Tag: dinner
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Father’s Day
Another day of celebrating Father’s has come and gone. We had a marvelously low humidity, breezy evening yesterday to just relax on the deck until after sunset. That’s rare in these days of severe heat and humidity that has covered the country the last month. So it was a very good start leading into today.…
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The reds have it!
Anyone that knows me even a little, knows I LOVE seafood! One of my all time favorites is boiled shrimp pretty much bred into me from all those long summer days spent in Key West, Florida as a child and teen. With prices continuing to hit record highs along with my determination to eat healthy…
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Fresh Produce plus Fiber
We are fortunate to live in an area that has what we call “Veggie” stands…… small businesses run by farmers that sell their own homegrown produce and more from area farmers. I visit one in particular regularly during the growing seasons and am especially grateful to have this option in this day and time of…
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Deep south comfort foods meets healthy upgrade
I was raised in the deep south with all that entails including lots of comfort foods. We ate our fill of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, fried pork chops with white flour gravy and biscuits. We southerners never thought twice about all that white flour and grease. As I grew older and less active it just…
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When the heat kicks in
… cold meals are abundant. The deep south gets hot and humid early in the year and it hasn’t disappointed this year. Having many errands to run today, I got home in time to start something for dinner. I laid out a pack of boneless, skinless chicken to thaw before leaving and…. remember I said that…
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Summer time meal
It seems summer has sprung here in the deep south and that leads, more often than not, to less concentration on full oven cooked meals. Skinless, boneless chicken is a staple in our home, whether baked, broiled, boiled or grilled. It was just a matter of coming up with delicious sides to complete the meal.…
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Who doesn’t Love asparagus!
I have grown a lot of fruits and vegetables in my lifetime. One I never have tried is asparagus simply because it takes three years to produce. I was too busy feeding a growing family to wait that long for a crop. Now that I’m a long time empty nester, I am overrun with wild…
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Healthy plus fast and satisfying
Nothing says southern comfort food like breakfast for dinner. Many days I simply don’t want to cook a meal that takes time to prepare. My usual default in those situations is to cook breakfast for dinner. In this journey of eating healthy I have discovered I can bump it up a notch in scrumptious deliciousness…
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Buckwheat for the Win
When I’m learning to cook with a new item and I don’t realize half a cup is all that’s needed for two people, it gives me the the opportunity to get creative with the other cooked half cup the next day. While I generally cook only enough to serve two, I was raised and raised…
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Kasha
My meal experiment for this evenings dinner involved using ground Kasha as a side dish rather than creating flour for pancakes. This is becoming one of my favorite whole grain healthy eating alternatives. For those unaware, kasha is simply roasted buckwheat groats. Raw ones do not digestc well so I purchase those already roasted even…
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