{september sizzle}

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ingreds In a word: dinner.  I'm not really all that great with transitions.  I tend to do this floaty fixate kinda deal throughout my day.  Get up.  Begin eleventy hundred & nine tasks and then run around like a rabbit on acid until I can get them all done.  I know.  My kids are so lucky.  I'd like to think this tilt-a-whirl mentality is a result of my high enerygy-ness, but that's not the culprit.  Nope.  It's my passion for new.  Beginnings.  I'm smitten with'em. Potential unleashed.  Wets.my.whistle.every.dang.time.

So naturally, 6:00 7:30 PM rolls around, and I'm like dinner. Yeah.  Ugh.  What.to.do.  It is here that I would like to interject that I am NOT a role model planner.  I am spurty. Ooh, new word!  Me likes. You?  Not to be confused with flighty.  Flighty is so much more visually shallow to me.  Spurty evokes notions of sportiness + quirkiness.  Yes, spurty.   I attempt good Mother Hubbard habit installations like a champ.  And I dive bomb fail.  Don't think for one second I don't climb back on my horsey of a well run home and try again. Because I do. It's just the heart swell of lots of beginnings rollin' up in my club trumps the one task completed to its full-on fruition.  I shoulda been a gypsy.  

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Confession:  I make stuff up. No, I'm not a liar; I am a creator.  You know the girl who cannot stand to wear the same outfit twice?  Well, I am that girl.  In fashion & in the kitchen.  It pangs me to serve Kenny's favorite dish of spaghetti once a month.  I feel it should follow the every 3 month appearance rule just like my coral wrap-around peep toe pumps do.  {visual aid} You're welcome.

So I do what any spurty wife/mother/homeschooler/business owner/writer does at oh about 7:38 PM.  I make dishes up in my head.  I know.  My kids are lucky. I like healthy items.  Don't come at me with one too many dallops of sour cream in a recipe or I might throw up in my mouth just a little bit. There are moments for creamy indulgence.  I tend to take mine with donut centers as opposed to casseroles with 2 cans of cream of chicken soups.

The above should have a little recipe tag that says "From Meghan's kitchen".  I love those little tags.  The first time I was able to take dinner to a family after having their first child, it was all I could do not to label the actual dinner rolls INSIDE the tupperware with "COBBLE" marked in black Sharpie. Kenny thought that "COBBLE" just on the outside of the containers would suffice. He's so practical. Labels.get.me.  Don't even ask me my obsession with product packaging and advertising.  SWOON. 

Meghan's September Sizzle

{a.k.a Italian Pepper Sausage Tortellini}

Ingredients:

  • 1 bag of spinach & cheese filled tortellini noodles
  • 1 red pepper
  • 1 green pepper
  • 1 orange pepper
  • 1 purple onion
  • 1  link package of beef Italian sausage
  • 1 cup of Italian blend shredded cheese
  • 1/4 cup evaporatated milk
  • garlic salt, pepper & Tony Chachere's seasoning to taste

Directions:

  • Cut all veggies
  • Slice sausage 
  • Throw veggies & sausage in a large skillet & saute & add seasonings.
  • Boil tortellini to package directions.
  • Drain tortellini & dump into large skillet with veggies and sausage
  • Stir in evaporated milk & shredded cheese
  • Add more seasoning if needed 
  • Eat up!

Cooking & prep time:  35 minutes

Another dish a la Megs.  It will shuffle right nicely into my handy dandy what-are-we-having-tonight rotation.  I plan to have it on the same schedule as my mustard fringe booties {visual aid} You're welcome.  

.mac :)

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