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In five years with this blog, I don’t think I have EVER fried anything. But these chicken breast on sale were just screaming to be fried. I’m not sure how dead chicken breast can scream, but they can. So without further ado – here is one pansy who never EVER fries anything. And lived to …
Good morning! This weekend we attended the 2016 St. Louis Air Show. It was quite a show!!! Wow! All the planes, helicopters and jets you could want. Here are some of my favorite photographs I took at the show. I shot these with a Nikon D7100 55-200mm lens. Why use that camera? It isn’t …
My friend and old neighbor Hilary posted on her Facebook page about a new Instant Pot appliance. It could cook beans in 12 minutes! Chicken soup – from frozen chicken – in 30 minutes! So, yes I had to buy one. The slow cooker is great and all. But you know. It’s slow. We like fast …
Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you all had a great couple of three day weekends or some time off. I have my photography website up and running again! I took it down after my last child was born and her bedroom took over the indoor studio. Some of my absolute favorite photographs of the …
This Fall I received a super awesome book that you may want to add to your cookbook collection: The Chili Cookbook by Robb Walsh. If you want to learn about making chili, this is THE book for you. Mr. Walsh has included every single chili recipe category in the book along with a …
I made these on homemade baguettes. That recipe will be next! Why homemade baguettes? Because I’m too lazy to run to the store when I can dump the ingredients into my bread machine. These sandwiches are awesome and you DON’T need to make your own baguettes! You DO need to make these sandwiches. Please, pretty …
Book: I started reading “Big Little Lies” by Liane Moriarity. Someone had posted it on my Facebook feed. It is fiction, and it is hilarious! The book is PERFECT for this time of year, too! The moms are all at the school for the first day of kindergarten. I’m not a huge fiction fan, but …
Book: My new favorite cookbook right now is “Healthy Slow Cooker” by America’s Test Kitchen. This book takes many of the awesome slow cooker recipes from their other two books and puts them into the this one. You can learn to make side dishes, soups, desserts and main dishes with their nifty tricks and …
Book: Still nothing yet. Though I think I have concluded society’s whole problem. It boils down to a lesson that my kid actually did back in first grade. They had to put things into two categories: wants and needs. The problem is a lot of our “needs” are actually wants. Some people would argue …
Book Update: “I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!” Louisa May Alcott said it. Not me! Ahhh, you gotta love those non-conforming transcendentalists. Oh wait. Everyone conformed before the 1960’s. Right? 😉 This is a new favorite find at Trader Joe’s. Organic Brown Rice and Quinoa Spaghetti Pasta. My kids would never eat the whole wheat …
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