it is. First, I tend not to trust people who think everything is fine the way it
- [The Power of Yoga](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/12/the-power-of-yoga/) - Today marks Day 6 back at yoga (and day 4 of my current G.I.T. Streak). I've gone through Expert Flexibility and am FINALLY beginning to get some muscle memory back. I switched over from the long routine to the short today, which seems to save me about 10 minutes of time, leaving me just enough
- [Gluten Free Friday: Tortillas Take 2](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/12/gluten-free-friday-tortillas-take-2/) - Hubs requested Mexican for his birthday--which means home burrito bar. Which means, obviously flour tortillas, which are a no no. I had tried this recipe for tortillas from Gluten Free Cooking School, which had a lovely flavor but kind of tore apart on me, and required a LOT more rice flour than I liked to
- [Bratwurst Stroganoff](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/15/bratwurst-stroganoff/) - Laziness was the inspiration for this recipe. Why? Because I had bratwurst thawed and no buns and I was too lazy to make more buns. So, for some reason, I decided to try it in stroganoff. I don't know why. But it turned out really interesting. We definitely PREFER regular beef stroganoff, but this was
- [Now Available: RED](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/16/now-available-red/) - It's been a long time coming! I envisioned this book back in the fall last year, started writing in January and hoped to release in May. Well now it's August, but my debut YA novel Red is FINALLY HERE! Right after Labor Day my awesome agent the Magnificent Laurie McLean will be shopping it to
- [Midweek Check-in: #ROW80 and Operation G.I.T.](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/17/midweek-check-in-row80-and-operation-g-i-t/) - So I was supposed to start back on Riven last week. But I was conversing with Important Peeps about launch plans for Red, doing the final line edits to make sure all my commas were in the right place and my typos corrected, and then I was out of town over the weekend, so all
- [Grumpy G.I.T.](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/23/grumpy-g-i-t/) - I woke up a total grump this morning. Partly this is because they gave me the stinking tetnus shot in my right arm (because I am left handed). Except I normally sleep on my right side, and since my arm hurts like a son of a bitch (the shot was way worse than the injury
- [Birds Eye Chef's Favorites: Creamy Primavera Risotto](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/25/birds-eye-chefs-favorites-creamy-primavera-risotto/) - I am full of so much food blogger fail the last two weeks. Y'all, I swear I've been cooking. I've even been cooking new stuff. But I've also been in the middle of launching my latest book (a YA paranormal called Red--more on that here, if you're interested), and almost breaking my nose (more on
- [Gluten Free Friday: Blue Corn Crusted Tilapia](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/26/gluten-free-friday-blue-corn-crusted-tilapia/) - How's that for a pretentious name? What these are, really, are purple fish sticks. Which is either going to freak you out or make you think "Holy crap, what a great idea for kids!", which is where my brain was when I made them. See, fish sticks are a favorite of mine--and yeah, I mean
- [Badges!](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/27/badges/) - So after Susan made her lovely post announcing the forthcoming release of the much-awaited Heroes 'Til Curfew, I decided to shamelessly swipe her idea of creating a sharable badge that peeps who liked Red could use on their blog or Facebook or whatever. You get two choices. One is just the very professional, straight up
- [Argentinean Pork Chops](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/29/argentinean-pork-chops/) - In this month's Cooking Light magazine, there was a whole string of pork recipes. There was one for a pork tenderloin that sounded divine. All I had around were some butterfly pork chops, so I adapted it for that. And it was DELICIOUS. Ingredients: 2 butterfly cut pork chops 1 tablespoon parsley 1 tablespoon cilantro
- [A Bit of Fun](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/30/a-bit-of-fun/) - My official Red launch blog tour kicks off TODAY with Kristel Lee where I'm talking about why a strong heroine is better than just a virtuous one. And now for something completely different. As I was coming in to work this morning, instead of the usual twitter of summer birds, all I could hear was
- [Spike Spills The Beans: The Skinny on YA Author Michelle Muto](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/08/31/spike-spills-the-beans-the-skinny-on-ya-author-michelle-muto/) - Kait's off buried under fairy tale research--why is she watching Ever After for the 800th time? Since Elodie's just as big a sap and is camped out on the sofa with her and hogging all the popcorn, I decided to pop in and take over the blog for the day. You know, totally in the name
- [Gluten Free Friday: Bruschetta, Quinoa, and Goat Cheese Stuffed Peppers](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/02/gluten-free-friday-bruschetta-quinoa-and-goat-cheese-stuffed-peppers/) - Red peppers were on special at Kroger a week or two ago, and I bought four with no idea what I intended to do with them. Time passed and, like half the contents of my fridge, I forgot about them. Found them again yesterday and determined I must stuff them with something! I have a
- [Sanity Saver: Book Launch Planner](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/02/sanity-saver-book-launch-planner/) - Before we move into today's post, I wanted to announce the WINNER of our little big of flash fiction FUN from the other day. Bragging rights go TO L.S. Engler! Next order of business, today's stop on the Red launch blog tour is my dear CP and BFF Susan Bischoff's blog, Hunting High and Low
- [Mexican Pizza](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/05/mexican-pizza/) - It's basically pizza week in our household. Last week, I made a batch of gluten free pizza dough, which makes enough dough for 3 pizzas and only lasts for a week or so. As much as we love pizza, we needed some variety, and hubs made the suggestion for Mexican pizza--basically taking everything we love
- [Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/07/bacon-cheeseburger-pizza/) - As I said Monday, it’s basically pizza week in our household. Last week, I made a batch of gluten free pizza dough, which makes enough dough for 3 pizzas and only lasts for a week or so. After the raging success of the Mexican pizza, I wanted more, but we didn't have the ingredients for
- [Death To Your Comfort Zone: A Guest Post By Tori Scott](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/07/death-to-your-comfort-zone-a-guest-post-by-tori-scott/) - I'd like to offer a warm welcome today to my agent mate and fellow YA author Tori Scott! We're swapping posts, so you can find my post from Ordinary to Extraordinary over at her blog as part of the Red launch tour. Take it, Tori! I write YA. Therefore, I read YA. Like, a crap
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/11/sunday-summary-and-row80-update-13/) - The highlight of my weekend was the fact that I managed to fix the clogged drain line on my dishwasher. Perhaps this is sad, and testament to how dull my life is. I say it's a testament to how much a DESPISE doing dishes by hand. Either way, go me. I fixed it myself. I'm
- [Chicken Enchiladas Supreme](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/12/chicken-enchiladas-supreme/) - If you're stopping by for my usual low-cal, healthy fare, just look the other way. This does NOT constitute healthy on any level. I had a tub of Philadelphia Cooking Creme that was about to expire and had to be turned into SOMETHING. So I adapted this suggested recipe by Kraft. Naturally, I'm me, so
- [Idiocracy Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/12/idiocracy-report/) - The Red launch tour continues today at Ex Libris where I'm talking about my favorite modern fairy tales! So one of the things readers expressed interest in hearing more about was my crazy student stories. I teach college students middle to upper level psych classes. By the time they get to me, there is a
- [Confronting the Could Be: A Guest Post By Jessica Corra](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/13/confronting-the-could-be-a-guest-post-by-jessica-corra/) - I had the opportunity to chat with actual teenagers yesterday at the family picnic. I'm young enough that I figure I'm pretty in tune with my target audience, but was I surprised. Today's teens are much savvier than I ever was - am - fine, will be. I couldn't help being impressed. (Then again, my
- [Creamy Salsa Dip](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/14/creamy-salsa-dip/) - Hubs turned to me this weekend, "Honey, I want some dip." We'd just had a cookout at his parents the night before, so I didn't have room for more cheating, which knocked out the typical options of rotel dip or cream cheese sausage dip. We needed something a little bit healthier that didn't actually require
- [Walking the Line Between YA and Grown Up: A Guest Post By Stacey Wallace Benefiel](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/15/walking-the-line-between-ya-and-grown-up-a-guest-post-by-stacey-wallace-benefiel/) - Before we get on to the awesome guest post by Stacey, I wanted to let y'all know that the Red launch blog tour continues today at Word for Teens! Take it Stacey! Stacey Wallace Benefiel here. I’m the author of the YA Zellie Wells trilogy, the Day of Sacrifice series and The Toilet Business, a
- [Fiction Friday: Beautiful Creatures](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/16/fiction-friday-beautiful-creatures/) - I don't get enough time to read to do a regular Friday feature that talks about the books I've been reading, but on my drive up to Susan's yesterday, I finished listening to Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, which I had in enhanced audio from the library. I've been mentioning this book
- [Gluten Free Friday: Southwestern Lentil Burgers](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/16/gluten-free-friday-southwestern-lentil-burgers/) - I'm not vegetarian, but I do often like vegetarian meals. I've been on a kick for veggie based lunches lately to up my total veggie consumption. I've had this bag of red lentils for a few months with no clue what to do with them. I'm not a fan of Indian food, and I don't
- [Fandrew Con 2011](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/17/fandrew-con-2011/) - We are in a flurry of prep here at Chez Bischoff for Fandrew Con 2011. Okay really we've just finished caffeinating, starting some taco soup in the crock pot for lunch, and are about to get clean so we're fit for public presentation. The darling Lauralynn Elliott arrives at NOON. And we just got a
- [Goat Cheese Au Gratin Potatoes](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/19/goat-cheese-au-gratin-potatoes/) - Impending spoilage is the mother of inventions. I buy goat cheese at Sam's Club because I can get a pound there for only a dollar or so more than the little 4 oz. packages at the local grocery store. But I often don't get through it fast enough before it starts to spoil. One of
- [Sargento Cheese Tasting](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/22/sargento-cheese-tasting/) - Boy do I have egg on my face. This was supposed to go up by the 15th and I totally mis-scheduled it. Oops. Sorry Foodbuzz! In any event, via the Foodbuzz Tastemakers program, I got chosen to receive a $25 gift card to put on a cheese tasting with Sargento cheese. How awesome is that?
- [Gluten Free Friday: Cheesy Chicken Corn Chowder](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/23/gluten-free-friday-cheesy-chicken-corn-chowder/) - I love corn chowder. I love chicken corn chowder. I love cheese. You can see where I'm going with this. Marrying all the flavors I love was an inspiration. A spicy one. Big yum. If it's too spicy for you, you could get mild rotel or cool it down with some sour cream. I loved
- [Lookit!  The Pretty!!](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/24/lookit-the-pretty/) - Self-publishing your own work, having actual people who aren't related to you or bound by friendship read your stories and love them, give them complements, getting actually PAID for your writing--these are all exciting things. Things that make you feel validated and like a real author. But there's one thing that I hadn't done yet,
- [Sunday Summary](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/25/sunday-summary-40/) - Well before I left for FandrewCon, the Nyko Zoom I ordered for our Xbox Kinect finally came in. I didn't have an opportunity to try it until yesterday. I have to say I'm incredibly disappointed. The gamer mags gave this thing 10 out of 10, so I preordered it months before it was available. The
- [Finding the Line: Guest Post By Vicki Keire](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/26/finding-the-line-guest-post-by-vicki-keire/) - I'd like y'all to give a warm welcome to one of my favorite indie authors, Vicki Keire, author of the Angel's Edge trilogy (third book forthcoming on Halloween, for which I am eagerly salivating). Welcome Vicki! ~*~ Finding the Line: New Adult’s Impact on Writers One of the things I struggle with most as a
- [Paperback Is Finally HERE!](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/27/paperback-is-finally-here/) - So a handful of you have been waiting a LOOOOOOONG time for my Mirus work to be out in paperback. A few of you slogged through the serial version of Forsaken By Shadow here on the blog. Some have been reading from your computers or on your phones. But at long last, you have the
- [Pushing Through Page Fright](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/28/pushing-through-page-fright/) - First off, y'all have to check out this fabulous review of Red by Trish at YABound, along with my mini-interview. I've been dipping a toe back into writing this week. And I mean, like, my pinky toe. I had 188 words on Monday. 261 yesterday. I'm hoping to keep increasing my daily output over the
- [Joss Whedon: Anti Happily Ever After?](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/29/joss-whedon-anti-happily-ever-after/) - I think it is safe to say that I am a Joss Whedon fangirl. He hooked me with Buffy back when I was a freshman in college and hasn't taken his claws out since. Firefly. Dr. Horrible. Dollhouse. Titan A.E. (yes, I liked it; sue me) I've seen it all. Well except all of Angel,
- [Fiction Friday: Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/09/30/fiction-friday-beautiful-darkness-by-kami-garcia-and-margaret-stohl/) - In a follow up to finishing Beautiful Creatures the first Caster Chronicles Novel (which I talk about here), I immediately launched into the second book, Beautiful Darkness, also in enhanced audio. I can't tell you how much I really enjoy enhanced audio. It's everything cool about a movie without being visual. Anyway, first, here's the
- [A Round of Words In 80 Days: Round 4 Goals](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/03/a-round-of-words-in-80-days-round-4-goals/) - I had all kinds of big goals for Round 3. Some of them I met. Some of them were epic fail. I've been giving a lot of thought to what I want to shoot for with this last round of the year. I'm beginning a new WIP--the next Mirus novel. I've also got a collaborative
- [Roasted Tomato Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/03/roasted-tomato-soup/) - We have been ALL ABOUT THE SOUP in our house this last week. Know why? Because IT IS OCTOBER and fall weather is finally starting to arrive. Okay, it's Mississippi, which means cooler nights, and days still in the 80s, but we take what we can get after a brutal summer of 100+ temps. Fall,
- [Chicken Soup In A Flash](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/05/chicken-soup-in-a-flash/) - Chicken soup. Classic comfort food. It's the thing I always want when I'm sick. But here's the thing. When you're the wife or the mom or the primary food preparer in the house...there's nobody to make YOU chicken noodle soup. And you know...Campbell's just really doesn't do it. So here's a quick and dirty recipe
- [Gluten Free Friday: Banana Bread](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/07/gluten-free-friday-banana-bread/) - Banana bread is something that I made all the time before the gluten intolerance. It seems like there are always bananas that are past that "we're still good to eat as is" stage. It took me a while to get around to adapting my regular banana bread recipe to gluten free, but the results were...wow.
- [Mamma Mia and Second Chances for First Loves](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/07/mamma-mia-and-second-chances-for-first-loves/) - Last night was boy's night, so when I finished my words for the day, I rewarded myself with Mamma Mia, which I'd been in the mood to watch since our #ROW80 Twitter party on Wednesday when people kept posting clips of Dancing Queen where I couldn't actually sing and dance in my office. Since no
- [Sunday Summary](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/09/sunday-summary-42/) - I was a total waste of oxygen yesterday. Didn't get a thing written or actively plotted. Opening up the WIP just made me close it again because I had no idea what to do with it. Same reaction this morning, which led me to the conclusion that's been circling around my head for the last
- [Vegetable Lo Mein with Soba Noodles](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/10/vegetable-lo-mein-with-soba-noodles/) - Would you believe I had never had soba noodles before? I bought a pack at the Asian market a few weeks ago and only just got around to trying them. OMG. LOVE. I piled this dish of lo mein FULL of veggies and had a dinner almost as big as my head for just over
- [Something Southern: B.B. King](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/13/something-southern-b-b-king/) - Tuesday night I had the rare and amazing opportunity to go see B.B. King. He was playing for the Lyceum Series at my local university. It's not often you get to see him at all, and it's rarer still that he gets to play in his home state. Talk about a proud Mississippian. It was
- [Fiction Friday: The Juliet Spell by Douglas Rees](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/14/fiction-friday-the-juliet-spell-by-douglas-rees/) - I first heard about The Juliet Spell a few months ago while eavesdropping on a Twitter conversation between my agent, the Magnificent Laurie McLean and former Harlequin Teen editor Adam Wilson. I can't remember the descriptors they used, but they had me at "Shakespeare" and "time travel". There might have been reference to Glee. I'm
- [Gluten Free Friday: Focacia Bread Pizza](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/14/gluten-free-friday-focacia-bread-pizza/) - My husband is officially in love with focacia bread. So when he made the remark "this would make good pizza," I pulled an "As you wish" and made some. Flavor wise, this came out great, but I think texturewise, it wound up moister than I like because the bread absorbed more of the sauce than
- [Mental Reboot](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/15/mental-reboot/) - I've done a lot of freaking out this year (and last year, and probably other times before that). It's kind of a natural end result of being a Type A workaholic who constantly runs at the edge of Maxed Out. Anything that implies more work or that things won't pay off or work out as
- [Potato and Sausage Skillet](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/17/potato-and-sausage-skillet/) - After last week's jambalaya, I had half a pound of cajun sausage left. It seemed to be crying out for potatoes, so I listened and came up with a simple skillet supper that had hubby ready to run to the grocery for more sausage so we could make more. Delicious and deceptively simple. Serves 2.
- [The Season of Temptation](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/18/the-season-of-temptation/) - The Season of Temptation has officially begun. It's that last 3 months of the year that has a tendency to add 5-10 pounds to our New Year's Resolution. Of course they rolled out the candy over a month ago. I think I actually started seeing Halloween decorations and costumes in JULY. But I resisted. Mostly.
- [Roasted Acorn Squash](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/19/roasted-acorn-squash/) - Acorn squash is another one of those veggies I'd never tried. I got into butternut last year. Spaghetti squash the year before that. So it was time to give this one a try. A quick Twitter poll proved that THE WAY to cook it was roasting with brown sugar and butter. So that's what I
- [Gluten Free Friday: Sausage Pancakes](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/21/gluten-free-friday-sausage-pancakes/) - You know how good breakfast sausage tastes dragged through maple syrup? Well, at least if you're southern. My friend from New York swears this meat and sweet thing is southern. In any event, it's delicious. So I decided that the ultimate savory/sweet breakfast would be pancakes with the sausage IN THEM. And they were AWESOME.
