Ham and Cheese Calzone

You'll notice that tonight's dinner is not picture perfect -- in fact, most of it is missing.

Along with working full-time now, I realized tonight that I am starving when I get home. This dinner took just 30 minutes, but I was so focused on getting it in my stomach that I forgot to take a picture first.

So this is what little is left over after the wild wolves that are my family ate to satisfaction.

Christian says that this one rivals the Cheddar Braid we had a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure...it has a lot of ricotta cheese in it, which I like in moderation. And I wish I had put some cheddar in it, like I was tempted to do when I was making it.

Tomorrow is tilapia....I can hardly wait. It's got one of my favorite ingredients in it: panko bread crumbs!

Italian Sausage with Tomato Relish

So, I started working full time last week. It was a complete surprise, so I was caught off guard.

I was offered the job on Friday, then went out of town for the weekend, to come back to an email saying I was starting on Monday.

Cool.

E-Mealz couldn't have come at a better time.

Saturday, after a long week getting used to losing 50 hours out of my usual nap time, I made this delicious dish: Italian Sausage with Tomato Relish. Officially, this puts me a week behind E-Mealz menus, but y'know, it all eats the same: gone in no time.

The truth is that I am not known in my family for my cooking. I didn't learn to cook until I married Ross 10 years ago.

So it felt really great to cook this dish for my brother and mom this weekend. And it earned my brother's thumb's up (with second helpings) so I know it wasn't just me who liked it.