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Cauliflower Poppers


Course: snacks
PointsPlus™ Value: 0
Servings: 8
Preparation Time: 10 min
Cooking Time: 10 min
Level of Difficulty: Easy

Great as a side dish or as a snack. An unbeatable combo of flavor, texture and spice.

Ingredients

1 spray(s) cooking spray
1 head(s) cauliflower (medium)
1/2 tsp Durkee Ground Cumin Seed, or other brand
1/2 tsp chili powder, or more to taste
1/2 tsp table salt
1/2 tsp black pepper

Instructions
Preheat oven to 400°F. Coat a baking sheet with cooking spray.
Cut cauliflower florets into bite-sized pieces (there should be about 4 cups). Place cauliflower in a medium bowl and add cumin, chili powder, salt and pepper; toss well to coat.Spread cauliflower on prepared baking sheet and bake until cauliflower is tender, but not mushy, stirring halfway through, about 10 minutes. Yields about 1/2 cup per serving.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR - I can't believe I haven't posted since Thanksgiving - so caught up in the holidays. So this is a new year, new beginnings, new ends, new ideas, new hopes, new dreams, new attitude - I hope to be touched by all of these this year. We shall see how it goes, but baby steps right?

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all - I am so blessed to have so much good in my life - my family, friends, my WONDERFUL sons, a passion for being creative and a drive to grow. This holiday always makes me humble and I wish this feeling year round. This is something I plan to focus on for the next year. Today is also my youngest sons 25th golden birthday. I am so proud of him and the man he has become - he lives in San Diego so I miss him everyday. He makes my heart overflow with love and joy. (this is a picture taken in September 2008 of the two of us)



I have also been working on making these fun snowflake garlands that I am selling in my Etsy shop. They are really fun to make.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/62867023/snowflake-garland-dictionary-pages
http://www.etsy.com/listing/62867280/mini-snowflake-garland?ref=v1_other_1

December Daily 2010

This is the second year I have done the December daily with Ali Edwards http://aliedwards.com/2010/11/december-daily-2010-qa.html
My album is 6 x 6" in size. This year I decided to do all of the days of December including a day for January 1st, 2011 to capture my thoughts for the new year. I think next year I will also do one for November - for tracking all that I am thankful for or keep an annual gratitude journal.

10-10-10

Today is the Chicago Marathon -If I would have planned better, like first of the year, maybe I could have trained to run this. Just cause 10 is my favorite number and it would have been cool to have been part of it. But it was a little warm for the runners. I did watch it for the first time on TV - really enjoyable to watch. Someday, maybe someday, I will be part of the 45,000 runners.

I have been needing to make a dust cover for my WII fit board. It sits under my entertainment cabinet and gets pretty dusty. SO I grabbed some scrap material I had for years. It is an ivory printed canvas of musical related print. I was thinking I would make a horizontal folder type cover. Didn't work that well. SO I used fabric glue to hold the middle seam after sewing a 1/4 seam all around my 32" x 25" piece of fabric. Then I sewed the one short end. I folded over the other short end about with a 1/4 seam to allow for a draw string. Kinda turned out to be a duffel bag. SO it works for now, I think I will tweak when I start making them to sell on Etsy. My first try turned out OK.

Perfect Protest

I can across This blog of Renee Brown who is promoting her new book. She is having a protest to perfection all week. What a great idea. I am just learning how important it is to forgive myself. This book is coming into my world at a good time I believe. http://www.ordinarycourage.com/my-blog/2010/9/26/the-perfect-protest.html

I will never be perfect - but I am pretty damn good
I will never be wealthy - but I grateful that I am currently employed making a good buck
I am becoming less and less social
I will never be stick thin, but I am learning to enjoy being healthy by eating right and working out. I do this for me !!!
I will never be the perfect mother, sister, friend, aunt, manager, employee but I will strive not to be the worst.
I will never be on the cover of a magazine but there must be people that see beauty in me sometimes.
I am learning to live in the moment because that's where my energy should be. Can't change the past and can't predict the future.
My thought, my choice, my power.
I think meditating will actually improve my life and I need to embrace this ASAP.
I need a relationship with God
I am going to believe in me, forgive me, respect me and most importantly LOVE ME.

Da Bears

I have been wanting to make this for awhile and since football season is here ....
I used some fabrics from a thrift store - a blue checked sheet, a solid orange shower curtain, an orange dotted fabric from my scrap pile and a navy blue twin sheet I had and never used. The flags are 6" wide and 6" high - cut with pinking shears and sewed onto navy blue bias tape. I used white iron on letters and made a brown football from felt with white felt laces. This will be great to use at any tailgate party or even better a SUPER BOWL party !!!! GO BEARS.

OCTOBER

How did October come so fast !! I do enjoy the fall though - I really look forward to cooler weather, warm clothes, comfort food, apple cider and the list goes on.

Today I finished a quick project. I got this teal canvas bag at a thrift store for only .90 cents. I used a fabric scrap that I got a few years ago from the sample sale at 1154 Lill (a great company that makes purses by your design - you get to pick the fabrics). The flowered scrap piece covered the pattern on teh bag and created a nice size pocket on the outside. I also bunched some yellow fabric scraps that I got from the same sale this year. It turned out really cute and it was quick and easy. I will use the bag for groceries, a craft tote or whatever. I need to make some more of these for gifts I think.

Weekend Wrap up

Why do weekends go by so fast ?? Jason was watching Tommy so the house was mine all weekend !!!
Friday - I enjoyed some Chinese for dinner - cashew chicken and orange chicken - my usual
Saturday - went to the 1154 Lill sample sale http://www.1154lill.com/ - It was kinda crazy, ladies hoarding bags in the corners, but I managed to buy myself two bags and a make up bag (which I didn;t need any of them). I also got 8 Christmas gifts. The weather was kinda cool and started to rain on my way home. I did a major no no and got pulled over by the EP cops (turned left on a no turn left) and was lucky that the cop only gave me a warning - I WAS SO LUCKY. I kept saying that all day and thanking the police gods for not giving me a ticket. Then I did some great thrift shopping - I got two cool wool coats (1 was 4 bucks), 2 pairs of pants, 2 sweaters, a sweatshirt, some crafts items to upscale, some material (bed skirt, sheet, shower curtain) to also make something with) all for 42 bucks. Since it was a nice cool day, I stopped to get the fixings to make chili - YUMMY - I rented a few movies.
Sunday - got up to early because of the dogs breaking into my room, watched a movie (Back up Plan - dumb), putzed around my house and did some random chores, watched the BEARS win - DA Bears. And the weekend comes to a close. At least tomorrow I am heading to Columbus, Ohio for a work conference on Tuesday - so it will be a nice short work week.

Random Thoughts

So today here are some random thoughts from my day

1 - Mondays mean work - blah
2 - I love fall weather
3 - freshman kids taking the train in the morning are kinda loud
3 - Guys should not wear skinny jeans at any age
4 - I am happy I took a walk at lunch
5 - I should move downtown to enjoy the lakefront
6 - need to win the lottery to complete number 5
5 - I spend too much time in meetings at work
6 - I love when I see 4:30 on the clock
7 - I wish I could cook (or even better have a cook to cook for me)
8 - my doggies are so happy to see me when I get home
9 - Why isn't ice cream a food group
10 - My thoughts are way to random :)