sauce

How could I resist? The aroma was calling me since I woke up. Nothing smells like home more to me than tomato sauce cooking. If you’ve never let tomato sauce cook slowly all day, I highly recommend trying it. It’s hard to not take a crust of bread and dip it in while it’s cooking, it’s just so wonderful. Like red, liquid gold. Sunday dinner, which is almost always something Italian, seems to be popping up on random days lately. I won’t fight it though, I’ll just savor it.

So mom made a huge pot of sauce and meatballs. Not lean meat, either. Fatty, delicious, ground meat. She ate a little bit, and Dustin’s still not feeling 100%, so he was only up for one meal today. It was just the meatballs and me. What could I do? I paced around the island in the kitchen a few times (I do this all the time actually, it’s fun lol), then decided to make some pasta!

1oz whole wheat angel hair pasta (105 cal) with 1 meatball, a little sauce and a little grated cheese. YUM! I estimate this little bowl of goodness to be around 250 calories.

Dustin was feeling better, but as the day went on he progressively got more congested. Hopefully this is the summit of sickness peak and it’ll be much better when he wakes up. During the time he was feeling better, he came downstairs to join me for some of the sauce and meatballs that he couldn’t smell. lol

I wanted to make something quick and simple, so I made meatball parmesan “subs” on hot dog rolls. They double as 6″ inch subs, only not as crusty… or delicious lol. I digress.

A side salad with more of that fantastic gorgonzola spread and strawberries

• 1 Martin’s potato hot dog roll (130 cal) with 2 of mama’s meatballs (200 cal?? *shrugs*), a little sauce and 19g Sargento reduced fat provolone (50 cal) that I put in the mini food processor to shred
• Side salad with about 2 cups mixed greens (10 cal), 2 large strawberries (15 cal), 1 TBSP Bragg healthy vinaigretee (45 cal) and 14g gorgonzola spread (45 cal)

Calories: Around 459-550ish

This was sooo good! Dustin loved it, too. He ate his faster than me, but I had a yummy salad to slow me down lol. Ever since my sinuses cleared up, everything tastes so much better to me! For example the raspberry flavored seltzer is now like “WOW!, tasty” when it used to taste like regular (plain) to me. Maybe my taste buds have been on the fritz for awhile?? Or maybe now that I got my sense of taste/smell back after not having it for a few days it’s like reintroducing flavors into my life all over again? I don’t know but it’s pretty cool.

I was on my own again for supper. *sniff, sniff* I was going to make salmon, but I was like, “eh, now’s the time to use up some of the loot in the freezer!” So I found this Guiltless Gourmet burrito/wrap that I bought a few weeks ago:

What I liked about it when I found it in the store: Made with entirely wholesome ingredients; 70% organic, whole wheat flour and all and it’s relatively low in sodium; 290mg. So I followed the direction and nuked it. I had a little trouble taking it out of its wrapper, so it ended up breaking, but I patched that with some Fage Total 0%.

Yes, I am obsessed with this gorgonzola spread. You can pry it out of my cold, dead hands. It’s amazing!

• 1 Guiltless Gourmet Caloifornia veggie wrap (270 cal) topped with 2oz Fage Total 0% Greek yogurt (30 cal) and a few splashes of Tabasco
• 124g Gala apple slices (70 cal) drizzled with 3g honey (10 cal) and a 28g side of gorgonzola spread (90 cal)

Calories: 470

The wrap was pretty good, but I think I overcooked it in the nuker ’cause it was hard on the ends, but I ate it anyway. The apple drizzled with honey and gorgonzola… OMG! AWESOME! Try it, it’s fantabulous!

It’s after 4:00AM now and the house is chilly. I need to put the heat on. We had it off all day because it got up to almost 50F! Wooooooo ~~ heatwave ~~  LOL. Nite nite

Tagged as: apple, Fage Total Greek yogurt, gorgonzola, Guiltless Gourmet, meatballs, sauce

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