You win some, you lose some

This week I tried out some new recipes including Giada's veggie lasagna with organic wheat pasta and a recipe for a rocky road rice krispy bars.

You know sometimes you have a great week trying out new recipes. You work and work and your family salivates as you bring the steaming hot lasagna to the table...

Well, this week was not one of them. Brandon looked longingly at the lasagna and said almost in a hushed voice used in church, "I really love sausage in my lasagna."

I mean, you can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the sausage out of the lasagna.

You will make wheat lasagna that no one wants to eat -- including you.

Tuesday I tried to make rice krispy bars, but for some reason the entire bottom fell off. Was it the Krema peanut butter I used? The bars were chocolate, marshmallow and about five rice krispy kernels.

I am still eating these, they are good! 

Was it the arugula and beans that did it in?

Oh Giada, you have never steered me wrong before!

No use crying over spilled milk

What was your week like? 

What to make for dinner.

Kids are fickle. You can make a gourmet meal and all they really care about is if ketchup is available. So, I love recipes that are nutritional and kids love. Plus, recipes that are tasty and quick.

Head to Giada at Home on Food Network and sample her baked macaroni and cheese cupcakes. So good. We made them tonight sans bread crumbs and loved, loved them. I loved how the cheese got all brown and bubbly.

I just used broccoli and peas for the veggies--that's all we had.

P.S. My sister, Rachel, and I were discussing why we love Giada or Barefoot Contessa versus a cook like Rachel Ray. Rachel thinks it's because we love looking at their life and getting a glimpse of what it would be like to be glamorous and pampered.

What do you think? Do you have a favorite chef?