A Bookworm Creates

Maybe I should change my name to the Pinterest Blogger.   No.   I agree.   I’ll remain An Overthinker.   Makes more sense for me really if anybody else cares to think about it; too much thinking for me.   So, dinner meals in the house are getting a little stale.   Not literally, but there have been a lot of repeats lately.   I really should take on a more active stance in the kitchen, but every single time I try to make something I get usurped and my recipe gets replaced with another recipe that is nothing like that I was going for.   It’s usually more complicated too.   I end up leaving the kitchen and vowing to make another attempt later. Or I make suggestions and nobody says, “Yes! Try that!”   It’s always ‘meh’ or a shoulder shrug.   Or a kitchen take over.   Makes for a frustrated overthinker.   One of these, ‘meh, I don’t know’ recipes was for One-Pan Enchilada Pasta.   So I waited until nobody ...

            So, anybody that pays the slightest attention to my blog or gets to see my Pinterest pins knows how much time (or sometimes how little time) I spent on that site.   Sometimes something catches my attention and I add it to the ever increasing “to try” pile for things or recipes.   I really should divide my boards up into more specific things.   Like desserts.   Healthy.   Party foods.   Really, though, who has time for that stuff?   I don’t spend THAT much time on Pinterest.   (Looks away for a moment.)               Okay, really, everything gets put into the generic “Recipes to Try” regardless of healthy, dessert, snack foods, etc because I know that if it is a food item it will be on one board.   Sometimes I even get other ideas that are only slightly related to the item that was pinned and I hope that I remem...