Not kidding. The weather did a full 180. The air is cleared out of the smoke. The temperatures are 30 degrees cooler. Here's the rub though, now that's it is so much cooler we can't open the doors and windows without the furnace kicking on. LOL. Good grief. Speaking of Good Grief (I can hear Beethoven playing in the background) this week's menus owe a lot to the comic strip that made that idiom more well known. Thanks Charles Shulz. You made my week. Here's the menus: Gnom

The point to making your own seasonings is to avoid the salt and sodium that is put into the premade mixes. Sometimes there is also anti-caking or coloring additives in the premade mixes. I know that corn starch is often included from reading the ingredients on the packets. Nothing wrong with corn starch, just it's another thing that maybe does not need to be in there. That's up to you. For the butter chicken seasoning packet, there is maltodextrin added. Actually, the first

I've had a busy week and I've been putting a lot of energy (focused energy) into creating what is now being called "BoyBunny". Well, something that sounds like that anyway. So a day late in posting the menu list for this week (which starts today). Oh well. With no further ado, here it be: BB Braggers and Air-Fries Round Browns Stew and Buskicks Butter Chicken and Burley-Bobs Fish and Tater Salad COTF Fancy Foo Foo Had a lot of leftovers that needed to be used before turn

Okee Dokee, here's this week's menu list. Enjoy. As an aside, have you ever heard of Chicken Paprikash? No? hee hee hee Purple Parm with Caesar Peppers SezME Chicken with Cuckoos Bok Choy and Pearls Chickencatchatoady with Mashed Taters and Broccoli Salmon, Kale, Smashed Cannellini with Sauce Dictionary: Purple Parm = Eggplant Parmesan Caesar Peppers = Caesar Salad with Roasted Red Pepper Dressing SezME Chicken = Sesame Chicken Cuckoos = Couscous Chickencatchat

So, here is this week's menu list. Every dinner except one is made with canned chicken. Don't tell me you didn't see that one coming. LOL. The one exception is of course, the Friday fish thing. Not salmon this week. Doing something different. Surprise!! Hash-Tastic Medley Pasta LaVista Nemo Burgers Cozy Chicka-Little Stew Cluckin' Good Stirrups To repeat that in the yerk version: Sweet Potato Chicken Hash Chicken Pasta Tuna Burgers Chicken Lentil Stew Chicken Stir

I do not eat red met (ie: lamb, beef, pork, rabbit, deer, bison, moose, etc.) What I DO eat is fish and fowl. Fridays are for fish, which is usually salmon, but sometimes mackerel or herring. That's for the Omega3's of course. Only once a week because of the concerns over mercury content, which are pretty low for that type of fish. Overcautious? Probably. Anyway - mostly I eat fowl. Which means chicken for me, because turkey only happens once or twice a year in my house. And

On a budget? Only feeding 1, 2 or 3 people? Wondering whether you should go for canned chicken or fresh? The simple answer to this question is: Yes, canned chicken is generally cheaper than its fresh counterpart. Canned chicken offers cost savings due to its longer shelf life and ease of storage, making it an affordable option for those on a tight grocery budget. Dr. Google says that if you buy the white chicken in a can that is packed in water, and then rinse it, that you ar

I use to think I was being a little more healthy by buying the "Lightly Salted" potato chips but those apps disagree. Dang. So, now the plan is to make my own French fries in the air-fryer and forego the potato chips altogether. Of course I will make my own dip using non-fat, plain, Greek yogurt. I will try to make it taste like tartar sauce because I use to love fries and tartar sauce. It will be good. I use to think I was being a little more healthy by buying the 'better'

This week's menus are based on leftovers in my fridge and the fact that it's too hot in my kitchen to entertain the notion of spending more than an hour in front of a hot stove. And no, I do not use my oven at all in the summer. However, I do use the microwave for things you might not suspect. (Example, corn bread muffins). And I use the Air Fryer. Then there is the crockpot too. Here's the menu list: Spaghetti with Veggie Marinara and Romaine Salad Salisbury Bean Steaks wi

What do I mean by economizing? In this case, I am talking about using up what I have in order to save a few bucks and not waste any food. So this week's menus include things left from last week's recipes and snacks and desserts, etc. I really do not like to waste food, but I dislike wasting money even more and food costs money. (More money recently than before, even.) So as I go through posting the menu items, I will explain a little bit so that you can supplement if needed.