- [Glorgious: Signs of Fall](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/22/glorgious-signs-of-fall/) - I've been neologizing this week. I have, several times now, tried to type glorious or gorgeous and keep coming out with glorgious, so I have decided it should be a word that supersedes both gorgeous and glorious in awesome. That's what the weather has been this week. Glorgious. A cold front came through on Tuesday
- [Sunday Summary and # ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/23/sunday-summary-and-row80-update-14/) - I kinda don't have a lot of progress to report since Wednesday. I've only written 229 words. I got all side tracked by my excitement over Sarah Wendell reading and actually LIKING Red and spent the rest of the week grinning like an idiot and going SQUEE! But I did do a lot of world
- [Black Bean Burgers II](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/24/black-bean-burgers-ii/) - One of our former neighbors was a vegetarian, so I got into trying out bean burger recipes when we had neighborhood cookouts, so she wouldn't have to bring her own burger. I've done black bean burgers before, but after the recent lentil burgers I made, I wanted to try adapting my recipe. The end result
- [Attention Mirus Fans: Call For a Favor](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/24/attention-mirus-fans-call-for-a-favor/) - There are, I am gratified to say, a number of you out there who have read all of my Mirus stories up to this point. There are many of you who were kind enough to review Forsaken By Shadow, Devil's Eye, and Blindsight. I am here to beg a favor from you. As you probably
- [Food Network[ing]: A Guest Post By Kandie Delley](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/25/food-networking-a-guest-post-by-kandie-delley/) - I'd like to welcome Kandie Delley to the blog today. Kandie and I met on Twitter and bonded over gluten free recipes. Living proof of food networking in action! :D ~*~ Okay, okay. I tried (unsuccessfully) to intertwine the Food Network (one of my fave cooking networks) and networking together because really, they both CAN
- [Carne Asada](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/26/carne-asada/) - Carne asada is traditionally made with cheaper cuts of meat---flank steak, skirt steak, hanger steak, etc. I happened to find a better deal on top sirloin the day I went to the butcher, so that's what I got. It's leaner than the aforementioned cuts. Either way, the acids in the marinade break down any tough
- [Gluten Free Friday: Cheddar Corn Muffins](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/28/gluten-free-friday-cheddar-corn-muffins/) - My husband and I have a long standing argument on the subject of cornbread. I am of the opinion that sugar doesn't belong anywhere near cornbread. Cornbread is a savory affair. If there's sugar involved, it's not truly cornbread, it's johnny cake. Hubby loves the sweet stuff. I almost never fix it, but when I
- [Thoughts on Once Upon A Time Pilot](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/28/thoughts-on-once-upon-a-time-pilot/) - We all know I love fairy tales. I've got a whole shelf in my personal library devoted to books of them from around the world. So when I heard about ABC's Once Upon A Time, I got really excited. The basic premise is of a little New England town that's home to all these fairy
- [Tex Mex Chicken Corn Chowder](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/31/tex-mex-chicken-corn-chowder/) - I'd never heard of using corn cobs to make stock before, but a coworker from corn country told me her grandmother did this religiously--even ears that you'd actually EATEN off of (it gets boiled! she said). So I decided to try it for corn chowder. The results were surprising. And me being me, I had
- [Happy Halloween](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/10/31/happy-halloween-2/) - Today it's Halloween, which I am celebrating by wearing my striped pumpkin socks and a lot of black. We already attended our party for the occasion on Saturday. I went as Temperance Brennan from Bones. Much deliciousness was had and now I'm ready to devote myself to veggies and lean protein for a few weeks
- [Social Media Ennui](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/01/social-media-ennui/) - I have a confession to make. I'm suffering from some serious ennui about social media, publishing, reading blogs... Why the blah? Someone said in a recent post (I think it was Bob Mayer, though I couldn't find the particular post) that there's a really high turnover in self publishing. A huge chunk of the people
- [#ROW80 Update and Home Improvement Adventures](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/02/row80-update-and-home-improvement-adventures/) - Okay I freely admit I haven't been writing. Well I did yesterday. 759 words. I'm inching back into the book, filling in some final holes before moving forward in chronological order after jumping around all over the place. What I HAVE been doing is finally getting around to doing the embossed wallpaper backsplash in my
- [Pork Fried Rice](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/02/pork-fried-rice/) - We love fried rice but it's not what you'd call a really healthy option. One of my concessions is to use brown rice instead of white and to load it up with vegetables. Lately I've been experimenting with how little oil I can get away with. Where once I used a tablespoon per step, I've
- [There's a Wookie In My Purse](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/03/theres-a-wookie-in-my-purse/) - "What was that?" "What was what?" I ask. "That noise." "What noise?" :Listens: "There it is again! It's like an animal or something." "Oh, no, I've just got a Wookie in my purse," I say. :Blank stare: "You what?" "Chewbacca now tells me when I have a text." :Flies Star Wars geek flag high: So
- [Operation G.I.T. Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/04/operation-g-i-t-update/) - Well I haven't done an Operation G.I.T. update in a while, so I figured I'd talk a little about how that's going as we enter the Season of Temptation. I survived Halloween, thank God. I managed not to buy more than that one initial, tiny bag of candy corn. There was party eating, but I
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/06/sunday-summary-and-row80-update-16/) - Wordpress, it seems, is back to normal. The site seemed to be down for a while yesterday, as I couldn't get on any of my dashboards and even the sites themselves seemed to have difficulty loading. The highlight of the weekend was hubby and I going to see Puss In Boots yesterday. The Face in
- [Roasted Pumpkin Seeds](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/07/roasted-pumpkin-seeds/) - Okay so I'm a little late posting this one with Halloween just past, but there are still pumpkins to be bought and seeds to be roasted! I don't know why I never saved the seeds from making jack o lanterns before. Too busy making art, I guess. But this year we had particularly seedy pumpkins,
- [How To Put A Custom Sign Up Form on Wordpress.com](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/07/how-to-put-a-custom-sign-up-form-on-wordpress-com/) - First off, I feel compelled to link back to Kristen Lamb's recent and timely post about how to approach people for reviews, guest posts, or interviews without making us want to claw your eyes out. The request I got last night pretty well broke all the rules. Except for not spelling my name wrong. But
- [Beef Barley and Mushroom Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/09/beef-barley-and-mushroom-soup/) - Fall is in the air. I can't tell you how happy that makes me. Autumn is my favorite time of year because it's time to bust out the crock pot for flavorful soups and stews. Beef barley is one of hubby's faves, so it seemed like the thing to kick off the season. This is
- [WSA: Writer's Service Announcement: The Importance of Posture](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/10/wsa-writers-service-announcement-the-importance-of-posture/) - "Stand up straight! Don't slouch!" How many of you heard this from your mom or grandmother growing up? I know I did. And actually I am not a sloucher when I'm standing. I'm short, so no reason not to stand straight, shoulders back, etc. That doesn't mean I have excellent posture for the, oh, twelve
- [Gluten Free Friday: Blondies](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/11/gluten-free-friday-blondies/) - I love blondies. They're one of those things I never make because, frankly, I don't bake. It's not because I CAN'T bake sweets. I can. But they are not exactly part of a healthy, balanced diet because, well, they're crack and I can't eat just one. But these were for a Halloween party, so I
- [Tuscan Lemon Muffins](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/16/tuscan-lemon-muffins/) - I saw these Tuscan Lemon Muffins in the latest issue of Cooking Light and HAD to try them. I love lemon anything (scones, poppyseed bread, pie...) and at 186 calories and 6.2 grams of fat, these won't break the calorie bank. Ingredients: 7 9/10 oz all-purpose flour (1 3/4 cups) 3/4 cup granulated sugar 2
- [Gluten Free Friday: Thanksgiving Round Up](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/18/gluten-free-friday-thanksgiving-round-up/) - I haven't been cooking much lately, y'all. I was on vacation and I've got a back thing going on, so I'm going to do a re-run of my turkey recipe (please feel free to sub a gluten free beer in this recipe--my husband loves Stella Artois). I also wanted to do something a little bit
- [The Importance of Character and Why Grimm Has a Grim Future](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/19/the-importance-of-character-and-why-grimm-has-a-grim-future/) - It feels so incredibly WRONG to be awake at 7:30 on a Saturday morning. Wrong I tell you! Except I passed out at 9:45 last night, so it's not like I didn't get a full night's sleep. And I guess with plot ideas pushing at my brain--stuff I actually thought of as I was going
- [Frito Chili Pie](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/21/frito-chili-pie/) - Leftover chili is not something that happens often in our house. Most batches, no matter which kind we make, give us four servings. Dinner one night, reruns the next. But sometimes hubs will be hungry enough for 2 bowls the first night, leaving that one random serving to do something with. And that, my friends,
- [Holiday Sale on RED](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/22/holiday-sale-on-red/) - I freaking LOVE the holidays. All the good food. Finding the perfect gift. The theoretically colder weather (though I've totally been wearing T-shirts all week and Turkey Day is in 2 days). I officially broke out my Charlie Brown Christmas station on Pandora yesterday, and if my office wasn't filled literally to the ceiling with
- [Gluten Free Friday: Cinnamon Rolls](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/11/25/gluten-free-friday-cinnamon-rolls/) - One of the things hubs thought he'd be giving up when he gave up gluten was cinnamon rolls. Not that I recall ever actually making the normal kind before. Whatever. When he mentioned them this morning, I set out in search of a recipe. I stumbled across this one by Gluten Free Steve, which he
- [German Potato Salad](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/12/05/german-potato-salad/) - A few weeks ago, we and some of our friends decided to have Fauxtober Fest. This was originally to have been an Oktoberfest birthday party for one of them, but some stuff came up and it had to be rescheduled. My contribution to the menu was this German potato salad and some gluten free pretzels
- [Gluten Free Friday: Chicken Rotel](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/12/09/gluten-free-friday-chicken-rotel/) - One of my favorite foods is chicken rotel. All that cheesy goodness. But, like many casseroles, it uses condensed cream of mushroom soup. I was stymied on what to do for a substitution until I FINALLY found this recipe Adventures of a Gluten Free Mom. Halleluia! This made me really really happy. Be forewarned, this
- [Sausage Balls](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/12/12/sausage-balls/) - No southern party or get together is ever complete without the inclusion of sausage balls. These meatball size bundles of meaty, cheesy deliciousness are nothing in the realm of healthy and they have the same addictive properties as crack. I dare you to eat just one. Hubby loves them as a portable weekday breakfast that
- [The Scorpio Races: A Subtle Love](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/12/13/the-scorpio-races-a-subtle-love/) - I am a huge fan of romance. It is the number one thing I read, and the stuff that's not, still has a strong romantic element. I love love. I love seeing love overcome challenges and bad guys and the character's own inner demons. I'm an enormous lover of big, sweeping emotional stories--not the melodramatic
- [Gluten Free Friday: Sister Schubert Parker House Rolls: Take 1](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/12/16/gluten-free-friday-sister-schubert-parker-house-rolls-take-1/) - All around the country, a standard feature at any holiday table are Sister Schubert's Parker House style rolls. These are the best rolls to hit the freezer section since...well, ever. Each tin contains these fabulous pillows of delicious, buttery bread that is impossible to put down. But they are, of course, a great big no
- [Red Now Available In Paperback!](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/12/17/red-now-available-in-paperback/) - Tis the season for fairy tales Red is available in paperback! Just in time for the holidays, Red is available in paperback! Currently it's only up at Amazon and Createspace. It will eventually trickle over to Barnes and Noble and The Book Depository (for international readers--they have FREE SHIPPING!), but I'm not sure that will
- [Vegetarian Stuffed Shells](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/12/19/vegetarian-stuffed-shells/) - I've been on a crusade to try to be better about not wasting food. I'm really really bad about it with the new fridge because all the extra space is in depth and stuff gets lost in the back. So when I found half a container of ricotta, half a thing of cottage cheese, and
- [Butternut Squash Fries](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/12/21/butternut-squash-fries/) - I keep trying butternut squash. I like it roasted and in soup. Hubs has not yet found an incarnation he likes, but I am nothing if not persistent. It's a marvelous veggie because it's low carb, low cal, and low fat. It's got about a third of the calories of potatoes. Since we've been loaded
- [Feeling Grinchy About KDP Select](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/12/21/feeling-grinchy-about-kdp-select/) - It's the holiday season. Writers across the land want to say thank you to their readers and many are offering up one of their books for free. Awesome, I think, as I continue to read through the newsletter that has hit my inbox. And then I see that it's free only on Amazon because those
- [A Plotting Epiphany and my Top Ten Reads of 2011](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/12/29/a-plotting-epiphany-and-my-top-ten-reads-of-2011/) - I got lost in mulling yesterday and an epic workout and forgot to post. I have not exactly been setting the world on fire with words this week. I wasn't burning to get back to the WIP and that led me to the conclusion that I wasn't starting it the right way. Which led to
- [Engage in #RAEs (Random Acts of Exercise)](https://kaitnolan.com/2011/12/30/engage-in-raes-random-acts-of-exercise/) - I remember when the whole notion of random acts of kindness was a big thing. It's still something that happens from time to time, though it's often not talked about. I remember hearing on twitter the other day that someone in the McDonald's drive thru had the person on the car in front of them
- [Black-Eyed Pea Chili](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/01/02/black-eyed-pea-chili/) - Black-eyed peas are just not one of my favorite things. I'm a Mississippi girl so I prefer purple hull peas. But black-eyed peas are the thing for New Year's fare, so I had to do something with them. A few years ago at a New Year's party I had some black-eyed pea chili. I have
- [Peanut Butter Cookies](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/01/04/peanut-butter-cookies/) - Hubby had a bit of a pout over the holidays because he didn't get to partake in the sweets as pretty much none of them were gluten free. Not that he didn't eat (boy did we all eat) but I took pity and made up a batch of these flourless peanut butter cookies. They're gluten
- [Gluten Free Friday: Sourdough Bread](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/01/06/gluten-free-friday-sourdough-bread/) - One of our favorite foods in this house is sourdough bread. I make it every year for holiday gifts as EVERYONE loves it and it's easy to make in large quantities (I made 16 regular loaves this year). Well, I got it into my head to try a gluten free version. My google search didn't
- [Spaghetti Squash Pizza](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/01/11/spaghetti-squash-pizza/) - I came across this recipe for spaghetti squash pizza on Pinterest and was immediately intrigued. Spaghetti squash as a CRUST? Really? Well I tried it. It wasn't bad. But I thought it was a bit to quichy to classify as pizza, so I did some adaptation. The end result was a single serve pizza that
- [Chicken and Brown Rice Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/01/23/chicken-and-brown-rice-soup/) - I've been on vacation and am only just now caught up with everything enough to get back to blogging about what we've been eating. Hubs is getting a cold or sinus infection or something, so soup was the name of the game. Except of course we're a gluten free household, so it's chicken and rice
- [Operation G.I.T.: Legalized Insanity](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/01/24/operation-g-i-t-legalized-insanity/) - I am, quite possibly, going insane. My husband is ready to verify whether I've been body snatched. I'm moving around like an arthritic old woman... And I kinda like it. Lemme splain. While on vacation in Kansas, my buddy got a couple of guest passes to her gym for me. On the second visit, once
- [Vegetarian Lasagna](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/01/25/vegetarian-lasagna/) - I started out making another batch of stuffed shells then realized I had way more filling than shells, so I swapped over to lasagna. Nice and simple. Makes 6 servings at 385 calories and 12.1 grams of fat and freezes beautifully. Ingredients: 2 cups simply cottage cheese 2 cups simply ricotta 8 oz. fresh mushrooms,
- [Review: Worlds Burn Through and Marketing Musings](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/01/26/review-worlds-burn-through-and-marketing-musings/) - So I was one of the lucky few to get ahold of an eARC of Vicki Keire's latest novella, Worlds Burn Through. First, the blurbage: Chloe Burke dreams of creatures who walk through fire and a strange boy who saves them both. Her parents convinced her long ago that the dreams are the result of
- [Gluten Free Friday: Chicken and Dumplings](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/01/27/gluten-free-friday-chicken-and-dumplings/) - This is not my mama's chicken n' dumplins. Hers is made with Bisquick dumplins and no matter how many times I try, I can't seem to make it the same. And of course now with the gluten thing, hubby couldn't eat it anyway. Since I have been sick and am responsible for making my own
- [Cheeseburger Meatballs](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/01/30/cheeseburger-meatballs/) - One of my goals for the new year is to get hubs on a higher protein diet. He has not had good luck with salads being portable and staying good and fresh and most of the ready made options are either expensive as all get out or not gluten free. So I had the idea
- [Chili Con Carne](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/02/01/chili-con-carne/) - I rarely make my own chili from scratch. This might be considered shameful by some foodies, but frankly, I really just love the Carroll Shelby mix from the grocery store. But I decided that I just had to try making chili with BACON because bacon makes everything better. This wound up being kind of a
- [Philly Cheesesteak Meatballs](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/02/06/philly-cheesesteak-meatballs/) - Continuing the whole meatballs are a portable protein lunch thing, this week I opted to try Philly Cheesesteak Meatballs. My inspiration for this is, of course, our Philly Cheesesteak Sloppy Joes, a la Rachel Ray. Except I wanted to try to get all those ingredients IN the meatballs. The end result was quite tasty, even
- [Scallops With Bacon](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/02/08/scallops-with-bacon/) - As we are fond of saying around here: Bacon makes everything better. Hubby gave me a o.O when I said I was going to make scallops with bacon. I told him to just go with it. I see bacon wrapped sea scallops on fancy menus often. Since we actually prefer bay scallops, it seemed to
- [Gluten Free Friday: Apple Brown Betty](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/02/10/gluten-free-friday-apple-brown-betty/) - I blame The Pioneer Woman for this. It looked SO AWESOME on the show a couple weeks ago while I was working out (yes, I watch cooking shows while I exercise--I'm perverse that way) that I just HAD TO MAKE IT. Of course I adapted it somewhat to make it gluten free and to cut
- [Pepperoni Ricotta Chicken Rollups](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/02/13/pepperoni-ricotta-chicken-rollups/) - This is one of those "I gotta use up x, y, z...what can I do with it?" recipes. I had a huge thing if part skim ricotta that was about to go bad. Part had gone toward my vegetable lasagna. Part went to my first ever attempt at chocolate mousse (which tasted good but did
- [Quinoa Pilaf](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/02/15/quinoa-pilaf/) - Sometimes you just want something that's not rice. This quinoa pilaf is a tasty alternative that uses--well, frankly, it was what I had in the fridge at the time. Makes 3 servings at 296 calories and 9.15 grams of fat. Ingredients: 2 cups chicken stock 1 cup quinoa 1 cup zucchini, diced 4 oz mushrooms
- [Gluten Free Friday: Sourdough Pizza Crust and Bacon Cheeseburger Sourdough Pizza](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/02/17/gluten-free-friday-sourdough-pizza-crust-and-bacon-cheeseburger-sourdough-pizza/) - We love pizza. It is, so far as we are concerned, one of the world's perfect foods. I am always in the market for trying something new and inventive with pizza and this time I decided, you know what, I bet soudough crust would be AWESOME. There was a local pizza place in my hometown
- [Book Vacations](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/02/17/book-vacations/) - Yesterday on Twitter, while I was in the midst of an eye-twitch inducing day at work, one of my pals and I got into a mutual discussion of La Nora love and how there are particular books/series of hers we like to reread because we want to go back to the setting. Sort of a
- [Italian Sausage Minestrone](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/02/20/italian-sausage-minestrone/) - There is no such thing as a "correct" minestrone. It's all about what's fresh, what you've got in the fridge. As the weather has turned cold and wet again (apparently the groundhog was actually right), soup was just what was called for. I had a pack of Artisan Fresh Italian Chicken Sausages With Provolone hanging
- [Chipotle Pork Chops and Black Beans](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/02/22/chipotle-pork-chops-and-black-beans/) - You know that old Campbell's soup recipe where you simmer pork chops in cream of mushroom soup and add rice? That concept was kind of my inspiration for what to do with these gorgeous pork loin chops I had. Except with salsa. And black beans. And a chipotle pepper for some heat. The end result
- [Hello World, I'm Still Alive](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/02/23/hello-world-im-still-alive/) - :peeks out at world: Oh look at that. You're still here. The worst stretch of this week is over, and I've totally retreated to my office cave. My brain is slowing down from the hyperactive zombie hamster invasion (if that sounds inefficient, it totally was and is what leads to such things as hands being
- [Gluten Free Friday: Red Velvet Pancakes](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/02/24/gluten-free-friday-red-velvet-pancakes/) - Unless you were living in a hole during the week before Valentine's Day, you must've seen the recipe floating around the interwebz for Red Velvet Pancakes. My husband LOOOOOOOVES Red Velvet Cake so as soon as I saw this I KNEW I had to find a way to convert it to gluten free for his
- [Leap Day Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/02/29/leap-day-check-in/) - I have been rocking the ROW this month. No words on Sunday (playing catch up from my trip), 1180 on Monday, and 1285 last night. I expect to get another 1k or so tonight, depending. But as of this moment, I'm ending February at 20,688 words, up from 12,249 words in January. 75% increase. WOOT!
