food & drink favorites i just can't get enough of right now:

1. naked juice, orange mango
2. whole foods pizza dough (made a veggie pizza w/it and it was very good!)
3. whole foods fresh ground honey roasted peanut butter (it's just honey roasted peanuts that you grind fresh...soooooo good!)
4. single serving veggie trays from costco (they include baby carrots, broccoli and grape tomatoes, with ranch dressing)
5. dragon trail mix from
sunflower farmers market (the closest thing we have to trader joes in colorado, minus the cheap booze)
6. uncured turkey hot dogs from sunflower (no nitrites/nitrates, low sodium, low fat, low calories...but quite tasty!!!)
7. mighty leaf green tea tropical
8. organic fuji apples from costco
9. green beans
10. tilapia (my 2nd fave fish of the moment...1st is always sea bass)

some of my current favorite cooking gadgets/tools/etc:

1. pampered chef citrus peeler (best $1 i've ever spent!!! i LOVE this thing!)
2. citrus juicer (so handy to have...i'm sure you can find it somewhere other than sur la table)
3. pampered chef pizza stone (i bake more than just pizza on this stone...fish, tator tots, fries, you can even do cookies, but i don't want my cookies to taste like fish/tator tots/fries/pizza. i'll have to get a rectangular stone for my sweets.)
4. zyliss garlic press (so much easier than mincing garlic, but kind of a pain to clean)

and while i'm at it, here are some recipes:

1. thai-style halibut with coconut curry broth (so easy, sooooo delicious! i made it last night w/tilapia cuz i couldn't find halibut.)
2. ruth's red lentil & potato soup (add more kale, it shrinks!)
3. salmon & avocado with sesame soy dressing (sounds weird, but it's a great combination!)