Maybe one day I'll be Martha!

I love to cook... just a couple things, really!
My favorite things to cook are the things that I know by heart, the recipes I've made so many times that I no longer need to think about ingredients or what to do. They're the kind of recipes where I literally could walk blindfolded through Kroger, pick up the ingredients, and go home and make the dish without thinking. These are two very favorite "comfort food" recipes. They both came from the little Pillsbury cookbooks you can get at the checkout stand.

Southwestern Pasta (have been making this one since 2001!)
1 can mild chili beans, undrained
1 can Mexicorn, drained
1 lb. mild Mexican Velveeta
most of a bag of rotini
1 lb. ground beef

Brown the ground beef while you boil the rotini. While this is going on, cut the Velveeta into smallish pieces on a plate. Then, drain your browned ground beef and return it to the skillet. Put in your Velveeta cheese pieces to stir and let melt over medium-low heat. Once the cheese is melted, you can pour and stir in your chili beans (undrained) your Mexicorn (drained). Let everything heat up and mix together. Last, drain your noodles and stir them in gently. Let the whole pasta dish heat up together over low heat for just a minute or two.

Biscuit Barbe-Cups
1 pack of Grands biscuits (8 count)
1 lb. ground beef (80/20 or better)
1/2 cup BBQ sauce (I like Corky's, but whatever you like works.)
shredded cheddar cheese
2 tblsp. brown sugar
2 tblsp. finely chopped onion, if that's your thing (I never put this in.)
Preheat your oven to 350. Put your ground beef in the skillet to brown. While it's cooking, spray your muffin pan with Pam. Open your Grands pack, pull out a biscuit, tear off about a quarter of it to use later, then spread it into and up the sides of a muffin pan cup to make a cup/bowl shape with your dough. Be sure to remember to stir your beef every once in a while. Keep doing this until you've filled eight muffin cups. Then, use the extra little bit of biscuit dough to fill up two more muffin cups, which will give you ten in all. Now that your beef is brown, drain it and return it to the skillet. Then, pour in your BBQ sauce and your brown sugar (and your onion, if that's your thing) and mix. Let it heat up a bit. Now you just put some of your ground beef mixture in each little dough cup. Sprinkle with cheddar cheese. Bake about ten minutes or so.

Delicious!!!

Now that I've talked about two of my favorite and not-so-nutritious dishes, here is a workout update! :)

yesterday:
aerobics: 1 hr.

today:
walking: 3 miles

total so far this year:
aerobics: 13 hrs.
walking: 28.0 miles