- [Bacon Wrapped Chicken Tenders](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/03/05/bacon-wrapped-chicken-tenders/) - Continuing with the theme that bacon makes everything better, and because I had half a pack of chicken tenderloins--exactly what part of the chicken is a tenderloin anyway?--and half a dozen strips of bacon left that I needed to do something with stat because it was approaching the use by date, I came up with
- [Are You A Writer?  OWN IT!](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/03/05/are-you-a-writer-own-it/) - In Twitterville the auto DM for following has a very bad name. This is because most people who use it, do it wrong. They make it all about ME ME ME. This is my website, my facebook, my book, do something for ME. Consequently, a lot of folks totally ignore their DMs. Well I still
- [Chicken 'n Fixin's](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/03/07/chicken-n-fixins/) - This is my personal version of a dish at a local chain restaurant down here in Mississippi. Harvey's. It's deceptively simple and absolutely delicious. All you need do is find your favorite BBQ sauce. I made this with chicken tenders because it's what I had thawed, but you could absolutely use chicken breasts. Serves 2.
- [RED is a DABWAHA Finalist! (And #ROW80 Update Stuff)](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/03/07/red-is-a-dabwaha-finalist-and-row80-update-stuff/) - Every morning I start my day stumbling out of bed and straight to my computer to check email. Usually it's a sweep to get rid of any bulk mail, newsletters, and such I don't care about and to check to see if there's anything particularly important I need to deal with before starting my workout.
- [Wanna Help Me Win DABWAHA?  Here's How](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/03/08/wanna-help-me-win-dabwaha-heres-how/) - *This post is sticky. See below for new content.* I am still flailing after yesterday's news that Red has been nominated as a finalist in the DABWAHA (Dear Author Bitchery Writing Award for Hellagood Authors) YA category. As I said before, it's a total honor just to be nominated. But let's face it. I've got
- [Gluten Free Friday: Tortilla Torta](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/03/09/gluten-free-friday-tortilla-torta/) - I got this recipe from Real Simple via email a few weeks ago and thought it looked marvelous. Then I looked at the servings. 8 out of a 9x9 casserole? What are they smoking? So I immediately set out to try to lighten this up so that we could arrive at an actually filling portion.
- [Sunday Summary](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/03/11/sunday-summary-45/) - Let me preface this post by saying that Daylight Savings Time is an invention of the devil. I hate, loathe, despise and otherwise want to stab it to a bloody death with a titanium spork. All you people who are like "but now it's not dark when I get off work!" can suck it! I
- [Sesame Crusted Seared Tuna](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/03/12/sesame-crusted-seared-tuna/) - I really don't care for tuna. Mainly because my exposure to it has been limited to the stuff in a can which is just...blah. But I've gotten into lots of different kind of fish this year and when I saw yellow fin tuna steaks on sale at the grocery, I picked them up. Of course
- [Greek Stuffed Peppers](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/03/14/greek-stuffed-peppers/) - Traditional stuffed peppers use rice and tend to have a bit of an Italian flare in our household. But I got this marvelous BRICK of feta from Sam's Club on my last trip and I decided to adapt my recipe to be a little more Greek in nature. The switch to quinoa made for a
- [Voting is TODAY at DABWAHA!](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/03/15/voting-is-today-at-dabwaha/) - Calling all friends, readers, and fans! Today is THE DAY! (I'm excited, you're just going to have to deal with all the capslockiness and exclamation points) Voting between Red and Kendare Blake's Anna Dressed In Blood begins at 12 noon EST CST (this has been updated!) and runs until midnight EST CST. We have 12
- [Books That Make You Forget You're A Writer](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/03/21/books-that-make-you-forget-youre-a-writer/) - One of the sometimes unfortunate side effects of being a writer is that you wind up analyzing everything you read. How did she do this? What would make this more effective? What are the major plot points? I can't believe they left this passive voice in. It's incredibly distracting and often detracts from one's enjoyment
- [Bedtime Stories](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/03/27/bedtime-stories/) - So yesterday in the WIP I was writing a bedtime story. The heroine has been through a trauma and asks the hero to tell her a story like he did when they were little. It's more to show something about their relationship and long history than about the story, but I got carried away. I
- [Getting To Know You, Getting To Know All About You](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/04/24/getting-to-know-you-getting-to-know-all-about-you/) - That song is rolling through my head this morning as I stare at the puzzle that is this character in DOTH. It's always strange to me which characters are easy to write and which ones aren't. In Red, Elodie came easily as breathing. Sawyer was like pulling teeth. For DOTH, it's been hero Jake who's
- [Allergies, Anniversaries, and Moving, Oh My!](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/04/27/allergies-anniversaries-and-moving-oh-my/) - So, I conclude that I basically haven't slept properly in a month between stress and congestion. Massive allergy attacks coincided with Daisy's spinal stroke, the selling of our house, and so on. I've been subsisting on OTC allergy sinus meds and nose spray for at least two weeks just trying to function and finally hauled
- [Mid-Week Check-In and #DaisyWatch](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/05/02/mid-week-check-in-and-daisywatch/) - First off, I want to wish a VERY SPECIAL HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my sister from another mother, Claire Legrand! So I ended April at just over 6,000 words. Not awesome, but better than nothing. I wrote on 15 days with an average of just over 400 words a day on those days. Considering everything going
- [Smattering](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/05/03/smattering-8/) - I confess, I'm having a hard time thinking of something to blog about today. My brain is all full of Daisy (who walked from the car into PT this morning with my holding her harness) and house stuff. It's T minus 22 days to closing. I've still got scads of packing to do and my
- [How To Change The Editor Font In Scrivener For Windows](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/05/07/how-to-change-the-editor-font-in-scrivener-for-windows/) - I love Scrivener. It's got so many awesome awesome features. But one thing about it makes me want to go on a crazed, Sweeny Todd style hacking spree. The fact that the default font is Courier New. :shudder: I despise Courier New. I believe it should be stricken from fonts everywhere (sadly you can't delete
- [Crock Pot Pulled Pork](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/05/08/crock-pot-pulled-pork/) - It's barbeque season. Now I am seriously opinionated about barbeque (most folks are when it comes to barbeque). I'm from Mississippi where pulled pork rules the day, but I've got Texas family, so I was raised on brisket. Sadly, the latter is not cheap. Pork shoulder, however, goes on special regularly at my local grocery
- [Gluten Free Friday: Tater Qs](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/05/10/gluten-free-friday-tater-qs/) - There is a rib joint in my home town that I've never been all that impressed with (I don't care for their sauce--too vinegary), but they did have one dish I thought was a great idea. Tater Qs. Quite simply, barbeque stuffed baked potatoes. I'm a huge fan of baked potatoes stuffed with all kinds
- [Please Excuse My Absence](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/05/12/please-excuse-my-absence/) - I am on a rather vital mission to find out what happened to Jace Lightwood.
- [Pulled Pork Quesedillas with Queso Fresco and Mango Salsa](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/05/14/pulled-pork-quesedillas-with-queso-fresco-and-mango-salsa/) - Continuing with my challenge to reinvent pulled pork for more than just sandwiches, I went for a Mexican flare with quesedillas. This was actually my first experience using queso fresco, which I'd picked up with the intention of trying to duplicate the corn in Nacho Libre. The mild flavor was a lovely compliment to the
- [Mexican Corn](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/05/16/mexican-corn/) - My husband LOVES Nacho Libre. One of the things he remarks on every time we watch it is the corn in the movie that seems to be covered in cheese. I finally got around to picking up some queso fresco to give this a try. Now there are a bunch of different variations on this,
- [Bedazzled By Books](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/06/01/bedazzled-by-books/) - To give you a break from my incessant updates about the move (I know nobody really needs to know about all that but me), I thought I'd talk a little today about the books I'm currently excited about. Some are already out and some are on the horizon. I'm currently smack dab in the middle
- [Saturday Sloth](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/06/09/saturday-sloth-2/) - It's raining today. Supposed to rain all weekend, actually. Which really limits the list of things we can do to sort out the house (i.e. we won't be hauling stuff out of storage in the rain). And as far as I'm concerned, that's a good thing. A forced break. God knows I need one. I've
- [Lemon Thyme Pasta With Chicken and Mushrooms](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/06/13/lemon-thyme-pasta-with-chicken-and-mushrooms/) - I'm alive! We've moved! And I finally got my kitchen sorted out enough to COOK SOMETHING. As we've been subsisting on a diet of take out and shortcut meals, I wanted to make something different and interesting. I was shooting for a marriage between the Pioneer Woman's Baked Lemon Pasta and Nigella Lawson's Linguine with
- [Gluten Free Friday: Buttermilk Waffles](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/06/15/gluten-free-friday-buttermilk-waffles/) - I almost never make these simply because buttermilk pancakes are a lot less work (mostly dump, mix, cook). But for my first official Sunday breakfast in the new house, I decided to put in the work for the buttermilk waffles, which are fluffy and delicious, and well worth the extra effort and dirty dishes. This
- [Beef and Black Bean Enchiladas: Now and Later](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/06/20/beef-and-black-bean-enchiladas-now-and-later/) - Enchiladas are one of those things that's difficult to make without leftovers, and my hubs often doesn't DO leftovers. So this time I devised what I call a "now and later" recipe. Half the recipe is for dinner now, and the other half can be frozen and cooked for supper at a later date. Makes
- [Please Excuse My Absence](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/06/21/please-excuse-my-absence-2/) - Please excuse my absence today, as I am desperate to read about the unconventional courtship of Miss Alexia Tarabotti by the Lord of Woolsey. I am too busy laughing to post.
- [The Care and Feeding of Non-Morning People](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/06/25/the-care-and-feeding-of-non-morning-people/) - I can't say as this particular species is all that rare, but among those who do not belong to this set, there seems to be some misinformation about the appropriate way to deal with them without getting bitten. We are a cagey lot and not all that docile when handled incorrectly, so as a public
- [Polenta Sausage Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/06/27/polenta-sausage-casserole/) - It is no secret that I LOVE polenta. So when my pal Jessica Corra told me about this polenta sausage casserole, I HAD to try it. The original recipe came from the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchens. I made a few adaptations--swapping the regular Italian sausage for turkey sausage to drop the fat and calories and
- [Gluten Free Friday: French Yogurt Cake](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/06/29/gluten-free-friday-french-yogurt-cake/) - I ran across this recipe in an issue of Bon Appetite while sitting in a TIRE shop of all places, and I KNEW I had to make it. I'm a big fan of pound cake, but of course not the big calories. The recipe was described as a lighter pound cake with a bit more
- [Mediterranean Pork Chops](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/07/04/mediterranean-pork-chops/) - Lemons were on special at the grocery last week, so I picked up a bag. It's such a lovely, light, summery flavor. It features heavily in much of Mediterranean cooking, so I decided to shoot for some grilled pork chops with those overtones. The end results were delicious and paired beautifully with some summer veggies.
- [Beware The Plot Bunnies](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/07/05/beware-the-plot-bunnies/) - It's so cute isn't it? All long ears and soft, soft fur. You just wanna pick it up and love it and hug it and make it your own, right? DON'T TOUCH IT! That's its lure! They're evil, EVIL I tell you! Plot bunnies! Beware. These deceptively adorable creatures can mean death and disease for
- [Gluten Free Friday: Grilled Chicken and Summer Tomato Pasta](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/07/06/gluten-free-friday-grilled-chicken-and-summer-tomato-pasta/) - I first saw the inspiration of this recipe on one of Ina Garten's shows on the Food Network. It sounded so lovely and light--a bit too light for this carnivorous household. So I added in chicken, cut down the overall portions for just two people, and came up with a pasta dish that my hubs
- [Parmesan Polenta](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/07/11/parmesan-polenta/) - I've heard about polenta for years. Wondered about it. But I never tried it. Then I found out it was sort of like grits, except made with corn instead of hominy, and being a good southern girl, I love me some grits. So I finally tried it and OH MY GOOD LORD, it's SO GOOD.
- [Gluten Free Friday: Skillet Lasagna](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/07/13/gluten-free-friday-skillet-lasagna/) - My husband swore for years he didn't like lasagna. Which made exactly no sense as he likes spaghetti, eats ricotta and cottage cheese in other stuff I make and generally likes everything IN lasagna. So I decided to get sneaky and make a skillet lasagna (which, let's face it, is easier anyway). Which he ate
- [Lazy Morning Thoughts and a Truly Excellent Hat](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/07/17/lazy-morning-thoughts-and-a-truly-excellent-hat/) - I'm taking a lazy morning today, comp time since I didn't get home from work until 10 last night. It was a long day, but not a bad one, and between meetings my coworker and I did a little bit of shopping wherein I scored a truly excellent new hat and a few new tops
- [Mango Pork Kebabs](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/07/18/mango-pork-kebabs/) - My standby easy, summer, I-don't-know-what's-for-dinner food is kebabs. It's so simple to just grab some kind of meat, whatever veggies are in the fridge, mix up a marinade, throw them on a skewer, and toss them on the grill. And hardly any dishes! Plus, they're usually quite lean and a great way to take advantage
- [Caprese Mac and Cheese](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/07/20/caprese-mac-and-cheese/) - One of my favorite things in summer is a good Caprese salad. It takes advantage of all those lovely summer tomatoes and the fresh basil from my garden (well from the grocery store this time, since I didn't get a garden planted because we moved), and fresh mozzarella which is just delicious. But I wasn't
- [In Search of Simplification](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/03/in-search-of-simplification/) - So I'm not the only one seeking some zen and simplicity lately. Susan's been on a kick to get herself organized, which has led to a deep and abiding love affair with Evernote, which she's reintroduced me to. It's WAY freaking cooler now than it was when I signed up for it 4 years ago
- [Getting Serious About Operation G.I.T.](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/06/getting-serious-about-operation-g-i-t/) - So sometime last year, I began what I termed Operation Goddess In Training, a body-mind-spirit program to make me the best me I can be. A lot of this was focusing on getting as healthy as possible, aiming for fitness and hopefully some weight loss, as well as working on managing the boatload of stress
- [Potato Crusted Bacon Mushroom Asparagus Mini Quiches](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/08/potato-crusted-bacon-mushroom-asparagus-mini-quiches/) - I love quiche but it's something I really haven't made much since we made the change to gluten free. Somewhere I heard or saw SOMETHING that gave me the notion of trying to make it with a potato crust--essentially hash browns. This weekend, I finally got around to giving the idea a try. I can't
- [Midweek Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/08/midweek-check-in-6/) - I actually have a mini-streak going with consecutive writing days right now. Not huge numbers, but that's not really the point just now. Sunday: 509, Monday: 551, Tuesday: 400 (which was a minor miracle given all the work disaster phone calls I had to deal with after 5). This has been one of the biggest
- [Gluten Free Friday: Chicken and Mushroom Pasta in Creamy Tomato Sauce](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/10/gluten-free-friday-chicken-and-mushroom-pasta-in-creamy-tomato-sauce/) - I love the concept of Philadelphia's Cooking Creme but I haven't been so nuts about the high fat and calories. It's BETTER than heavy whipping cream, but still not great. Enter the reduced fat version, which is a third less fat than the original. This is much more up my alley. I found the Italian
- [Never Give Up!  Never Surrender!](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/13/never-give-up-never-surrender/) - This line from Galaxy Quest is one I think of a lot when I'm facing challenges. It's a great movie, not only because of Alan Rickman (DUH), but because this sentiment is one that helps me put one foot in front of the other (metaphorical or otherwise) when I'm really in the middle of a slog
- [Chinese Stay-In: Soba Noodles with Stir Fried Veggies](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/15/chinese-stay-in-soba-noodles-with-stir-fried-veggies/) - I love my local Chinese place’s vegetable lo mein, and I never tire of trying to duplicate it. I haven’t managed it yet, but I really enjoy making my own Chinese food at home, making noodles and some kind of Asian themed sauce with a load of fresh veggies. It’s WAY healthier than traditional take
- [Happy Birthday Red! and Midweek #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/15/happy-birthday-red-and-midweek-row80-update/) - Red turns 1 year old today. It's done well in its first year, passing the 3k mark sometime a month or two ago (I confess, I haven't been watching that closely). 3,000 copies sold used to be the benchmark for success in the traditional world. Not sure if that still holds, but it's definitely respectable,
- [Lemon Yogurt Cake with Freezer Fruit Compote](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/17/lemon-yogurt-cake-with-freezer-fruit-compote/) - I ran across the original version of this recipe in an issue of Bon Appetite while sitting in a TIRE shop of all places, and I KNEW I had to make it. I'm a big fan of pound cake, but of course not the big calories. The recipe was described as a lighter pound cake
- [Fiction Friday and Successes](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/17/fiction-friday-and-successes/) - So it's Friday. I totally didn't post yesterday. Never even thought about it, as I was on the road for work and didn't get home until late. But I totally had some successes anyway in that I got my 500 word minimum in before I left and, bigger still, from an Operation GIT standpoint, I stayed within
- [Extra Meaty Baked Ziti](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/22/extra-meaty-baked-ziti/) - I love baked ziti. My very favorite is rich and decadent and has no meat. Hubby likes it, but in deference to his carnivorous nature and in an effort to lighten things up (yes, this has 2 pounds of meat and is LIGHTER than the meatless ziti I prefer--I wasn't kidding when I said
- [Gluten Free Friday: Quick Fix Pulled Pork Burrito Skillet](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/24/gluten-free-friday-quick-fix-pulled-pork-burrito-skillet/) - One of the things that we’ve missed in our household since going gluten free is proper burritos. I have found a couple of different gluten free flour tortillas recipes that are quite tasty, but like most gluten free bread type products, they tear very easily, which doesn’t make for a good burrito cover. When someone
- [Book Birthdays: The Cavendish Home For Boys and Girls and Defiance](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/28/book-birthdays-the-cavendish-home-for-boys-and-girls-and-defiance/) - I must wish a couple of very HAPPY RELEASE DAYS to two marvelous debut author friends of mine. First up my soul sister Claire Legrand's super creepy, super awesome debut: I read this book when she first wrote it (privileges of being CP) and it is FABULOUS! Look at that marvelously illustrated cover by Sarah Watts.
