Sometimes, I’m filled with the best ideas. This month was not one of those times.

I found a seemingly easy recipe in my Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook and decided to make it my July dish for the month. The thing I like about this book is that it has options that are “Make It Mine”, meaning you pick various food items and spices from different sections to make your own creation.

This time, I picked the Make It Mine Noodle Casserole. I decided my ingredients would be egg noodles, ground turkey, cream of chicken soup, frozen vegetables, slivered almonds, Italian Seasoning, cheddar cheese and potato chips as the topping.



The problem I ran into was with the almonds. I could not find slivered almonds and I was too lazy to go to another grocery store to track more down. Instead I grabbed some roasted almonds and I decided I’d sliver them myself. How hard could it be?, I thought. So hard that I was up past midnight peeling the skin off of these little suckers, then slicing them and tossing them into the oven. #NeverAgain.

But the next day, I was able to whip everything up on time and have a tasty meal. D even had seconds, which is always a good sign. While I liked this meal, I will say it didn’t have as much flavor as I would’ve liked. So in the future, I’ll either add more Italian Seasoning, or also add salt. And after all that hard work, we barely tasted the almonds.

Lessons Learned: Always buy slivered almonds when possible