smells good!

i wish i could electronically store a smell. because then i would have posted it on my blog! 3 nights in a row i've cooked up a storm. i love my crabcakes from monday night, but tonight the kitchen smelled ridiculously good...meatloaf, cheesey scalloped potatoes and cauliflower. the combo of the meat and potatoes was incredible...i would make it again tomorrow just so i could smell it. i think it's mostly the garlic i was smelling :P

when i find a recipe i really like, with ingredients i can pronounce and easily find at the grocery store, cooking is just so much more enjoyable. it's been 3 nights in a row and i've even had leftovers for my lunch. i'm cheating tomorrow and buying bbq pork from chong-lee...but that's cuz i'm eating solo, and i have a tendency to cook for 5...i can't help it. i have no excuse not to cook this weekend, so i'm going to look up some more recipes...i might even try one from sparkpeople.

*confession time* after plugging in my meals from today, i had way more fat than i should have. the unfortunate thing with sparkpeople is that you have to select from the list of food entered into their system...the "canadian version" of food isn't available (i.e. sun-rype juice), so then i have to pick what i think is the equivalent (i.e. minute-maid juice). also, scalloped potatoes was generic...i couldn't really modify it to say i used 1% milk instead of homo milk and i would have to add cheese separately. also, the meatloaf was pretty generic i think...i couldn't modify it to say extra-lean ground beef. but i'm just using it as a guideline for now. i'm more interested in finding healthy in-between snacks anyways.