Monday, August 24, 2009

A Budget Spreadsheet FREE

I just wanted to let you know about a free budget spreadsheet that I just found online. It is formatted as an Excel spreadsheet that you can easily customize to suit your budgetary needs. This spreadsheet allows you to enter your targeted budget, your actual expenses, your fixed monthly expenses and more. I've found it useful and I think you will too. You can sign up to get it here

Thursday, August 20, 2009

A Yummy Summertime Favorite

This is a yummy recipe that I have adapted to be gluten free. I just have found some great noodles...but the package got thrown away before I could get the name of them. They are on sale this week at Whole Foods, so my plan is to go get more...many more packages. I think these are the best noodles I have found so far since being gluten free. They claim to be not mushy and that is what made me want to try them. A lot of the brown rice noodles and even the corn noodles can become really mushy. These were just like regular wheat noodles, not mushy at all. They were yummy!
Ok, for the recipe: And by the way, I don't measure my ingredients very often, so you just need to go by taste.

For the tomato sauce:
Several diced tomatoes
salt
basil
oregano
minced garlic
pepper
olive oil
Mix all together and if possible set in fridge for a few hours.

Cook noodles according to package directions, drain, rinse well. Put into a large serving bowl. Pour tomato mixture on noodles add chopped black olives and feta cheese. Toss, serve and enjoy!