- [Zucchini, Shallot, and Mushroom Frittata with Cheddar, For One](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/29/zucchini-shallot-and-mushroom-frittata-with-cheddar-for-one/) - I love omelets. Big, flavorful, loaded with whatever is handy (usually sausage, bacon, or beef in our house of meat lovers). A frittata is essentially an open faced omelet. Takes longer to cook because you finish it off in the oven, but that frees you up to work on other components of brunch or do
- [Gluten Free Friday: Chicken Spaghetti](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/08/31/gluten-free-friday-chicken-spaghetti/) - This totally started out as a means to make chicken rotel, but when I got out all the ingredients, I discovered I didn’t have a single can of rotel! This is an unheard of state of affairs because we always have rotel. But anyway, I had to make some changes. All these sorts of casseroles
- [Midweek Check-In and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/09/05/midweek-check-in-and-row80-update/) - I had to go radio silent for a while this morning in order to knock out some things at the Evil Day Job that didn't get done yesterday because a) I kept being interrupted in real life by people coming by my office and b) my brain was flittering around like a hummingbird on speed
- [Roasted Tomato, Bell Pepper, and Mozzarella Bowtie Pasta Salad](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/09/05/roasted-tomato-bell-pepper-and-mozzarella-bowtie-pasta-salad/) - I love pasta salad. It’s a great way to use up random veggies and cheeses. It’s also a great way to put together a cold, balanced lunch with lots of flavor for middle of the week. This one serves 5 generously at 300 calories and 4.5 grams of fat per serving. Ingredients: 8 oz whole
- [Gluten Free Friday: Corn-Based Flatbread](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/09/07/gluten-free-friday-corn-based-flatbread/) - This recipe comes from the fabulous You Won't Believe It's Gluten Free. I have consistently been super impressed by the bread recipes I've tried from this book. Unlike most of the gluten free breads I've tried, these don't tear super easily and truly hold up like real bread. We used these for gyros and they
- [Mix It Up Monday: Crock Pot Beef Gyros](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/09/10/mix-it-up-monday-crock-pot-beef-gyros/) - Welcome to the first installment of Mix It Up Monday, where I highlight some of the recipes I've tried from other fabulous food bloggers. I came across this recipe for Crock Pot Gyros at A Year of Slow Cooking. Now I love Stephanie's blog because they are also a gluten free household. Gyros are a
- [Shrimp and Sausage Paella](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/09/12/shrimp-and-sausage-paella/) - A friend recently gifted me a mammoth jar of ground saffron. This is, in case you didn’t know, the most expensive spice on earth, so this was a kingly gift indeed. And to my mind, nothing says saffron like paella. I’ve made a lot of pseudo paellas in the past, taking shortcuts and cheats. This
- [Gluten Free Friday: Corn Based French Baguettes](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/09/14/gluten-free-friday-corn-based-french-baguettes/) - This is another recipe from the fabulous You Won't Believe It's Gluten Free. I made a small modification, swapping in skim milk for the apple juice called for in the original recipe. The end result was a crispy, tasty baguette that's great still warm from the oven with butter or toasted up and used for
- [Mix It Up Monay: Crispy Rosemary Chicken and Potatoes](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/09/17/mix-it-up-monay-crispy-rosemary-chicken-and-potatoes/) - This recipe actually showed up in my inbox from AllRecipes as the Daily Dish. I've been big into one pot or one dish kinds of dinners on weeknights lately because my husband works 12 hour shifts and once he gets home at 7:15, we still have to do a quick walk with the dogs, during
- [Quick Fix Salsa Verde Chicken Burrito Skillet](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/09/19/quick-fix-salsa-verde-chicken-burrito-skillet/) - In keeping with the whole one-skillet meal thing lately, I opted to adapt my recipe for Pulled Pork Burrito Skillet to work with some leftover roast chicken and a jar of salsa verde. The end result was delicious and easy, from fridge to table in fifteen minutes. Now THAT’s what I call a week night
- [Gluten Free Friday: Corn Based Biscuits](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/09/21/gluten-free-friday-corn-based-biscuits/) - Were a southern family, so we LOVE our biscuits. I’ve tried a few other gluten free biscuit recipes that were tasty but…well, frankly, they were a pain in the butt to make. Grating butter? I’m a klutz. I’d just as soon not have extra protein from my knuckles in the recipe from that process. So
- [It's An Epic Sale!  Just Because](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/09/21/its-an-epic-sale-just-because/) - All of my books are ON SALE! Just 'cause I felt like it. Because it feels like fall outside and I feel AWESOME. d They're all on sale for 99 cents! And you can pick up Genesis for $1.99! (It seemed weird to list it at 99 cents when two of the novellas contained within
- [Mix It Up Monday: Chicken Caccitore](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/09/24/mix-it-up-monday-chicken-caccitore/) - Chicken caccitore is one of those dishes that most people have heard of and don't actually know what it is. I've never actually had it, but had it pop into my head when I was doing my menu planning for the week, so I started prowling around on Food Blog Search to see what other
- [Dear Void, I Love You](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/09/28/dear-void-i-love-you/) - It seems that I've read a slough of posts by bloggers lately where they are apologizing to their readers for having fallen off the face of the planet and making the confession that they don't really like blogging, it's a huge time suck, and they'd rather be writing fiction anyway. Such posts usually leave me
- [Mix It Up Monday: Gluten Free Sandwich Bread](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/01/mix-it-up-monday-gluten-free-sandwich-bread/) - When you go gluten free, of course the biggest thing you crave are all the things you aren't supposed to have. That includes good sandwich bread. We've tried a handful of recipes with varying degrees of success. Most were okay for regular sandwiches, but were epic epic fail for grilled cheeses (which, IMO, constitute their
- [Round 4 #ROW80 Goals and A New Release!](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/01/round-4-row80-goals-and-a-new-release/) - Was busy busy busy yesterday and didn't get around to my usual Sunday Summary post. The only really important thing worth noting is that for the month of September, I broke my record for most words written in a month, ever. The prior record was from February of this year (20,688 words). September ended at
- [Beef, Bean, and Mushroom Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/03/beef-bean-and-mushroom-soup/) - The weather’s cooling off (well, dropping to cool evenings and low 80s during the day—we call that cool in Mississippi) and that means SOUP. Crock pot soups make a marvelous means of cleaning out the pantry dish. I had some beef stew meat in the freezer that needed using and…after that it was pulling stuff
- [Gluten Free Friday: Balsamic Pork Chops with Burst Tomatoes](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/05/gluten-free-friday-balsamic-pork-chops-with-burst-tomatoes/) - I usually try to feature gluten free recipes on Friday that are adaptations of stuff that's usually not gluten free. This dish is not one of those. It's a straight up normal kind of dish that happens to be gluten free. It was DEAD EASY and FAST for a weeknight dinner--and as I have had
- [The Next Big Thing: Daughter Of The Hunt](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/05/the-next-big-thing-daughter-of-the-hunt/) - So there's a writer's meme flying around called The Next Big Thing wherein you answer 10 questions about your current work in progress. I thought it sounded like fun, so I totally nabbed this from pal Jessica Corra. What is the title of your book? Daughter of the Hunt Where did the idea come from for
- [Mix It Up Monday: Sausage, Pepper, and Cannellini Bean Stew](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/08/mix-it-up-monday-sausage-pepper-and-cannellini-bean-stew/) - I decided to make an effort to start incorporating a few meals a week that are not carb heavy. This is a challenge for my meat and potatoes self. I have a hard time thinking of meals that don't include pasta, rice, potatoes, or a bread, so I turned to Kalyn's Kitchen, where I always
- [Gluten Free Friday: Reese's Pieces Cookies](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/12/gluten-free-friday-reeses-pieces-cookies/) - Hubs and I have had a monstrous sweet tooth lately. One of the things I haven't really made since our conversion to gluten free is homemade cookies. We tried one of the store-bought gluten free cookie mixes and it was terrible. Dry as dust and literally crumbled TO dust. Not a keeper. As with all
- [Mix It Up Monday: Gluten Free Potstickers and Baked Pork Rice Paper Rolls](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/15/mix-it-up-monday-gluten-free-potstickers-and-baked-pork-rice-paper-rolls/) - One of the things we missed the most when we switched to gluten free life is Chinese dumplings or potstickers. The ones we love are absolutely a labor OF love, backbreaking and time consuming and SO WORTH IT. Given the easy tearing nature of gluten free dough, I thought that they were out of our
- [Vegetarian Stuffed Shells with Classico Creamy Spinach and Parmesan](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/17/vegetarian-stuffed-shells-with-classico-creamy-spinach-and-parmesan/) - So it's National Pasta Day! How cool is it that we have a day for that? So of course I had to feature, you know, pasta. I got invited by Classico to try out their new Creamy Spinach and Parmesan Pasta Sauce, along with a fabulous pasta pot, a swanky new Oxo grater, and some
- [Gluten Free Friday: Lemon Icebox Pie](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/19/gluten-free-friday-lemon-icebox-pie/) - I love pie. I love pie so much that growing up I had birthday PIE instead of birthday cake. My favorite is one of the easiest around, lemon icebox. The only component of this that has to be adapted to be gluten free is the graham cracker crust. I used this recipe from About.com and
- [Mix It Up Monday: White Pizza Grilled Cheese](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/22/mix-it-up-monday-white-pizza-grilled-cheese/) - I ran across this recipe on Pinterest and immediately knew I HAD to try it. Because, seriously, it combines two of my favorite foods--white pizza and grilled cheese. What's not to love? It's a Cheese Lover's Dream. I opted to make these Friday night for our girls' weekend. Mine didn't turn out as pretty
- [Barbeque Pulled Pork Pizza](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/24/barbeque-pulled-pork-pizza/) - We have a lot of standby favorites of pizza, but every once in a while I get a hankering to do something different. When I found a last bag of pulled pork in the freezer that needed using up, I decided to turn it into an unconventional pizza. The end result was delicious! Definitely going
- [Steampunk Cowgirl](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/27/steampunk-cowgirl/) - I give you...the steampunk cowgirl.
- [Mix It Up Monday: Greek Yogurt Hash Brown Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/28/mix-it-up-monday-greek-yogurt-hash-brown-casserole/) - I am a southerner, so I have a deep and abiding love of hash brown casserole. The original is loaded with fat and cheese and cream of mushroom soup and it's delicious. But not gluten free and definitely NOT healthy. So when I came across this recipe from The Spotted Lamb, I knew I had
- [Monday Miscellany](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/29/monday-miscellany-3/) - I think I've already hit the high point of my day. It was 37 degrees when I ran this morning, and I conquered all the hills and ran the entire way. I felt a very strong desire to listen to the Rocky theme while taking my shower. It was actually my short run because I'd eased up
- [Chicken Empanadas and Mexican Chicken Spaghetti](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/31/chicken-empanadas-and-mexican-chicken-spaghetti/) - So there's nothing traditional about these empanadas. In fact, I don't know that I've ever had actual empanadas. But when I got my new set of dough presses (which I bought for making dumplings), I knew I had to do something to try them out. Empanadas seemed just the thing. These make for a
- [Chicken and Sausage Paella](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/10/31/chicken-and-sausage-paella/) - Paella is one of those things I’ve learned to love fairly recently in my foodie life. It’s a concept that’s great for using up whatever you have on hand. In this case that was some bell pepper, sausage, and chicken. And some other stuff. It’s a delicious, earthy sort of dinner. Servings: 3 at 628.73
- [NaNoWeeMo](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/11/01/nanoweemo/) - So National Novel Writing Month starts TODAY. Hundreds of thousands of aspirants are setting out to join the frenzy and write 50,000 words in a month. Or some other goal because there are an increasing number of NaNo Rebels who are using it as National Novel Finishing Month or something else (one year, I wrote
- [Gluten Free Friday: Baked Eggplant Fries](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/11/02/gluten-free-friday-baked-eggplant-fries/) - One of my favorite sides is baked zucchini fries. They're light, crispy, and I can eat an entire plate for a meal and be quite happy. I decided I wanted to give the same concept a try with eggplant. I've done this once before and was wholly unimpressed with the result, but I hadn't given
- [Mix It Up Monday: Cook's Country Chicken Riggies](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/11/05/mix-it-up-monday-cooks-country-chicken-riggies/) - I got this recipe in my inbox from my Cook's Country newsletter. I liked the idea of it and have had it on my To Try list for quite a while. This was delayed somewhat by my not being able to find cherry peppers (which I hadn't even heard of). Ultimately found some at Kroger
- [Ranch Pork Chops](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/11/07/ranch-pork-chops/) - We are HUGE fans of The Pioneer Woman's Ranch Style Chicken. I've been saying for ages that it would make a marvelous base for pork as well, so I finally got around to giving it a try with a few change. OMG, SO GOOD. I wished I'd doubled the recipe. Serves 2. Ingredients: 1/8 cup
- [The Next Big Thing: Riven](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/11/08/the-next-big-thing-riven/) - Apparently this is my 2,000th post. I have actually already been tagged once for this meme and talked about my current project Daughter of the Hunt, so when the darling Claire Legrand tagged me again, I thought it might be a good opportunity to tell you about the OTHER project that has been in the pipeline.
- [Workout Ennui](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/11/12/workout-ennui/) - So I mentioned in my post yesterday that I needed to shake things up some on the work out front. As it was raining this morning, it was a good time to give that a shot. Last night I went through my copy of Calm Sexy Slim Yoga and programmed the fat burning routine into my workout
- [Book Rec: 2k To 10K](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/11/15/book-rec-2k-to-10k/) - So I am up to my eyeballs in grant writing at the evil day job, trying to get this out the door by Friday (EEK!) and don't have time for a proper post, so instead I offer you a book recommendation. Rachal Aaron first came to my attention through her blog post of the same
- [Friday Funny](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/11/16/friday-funny/) - Still snowed under in grant world. A funny about the Oxford comma (which according to this grant, my boss does not appreciate): The Oxford comma. USE IT, PEOPLE!
- [Looking For Book Recs](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/11/20/looking-for-book-recs/) - You know what I love? Book series and trilogies and such that are really based around PLACES. Jan Karon's Mitford series springs to mind. Nora's latest, the Inn Boonsboro trilogy. Jill Shalvis' Lucky Harbor. I LOVE these kinds of books because it's sort of like taking a little vacation to visit these lovely towns (usually
- [Turkey Tetrazzini](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/02/turkey-tetrazzini/) - What do you do with all that leftover turkey? What leftover turkey, you may be asking. Well, I cooked an EIGHTEEN POUNDER this year (they were down to little bitty and really big by the time we went to pick one up, and, well, I like leftovers), and I had to do SOMETHING with the
- [Gluten Free Friday: Kolaches (or Pigs in a Blanket)](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/04/gluten-free-friday-kolaches-or-pigs-in-a-blanket/) - One of our family's favorite holiday breakfast foods are kolaches. Other folks call them pigs in a blanket, but my mama always called them kolaches, so kolaches they are. The usual version are made with cocktail sausages and a can of whampum biscuits (you know, the rolls that you whamp against the counter to open),
- [Mix It Up Monday: Black Bean and Sweet Potato Burritos](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/07/mix-it-up-monday-black-bean-and-sweet-potato-burritos/) - In the name of healthy, I've been trying out a lot more vegetarian recipes the last few months. Perhaps my FAVORITE that I stumbled across is this recipe for black bean and sweet potato burritos from One Lovely Life. The flavor of these is out of this world and they're SO SIMPLE. You can make
- [Maple Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/09/maple-sausage-stuffed-acorn-squash/) - I’ve had a bottle of REAL maple syrup hanging out in my cabinet for at least a couple of months. I’ve been saving it, like gold (since it costs so much!), for something really special. Given that maple and breakfast sausage goes SO well together, I thought that a maple and sausage stuffing would be
- [Midweek ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/09/midweek-row80-check-in-2/) - I like to plan. I love spreadsheets. And lists. And being organized. Possibly it's a sickness that occasionally requires intervention. Sue me. I am an organized soul. I've been trying to sort out my plans for 2013 for at least two months now. I had variations and permutations based on "If this happens, then I'll
- [Mix It Up Monday: Spicy Kale Chips](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/14/mix-it-up-monday-spicy-kale-chips/) - I've been hearing about kale the last couple of years as some kind of nutritional power house. But it's a green and other than basic spinach, I'm not really a fan of greens. Given I'm southern, this probably breaks a law somewhere, but whatever. Sometime earlier this year, I saw kale chips mentioned on one
- [The Spartacus Workout Total Body Blitz](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/15/the-spartacus-workout-total-body-blitz/) - Sometime last year I first read about The Spartacus Workout. There were, at that time, two different versions. The first was developed by the folks at Men's Health after an amazingly popular article about training the actors who appear in the TV show Spartacus (Can we say 300-abs anyone? Yes please.). The workout was hugely popular. So
- [Tequila Lime Chicken Thighs](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/16/tequila-lime-chicken-thighs/) - Chicken thighs get a bad rap. In our chicken breast obsessed world, folks seem to think that chicken thighs are horribly fatty and bad for you. Not so. If you remove the skin and fat, they aren’t bad at all, particularly compared to the ginormous multi-serving chicken breasts that seem to show up in our
- [Mid-week #ROW80 Check-In and Operation GIT Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/16/mid-week-row80-check-in-and-operation-git-update/) - I feel compelled to start with Operation GIT because I am DOWN 2.5 pounds since last Monday, despite a few dietary indiscretions (like wiping out the box of Millionaires I ended up with from the office Dirty Santa). WOO! One more pound and I'll have undone Christmas. And then I can begin the S'rs Biznis
- [Snow Day...At Work](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/17/snow-day-at-work/) - So it's snowing today! In Mississippi! Usually this is cause for 2 things: Pretending it is the start of nuclear winter and making a mad dash to the grocery or Walmart to stock up on toilet paper, bread, milk, and bottled water. Staying home from work or school to hang out on the sofa and
- [Gluten Free Friday: Double Chocolate Brownies](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/18/gluten-free-friday-double-chocolate-brownnies/) - In the holiday season, we’re inundated with all kinds of sweet treats—almost none of which are gluten free. It’s the south. We deal. My concession one night was to make up a batch of gluten free, slightly healthier homemade brownies. These are rich, moist, and delicious. Nobody would know they were gluten free or lighter.
