Yummy Dinner

This is so delicious, you have got to try it! I made this for dinner last night and it was so flavorful and filling. I used some leftover ham I had frozen from Easter (brown sugar ham), and the flavor was perfect with the salty cheese and egg mixture. Of course there are probably 100 varieties of this recipe, but try this one first. Once you master the "ring" technique, you could make anything you want. I am thinking about a seafood/pesto variation for my next one. Also, this is very kid friendly and could me made to fit their food preferences (cheeseburger variation, taco filling, etc)

Enjoy!

INGREDIENTS

1	tablespoon margarine or butter
1 1/2	cups Green Giant® frozen chopped broccoli, thawed
1/4	cup chopped onion
1	package (3 oz) cream cheese, softened
6	eggs
1/4	cup milk
1/4	teaspoon salt
1/8	teaspoon pepper
3/4	cup diced cooked ham (4 oz)
1/2	cup shredded Cheddar cheese (2 oz)
2	cans (8 oz each) Pillsbury® refrigerated crescent dinner rolls

DIRECTIONS

	Heat oven to 375°F. Spray large cookie sheet or 14-inch pizza pan with cooking spray. In 12-inch nonstick skillet, melt margarine over medium heat. Add broccoli and onion; cook 2 to 3 minutes, stirring frequently, until tender.
	In medium bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add eggs, milk, salt and pepper; beat well. Add egg mixture to vegetable mixture in skillet. Reduce heat to medium; cook, stirring occasionally from outside edge to center. Cook until eggs are set but still moist. Stir in ham and Cheddar cheese.
	Unroll both cans of dough; separate into 16 triangles. Arrange triangles on sprayed cookie sheet with short sides of triangles toward center, overlapping into wreath shape and leaving 4-inch round opening in center. Lightly press short sides of dough to flatten slightly.
	Spoon egg mixture onto widest part of dough. Pull end points of triangles over filling and tuck under dough to form ring. (Filling will be visible.)
	Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until deep golden brown.

School's out for Summer

Only 6 more days left until the official last day of school for me! I am working on my last written assignment this afternoon, then I am done with one of the most difficult classes I have ever taken. I would almost say it is right up there with Organic Chemistry, just in a different way. It has definitely challenged me to read, learn, and write in ways I never thought possible!

Anyway, I am finally feeling a sense of achievement and completion, and I am starting to see myself in this field of librarianship. There is so much more to it than meets the eye, and I can't wait to see what's in store for me down the road. It's nice to be excited about something professionally for a change.

That is really all I have to write about today. My final term paper has been consuming me for the past two weeks, and after this last paper today, I will be free to write for fun again!

Stay tuned for some new pictures and videos of the family!

Weight update

I felt the need to post this one, quick blog this morning. My current weight is now 184.4!
That is finally 10 pounds less than when I first started recording my weight. 10 down, 20 more to go......that sounds depressing!!

Long time, no blog

It has been a while since my last blog, as I have been both busy and lazy at the same time. I have been meaning to catch everyone up on a few things, but am too tired of being on the computer all day by the end of the night. Anyway, I am going to make an easy to read list of all the events of the past few weeks without all the extra blog jargon. Here goes:

1. At the Dr. yesterday I weighed 184.8!!! Yay! Now I am down 9.6 pounds since my first weight blog
2. I was denied approval for my breast reduction surgery, and now am in the process of an appeal (I went to the Dr. yesterday to get all of the required medical documentation). I have a pretty good chance of getting approved this second time
3. Gabe used the potty for the first time!
4. I am almost done with school this semester! Only thing left is to finish my term paper
5. This Friday (Good Friday) Gabe, Gary and I are headed to the Aurora Fossil museum via the Bayview Ferry- Gabe will love this trip!
6. Monday is the annual Herring Festival in Jamesville- a family tradition
Gabe busted his lip open over the weekend, and it bled like it couldn't bleed anymore!
7. American Idol is so awesome this year- the guys are so amazing. Adam was unbelievable last night! Makes me want to buy that Tears for Fears CD
8. Thanks to my mom for saving her Food Lion receipts for the past 6 weeks, we are having an Easter ham dinner Sunday night. Easter morning we will go to church in Jamesville, followed by the traditional Easter egg hunt. It will be so much fun!
9. We have our first Jasmine bloom of the year!
10. My hostas are shooting through, along with my bleeding hearts-gotta love Spring!
11. Gabe has a haircut appt. tomorrow that I am pretty sure is not going to go well. I keep telling him about it everyday this week to get him ready, and all he has to say is, "Gabeys no like haircut!" Uh oh....