Food For Thought: Are Your Pots Too Big?
Dear Friends, Ever heard of the term “too much”? When it comes to buying food and keeping food in your pantry, fridge, and freezer, we have a tendency to become somewhat pack rattish. What we need to do is refocus and look at our needs, not our peculiar desire to shove food into every nook […]
Healthy Foods: Popeye was right all along!
I’m strong to the finish ’cause I eats my spinach . . . Popeye was a smart guy. Well, if you can look past the chain-smoking, the violent tendencies he had towards Bluto, and the way he objectified Olive Oyl. But anyway, the iconic cartoon sailor has been helping to make spinach cool for decades. […]
Healthy Foods: Life in the Fast Food Lane
If you’re like me, there are times in my week when fast food is an absolute necessity. But here’s the rub: I don’t do drive-thrus. Instead, I make my own fast food. Consider how much it costs on a weekly basis to do drive-thru–even if you go cheap and get water to drink–it really adds […]
Healthy Foods: Crockpot Troubleshooting
So how do you determine whether or not your crockpot is going to work for that wonderful recipe you clipped out of the newspaper last week? Let’s say there is a Dutch oven recipe you found that you’d love to convert for your crockpot. How do you do it? Some general information will help. Generally, […]
Dinner Diva: The “I Don’t Like Cooking” Fix
I have received a lot of letters from various people from all walks of life who plain and simple just do not like cooking. Cooking for them is on the same par as toilet cleaning. However, they are diligent swish and swipers, incorporating bathroom cleaning into their regular morning routines. But because other options exist […]
Food For Thought: Don’t Panic – We Can Fix This!
Dear Friends, The freezer isn’t a cryogenic tank to park your food indefinitely. So many people buy food on sale (buy one, get one) or marked down (hit the grocery store first thing in the morning for great deals), but the only thing they really get out of the deal is inedible freezer-burned food! Let […]
Healthy Foods: 3 Ways to Start a New Habit
Dear Friends, One of the pitfalls in trying to get a new habit going (like making dinner, for example) is not being clear on the goal. It’s one thing to say you’re going to make dinner every night instead of eating via the drive-thru, but it’s another thing entirely to quantify your goal. Here are […]
Dinner Diva: Holiday Aneurysm
Dear Friends, In the aftermath of Christmas, lie credit card bills in waiting, messes to be cleaned up both figuratively and literally, and most spectacularly, a gigantic hole in the heart for so many people. Why is this? In this joyous of all seasons, these moments captured by Kodak, why do we feel like this? […]
Food For Thought: Are You Drinking Your Retirement Away?
Dear Friends, Did you know you could be drinking your retirement away with a fancy coffee habit? Let’s take a look at the dollars and cents (sense) of it all, shall we? My favorite coffee drink is a tall, non-fat, extra-shot cappuccino. I like mine dry and really foamy. At my local ‘Bucks, that costs […]