- [Healthier Spaghetti Carbonara](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/21/healthier-spaghetti-carbonara/) - I love carbonara. It is, hands down, my very favorite pasta. The true traditional carbonara is straight up bacon and eggs and pecorino with the yolk making this lovely creamy, velvety sauce. What you see in restaurants is usually all of these things and loaded with cream to boot. Decadent and HORRIBLE for you. So
- [Beef Stew With Mushrooms and Bacon](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/23/beef-stew-with-mushrooms-and-bacon/) - For Christmas this year, my big present was a 3 quart Le Creuset dutch oven. My initial intention was to make some beef bourginon a la Julia Child, but that required a few things I didn’t have around the house. So I opted for some straight up beef stew. At some point during the last
- [Creamy Roasted Tomato Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/01/30/creamy-roasted-tomato-soup/) - I'm always mucking around with my tomato soup recipe. It's one of those things that tends to be a "this and that" kind of recipe with some of the same ingredients and some different ones, depending on what's in the house. This one gets an out of season flavor boost by roasting the canned
- [Review: Lean Cuisine Chef's Pick Culinary Roundtable](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/02/11/review-lean-cuisine-chefs-pick-culinary-roundtable/) - I make no secret of the fact that I am a food snob. Or the fact that I really like to eat. So when I think of Lean Cuisine, the first word that comes to mind historically is DISAPPOINTED. They never ever look as good as the picture on the box. The portion sizes are
- [Mix It Up Monday: Baked Lemon Pasta With Chicken and Pastamore's Lemon Garlic Orzo](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/02/18/mix-it-up-monday-baked-lemon-pasta-with-chicken-and-pastamores-lemon-garlic-orzo/) - One of my great pleasures as a food blogger is the opportunity to try products that I otherwise would never have access to. A while back I was offered the chance to try out some of Pastamore's gourmet gluten free pasta line from J.D. Gourmet. I got three (so there will be more recipes to
- [Gluten Free Friday: Barbeque Chicken Stromboli](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/02/22/gluten-free-friday-barbeque-chicken-stromboli/) - Okay this isn't really a classic stromboli. Real stromboli has all these lovely layered Italian meats and veggies. But I had some leftover rotisserie chicken and a hankering for barbeque AND pizza and...well, this is what I wound up doing with it. The end result was quite tasty. Ingredients: 1/2 a batch of gluten free
- [A New Perspective on Lit Analysis](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/02/26/a-new-perspective-on-lit-analysis/) - I'm thinking about analysis this morning--literature analysis, as it happens. This all started because Susan and I got into a discussion about reading non-fiction this morning, which spun into how I've finally been out of school long enough to actually want to read it, and from there to how English class ruined me for analyzing
- [Saddle Stools and The Man From Snowy River](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/03/01/saddle-stools-and-the-man-from-snowy-river/) - The human body is NOT meant to sit down at a desk all day. Early man was all focused on survival, gathering food, hunting. They weren't sedentary, spending hours a day on an ever expanding derriere. I've got it even worse than many. Apart from my regular 40 hours on my butt, I spend quite a
- [Taming The Rage Beast and Getting Authentic](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/03/08/7074/) - I was all set to talk about boredom this morning (not mine, other people's and how I don't get it), because I just read a really interesting article about some psychologists who are trying to get to the root of boredom and where it comes from. And I'll probably come back to it, but, I
- [Celebrating the First United Nations International Day of Happiness!](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/03/20/celebrating-the-first-united-nations-international-day-of-happiness/) - So today is the first ever International Day of Happiness. I heard about it through my inbox this in an email from Daily Good, which is often a bright spot to my day. Mark Williamson wrote a story for the International Day of Happiness (which I really want to call the International Happiness Day because
- [Final Round 1 #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/03/28/final-round-1-row80-check-in/) - I'm feeling a little like warmed over death this morning after waking up at 3 AM and failing to go back to sleep (which is REALLY unusual for me). And I'm not sure the sleep I was having before that was exactly quality, as I jolted up in bed, yelling and pointing at the evil
- [Midweek #ROW80 Update and The Latest Messages From The Universe](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/04/10/midweek-row80-update-and-the-latest-messages-from-the-universe/) - Sometime back in February, Claire posted about this extraordinary experience she had with her own, personal Clarence (of the guardian angel variety), who told her exactly what she needed to hear, exactly when she needed to hear it. Susan's been on a kick about messages from the Universe. And me, I've just been on a
- [The 11th Commandment and 10 Years](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/04/26/the-11th-commandment-and-10-years/) - If you're looking for writing news today, go check out Konrath's post on Patterson. I'd like to stand up and cheer because, for once, I actually agree with Konrath on pretty much every point. He said it well, so I don't feel the need to add my 2 cents. No, today, I want to talk
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-in and Did You Know There's Amazon Instant Video For Wii?](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/05/08/midweek-row80-check-in-and-did-you-know-theres-amazon-instant-video-for-wii/) - Okay first off, I just have to share this thing my husband sent me. This is the BEST parental reminder EVAR. Granted, given the generational gaps in music, possibly the teen wouldn't even get that, but props to Mum for creativity! Love! Second, did you know that there's now a Wii app for Amazon Instant
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/05/29/midweek-row80-check-in-10/) - So my soundtrack this morning is Put Your Records On by Corrine Bailey Rae. Not really because I'm feeling it AT ALL, but more because I refuse to give in to what I AM feeling and listen to something hideously angry and depressing like...IDK...The Cure. I hardly know what to say as an update this morning
- [Daring To Fail](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/06/11/daring-to-fail/) - In my inbox this morning: It's not the dazzling voice that makes a singer. Or clever stories that make a writer. And it's not piles of money that make a tycoon. It's having a dream and wanting to live it so greatly that one would rather move with it and "fail" than succeed in another
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In and Another Mini-piphany](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/06/12/midweek-row80-check-in-and-another-mini-piphany/) - Last night I finished this round of Revision Hell for Act 1 of Riven. There's a fair chunk of new material in there, so I don't expect this to be the last time I have to touch it, but it's a lot closer to where it needs to be. My shero was just...flat in the first
- [Operation G.I.T.: Beautiful Badass](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/06/14/operation-g-i-t-beautiful-badass/) - It is no secret that when I hang out on Pinterest, I have to do so with a timer. I get caught up (as most people do) looking at stuff. What I gravitate toward, though, is not the projects or the recipes or the hair stuff (though there's some awesome stuff there). It's the fitness
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/07/03/midweek-row80-check-in-12/) - Thank you Jesus that today is my last day at work this week. It's not even 9:30 and I'm ready to beat someone's head in with a hammer. I've had a headache for 2 weeks (welcome to summer and allergy season--I will HAVE a headache until October or November when we get a frost) and
- [Sleep and Changing Tastes In Heroes](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/07/11/sleep-and-changing-tastes-in-heroes/) - I'm wearing this today: I mean, y'all, this is my mantra. People who see me are cracking up. Nice to make people laugh. I actually SLEPT last night, which was AWESOME. The AC dude came at lunch yesterday and had things up and running in literally 5 minutes. Blown capacitor. It took the rest
- [TGIF!](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/07/12/tgif/) - It's FRIDAY! (Aside, I saw Despicable Me 2 over the weekend and it was every bit as fun as the first. Please note: I would like a minion birthday party. Just sayin'. Ahem.) I'm nearly caught up re-recording all the lectures that didn't have audio. I've got one to go that I'll stay after work to record
- [Catching Up](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/07/22/catching-up/) - I didn't write yesterday. After doing all the OTHER stuff I HAD to get done chorewise yesterday, I was just wiped out. So instead I plowed through The Return of Rafe MacKade and snuggled with my puppies. Today I've been digging out of the inevitable backlog of having been out of town, plowing through work email, making
- [Words of Wisdom](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/08/01/words-of-wisdom/) - Saw this through Daily Good yesterday and I loved it so much I had to share. From the Good Life Project:
- [Friday Surprise](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/08/02/friday-surprise/) - I had a GLORIOUS SURPRISE this morning. See, I woke up thinking it was Tuesday. And it is, in fact, FRIDAY! :cue dancing: It's been a week of putting out fires at the Evil Day Job, dealing with the inevitable bumps and hiccups that go along with some of the changes we're making on a
- [End of Revision Hell](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/08/11/end-of-revision-hell/) - After a brutal 2 day push this weekend and nearly 4,000 new words, I have finished with the second draft of Riven. I am now a puddle of rather useless brain goo. Tomorrow begins the less brain intensive pass for stupid crap, redundant words, excessive use of "that" and "like" and the various other assorted
- [Happy Book Birthday: Year of Shadows!](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/08/27/happy-book-birthday-year-of-shadows/) - Today is a very proud day. My dear friend Claire Legrand's second middle grade book, Year of Shadows is RELEASED IN THE WILD! This book is so so so good (no, I'm not biased at all having been the first person to read it). It's gloriously creepy, with a prickly, complex heroine that you just can't
- [Book Rec: The Teacher's Vet by Wendy Sparrow](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/08/31/book-rec-the-teachers-vet-by-wendy-sparrow/) - Quickie post this morning. My pal Wendy Sparrow just released a new, totally adorable novella, The Teacher's Vet. Normally, nothing about the first week of school is life or death, but Mr. Wibbley doesn’t look right, even for a turtle. Having one of the students’ parents be a veterinarian seems like kismet to substitute teacher
- [$4 Bookcase Makeover](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/09/13/4-bookcase-makeover/) - In college I had one of those cheap MDF bookcases with fake wood veneer. One of those Walmart specials that hardly qualifies as furniture, but holds textbooks just fine. I think I got it for my first apartment back in...when was that? 1999? So it's 14 years old. It was not then, nor could it
- [Contest: Still Life With Book and a Cuppa](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/09/16/contest-still-life-with-book-and-a-cuppa/) - Note: This post is sticky. Scroll down for current content. Okay, so I promised you all A CONTEST in conjunction with the Riven release. I am shamelessly (and with permission) swiping this idea from Kevin Hearne (author of the fantabulous Iron Druid series), who did this with Beer and a Book. I thought it sounded like
- [Free Mirus Short Story: Whisper of Shadow](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/09/20/free-mirus-short-story-whisper-of-shadow/) - So I've got a (sort of) new Mirus short story that's rolling out THIS WEEK. Whisper of Shadow originally appeared in the Magical Mayhem anthology last year, but I'm pretty sure most folks missed it. I just got my cover art back from the fabulous Robin Ludwig, and it's already been uploaded everywhere. What Emily wants
- [Riven Available At Apple iBooks](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/09/25/riven-available-at-apple-ibooks/) - Thanks for everyone's kind thoughts. I just popped in to say that Riven is finally available at Apple! So for those of you who've been waiting to buy it for your iDevice or app, it is THERE!
- [Monday Meh](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/09/30/monday-meh/) - So apparently no one felt like making book recommendations, as I received nary a single entry in my Book and a Cuppa Contest. Perhaps they were too busy or haven't read anything awesome lately. So much for that. It's Monday and I'm exhausted. This is not a particularly great thing to be on a Monday.
- [Protecting Your Space To Think](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/10/02/protecting-your-space-to-think/) - I've been giving some thought the last couple of weeks to the idea of self protection as writers. I've talked before about how you don't FIND the time to write, you MAKE it, and you protect it with all the psychotic ferocity of a honey badger. Which is a necessary thing given that you do
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/10/10/three-awesome-things-2/) - Okay, so I really enjoyed talking about 3 awesome things last week. I think I'll make it a regular thing. This week's 3 awesome things, in no particular order: Halestorm makes a really kick ass seed for a Pandora station. Lizzie Hale has such a gloriously GRITTY sound to her voice. The station is full
- [Genesis On Sale](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/10/14/genesis-on-sale/) - I'm in the mood for a sale! For the rest of October, my Mirus omnibus Genesis will be on sale for $2.99! Spread the word! OR you can WIN a free copy by playing #ForewordJeopardy on Twitter on Tuesday the 15th at 10 AM PST (that's 1PM for you East coast folks and noon for central).
- [Excitement!  Endings!  Jeopardy!](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/10/15/excitement-endings-jeopardy/) - There is so much excitement going on today I can barely contain myself. I am ONE SCENE FROM THE END of Be Careful, It's My Heart. Wait, didn't you just do that like...5 weeks ago with Riven? Yes, yes I did. I was working on both projects concurrently. And I had about 7k from when I
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/10/17/three-awesome-things-3/) - Okay, I totally want to adopt Houdini the dog. But looks like he took care of that himself! I don't even like the original of the song "Careless Whisper", but Seether does an amazing cover. I don't even like sunny side up eggs (I'm a scrambled or omelet girl myself), but this is absolutely awesome
- [Interview with Wendy Sparrow's Tiberius from A Little Moon Madness](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/10/30/interview-with-wendy-sparrows-tiberius-from-a-little-moon-madness/) - In lieu of my usual ROW80 post (I have nothing to update really, I'm plotting--the end), I have a VERY special guest interview with Tiberius from Wendy Sparrow's A Little Moon Madness. As we swapped today, you can find my fitness-for-duty interview of Ian from Riven over at HER blog. ~*~ When I needed to make
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/10/31/three-awesome-things-5/) - I don't have a two story house, but if I did, I would LOVE to have a slide to get from top to bottom! I mean, how could that not make you smile? I mentioned a while back that I was SUPER DUPER excited about Nora Roberts' latest trilogy. The first book Dark Witch is JUST
- [Limited Time: FREE Review Copies of Riven](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/11/11/limited-time-free-review-copies-of-riven/) - In the past when I've done a new release, I have almost always done a giveaway of free review copies in exchange for honest reviews posted at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, etc. I didn't do that with Riven initially, partially because I wanted to see what it would do on its own in this more
- [Liana Brooks' Even Villains Go To The Movies: Interview](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/11/14/liana-brooks-even-villains-go-to-the-movies-interview/) - In lieu of my usual 3 awesome things post, I am today posting about ONE VERY awesome thing. I am very pleased to welcome today Angela Smith, heroine of Even Villains Go To The Movies (follow up, to the delightful Even Villains Fall In Love, which I talked about here). She graciously agreed to an interview, so
- [Be Careful, It's My Heart is NOW AVAILABLE](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/11/23/be-careful-its-my-heart-is-now-available/) - Well that was fast... Amazon is totally pushing the envelope. It was up in LESS THAN TWO HOURS. It is currently available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords I'll keep updating with new purchase point links as they go live. I don't believe in DRM, so you can nab this from Amazon and convert it to
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/11/27/three-awesome-things-9/) - Doing my Three Awesome Things a day early this week since tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Have a GREAT ONE everybody! So this guy recorded crickets and slowed the sound down to the length of a human lifespan. It sounds like an angels chorus! Very cool! So often Christianity is used as the club with which to
- [Be Careful, It's My Heart Now Available At iBookstore!](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/12/10/be-careful-its-my-heart-now-available-at-ibookstore/) - Well, it took forever but Be Careful, It's My Heart can now be purchased at iBooks! Pick it up as a relaxing, holiday read!
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/12/11/midweek-row80-check-in-24/) - We are 2 weeks from Christmas and what am I listening to this morning? The Pacific Rim score (Ramin Djawadi--FABULOUS--he's also the guy who composes the music for Game of Thrones). Because the music from a big monster movie is about where my mood is this morning. There's nothing heinous or horrible wrong, just a lot
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/12/12/three-awesome-things-11/) - You can thank my hubby for this nerdgasm: And to Lily, I have to say YOU GO GIRL: When I made my call a couple weeks ago looking for holiday stuff to read, both Mandi from Smexy Books and Sarah from Smart Bitches suggested Ripped by Sarah Morgan. As soon as I read the blurb,
- [](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/12/13/7992/) - It is END OF SEMESTER here at the evil day job, so I'm going to be busy busy today calculating final grades, sorting a schedule for spring semester, and working on other stuff. So just a SHORT AND SWEET post. With the release of Be Careful, It's My Heart and my finally having succumbed to Facebook
- [Late Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/12/16/late-sunday-summary-and-row80-update-2/) - I forgot to post yesterday because we were cleaning All The Things. I conclude we have an infestation of gremlins or evil elves that are waiting until we go to sleep and setting bombs off in the house. Because I clean and then I wake up and the house is a disaster again. Yesterday was
- [Coming Clean About The Seekrit Project: Meet Cute Romance](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/12/17/coming-clean-about-the-seekrit-project-meet-cute-romance/) - So I've been working on a Seekrit Project since I finished Be Careful, It's My Heart. I've got life stuff going on that precludes me working on longer stuff at the moment, but that hasn't stopped me from playing with this. A meet-cute is a term sometimes used to describe a situation in film, television, etc. in which
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/12/18/midweek-row80-check-in-25/) - So I'm sick. Exactly what I want to be when I have approximately 8 million things to do. I know, I know. When do I NOT have 8 million things to do? I went to the doctor yesterday, figuring I just needed better decongestant. Nope. Fever. Shot. More drugs. Sent home to bed. Fever broke
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/12/19/three-awesome-things-12/) - I have serious <3 for Coffitivity. I got this from Kelsey Macke. This website provides background noise of COFFEESHOPS! There are three different tracks available. Morning Murmur (my fave), Lunchtime Lounge, and University Undertones. I know, it sounds nuts. But I work SO MUCH BETTER when this is on! It's this great white noise that
- [Looking For My Post Holiday Balance](https://kaitnolan.com/2013/12/27/looking-for-my-post-holiday-balance/) - I have officially hit my OD point on holiday...everything. Too much rich food (and tighter pants to show for it). Too many cheesy holiday movies/stories. Too much extra stuff in my house. I feel...off. I usually try to eat up leftovers and stuff because I hate to waste food, but I'm absolutely ready to
- [One Awesome Thing](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/01/02/one-awesome-thing/) - I say one because it's bigger than anything else. I have my house back. That is all. Thank all the deities. Sanity will commence forthwith.
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/01/09/three-awesome-things-7/) - I am back in the land of the living. Which may be awesome to only a few people, but is really high on my list after a bout with the stomach flu. This pallet herb garden project. Okay I've lately become fascinated by stuff you can make from pallets. They're free or cheap sources of
- [A New Meet Cute Romance: Once Upon A New Year's Eve](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/01/24/a-new-meet-cute-romance-once-upon-a-new-years-eve/) - I actually intended for this one to be ready FOR New Year's, but life happened. But hey, it's still January! It should have been the perfect New Year's Eve date. But when Gemma Forester gets called to bail her older brother out of trouble, she comes face to face with some of her own. Aaron
- [HOLY CRAP!](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/02/07/holy-crap/) - :incoherent flailing: Y'ALL! LOOKIT! That is #63 in the whole freaking Kindle Free Store. :dies:
- [A New Meet Cute Romance: Once Upon An Heirloom](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/02/11/a-new-meet-cute-romance-once-upon-an-heirloom/) - Y'all, I just can't tell you how much I loved writing this Meet Cute. It started half as a joke. A few months ago, when I first came up with the idea for Meet Cute Romances, I took advantage of a week long trial at a stock photo site and nabbed a whole bunch
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/02/13/three-awesome-things-15/) - This was a fantastic article about the impacts of our "inner story", the narrative filter through which we view the world. Really interesting stuff and further support to being very on guard about how much negativity we expose ourselves to. My current music love this week is the new score to Winter's Tale by Hans Zimmer.
- [Three Awesome Things: Steampunk Edition](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/03/06/three-awesome-things-steampunk-edition/) - This is Aurora, a steampunk indie film that was the WINNER - BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE FILM - Comic Con International Independent Film Festival 2013. After his wife is kidnapped by a group of slave traders, Emerson Marks, captain of the airship 'Aurora', must fight against all odds in order to rescue her. OMG, that's the best half
- [Some Assembly Required](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/03/08/some-assembly-required/) - The name of the game around here the last 24 hours has been ASSEMBLY. Our new bed came in yesterday, so I took off work early so we could go pick up the frame and box springs (we're upgrading to a king size). So last night was all about setting THAT up (and holy crap,
- [#VeronicaMarsMovie Either Give Me A Download That Works or Give Me My Money Back](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/03/14/veronicamarsmovie-either-give-me-a-download-that-works-or-give-me-my-money-back/) - UPDATED: FINALLY managed to get the standard definition downloaded and hubby grabbed the HD version from torrent so that we can actually keep it and watch on the TV instead of a computer. Watched. Loved. FLAIL. That is all. *** Earlier post: I've got steam coming out my ears right now. I was a Kickstarter
- [Finally Watched The Veronica Mars Movie](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/03/15/finally-watched-the-veronica-mars-movie/) - After SIX HOURS of craptastic technical difficulties, I finally got a copy of the movie to watch. After which I was all Which is not euphemistic. I really did that. I think it scared my husband more than my toe socks. I iz happy fan now.
