My Dinner Last Night. Yours Tonight- Spinach Pasta Pie

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Spinach Pasta Pie

Ingredients:

16 oz bag of fresh or frozen chopped spinach  ($1)

1 Bell Pepper chopped (optional) i like the frozen mix pepper medley ($1)

1 Small onion chopped (optional)

3 Large Eggs

1 Cup of Chunky tomato sauce ($1)

1 Tablespoon of Garlic Salt

1 teaspoon of Black Pepper

1 Tablespoon of Rosemary

12 pieces of Cheese Ravioli (found in frozen food section)($1)

½ cup of shredded cheese (Cheddar or Mozzarella)

1 Pie crust unrolled ($1 total about $5 bucks)

Prep:

Boil Water ~ Pre Heat Oven at 350 ~ Unroll pie crust into 8 or 9 inch circular baking pan

Directions:

• Once Water is boiled begin cooking Cheese Ravioli

• Combine Spinach, chopped Bell Pepper and Onion with Garlic Salt, Black Pepper, and Rosemary in skillet and sauté until items are cooked.

• Place mixture into bowl and mix three eggs (with or without yolk) into mixture, add splash of tomato sauce into mixture and sprinkle of cheese

• Pour mixture in baking pan on top of crust

• Place cooked and dried Cheese Ravioli upside down on top of spinach pie.  Place extra pieces right side up in the center

• Spread a layer of sauce over the entire dish

• Sprinkle shredded cheese on top of sauce

• Place dish in oven for 25 mins

• Cool for 5ive mins and serve! 

Yields 8 piece feeds five people comfortably

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Its my first Birth day

Current mood: thankful

Today, November 14^th 2006, marks my one year sobriety date. My nose and brain finally have a break from the four years of abuse I put them thru. I look back and try to center on how I lived such a detailed lie for so many years. Unless you partied with me you'd never know that I was using, but I was 90% of the time we interacted. I was on something always, that goes for classes, meetings, parties, work etc. I'm excited to say that I haven't had a craving for Them since my last time using. Its weird to think that a year ago tonight I was pumping myself up with snow angles and that I woke up the next day feeling that I was about to die. What is more weird is that I did not attribute my pain and suffering to drugs, I did what I always did, I made an excuse for my poor behavior.

Now I realize (hine sight is 20/20) that my abuse came from my personal fight for happiness and that I was using to cover up feelings I felt I was not strong enough to face alone. Now I know it is much easier to go through life feeling, rather than numb. I should be dead right now due to abuse. Instead I look back at the friends I lost to drugs to jail to death or all three and I cry. Not because what happen, happened, but because they did not learn soon enough. Initially I did not quit for myself, or for my mom...who just found out the entire truth after picking my drunk ass up from the airport in September. I did not quit after spending two weeks in rehab post coming off of a month long binge of X or after watching my friend drop down in seizures at a bail party, or after having surgery on my nose canal and throat. I quit for the beautiful wonder girl that I am lucky to be an aunt too, she turned one six days ago, I love her more than I've ever loved anything. Call it a lame excuse but I did not want to be the loser druggy aunt that she did not look up too. I want to be, and will be, the successful, happy aunt that she can look up too, share secretes with, gets advice from. And while she does these things, she'll never know that she saved my life, but she did.

For those of you still suffering, you may not know it, but I see it, I pray for you everyday.

R.I.P.

Amanda 2001

Cameron 2003

Uncle Darryl 2004

Brett 2005

Kiwi 2005

Uncle Bill 2006

Travis "GoatBalls" 2006