As careful as I try to be I mess up all the time. Here’s a perfect example. I was planning our meals for the week and decided that we would have black beans and rice, homemade tortilla chips, green beans and fruit. Then I thought to myself, “We haven’t had yellow rice in a long [...]
I’ve been surround by friends who milled their own wheat for years but always resisted making my own breads because I just didn’t want to do it. I knew some of the facts about bread you buy at the store – even whole wheat bread. Facts like:
The flour you buy at the grocery store is [...]
This past weekend I visited with a very dear friend, Miss Nelda. Whenever I go to her house she offers me cuttings from her yard, like these:
She said to me. “Do you like basil and mint?” I told her I did and before I knew it we were walking through her yard to her herb [...]
For mother’s day a couple of weeks ago I got some nice gifts. Two gifts which I asked for and received were some Fiestaware cookware and an electric wok. Our stove, which is supposed to be very “nice” (sorry Jenn-Air) doesn’t get very hot, and I have a hard time stir-frying successfully. I’m sure it [...]
We are a family of nine, and not surprisingly everyone likes to eat. Whereas I used to be a drive thru queen, these days we rarely eat out. That leaves two options – either everyone is one their own, which isn’t practical, or someone has to cook. Fortunately, over the years I have moved from [...]
I always admire people who can grow green things, rather it’s plants or flowers. I have always been a colossal failure at gardening. But I’m also persistent!
Two years ago we tried a small 10 x 10 garden, spent about $100 on supplies and I got 3 cucumbers and one green pepper that was the size [...]
I’m always looking for new snack ideas for myself, the kids, and as advice to pass along to people who ask me for help in their own weight loss journeys.
I often found in my own journey that I did “fine” for the main meals of the day but would sometimes find having a healthy, filling [...]
A few months ago I was making cookies for one of the children to take to a function. They were just chocolate chip cookies, but they were smelling really, really good as they were baking in the oven. And when I pulled them out they smelled even better.
Putting the cookies on the cooling rack, the [...]
When I was a big girl, wearing upwards of a size 26/28, I was always concerned about where my next meal would come from. Would we go out to eat? Would I secretly swing through a drive thru window? Would I cook? If it were the latter, then I began planning my meals early in [...]
Okay, so I borrowed the title of this post from one of my favorite shows, “What Not To Wear.” I’ve always wanted to be on that show – and I kept asking my family to nominate me but they refused!! Anyway, I was watching that show the other night and thought about the fact that [...]