- [Be Careful, It's My Heart: Kindle Countdown Deal!](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/04/01/be-careful-its-my-heart-kindle-countdown-deal/) - I meant to post about this yesterday, but it was a SERIOUS Monday during which I spent many hours putting out metaphorical fires and trying to dislodge the tension headache from hell. But hey, better late than never! SO, Be Careful, It's My Heart is a Kindle Countdown Deal. What does that mean? Well, it means
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/04/03/three-awesome-things-19/) - This article from The Daily Dot giving the smackdown to all these "professional" reviewers who completely miss the point of Black Widow as a character in the Marvel universe. My current favorite personal anthem. I adore Halestorm. (Warning: Explicit lyrics) La Nora's latest release The Shadow Spell, which is a must read for all who love
- [Instant Smile Maker](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/04/15/instant-smile-maker/) - Since my last post was such a whine-fest, I felt the need to post this INSTANT SMILE MAKER. I found out today that a group of bunnies is known as a FLUFFLE. It is physically impossible to say the word FLUFFLE and not smile. Go ahead. Say it. FLUFFLE I could probably make a meditation mantra out of
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/04/24/three-awesome-things-22/) - I just cannot tell you how much I love this GIF. Your brain on Engineering... And this may be the coolest Lego structure ever. A FULL mini scale version of the ENTIRETY of Hogwarts. You can read the article about it here.
- [In Case You Missed It: Once Upon An Heirloom Is FREE!](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/05/06/in-case-you-missed-it-once-upon-an-heirloom-is-free/) - Quick and dirty post today, but I just wanted to let you know, in case you missed the announcement buried in yesterday's post or don't happen to be signed up for my newsletter, that between now and FRIDAY, my most recent Meet Cute Romance, Once Upon An Heirloom is FREE at Amazon! This is my favorite Meet
- [Talking About Season Finales](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/05/20/talking-about-season-finales/) - So we're into that time of year where we're facing season finales all over the place. Now that I'm home, I've been catching up on various shows. And I'm getting a lot of really great reminders about craft, the importance of surprising the reader, and circularity. Warning, if you have not seen the finales for SHIELD,
- [Three Awesome Things: Crowd Sourced Edition](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/05/22/three-awesome-things-crowd-sourced-edition/) - Since I was gone to RT last week, I wasn't around to get my usual collection of Awesomeness for today's post. So I put out a hail on FB and Twitter. Susan Bischoff submitted this link. Artist Patrick Ballesteros has created this image of all our favorite Firefly characters as kids. How awesome is that?
- [Looking For Olicity Fanfic Recs](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/05/23/looking-for-olicity-fanfic-recs/) - Okay, so I've never been a big fan of fanfic. I'm not averse to it (provided it's not being written for monetary gain or against the wishes of the owner of the universe they're co-opting), but in general it's written by a lot of folks who, frankly, can't write their way out of a paper
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/06/12/three-awesome-things-28/) - I love it when people have fun at weddings! Ok I really love what this guy has to say about entitlement and the dying concept of noblesse oblige. Worth watching the whole thing. Who says dolphins aren't intelligent? This pod of dolphins led researchers to rescue a suicidal girl, THREE MILES away. Does
- [Playing Lucky 7](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/06/16/playing-lucky-7/) - So Rhenna Morgan got sneaky and tagged me this morning for around of Lucky 7. The rules: Go to page 7 or 77 in your current WIP. Go to line 7 Post on your blog the next 7 sentence or 7 lines—as they are! Tag 7 people and do the same This is from page
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/07/10/three-awesome-things-32/) - Somebody made detailed versions of scenes from The Princess Bride out of Legos! Go check out the whole gallery. A woman won the Longsword Competition at the World Invitational Tournament. :FIST BUMP OF BAMFITUDE: Check out the interview below. And this just made me giggle because...yeah...
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/07/17/three-awesome-things-33/) - Somebody has utilized 3D printing technology to make ARMOR for Barbie! If this had existed when I was a kid, I might've used my Barbie for something other than target practice for my G.I. Joes. And to continue the recent theme of companies putting out commercials to challenge various female stereotypes, Pantene is taking
- [Something Southern: On The Correct Use of Y'all](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/07/29/something-southern-on-the-correct-use-of-yall/) - First off, in case you missed it yesterday, I am doing a GIVEAWAY of a free copy of Tawne Fenske's Fiancee For Hire! So much awesome hilarity. Just go comment on yesterday's post for a chance to win! Now, since I'm working my way toward the release of the first full novel in my Southern
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/08/07/three-awesome-things-36/) - Why you should never drunk text a Doctor Who fan. This is hilarious. Superheroes with Hello Kitty makeovers...because, why not? The epitome of OMG THAT'S MY JAM!
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/08/10/sunday-summary-and-row80-update-87/) - OMG, so much to do today! Between yesterday's writing session, going to see Into The Storm with hubby, and the Outlander premier party with my girlfriends, the ONLY thing on today's list that got knocked out was one load of laundry. So I'll keep this brief and to the point. I am halfway through my midpoint scene.
- [Something Southern: Sausage Balls](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/08/12/something-southern-sausage-balls/) - *I am crazy busy, so we're talking food today and I'm robbing an old post from my food blog, Pots and Plots. No Southern party or get together is ever complete without the inclusion of sausage balls. These meatball size bundles of meaty, cheesy deliciousness are nothing in the realm of healthy (though you can
- [Something Southern: Do You Want A Coke?](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/08/26/something-southern-do-you-want-a-coke/) - One of our little quirks down here in the Deep South is our habit of using a particular brand name for something as the generic name for all things in that category. All tissue is Kleenex. All weed whackers are Weedeaters. The one that is, perhaps, the most perplexing to non-Southerners is the fact that
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/08/28/three-awesome-things-39/) - Because there's little more adorable than a bulldog puppy. How precious is he? So fierce. Now these are MY kind of Legos! CHOCOLATE! And from the makers of Zombies Run! and The Walk comes Superhero Workout! I'm all about the interactive RPG fitness apps.
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/09/04/three-awesome-things-40/) - More brilliance from Kid President. Student and Teacher Edition. The cutest thing you will see today. And saw this in my Facebook stream today and it made me giggle uncontrollably.
- [Something Southern: SEC Football](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/10/07/something-southern-sec-football/) - I'm up to my eyeballs in the final stretch of my book, so I'm turning this over to three other writers who have captured the absolute effervescent joy I'm feeling over the Ole Miss and Mississippi State victories this past Saturday. 1. One big Saturday in Mississippi: Ole Miss upsets Alabama as Mississippi State
- [Something Southern: Christmas Open House Aberdeen, MS](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/11/04/something-southern-christmas-open-house/) - Over the weekend, some girlfriends and I drove up to Aberdeen, MS for a holiday open house. Aberdeen is right around the size of my fictional town, Wishful, so I was really curious to see how they'd do things up for the holiday. I could tell as we were walking around downtown, that I've spent
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/11/06/three-awesome-things-47/) - This is your brain playing musical instruments... You may remember me talking about The Kraken King this summer. It was a serialized Iron Seas novel from Meljean Brook. It's going in the roundup because this week, the FULL NOVEL is available. All 576 pages of glorious story. A former smuggler and thief, Ariq--better known as
- [Late #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/12/08/late-row80-check-in-2/) - I just realized I never got around to this yesterday. It was a busy busy weekend! Hubby and I got our Christmas tree. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that the trees always look smaller at the lot. We have 12 foot ceilings. And yes, that is a sock monkey on my head. This
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/08/three-awesome-things-53/) - If ANYTHING could ever induce me to want to learn to crochet... https://www.pinterest.com/pin/9851692911004645/ This is more in the realm of awesomely awful. Crocheted shorts for men. There are now a whole bunch of varieties of The Pants of Shame. And possibly the best explanation for understanding introverts I have ever seen. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/9851692911005058/
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/22/three-awesome-things-54/) - Earlier this week I got a newsletter from Christine Carter about her newly released book The Sweet Spot and she shared The Sweet Spot Manifesto she compiled while writing the book. I love this! Life might be short, or it might be long. Either way, better to enjoy it. If you are tired, rest. If
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/12/three-awesome-things-57/) - Well by now it should've populated everywhere, so my first awesome thing this week is my new website! I finally merged everything from my writer website and my cooking blog all into ONE PLACE. Holy crap, self-hosted Wordpress is so much easier now than it was when I tried it seven years ago. My second
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/15/sunday-summary-row80-update-3/) - It was in the 60s yesterday. And this morning I have my fire going. Welcome to winter in Mississippi. Princess Daisy says hi. Callie says ZZZZZZZZZ. It's been a big week here. I launched my pretty new website, which merged my writer's website and my cooking blog. It was a big move over to self
- [Lemon Rosemary Garlic Chicken and Roasted Veggies](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/16/roasted-chicken-and-veggies-recipe/) - I am a big fan of one dish meals. Simple. Easy clean up. The kind of thing I can throw in the oven while I'm writing and not have to babysit. This one fits the bill and also would work well as a freezer meal (of the variety you put all the ingredients in a
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/18/midweek-row80-check-in-64/) - I hesitate to say it, but I think I'm finally getting back into a groove. After a couple of days with very low word count over the weekend, the last two days, I've hit 1k+ each day, and I feel like I'm sort of shrugging back into the story like a favorite pair of jeans. Yesterday
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/19/three-awesome-things-58/) - For anybody who was ever a fan of Saved By The Bell, this is a must watch. For everyone everywhere who needs a cuddle: For every woman who loves Mr. Darcy, now you can play a game to marry him! Bonus Awesome: This Twitter Rant about character agency and plot by Ada Hoffman
- [Birthday #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/22/birthday-row80-check-in/) - I turn 35 today. Some people feel old at this age. Given that my husband bought me the entire line of Star Wars Itty Bittys from Hallmark, I think I'm good on that front. This man totally gets me. <3 It's a toss up between Chewie and Han as to which is my favorite. Best
- [Gluten Free Dairy Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Lava Cake](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/23/gluten-dairy-free-chocolate-peanut-butter-lava-cake/) - One of life's greatest joys (mine anyway) is half-baked cookies. They're warm and perfectly ooey gooey and just melt on your tongue. I don't know if it was intentional or accidental, but somebody somewhere discovered that half-baked cake is just as fantastic. I imagine that's exactly how chocolate lava cake was born. My pal Jay
- [Three Awesome Things: Snow Day Edition](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/26/three-awesome-things-snow-day-edition/) - So the snow finally showed up. We ended up with 4 inches I think. My mom, an hour north of us, had over 8! This is a Mississippi blizzard, and I am off work again today. WOOT! That said, it's time for the snow day edition of awesome things! This greyhound in BATMAN PAJAMAS totally
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/01/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report/) - I made my goal for February! I really didn't think I was going to. With the snow days last week and the complete lack of routine, I didn't write any prose from Monday to Friday. But yesterday, I settled in at my local coffee shop for the day and spewed out...about four days' worth of
- [Bratwurst Potato Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/03/bratwurst-potato-soup/) - The inspiration for this bratwurst potato soup is the classic cheeseburger soup (which, incidentally, I never thought tasted much like cheeseburgers). While I was down with the flu, we ate a lot of soup, and I was desperate for something that wasn't chicken and rice (which is our go to, but I caught the flu
- [Dairy Free Stuffed Shells](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/09/dairy-free-stuffed-shells/) - This is really a clean out the fridge sort of dish. Stuffed shells are something I used to make often in the days of actual dairy because I have a deep and abiding love of ricotta cheese and shells are easier to make than manicotti. But this is my first effort at dairy free stuffed
- [Totwaffles: Tater Tots In The Waffle Iron](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/16/totwaffles-tater-tots-in-the-waffle-iron/) - As a foodie, I hesitate to share this. I feel like it should be some kind of secret shame. But it's too darned tasty to keep a secret. And really, it's not that much of a secret. It's so simple, it doesn't even qualify as a recipe. I first saw it in one of
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/18/midweek-row80-progress-report-4/) - It is time for another ROW80 progress report. First up, I am DELIGHTED to say that Buddy, the black lab we rescued a couple weeks back and took to the local human society has been adopted! He'll be taken home after he's been neutered. This makes me incredibly happy because he is such a sweet sweet
- [Cast Iron Skillet Potatoes and Ham](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/23/cast-iron-skillet-potatoes-and-ham/) - This recipe for cast iron skillet potatoes is an adaptation of another one of those that I've seen flying around Facebook (uncredited, as usual). The base recipe is specifically for potatoes and is loaded with cheese (a no no in our house, obviously). But I liked the idea of doing these potato slices in the
- [Dairy Free Quiche Lorraine](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/30/dairy-free-quiche-lorraine/) - I love quiche. Back when I was in college in my freshman dorm, my mom used to make one and freeze it. It was something delicious and wonderful that would fit in the little freezer of our mini fridge that reheated well in the microwave. In the intervening years, I've made it many, many times--until
- [Clutterbust Your Digital Life](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/31/clutterbust-your-digital-life/) - Spring is for reducing clutter For me spring has always been about renewal, simplification, and organization. After the long rainy days of winter, I feel a serious need to clear out the clutter in my house (and thereby my mind). It's much easier to be brutally honest about the stuff that I legitimately use and
- [Egg Rolls In A Bowl](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/07/egg-rolls-in-a-bowl/) - Egg rolls are one of my favorite things about Asian food. But, no question, they aren't healthy given that they're deep fried. They also aren't gluten free, which means they are off the menu for hubby. One of my coworkers makes amazing egg rolls for office parties every year, so I totally grabbed her recipe and
- [Dairy Free Loaded Grits](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/20/dairy-free-loaded-grits/) - I am a good Southern girl and I love grits. This is something I really haven't eaten since I cut out dairy last year (holy crap, it's been more than a year now). But after recently seeing a recipe for a loaded polenta, I had a hankering, so I decided to make a quick and
- [Spicy Mango Pork Tenderloin](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/04/spicy-mango-pork-tenderloin/) - Kroger's had pork loins on special the last couple of weeks and I stocked up. I love cutting them up for pork chops, kebabs, or stir fries, but nothing beats a good slow cooked pork tenderloin. Melt in your mouth tender and full of flavor. I decided to whip out some tropical flavor and heat
- [Dairy Free Salted Dark Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/11/dairy-free-salted-dark-chocolate-oatmeal-cookies/) - I get all kinds of recipes in my inbox from all kinds of sources. Some get tossed immediately, some go into the recipe file to try, and some get shunted over into the convert to allergen free file. This recipe for salted oatmeal cookies with dark chocolate from Real Simple fell into the latter category.
- [Gluten Free Pretzel Crusted Chicken Breasts](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/18/gluten-free-pretzel-crusted-chicken-breasts/) - I've been wanting to make Gluten Free Pretzel Crusted Chicken ever since I first tasted Glutino's gluten free pretzels. They have a deliciously Ritz-like flavor that I still have aspirations of using to top my poppyseed chicken (which I haven't figured out how to convert to gluten free AND dairy free yet), but either way, I
- [5 Stages of the Book Writing Process](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/20/5-stages-of-the-book-writing-process/) - Writing books is hard, y'all. This is an incontrovertible fact. Ask any writer and they will probably say the same on any given day (depending on where they are in the process and whether the writing is going well or not). We've all got our own methods, our own habits, and our own patterns, but
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/24/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-7/) - Another week down, so time for another #ROW80 progress report. Hubby and I finally got to see Pitch Perfect 2 this afternoon. They did a great job, I thought, giving nods to the original, while still keeping it fresh. Benji gets a sweet little romance. And this version's Riff Off was pretty damn fabulous. Three
- [Gluten Free Dairy-Free Mexican Chicken Cornbread Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/25/gluten-free-dairy-free-mexican-chicken-cornbread-casserole/) - I saw this recipe for Mexican Chicken Cornbread Casserole fly by my social media stream last week and KNEW I needed to convert it into something that was allergen friendly. It hits so many of my happy buttons in terms of flavor palette and combinations of stuff I love to eat. So I've adapted it to be
- [Gluten Free Sopapillas](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/06/01/gluten-free-sopapillas/) - Last weekend, hubby and I got together with another couple for a fabulous Mexican themed dinner with flank steak tacos (amazing). To go along with the theme, I decided to try making gluten free sopapillas. Now, I don't know about you, but the only ones I'd ever had were the kind made at our local
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/06/18/three-awesome-things-71/) - Yes...Sesame Street parodied Jurassic Park. This is why the internet is awesome. This Iranian designer created a TOTALLY NEW musical instrument! How cool is that? This collection of 3D pencil art is MIND boggling. This one is my favorite.
- [Dairy Free Cheddar, Sausage, and Mushroom Breakfast Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/06/22/dairy-free-cheddar-sausage-and-mushroom-breakfast-casserole/) - This was meant to be a quiche. But after trying first a pie plate and then a tart pan and still not having enough room for all the hash browns I dumped out, I pulled out a full 7x11 baking dish. So...it's a dairy free cheddar and sausage quiche in breakfast casserole form. Whatever it
- [Dear Daisy](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/06/25/dear-daisy/) - The floor looks all wrong. I thought you should know that, being that you're now in a position to run the Universe like you always wanted (I presume that flash storm we had yesterday afternoon was the coup you staged shortly after your arrival upstairs). I hope you find the minions there to your satisfaction.
