Top Ten Entrecard Droppers for June

Thanks to my top droppers and to everyone else who visited and commented on Things That Are Me.

Hello Kitty Gifts
PJ's Prose
Online Marketing
my review
Melissas Homeschool
airfare-now.com
Zero
Confessions of a Psychotic Housewife
Beyond Feron
Melissas Jewelry and Gem Blog

Fun Friday - Food Transformations

This week the Blogging for Fun group's Fun Friday topic is Transformation. The assignment was to talk about your favorite food and transform it into something healthy.

My favorite food is Fettuccine Alfredo. But I don't want just any recipe. I am spoiled by my husband when he cooks it for me and his recipe is the best (We joke that it is the reason I married him). I really couldn't even start to explain how he makes it. He has a real technique which involves the layering of flavor by adding the Parmesan, salt and pepper at different stages, and using egg yolks as the thickener. I don't know what kind of calories his recipe has, but I am sure there are probably a gazillion!



So, I searched around the Internet for a light version of Fettuccine Alfredo. A lot of them did not sound very appetizing to me. Especially since they used things like cottage cheese (yuk!!!) But I think I found one that I could probably work with and did not sound too far off from what I am use too.

Fettuccine Alfredo Low Calorie Recipe
From Fitnessandfreebies.com

Ingredients:
8 ounces fettuccine
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 tablespoon flour
1/4 cup skim milk
1/2 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, grated
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

Directions:
Cook the fettuccine according to package directions. Drain but reserve 1/4 cup water. Keep the noodles warm.

In a skillet, melt the butter. Add the flour and cook until it becomes straw colored about 45 seconds. Remove from the heat and whisk in the milk. Return to the stove and on medium heat continue whisking constantly about 2 minutes, or until thickened. Add the reserved water and the remaining ingredients. Stir until smooth.

Pour over the noodles and serve.

Recipe makes 4 servings.

Nutrition information per serving:
Calories: 247
Total Fat: 3.7g
Cholesterol 49mg
Sodium: 267mg
Total Carbohydrates: 39g
Fiber: 2g


So for me I am not sure why you would put lemon juice in this and I would probably try leaving it out. Also we do not use nutmeg, so I would have to replace it with salt and pepper. As far as the skim milk, well I would just have to hope it taste like half and half.

Lola Gave Me an Award!

Thank you to Lola at Lola's Diner for giving me this wonderful award. I think her blog is lovely too!

Rules:
1. Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link.
2. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you have newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

I know this is not part of the rules, but I have fallen so behind in everything and there are so many lovely blogs out there that I just couldn't decide. Sorry Lola for not passing it on, but I really do thank you for giving it to me.

Fun Friday - Five Favorite Books

For this weeks blogging for fun groups Fun Friday, we are to list our five favorite books that we have read.

So my top all time favorites are.....



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Top Ten Entrecard Droppers for May

Seems like I am a few days late. Unfortunately, my computer went haywire last Friday. First my monitor went blank. Went out Saturday to buy a new one and came home to the news that Windows was corrupt. Decided to reformat the whole thing. Takes a while to get everything back on, but I love that it now feels like a new computer. Much faster. So, here are my top ten Entrecard droppers for May. And Thanks to all of my readers who stopped by, commented and dropped.

Zero
Online Marketing
my review
Hello Kitty Gifts
Leomar's Den
Melissas Jewelry and Gem Blog
Melissas Homeschool
PJ's Prose
Photography by KML
Beyond Feron

Fun Friday - The Year I was Born

The topic this week for Blogging for Fun's "Fun Friday" was to look up the year you were born and find out how much the following things cost that year. Stamp, gallon of milk, a new home, a new car, and a gallon of gas. As an add on we could see what was the number one song and movie the week we were born.

I was born in the year 1959. (No snickering please!)

I thought this was a fun little task and very interesting to find out how much cheaper things seemed to be. But when you see that the average household income was $5010 in 1959, maybe things weren't really that much cheaper.

Stamps were 4 cents.

A gallon of milk was $1.01

A new home was $12,500

A new car was $2200

Gas was 25 cents a gallon

Some other interesting prices are a movie ticket $1.00, loaf of bread 20 cents, T-bone steak: $1.09 lb., Nestles Quick 1 lb can at 39 cents, hamburger meat 89 cents for 3 pounds, and peanut butter 29 cents a jar.

The number one hit song on the day I was born was "Mack the Knife" by Bobby Darin.
The only thing I could find for movie hit was that Ben Hur won the Oscar for best movie.

A few other interesting facts about 1959 is that the United States President was Dwight D. Eisenhower. NASA introduced America's first astronauts to the world including John H. Glenn Jr, and Alan Shepard Jr. Alaska becomes the 49th State of the United States. Hawaii becomes the 50th State of the United States. Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba after Revolution with the first communist state in the west. An International agreement is signed to preserve Antarctica. The spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama flees Tibet and obtains political asylum in India. The first known human with HIV dies in Congo.

My most favorite thing about 1959 is that it was when the first Barbie doll was introduced. I loved Barbie and spent many hours playing with her. (That reminds me that I still have some of my original Barbie dolls and clothes. I will have to pull them out one day and share my collection). In honor of Barbie and the year I was born, here is the first Barbie commercial from 1959.



So that is my research for this week. I swear Melissa, our group leader is a born teacher. She loves to give homework.


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Just to let you know, the picture at the top of this post is of me.

Featured Etsy Vintage Seller - Rosiemoonbeams

This is a shout out to my sister who runs an Etsy shop called Rosiemoonbeams. She has some really cool vintage ephemera that she is selling. If you love to scrapbook, do mixed media projects or collage, you will love these original postcards, papers and greeting cards.