So, haven't been blogging much of late. It's so HOT in my office that it's uncomfortable to spend any time in there. I have ordered a portable evaporative cooler to help cool off the kitchen and if it works out I may order another for the bedroom. It's crazy. But I have been trying to keep up with posting the menus each week. Here you go: Macaroni Salad (using Greek Yogurt) and Chicken Patties Pizza (homemade) Greek Lemon Orzo Soup Lemony Salmon with Baked Potatoes and al

Mercy me. It's been so hot here. I mean really hot here. Triple digits hot. When it's this hot (and mind you I do not have central a/c) it is hard to think about cooking. Yet, I still want to eat. Of course I do. I want ice-cream, ice-cream bars, hot fudge sundaes, and that sort of thing. I want salads for dinner - BUT - the parasite scare is keeping me away from doing that. Cold noodle salads maybe? Cold bean salads? Somehow, none of that is grabbing me at the moment. Geez.

Those of you who were brought up on the notion that you had to 'count calories' in order to keep a healthy weight and to stay healthy, this blog is for you. For those of you that transitioned from counting calories to 'counting carbs' in order to lose weight and avoid diabetes, this blog is for you also. Some of you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure (or hypertension) and were told to count how many grams of sodium you were ingesting each day in order to keep your c

I am making a pledge to myself to make the effort to try and eat more fruit. I know I should eat more fruit, I just have trouble making myself do it. If I eat too much fruit my body reacts in unpleasant ways, so I am not pledging to eat lots, just more. Every diet list of menus (the healthy ones) stick fruit in the plan as part of a meal or as the main part of a snack if not the snack all by itself. For day one you'd be eating a pear, an apple and a banana. All three in one d

Every year it's the same. We don't have enough water. It's way too hot. Everything is all dried out. The fire danger is in the red zone. Then...let's set off fireworks on the dry grass and desert sage. Oh say what?? !! There's a fire? No, there's a dozen fires. Sheesh. You'd think they would do something different. You'd think that. But they don't. I know they tried. For the big fireworks show they started out with drones and that was really cool. It cut down on all the loud

What is weird is that I do not remember blogging about this or even mentioning this, so I am not sure how this got out there. But, yes, this IS salad week. I am eating salads for lunch every day this week. Even on the (leftovers) weekends. So.....here are 4 of my salad recipes for the varied salads I am and will be eating for the week. I know many folks seem to think that doing a salad is eezy-peezy. I'll just throw together a salad and I won't have to cook. Well, not so fast

Well, Virgin River on Netflix (what I was watching) ran out of episodes. I hear they will be coming out with another season, but by then, it is quite likely I will be into something else and will have forgotten all about that show. So I had to find a new thing to watch on a regular basis. Now I am watching a show called Sheriff Country, on Paramount Plus. It is closely tied to Fire Country. Seems to be a thing the networks are doing these days. I mean, look at all the Chicago

This bears repeating. I posted about this a long while ago, but the message is not getting out there well enough to really save people from making a huge mistake. People are still using tropical fats like coconut oil and palm oil. These items might be good for your skin, for your hair, and actually best for your feet. But not at all good for your innards. Really. People are still jumping on the Keto Diet and doing real damage to their selves. I am compelled to go over the fac

Adam and Eve were the first ones to ignore the Apple terms and conditions. I have talked about this before but it's been a long while so I am going to talk about it again. I have new stuff to add to it. I participate in a learning program put on by the Ardmore Institute of Health. The program is called "Full Plate Living". It is a free program and you can learn a lot about nutrition and cooking from this program. I joined a long time ago and I'm still participating. It's very

Yes, it's true, I am running a wee bit behind this week. The reasons why elude me. But nonetheless, I did get menus created and here they are: For Friday Fish Day - Kippered Herring Caesar Pitas Butter Chicken and Cauliflower with Potato Wedges Lentils and Rice with Spinach Orange Chicken with Leftover Rice Kale and Lentil Stew with Mashed Potatoes Weekend Leftovers As a cautionary addendum for myself I have the items and the recipes ready for these extras: Cuban Chicke