- [Tequila Lime Chicken Tacos](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/07/07/tequila-lime-chicken-tacos/) - When I started out making these, they weren't going to be tacos. I'd intended to pair them with some fresh corn and black beans. And then we got busy and plans changed and...slapping stuff in some tortillas ended up being quick and easy and VERY delicious. These would be delicious with queso fresco. Ingredients (per
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/07/12/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-11/) - I haven't been posting much lately. First wasn't much feeling like it after Daisy, then busy acclimating Huck (and taking a bazillion pictures of him sleeping because--he's ADORABLE), family has been in town, I've been finalizing the plot for the anthology novella that's my next project, and the last week, I've been up to my
- [Gluten Free Dairy Free Beef Stroganoff](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/07/13/gluten-free-dairy-free-beef-stroganoff/) - Stroganoff is something I haven't tried since making the switch to dairy free living. I hadn't ever found a gluten free egg noodle I liked anyway. Until now. I recently read a taste test in Cooks Country about gluten free noodles and the winner was Jovial, which I'd never heard of. I filed that little tidbit
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/07/26/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-12/) - I am SO FLIPPING CLOSE to being done with revisions. 6,000+ words this week. What I thought was the last new scene I needed to write was running long, so I opted to cut it in half and switch POVs for the second half. So I still lack that second half and some tweaks to
- [Gluten Free Dairy Free Sausage and Squash Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/07/31/gluten-free-dairy-free-sausage-and-squash-casserole/) - It's summer and that means it's the season for lots and lots of squash. Yellow squash is less a favorite of mine than zucchini, so I don't have as many things I do with it, but this casserole is one of them. The original version of this recipe is neither gluten or dairy free. But it is
- [Gluten Free Dairy Free Enchilada Cornbread Casserole](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/24/gluten-free-dairy-free-enchilada-cornbread-casserole/) - We so enjoyed the Mexican Chicken Cornbread Casserole, I decided to make another version based around enchiladas. Enchiladas are something I've tried several times, and I always like them, but they often end up being too spicy for hubby. In deference to that, I'm steering away from my chipotles in adobo sauce and just sticking
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/09/20/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-16/) - THE END. That should probably be the most important part of this progress report. I finished the first draft of Wish I Might yesterday. I'm going to let it sit a week or few while I sort out some other things, letting it settle before I do a read through and make my first pass revisions
- [Gluten Free Dairy Free Mexican Cornbread](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/09/15/gluten-free-dairy-free-mexican-cornbread/) - Growing up, my mom used to occasionally make Mexican cornbread with a box of Jiffy mix and--frankly I can't remember what else beyond a pound of hamburger and some cheese. Presumably there were spices in there... Anyway, I had a hankering the other day, so I decided to pull together this lighter, gluten and dairy
- [#ROW80 Round 4 Goals](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/10/06/row80-round-4-goals/) - I feel like all I've been doing for the last month is spinning my wheels, constantly behind and trying to catch up, without a lot of success. This is...not a good thing. I get All The Things done because I have a carefully balanced system of spinning plates. When new elements are introduced, that balance
- [Back From The Dead and FREE BOOKS](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/10/02/back-from-the-dead-and-free-books/) - I'm surfacing from a serious Hell Week at the Evil Day Job in the wake of getting a grant out the door and trying desperately to catch up on all the OTHER stuff that had to slide in order to actually do that. My to do list makes me tired just looking at it (so,
- [End of Round 3 of #ROW80](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/09/24/end-of-round-3-of-row80/) - So what the heck were my goals this round? I hardly remember. Write at least 20 out of every 30 days (oldie but goodie). Yep, did this. Cranked out 79,130 words. Of that, just under 19k was plotting on various projects, so I guess that left me just over 60k of prose. Write, revise, and prepare
- [Operation Goddess In Training: Yoga](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/09/17/operation-goddess-in-training-yoga/) - Yoga is something I got into back in college. Life back then (when I had that miraculous thing called FREE TIME) meant taekwondo three days a week, weights, running, and yoga twice a week with Gigi (oh how I adored Gigi--who, despite being blonde, was not the perky cheerleader type her name suggested). That was
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/09/16/midweek-row80-check-in-65/) - I haven't really gotten any further on Wish I Might since Sunday. Hubs is coming off his long week, so I've been spending a little time with him. Plus, I kinda hate the scene I wrote Sunday night. I think I've about worked my way around to how to fix it (at least well enough to
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/09/13/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-15/) - I can taste the autumn. After a proper deluge Friday night, a cold front came through, giving actual cool temps the last couple of mornings. It's GLORIOUS, and it's making me crave things like chili and beef bourginon and coq au vin and other rich, layered-flavor foods that celebrate the low and slow. We aren't
- [Inspired By Theme](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/09/11/inspired-by-theme/) - You know how you hit that point of the work day when it's pointless for you to even be sitting at your desk because you've got the attention span of a gnat on crack, and all you can think about is chocolate, alcohol, or your Friday night plans? (Possibly all of the above. At ONCE!)
- [Female Protagonists Dominate Dystopian Fiction by Elizabeth Eckhart](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/09/10/female-protagonists-dominate-dystopian-fiction-by-elizabeth-eckhart/) - Elizabeth Eckhart is BACK, this time with a thought provoking discussion about female sheroes in dystopian fiction. I confess, this is the ONLY reason I've developed any interest in this genre--dystopian, as a whole, so often feels like it's entirely hopeless and violent (and we all know I like my happy, fluffy, hopeful romances), but
- [Reclaiming A Room of My Own](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/09/07/reclaiming-a-room-of-my-own/) - I am a neat freak. My husband will deny this unto his last breath given the state of our house most of the time. But the fact is, we've been married for 12 years and he's very much NOT a neat freak, and I just don't have the time or energy to fight it. Tried
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/09/03/midweek-row80-progress-report-15/) - It's just been a whole lot of UGH. I've got a massive build up of fluid in my inner ear that refuses to drain. Been all but deaf on that side for more than week and so far the steroid shot, Sudafed, and antibiotics haven't done squat. It's driving me nuts. I get relief when
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/30/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-14/) - It's been a long and kind of stressful week, y'all, so I don't have much to say for this progress report. A close friend had a personal crisis. My university got put on lock down because of an alleged active shooter (who was neither a shooter nor active at all, and was entirely unarmed, as
- [Dairy Free Lemon (Not) Yogurt Cake with Freezer Fruit Compote](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/04/21/dairy-free-lemon-not-yogurt-cake-with-freezer-fruit-compote/) - One of my favorite desserts that I've featured on the blog here before was my gluten free Lemon Yogurt Cake with Freezer Fruit Compote. It's like a pound cake but lighter, with a lovely bright lemon flavor that just hits the spot for spring. Since I had 3/4ths of a package of silken tofu left
- [Dairy Free Corn Chowder](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/05/07/dairy-free-corn-chowder/) - One of my favorite easy soups is my spicy corn chowder. It's creamy and sweet, with just a little bite. But, of course, it gets the creamy from dairy--cream cheese in particular. So it was definitely back to the drawing board for how to duplicate or adapt this to be dairy free and still retain
- [Gluten Free, Dairy Free Sausage Balls](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/08/31/gluten-free-dairy-free-sausage-balls/) - It's officially football season. No Southern party or gathering is complete without sausage balls. The original kind that pop up in every Southern household in the country involves Bisquick and good cheddar cheese, which makes them a no go for those of us with food allergies. I had already successfully made these gluten free in
- [Gluten Free Dairy Free Corn Dog Bites](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/10/04/gluten-free-dairy-free-corn-dog-bites/) - It's football Armageddon here in Mississippi today. The Bulldogs are taking on the Aggies and the Rebels are going head to head with Alabama. All four are undefeated. It's TENSE. This means marathon game watching all day and requires appropriate game time sustenance. This is a bit harder now that cheese dip has been taken
- [Pulled Pork Tortilla Soup](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/11/05/pulled-pork-tortilla-soup/) - I recently got a smoked Boston butt for a youth group fundraiser (and how great an idea is that? Allergen friendly, not crap processed food, and OMG it's fabulous) that netted me a gallon and quart freezer bags full of pulled pork. I can only eat so many barbeque sandwiches, so once the weather started
- [Gluten Free Chicken Croquettes](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/06/gluten-free-chicken-croquettes/) - This recipe is an adaptation for Alton Brown's recipe for Tuna Croquettes. I wound up trying it with canned chicken and it has become, essentially, the grown up chicken nugget of our household. It's a great, tasty solution to "what's for dinner?" when you didn't have a chance to thaw anything. Ingredients: 1 12 oz. can
- [Gluten Free Dairy Free French Toast Bake](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/13/gluten-free-dairy-free-french-toast-bake/) - This batch of decadence was my hubby's request for Christmas morning breakfast. It was a recipe somebody shared on Facebook (and I'm sorry, I have no idea WHOSE the original recipe was!) that he asked me to convert to something we could both eat. Not a small order with the whole gluten AND dairy free
- [Gluten Free Dairy Free Bacon  Corn Chowder](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/20/gluten-free-dairy-free-bacon-corn-chowder/) - I have approximately a zillion different versions of corn chowder. It's one of those super simple dishes that's fast and easy as a pantry meal. Then you can add in whatever meats you prefer or have on hand to bulk it up a bit. This one highlights the glory of bacon (and who doesn't love that?) and
- [Gluten Free Dairy Free Irish Soda Bread](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/27/gluten-free-dairy-free-irish-soda-bread/) - I've always loved Irish soda bread. It's dense, filling, and simple. You can eat it with butter or dip it in soup (as my husband prefers). Some people think it's supposed to be sweet and have raisins in it or carraway seeds. Real soda bread is just flour, buttermilk, salt, and baking soda. This recipe
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/26/midweek-row80-progress-report-14/) - I have...nothing to actually report on this progress report. The last day I wrote was Sunday. I'm up to the 2 scene midpoint of this novella, and I've dropped everything to help a close friend who is going through some major life upheaval. This would be that life stuff I'm always preaching about. Meanwhile, on
- [Guest Posting...](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/25/guest-posting/) - I am guest posting today over at She Writes on the Reality Check blog, talking about being outed as a writer. Hop over and check it out!
- [5 Reasons Why SyFy's Killjoys Is Satisfying My Firefly Fix](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/21/5-reasons-why-syfys-killjoys-is-satisfying-my-firefly-fix/) - So SyFy has a new show out called Killjoys. Check out the trailer: SyFy's Killjoys is about space bounty hunters, y'all! So, let's talk about why I love this show. For me, this show feels like it could happen in the same universe as Firefly. The world, the tech--I have no problems imagining
- [Appreciating Silence](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/08/appreciating-silence/) - I've been getting increasingly sporadic about posting. Some of that is that I've been blogging for 8 years, and after over 3100 posts, you start to run out of stuff to say that you don't feel like you've said before. Some of it is that I've been super busy with the Evil Day Job this
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/20/midweek-row80-progress-report-13/) - Late with my progress report again. So a thing I have learned about myself--being on deadline for a project makes me want to work on EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD BUT THAT PROJECT. In addition to working on plotting out Autumn and Judd's book, I've also gone hard-core into plotting one of my other plot bunnies
- [Late Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/17/late-sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-3/) - It's been a LONG WEEK. So I'm very late writing my progress report. First off was the Great Punctuation Debacle in my preorder file for Know Me Well, where more than half the periods were missing. I spent days laboriously correcting things and going rounds with Amazon about whether they would notify the people who'd pre-ordered.
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report and A Formatting Disaster](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/12/midweek-row80-progress-report-and-a-formatting-disaster/) - So, I've been talking for the last MONTH about my preorder of Know Me Well, which releases THIS FRIDAY. Yay, rah rah and all that. Except I discovered day before yesterday an egregious formatting disaster. A Find and Replace horror of epic proportions that had somehow made half my periods disappear (not all, just some, which is
- [Know Me Well Sneak Peek: Meet Liam](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/14/know-me-well-sneak-peek-meet-liam/) - Know Me Well releases TODAY! You can grab your copy from Amazon, iBooks, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, or Kobo. Meanwhile, here's your introduction to ex-Marine Liam Montgomery! ~*~ Liam could still feel Riley shaking. His instincts shouted to soothe and protect, and he was becoming very aware that the woman in his arms was a long damn
- [Know Me Well Sneak Peek: Meet Riley](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/13/know-me-well-sneak-peek-meet-riley/) - Since Know Me Well releases TOMORROW, I thought it would be good to give y'all a sneak peek introduction to my shero, Riley. She's one of those heroines who turned out completely different from how I originally envisioned her. Mule stubborn wasn't on her initial character profile, but as things got rolling, that's exactly how she
- [Know Me Well Playlist](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/11/know-me-well-playlist/) - Since Know Me Well comes out this Friday, it's become kind of a tradition now to share with y'all the playlist that goes along with the book. A lot of the music that goes on these playlists doesn't necessarily seem to have anything to do with the final product of the book. I have playlists
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/09/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-13/) - There was a lot of flailing, wailing, and gnashing of teeth this week. I'm supposed to be working on Wish I Might, the novella I'm contributing to the upcoming Virtually Yours anthology. I'm on deadline, behind thanks to Riley and Liam, and all I could think about was Judd and Autumn (the couple in Something's Gotta Give, the
- [A New Perspective on Fitness](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/10/a-new-perspective-on-fitness/) - Sunday I finished my first full week back at a gym. The last time I did the formalized gym experience was way back in grad school ten years ago (holy crap). I've got a lot of gear at home and a nice little set up in one of our spare rooms (one of those reasons why
- [Guest Post: Dark Places: Another Hit for Flynn or a Flop?](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/07/guest-post-dark-places-another-hit-for-flynn-or-a-flop/) - Elizabeth Eckhart is rescuing me from my own bad blogging habits lately (blame the book, y'all...it's always about the book--the one I'm finishing, the one I'm trying to write, or the one that's beating me over the head to write it RIGHT NOW, even though I'm on deadline for something else). Give her a warm
- [Late Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/08/03/late-sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-2/) - So I finished all revisions to Know Me Well last week. The final files are uploaded and ready to go out on release day the 14th. I am very very ready to get on with the next thing. That next thing is Wish I Might, the novella I'm writing to go in the Virtually Yours anthology coming out later
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/07/29/midweek-row80-progress-report-12/) - :pokes head out of cave: :looks confused: What the heck day is it? I've lost track. I'm at the office and people are still here, so clearly it's a workday before 5... I am OFFICIALLY done done done with Know Me Well. Copyright got registered today and my editors are making one last pass to make sure
- [My Top 5 Matchmaking Mother Romances](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/07/27/my-top-5-matchmaking-mother-romances/) - We can thank Jill Shalvis for this post, as I just finished her latest, Second Chance Summer, which is what inspired this list. I have a serious soft spot for romances in which mothers (or grandmothers, grandfathers, brothers, or other family members) manipulate and connive to help the hero and shero get out of their own
- [Try The Wishful Series For FREE](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/07/20/try-the-wishful-series-for-free/) - In preparation for the release of the third book in my Wishful series, Know Me Well, I'm making the first book in the series FREE! Now is absolutely the time to try it. You can find it for free at Amazon, Kobo, Apple iBooks, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble. If you want it free at Amazon, you'll need
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/07/22/midweek-row80-progress-report-11/) - I'm sitting here having just fought off an epic case of complicatitis. I haven't gotten a whole heck of a lot written the last week. Last Thursday I headed down to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to visit my pal, horror writer, Lisa Kroger. I think my laptop came out MAYBE once? The tarot cards (I
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/07/15/midweek-row80-progress-report-10/) - Well, it's a weird week for me. It was going to be short anyway, as I'm leaving Thursday morning to go down to the coast for a fabulous writer weekend with horror writer Lisa Kroger (SO PUMPED). And I ended up off work today because they are doing epic work on the air conditioner at
- [#ROW80 Round 3 Goals](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/07/06/row80-round-3-goals-4/) - It is officially the start of Round 3 for A Round of Words in 80 Days. So, time to state those goals. Write at least 20 out of every 30 days (oldie but goodie). Write, revise, and prepare for release my novella for the upcoming Virtually Yours anthology. This one is a Wishful tie-in following Reed
- [I'll Be Your Huckleberry](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/06/30/ill-be-your-huckleberry/) - So last week was unabashedly awful. We cried a lot. I apparently made a bunch of other people cry with my post. Sorry about that. But I've found some peace with the whole situation. She had a long, VERY well loved life and I know we did absolutely every single possible thing that could be
- [Final #ROW80 Round 2 Check-in](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/06/26/final-row80-round-2-check-in/) - It's been an emotional week, so I'll keep this short. First off, thanks to everyone for your condolences. They're much appreciated. And I'm sorry if I made you cry yesterday. Hubby told me I should've tagged yesterday's post NSFW. So, goals for Round 2. Continue to publish one recipe a week. That's been somewhat successful. Life
- [What Do Readers Want In A Series Bible?](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/06/23/what-do-readers-want-in-a-series-bible/) - Any author worth her salt (who does not want to go nuts later) keeps what's known as a series bible to go along with any series she writes. This is where we (theoretically) keep track of things like hair and eye color, relatives, interests, occupations, and all the myriad of details we don't want to
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/06/21/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-10/) - I finally finished first pass revisions on Know Me Well and shipped it off to my editor last night. Thank you Jesus. It took a full 2 weeks, which is a lot longer than I usually spend on that first pass (generally it's a pretty quick clean up of stuff, typos, line edits and the like,
- [Announcing Team Nolan](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/06/19/announcing-team-nolan/) - As this week is drawing to a close, so to are revisions on my next book (at least until it comes back from my editor). I'm anticipating a July release, for those who are interested. As always, I definitely need help in getting the word out. There are always several of you who go out
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/06/14/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-9/) - Last night I officially checked an item off my bucket list--saw Garth Brooks live in concert. He was fantastic. Which, you know, no shock, because GARTH BROOKS. We ended the night with a trip to Krispy Cream, which was a pretty nice end to things. Today I tested for my blue belt in taekwondo. It's
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/06/11/three-awesome-things-70/) - This woman in Alaska recently turned on the sprinklers for a mama moose and her twin babies. What an unforgettable and delightful sight! For anyone who ever felt like bursting into spontaneous dance in public... And just because I get to see him in concert this weekend and he's awesome, more Garth Brooks. I
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/06/10/midweek-row80-progress-report-9/) - I've fallen off the blogging wagon the last several days, but it's definitely time for another #ROW80 progress report. Been SUUUUUPER busy at the Evil Day Job, had out of town company over the weekend, been training my butt off for my blue belt test in Taekwondo (coming up Sunday!), and working my way through
- [Late Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/06/04/late-midweek-row80-progress-report/) - Still need to do a revision pass before it goes to my editor this weekend, and there will invariably be more revisions when it comes back from her, but for now...CELEBRATION.
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/06/04/three-awesome-things-69/) - This flew by in my Facebook feed last week and I about fell out laughing. Beware the dog house! In keeping with the funny, you HAVE to watch this episode of Redneck Avengers, put on by the Bad Lip Reading people. Beverage warning. If this were a show, I would totally watch it. Because even
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/31/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-8/) - Late post today, but I finished out May with just over 27k. Not as high as I'd like, not as low as it could be, so...I'll take it. Not quite 3k of that was plotting. I am 2.5 scenes away from the end of Know Me Well. I had hoped to knock it out by today
- [10 Things Writers Shouldn't Say In A DM](https://kaitnolan.com/2012/05/01/10-things-writers-shouldnt-say-in-a-dm/) - The Twitter direct message (DM) is something that's an integral part of a social media platform. It's an opportunity to reach out and connect with someone else because they have FOLLOWED YOU. I've mentioned before that I have an auto DM intended to start a conversation: Thanks for the follow! So are you reader, writer,
- [The Positive Psychology of Romance](https://kaitnolan.com/2007/12/20/learned-optimism-and-authentic-happiness/) - Yesterday's post on Romancing the Blog--which I admit to being surprised was written by a guy--hey I don't know any men liberated enough to read, let alone write romance or about romance--was a response to yet another controversy in the romance world, a controversy to which he provides several links to if you care to
- [Tyranny of the Shoulds](https://kaitnolan.com/2009/11/02/tyranny-of-the-shoulds/) - I'm really late posting today. I've been running around taking my car to the dealership, finding out I have a bent rim (thank you crappy Mississippi roads), having the nice and totally awesome guys at Nissan beat the thing back into shape so that I don't have to shell out $286 just yet (though it
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/28/three-awesome-things-68/) - Baby Clydesdales!!!!!!! Jaws is coming back to the big screen. Click the link to check for theaters near you. My hubby's summer is totally made. Here, have one of the most iconic movie scores in history. And hubby and I have recently started watching Penny Dreadful, a British horror show on Showtime. FANTASTIC cast, incredible
- [The Middle School Crush](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/26/the-middle-school-crush/) - So the last couple of weeks, I've been intermittently spewing out notes on a new quartet of bunnies (or maybe it's just a four-headed single bunny, really) that deals with four lifelong friends. Lots of history between them and a lot of bits and pieces from their growing up years that come back in the
- [Patio Envy and Backyard DIY Projects](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/22/patio-envy-and-backyard-diy-projects/) - We live on a hill. There's a privacy fence running all around the back yard, but because of said hill, we can easily see over it from our back porch and into our back neighbor's yard. This gave us a bird's eye view of their project last weekend--which was to build an epic deck off
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/21/three-awesome-things-67/) - Ok this was really cool. They did an experiment to see if a blindfolded child could pick out his/her mom from a group full of women. The results definitely belong on my list of awesome things. Bustle had a really interesting article on the CAUSES OF CLUMSINESS (wow! It's NOT all just in my
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/17/sunday-summary-and-row80-update-98/) - It's been a busy busy weekend. I had a self defense seminar Saturday morning at my dojo, a bunch of household stuff to knock out Saturday afternoon. Hubs and I planned to go see Pitch Perfect 2 Saturday night, but by the time we got to the theater, there was NO WAY we could get through the
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/13/midweek-row80-progress-report-8/) - I didn't get around to posting a #ROW80 progress report on Sunday. Truth is, I didn't have much to tell. I was sick all last week with very low word counts, most of which ended up getting axed. But I did yet ANOTHER read through over the weekend and hammered out my Act 3 outline
- [Three  Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/14/three-awesome-things-66/) - Nala the therapy dog. Warning: You might tear up. 92 Year old female WW2 Pilot flies again in tribute to the 70th anniversary of VE Day! You go, Joy! And how much do I wish this were a real thing?
