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Kale – video

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

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Jacqueline from Scottsdale sent me this great video showing how to cook Kale Healthfully. Check it out by clicking on the photo. Thanks Jacqueline!

How to Cook Kale for Optimum Health by George Mateljan  there are many more videos with other cooking tips.

 

Parmesan Cups with Salad

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Parmesan cups with salad and basil and lemon Parmesan crisp

 

 

 

I love to make a great presentation with Parmesan Cups.  It is so easy;

 

 

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Delicious Mexican Corn on the Cob using Anthony Spices

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

I just got turned on to Anthony spices and I have loved everything I have seasoned with it.  We are so proud to have them as a new sponsor. I made a great corn on the cob Mexican style.

 

 

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Say “Cheese” without all the fat

Monday, May 16th, 2011

The Dairy Council of Arizona is joining us today and I thought it would be fun to try my hand at yogurt cheese.  I did variations and it was fun. I started off with a big container of Fage 2%.  I like the texture better than the 0% fat, but they both work.  Wrap in a thin cotton towel and place in a colander or strainer over a bowl.  Place in the refrigerator and occasionally ring it out so more water drips out.  Read More→

Jicama Slaw

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Just click on the picture for the recipe.  I love it!

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Mashed Potatoes- How to freeze

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Kathy from Rio Verde called and told us that she always buys lots of potatoes, sometimes 80 pounds worth.  She cooks them up and freezes them.  Especially her mashed potatoes.  I have tried freezing mashed potatoes with no success, so she shared her secret.  I will follow this easy method

Benefits to her method: The potato do not boil so they don’t absorb the water which robs it of it’s  nutrients.  It also freezes with out defrosting in a watery state. Read More→

The Best Greek Salad

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Ruth from Phoenix called in an loves the  Greek salad dressing from the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten.

Ingredients

  • 1 hothouse cucumber, unpeeled, seeded, and sliced 1/4-inch thick Read More→
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Wait 1 1/2 hours for a burger?

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Would you wait 1 1/2 hours for a great burger? I sure would!  That is what people do in NYC  do for an old fashioned juicy burger at the Shake Shack. I have heard about it for years and it has been a restaurant on my “wish I could go there”  list.  I love sychronicity in life.  I am going to NY this weekend and I was trying to figure out how I can waist such a short vacation standing in line at the Shake Shake and which family relative would be willing to do it with me, after all that is why I am going, to visit with family.   I realizes this would not be my time to go.  Then…… I was watching America’s Test Kitchen on PBS,  I love the show and there is Chris Kimball, the host, in NYC interviewing people who are waiting in line.  Then I struck GOLD, Chris with Kenji Alt from the Shake Shake showing us how to do it.  All secrets revealed.   It is a bit of a big deal to do, grind your meat, and I don’t mean chuck so get in a comfy seat and watch this segment.  They also have a great segment on the easiest crispy french fries any one can make.  I better run.. I’m going to get my boneless short rib and flat meat.  See Ya!  Let us know if you would wait or would you take the time to grind your own meat?

Recipe written out on our Recipe
Entrees for burgers
Recipe Side Dish for French Fries

America's Test Kitchen Old Fashioned Hamburgers & Easy crispy French Fries Just click on the photo.

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MaryAnne from Gilligans Island Peeling a Potato?

Friday, June 11th, 2010

We were talking about instant potatoes today and the comment was, why use instant when it is so easy to do it from scratch?  Then I remembered, MaryAnne from Scottsdale sent me this youtube of MaryAnne from Gilligans Island teaching us how to peel potatoes the easy way.  It is a great trick.  I did try it and it works.   She still looks terrific!  Thanks you, MaryAnne….both of you!What was MaryAnne from Gilligans Islands real name?

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Day 3 Tokyo

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

This day started again with a trip to the 7 Eleven in our Building in the Cerulean Towers in Shibuya.  We got our coffee in the can and bought a few unique items.  I had the fruit salad yogurt with grapes in it.  Pretty good and a hard boiled egg that they sell at all the convenience stores.

Hard boiled egg in a box

An egg in a box.

A cheese flavored bread?

Other Goodies

We ate our breakfast in the room and got ready for another day of the most unusual meals ever.  Two memorable multi course meals and lots of walking.
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