I’m a simple eater basically … kind of old fashioned in both preparation and taste. It used to be that I loved trying new recipes, new sauces, new methods of preparation but at some point, and I don’t know exactly when it happened, I started reverting to my childhood favorites. Give me a peanut butter [...]
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It is a little disheartening to discover your upright freezer door is wide open after a day of 108 degrees and there is a pool of liquid slowly moving across the garage floor. We are cooking a turkey, a spiral ham, 9 chicken breasts and some ribs that were at the very back and although [...]
I’ve got a new idea for a diet that I think I can work with. I am going to eat very carefully every day except for family celebration days … you know, like birthdays etc. I won’t eat sugar, won’t have things with flour, won’t have seconds and will drink lots of water. Let’s see, [...]
The Year of The Rat … and that’s enough reason to celebrate! Last night we were once again treated to a delectable dinner of traditional, absolutely scrumptious Chinese food at our good friend’s, Dennis and Phyllis Hancey. I wish I would have taken a picture of my steaming plate full savory goodness before I started [...]
24 bottles of Pero on the shelf, 24 bottles of Pero. Take one down and pass it around, 23 bottles of Pero on the shelf. Pero is a natural beverage, caffeine free and blended from select all natural ingredients–malted barley, chicory, and rye. It warms me up quick when I get the bone chills. Lynn [...]
Holy Macaroni I did a lot of hard, manual labor today! And it feels good … particularly because I did it to help people who are down on their luck all over the world. I went to the cannery. It is a great feeling knowing I did a little bit to help. What I really [...]
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Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies, Peanut Brittle, English Toffee, Fudge, & Farm House Cookies mingled their delicious aromas in my kitchen today! My daughter and I and her two daughters had a fun baking day! We are all feeling kind of sugared out tonight because of all the tasting to make sure everything was as it should [...]
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas … and I love it! I don’t love the commercialism that tries to spoil it, but I love everything else. A couple of weeks ago I found I was kind of dreading the whole holiday scene and couldn’t figure out why. Just thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas filled [...]
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I want to talk about food today, the kind of food that people like me, who can gain five pounds breathing the air doing a drive by of Kentucky Fried chicken, should never think about … let alone long enough to talk about them with their fingers. I don’t want any repercussions from the healthy [...]
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INGREDIENTS: 1 1/2 pounds ground beef 1 pound ground pork sausage season salt and pepper to taste 2 (14.5 ounce) cans chicken stock 1 1/2 cups long grain and wild rice mix 1 pumpkin 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of celery soup 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup 2 (14.5 ounce) cans [...]
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