- [5 Reasons I Loved Jupiter Ascending (Even Though The Plot Is A Hot Mess)](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/08/5-reasons-i-loved-jupiter-ascending-even-though-the-plot-is-a-hot-mess/) - I first saw Jupiter Ascending in the theater with my girlfriends (and am I the only one who keeps wanting to call it Jupiter Rising?). Loved it. This is not a popular opinion. There has been a great deal of criticism about the movie, and I'd wanted to watch it again to deconstruct it because I
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/06/midweek-row80-progress-report-7/) - So I'm sick. Again. I swear I've been sick more in the last 6 months than I have the last 6 years. I don't know what's up with that except that the last 10 years of burning the candle at both ends is catching up with me and I'm not in my 20s anymore.
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/07/three-awesome-things-65/) - I have been behind on my awesome things lately. Haven't had nearly the time to play online as is the norm. We should all be this joyful! This puppy is having hiccups for the first time and he Just. Can't. Handle. It. You know you needed that dose of cute. And finally, I wanted to
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/05/03/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-6/) - I feel like I'm on the backside of running around like a chicken with my head cut off. It was a hella busy week at the evil day job with Wave 1 of our current project, which meant orientations at two sites in two different towns, overnight travel and a whole lot of not routine
- [(Late) Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/27/late-sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report/) - This is gonna be a quick and dirty #ROW80 Progress Report because I completely didn't get around to posting yesterday. I've been a terrible blogger lately because I've just been so flipping BUSY. Hubby and I have officially been married 12 years. Come August we'll have been together for 16. Craziness. Work has been mentally
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/29/midweek-row80-progress-report-6/) - I feel like I've been a terrible blogger lately. I'm caught in a stretch at work where I'm out of my office a lot, traveling a fair bit, and just generally being too busy to remember what day it is, let alone think of topics to blog about and get them executed. Which has also
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/23/three-awesome-things-64/) - How is it Thursday already? I feel very ill prepared this week with my plethora of awesome things, so it's gonna be a quick and dirty list. So have you ever noticed that men tend not to remember a lot of stuff as well as women? Turns out there's science backing up why. This was
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/19/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-5/) - It's a late progress report today. I've just gotten back from an Outlander watch party. OMG, all the feels! It was a slow writing week. I had to head back to the plotting board to finalize what happens in the last quarter of the book. Then I needed to do a read-through to really set the current version
- [Friday Fun](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/17/friday-fun/) - Because this just made up for a totally craptastic week. I got goosebumps and chills. No lie. And totally teared up at the end.
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/15/midweek-row80-progress-report-5/) - Welcome to my latest #ROW80 Progress Report! Wherein I...don't have a whole heck of a lot o progress TO report. After a magnificent word count last week, things have slowed down on the writing front. I ended up adding a couple of scenes on the fly without properly sorting out their function (other than I
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/16/three-awesome-things-63/) - Dog are regularly on my lists of awesome things because they are, obviously, awesome. Meet Thor. Ever wanted to meet your own personal doppelganger? These three did! I love, love, love this idea for helping others, and I'm totally stealing it for my Wishful series. It's a seriously awesome thing.
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/12/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-4/) - Apparently I totally missed Wednesday's #ROW80 Progress Report. Was up to my eyeballs in stuff at the EDJ. After last week's discovery that I had a broken plot and some intensive reworking, I dove back into the book last Sunday. I'm pleased to report I knocked it out of the park with over 9k words
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/09/three-awesome-things-62/) - It's time for this week's list of awesome things! Yorkie. Tucking in. A Baby. You're welcome. The Southern Woman Channel just released the latest episode of S%it Southern Women Say. Beverage warning. And this is just darn cool. You can make your own fire tornado! [Warning: you probably shouldn't try this at home.]
- [#ROW80 Round 2 Goals](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/06/row80-round-2-goals/) - It's already time for Round 2 goals for A Round of Words In 80 Days. I've had this window open for an hour, looking for five minutes to scribble down goals, and I keep getting interrupted. It's totally that kind of Monday. So okay, let's keep this short and sweet. Continue to publish one recipe
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/02/three-awesome-things-59/) - It is time for the weekly roundup of AWESOME THINGS! This kid is amazing. All the reasons standardized tests are bad. High five Sydney. High five. Because a Frenchie and a police horse playing kissy face is adorable. You're welcome. It's a legit steamcycle (thanks to my hubby for sharing). How cool
- [Teaching What I Love: Novellas](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/04/01/teaching-what-i-love-novellas/) - A Favorite Format I love novellas. Like, seriously, I love them. I keep a plethora loaded on my phone to keep me entertained while waiting on my work computer to boot, standing in line, waiting at the doctor's office. They're meatier than short stories and not as time consuming as novels (which makes them great
- [#ROW80 Round 1 Achievements](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/25/row80-round-1-achievements/) - Okay technically we have until tomorrow, but I'm going to be on the road for the Evil Day Job, so I'm going to go ahead and post my #ROW80 Round 1 Achievements today. So, setting out at the start of this round my goals were: Write at least 20 out of 30 days. January: 28;
- [Finding Time and Making Time](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/24/finding-time-and-making-time/) - Image by Sean MacEntee I don't think I know a single person who doesn't wish for more hours in the day. I regularly lust after a functional time turner. We all struggle with finding time and making time where there often seems to be none. Well, sadly, time turners don't exist, and the teleportation technology
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/22/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-3/) - Sunday already? Aaaand another ROW80 Progress Report It's been all about the food today. I put together some tuna salad, hummus, made quinoa egg muffins and mujadarra (using the spice palette from chicken shawarma), and experimented with a single serve batch of slightly healthier dairy free chocolate chip cookie dough (3 tbsp flour, 1.5 tbsp
- [Fiction Friday Round Up](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/13/fiction-friday-round/) - So I haven't done one of these in a while (there has been much other random productive stuff happening since the start of the year). But I HAVE been reading! I've been on a big Jill Shalvis and Candis Terry kick, blowing through One In a Million (the LAST Lucky Harbor book :CRIES:), At Last (which I
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/15/sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report-2/) - I am officially caught in the tractor beam of my favorite chair. Today was the first sunny day we've had in WEEKS, and it absolutely lit a fire under my fanny to GET THINGS DONE. So I...made a quiche, batch cooked black beans, made gluten free hamburger buns, made an epic batch of turkey meatballs to
- [5 Ways to Combat Failure](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/14/5-ways-to-combat-failure/) - I've been thinking a lot about failure lately. It seems as if it's haunting me at every turn, skulking along waiting to ambush me in every arena of my life like some kind of apex predator stalking its prey. I had amazing word counts last year. Very few days of low or no productivity--only 71
- [Fiction Friday Round-up: Candis Terry's Sweet, Texas](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/13/fiction-friday-round-up-candis-terrys-sweet-texas/) - I had other stuff I was going to post about this morning, but the stupendosity (shut up, it's a word) of the deal I found when I got online this morning dictated a change. I've posted before about how much I ADORE Candis Terry's Sweet, Texas series. It's one of my all time favorite contemporary
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/11/midweek-row80-progress-report-3/) - How is it already time for another progress report? I think all my days are running together with the incessant RAIN! I feel like I ought to be stowing oars in my car for just in case. The yard is soup and the dogs are giving me this miserable "Make it stop, mommy" look that
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/12/three-awesome-things-61/) - We have social media to thank for this week's roundup of awesome things. So this artist takes old farm equipment and turns it into art. It's like Julie Kagawa's Ironhorse but, you know, western. How cool is that? These otters may be the most adorable thing I've seen all week. This week's
- [Anti DST Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/08/anti-dst-sunday-summary-and-row80-progress-report/) - It's that dreaded day of the year--Daylight Savings Time. :shudder: The antiquated, non-sensical practice that boots us out of bed an hour early for the next eight months, screwing with our circadian rhythms, and making (for many of us) not one whit of difference to our daily schedule because we aren't doing crap after work that
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/04/midweek-row80-progress-report-2/) - How is it already time for another progress report? Okay, so, I haven't actually gotten much written so far this week. I spent some time doing a full read through now that I've stitched together the new and old portions of She's Got A Way. Made a few more tweaks there, and I'm largely ready to
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/03/05/three-awesome-things-60/) - OMG...you can now go to your own school of wizardry! Who's in? Also, who wants to write the romance of two LARPers who fall in love here? 'Cause I wanna read that. I haven't got the foggiest idea what this is a commercial for, but PENGUINS IN LOVE! SO CUTE! This TED talk about the
- [Operation Where The Heck Is My Goddess In Training?](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/28/operation-where-the-heck-is-my-goddess-in-training/) - It's the last day of February and I find myself wondering where the heck the first couple months of the year went. There was something about flu. And business at the Evil Day Job. A cookbook. Writing a class. And a whole lot of not being able to drag my fanny out of bed on
- [Midweek #ROW80 Progress Report](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/25/midweek-row80-progress-report/) - I'm home unexpectedly today for a snow day. For which we have not actually seen any snow. We're in that borderline range of 32-33 degrees where all the weather apps say snow, but it's really more like freezing rain and is just generally nasty. They were predicting 3-6 inches of snow. And maybe it'll turn
- [Character Agency as an Element of Plot (AKA, Remember The Author Is God--Write Wisely)](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/20/character-agency-plot/) - Okay, it's not Thursday, but this is an expansion on the Bonus Awesome Thing I linked to yesterday. This is a Storify of the discussion about character agency and how it is an element of PLOT, not character. Give it a gander. [View the story "Agency and Plot" on Storify] This is another one
- [Why The Popularity For Sheroes Without Agency?](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/17/50-shades-character-agency/) - So 50 Shades of Grey the movie came out last weekend. Whether you love it or hate it, you cannot deny it's become a cultural phenomenon. There's been a whole SLOUGH of fantastic posts about it. Here's a collection of my favorites. Is Romance Devolving? 50 Shades vs. No One Puts Baby In A
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/11/midweek-row80-check-in-63/) - I've barely been updating lately. First because I had the flu and wasn't doing anything but resting and marathon watching various and sundry things on Netflix and then because I was over the flu and have been playing a great big game of catch up. And also because I've been putting my focus on more
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/02/05/three-awesome-things-56/) - On a more personal awesome note, I am finally over the flu. Not back to 100% but feeling like a human again. I kinda quail at everything I need to do in order to catch up at work but we shall survive. I love the new Budweiser commercial. So does this Great Dane. Watch
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/29/three-awesome-things-55/) - Seeing eye kitty! Jason Porath has a fantastic website called Rejected Princesses "Women too Awesome, Awful, or Offbeat for Kids' Movies. Updated Wednesdays." It's part art project, part history lesson, all awesome. I really dig this. I love this review of Superhuman by Habit. Brian Johnson hits all the high points of this
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/28/midweek-row80-check-in-62/) - Honestly, I feel like I've been scrambling to get back into some kind of routine since the start of the month and just failing miserably. After three weeks off (Christmas break + being sick before), my body had plenty of time to both rotate to it's natural biorhythm (aka, going to bed at 11 or
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/25/sunday-summary-and-row80-update-97/) - Super late post today because it's been a BUSY WEEKEND. We've had family in town all weekend. My husband's grandmother has been moved to hospice and all the cousins were coming in for what may be their last chance to see her. Between visits, I've been busting my hump to finish a new project, and I'm
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/21/midweek-row80-check-in-61/) - So Monday went well. I knocked out a fair chunk of a scene that's been giving me trouble. Did some playing in my sandbox for the new website I'm designing (Lord knows when that will be rolled out). Picked out a new theme to go with that. And the rest of the week feels like
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/18/sunday-summary-and-row80-update-96/) - I've officially de-Christmased the house. That's only 2 weeks overdue. I don't want to talk about how many needles there were... I did locate my missing Christmas tree topper, so that was a happy surprise. I've been plotting this weekend on the next Wishful novel. It's been hanging out in the concept stage for quite
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/14/midweek-row80-check-in-60/) - I don't have a WHOLE lot to report. It's been...well, one of those weeks where I'm pretty sure Monday is stuck in a Groundhog's Day kind of loop. On the actual Monday I went out to leave for work and my car wouldn't start. So I wound up having to get my MIL to take
- [Something Southern: Coke](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/13/something-southern-coke/) - We Southerners have a reputation for laziness in certain sectors. One of the most well-known is in how we deal with soft drinks. All soft drinks/pops/sodas (for you Yankees and midwesterners) are Coke. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/9851692911038401/ I actually come from a Coca-cola family (my great granddaddy owned a Coca-cola bottling plant in the Mississippi Delta forever ago), so
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/11/sunday-summary-and-row80-update-95/) - This was my first week back at the Evil Day Job after the holiday and it was...rough. Since I was sick for several days BEFORE the start of the holiday, there are things that I did not get tied up then. So I hit the ground running Monday at 90 miles an hour, making lists
- [Ch..ch...ch...Changing...](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/10/ch-ch-ch-changing/) - Okay, before I get into the meat of this post, I have to get in my shameless plug. If you haven't already nabbed this one, now's the time, as its enrollment in KDP Select is up next week, and I'll be rolling it out to other retailers. Now, on to the topic at hand.
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/07/midweek-row80-check-in-59/) - Well we're hardly begun, but I still have a little bit of progress to report. One of the things I really wanted to do this round is get back into food blogging over at Pots and Plots. I set a goal of putting up at least 6 new posts this round (which is NOT much,
- [Something Southern: Pin of the Week](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/06/something-southern-pin-of-the-week/) - I love this old abandoned store from Grits Photography. I keep wanting to take one and restore it for somebody in Wishful. It reminds me of what Taylor Grocery would be if there wasn't so much love keeping it running. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/9851692910975059 https://www.pinterest.com/pin/9851692910975029 Also in the realm of southern, I'm getting back to my food blogging
- [#ROW80 Round 1 Goals 2015](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/05/row80-round-1-goals-2015/) - I already talked about my annual goals and some of what you can expect from me in 2015, but this is where I look specifically at what I want to accomplish this quarter. Write at least 20 out of 30 days. This is an oldie but goodie. Average 1350 words per writing day. In order
- [Some Wishful Inspiration](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/03/some-wishful-inspiration/) - We're chillaxing here at Casa Nolan. I've got a friend recouping from surgery here, so I've been playing around on Pinterest today creating an inspiration board for my Wishful series. I can tell this will be a lot of fun and it's own little form of black hole! https://www.pinterest.com/kaitnolan/wishful/
- [What's Coming In 2015](https://kaitnolan.com/2015/01/01/whats-coming-in-2015/) - I can hardly believe it's already January. I think I missed most of December. Mentally, I'm starting to make the shift from vacation mode to back to work. That's Monday. I've got big plans for this year, lots that I hope to accomplish. I'd love to give a bit firmer declaration than "hope" but there
- [2014 In Review](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/12/31/2014-in-review/) - Last day of the year. Always a good time for review and reflection. 2014 was the year of the contemporary romance for me. I put out 4 titles this year. 3 Meet Cute Romances (Once Upon A New Year's Eve, Once Upon An Heirloom, Once Upon A Coffee) and the first novel in my Wishful
- [A Call To Wishful Fans!](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/12/27/a-call-to-wishful-fans/) - I hope everybody had a marvelous Christmas holiday! Now that the house has been set mostly to rights and homes found for the new cookware and books and socks, I'm looking toward planning for next year. The name of the game is solidly launching my Wishful series and continuing to contribute to it. I'm working
- [Fiction Friday Roundup](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/12/26/fiction-friday-roundup-2/) - While I haven't been writing as much this month as we finish out the year, I have been doing a fair bit of reading. I went back and read Marine For Hire by Tawna Fenske. I got into this series with the second book Fiancee For Hire and loved it, but forgot I'd bought the first one.
- [Merry Christmas!](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/12/25/merry-christmas-2/)
- [End #ROW80 Round 4](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/12/24/end-row80-round-4/) - Okay technically it ends tomorrow, but that's Christmas and I know perfectly well I won't be blogging or writing or anything else, so I'm gonna go ahead and wind things up now. So, what were my goals for Round 4? Write 25 out of 30 days. Well, that one happened in October (29 out of
- [Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/12/21/sunday-summary-and-row80-update-94/) - Well, I've had an unexpected short week at work due to a cold. I can't remember the last time I had a true cold and not allergies or a sinus infection. It always makes me think of that scene in You've Got Mail where Joe comes to bring Kathleen flowers and tucks her into bed. I'm
- [Three Awesome Things](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/12/18/three-awesome-things-52/) - So Stephen Colbert interviewed Smaug...This is epic. Best use of 3 D printing technology I've ever seen. And hey, Legos work in that department too for a lucky turtle.
- [Midweek #ROW80 Check-In](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/12/17/midweek-row80-check-in-58/) - I haven't written properly in days. I was gone all weekend to my mom's, then I was catching up on stuff I didn't get done because I was gone. And now, now I'm sick. Damn it. I've got a sinus infection or cold or something. Can't breathe worth a damn. I've been taking my vitamin
- [Something Southern: Who are you shipping on Hart of Dixie?](https://kaitnolan.com/2014/12/16/something-southern-who-are-you-shipping-on-hart-of-dixie/) - I haven't watched the first episode of Season 4 yet (that's my plan for lunch today), but I've been eagerly awaiting it. Hart of Dixie is one of those shows that kind of snuck in and got under my skin last year. Right after New Year's, I was struck with a hideous stomach flu and

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