Cauliflower rice!

I can't believe I haven't tried this earlier...so good and healthy! Even my six year old liked it (and he was quite against "cauliflower rice" at first.) I have seen several recipes for this rice substitute around Pinterest.  Here is what I did:

Cauliflower "Rice"
Ingredients:
1/2- whole head of washed and dried cauliflower
A handful of diced onion
a clove of garlic (minced)
*(Next time, I think I might try just some garlic and onion powder to see if I like it without the chunks of onion.  But it was really good this way, too!)
Cooking spray

Directions:
~Pulse cauliflower in a food processor until about the consistency of rice (actually, it's more like couscous). Make sure your cauliflower is good and dry!  Do not add any water at any point.
~Put "rice" into a microsafe bowl and lightly cover (don't seal it tightly) with wax paper or lid. ~Microwave for about 1 1/2 minutes, stirring halfway. (Again, do not add water!)
~Saute your onions and garlic with a bit of cooking spray in a large non-stick skillet.  Add your rice and cook for a couple of minutes, stirring frequently.
~Serve as you would rice and enjoy far less calories!!!
(We had this with Kielbasa and black beans...can't wait to try it with an Asian dish!)

Menu Planning Monday!

Time for another menu plan!!! :) Days/meals may change since I am waiting to hear from the soccer coach about practices this week.

Monday- Homemade Chili Verde (hope to post the recipe soon...if I actually make note of what I do!), CP pinto beans(link to stovetop version), tortillas (plus all the goodies-lettuce, cheese, salsa, etc.)

Tuesday- Orange chicken (pictured above), white rice (we love short grain sticky rice!), a veggie (probably steamed broccoli)

Wednesday- WW Chicken Parmigiana, pasta, salad

Thursday- Kielbasa & black beans, brown rice medley, salad or veggie (green beans maybe?)

Friday- Thai Chicken Curry (sauce from a jar), rice, veggie

Saturday- CP chicken tacos (just frozen chicken breasts and salsa)

Sunday- Egg drop and chicken rice noodle soup (or dinner at/from Costco! :) ) We made this soup twice already.  I added some chopped up veggies and I also used cooked thin rice noodles instead of cooking large ones in the broth.  Really good!

What are you cooking? View more recipes at www.orgjunkie.com! 

*NEW* sketches!

I have lots of new sketches and a few more in the works!  We will be having a sketch class in April on Inspired to Scrap.  Watch for the photo details and some peeks soon. :)

Win the April Sketch class for FREE!!!

We are going to have a ONE HOUR sketch challenge next week at Inspired to Scrap...come and vote for the day and time you would prefer. VOTE HERE (You must be registered on the forum to vote and play along.)

I will draw a winner randomly from all of the entries!!  It is going to be FUN!  Join us to complete a layout (the real prize, right??!!!!) and for a chance to win the class for free. ($15 value!) :)

A few class layouts...

Here are a few of my favorites from the January sketch class (all based on sketches by me)-

We are going to have another sketch class in April!  Hope you will consider joining us!!!

Month-by-Month Challenge! (MbM-January 2012 Sketch)

Have a hard time keeping up with scrapbooking every single activity and event?  How about streamlining a little and focusing on creating one (or two for both pages) layout a month summarizing the previous month? 
We have a new challenge this year on Inspired to Scrap- MbM! Just take it month by month and use our sketches to scrap your year.  :) We will be posting a new double page sketch near the beginning of each month for you to create a layout using the photos from the previous month.

Here is the sketch we revealed on Feb. 1st to scrap your January photos-

Here is the page I created with various January photos-

I hope this sketch inspires you to scrapbook those memories!  We'd love to see what you create on our forum.  www.inspiredtoscrap.net/forum Join us!

Come play along!

We have a few fun challenges on the forum to inspire you. :)  We started member challenges this month and we still have openings throughout the year if you want to sign up to host one! Jean, Lu, Von and I all have challenges up this month.  You can see all of the challenges HERE.

Here is mine-
I thought it would be fun to scraplift one of our members and DT Alum, Julia! I love her layouts and she is such a fun person and very inspirational.

Soooo...lift this layout by Julia.  You can lift it all or part of it.  Just let us know which part if it isn't obvious. Love the colors and design in this layout!!












Here's my version!



















Join me and lift Julia's fabulous page! Upload your page to the gallery and the forum so we can all ooh and ahhh with you. :)