Tag: healthy eating
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Okra… the food that keeps on giving
I bought another 10 pounds of fresh picked okra this morning. I spent a couple hours canning half of it and placed the other half in the fridge. We love okra pretty much any way we can get it and I probably will be putting more in the freezer before this season is over. It…
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So many choices…
…..for someone determined to eat delicious healthy foods. Last night was a fix it quick meal. So the goto on those days usually involves a fresh green veggie salad. I had been baking, sketching and listening to a favorite podcast and the day got away from me. The results of all of those was a…
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Baked apples anyone?
Here in the little house on the mountain we eat our share of apples. We love them raw, baked, grilled, roasted, dehydrated….. Tonight I had planned pork chops with green peas and onions for dinner. Simple meal of seasoning the pork with pepper, garlic, onion and a dash of salt. The green peas are drained…
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Simple equals loads of flavor
I’ve gone the gamut of eating and preparing all kinds of food in my life time. From spicy to sauces, deep fat fried, and breaded. As I’ve aged and mellowed I’ve come to realize simple is best for great flavor and nutrition as well as keeping a healthy body. This earth is loaded with the…
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Okra incoming….
There is a wonderful advantage to living in the deep south. Okra is a delicious food packed with vitamins and fiber that thrives in hot humid climates and we have plenty of that here. Local crops are coming in hot and heavy right now so it is available in abundance. We have a friend that…
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When Fried is Good for you
It is very rare that I eat fried foods, especially deep fried. There is nothing healthy about saturating food coated in white enriched flour with vegetable oil till it drips with it. It may taste good to the untrained palette, but healthy it is not. That’s what we southerners were raised on. Fried chicken, fried…
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The Scot-Irish in me….
… was really jonesing for some traditional comfort food. So we headed to our favorite local Irish pub Harp & Clover. We were told that the chef is now full owner which is wonderful because he can expand and cook what ever his Irish genes thinks up. I expect to see even more Irish specialties…
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Another year
….of canning fig preserves came to a close today. I managed 50.5 pints preserves and 6 pint syrup as the final total. That’s a couple pints short from last year but I still have 6 of those pints left so there are plenty. I’m just not certain we will get a second harvest to share…
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Nutrition fast and delicious
I’ll never understand why people prefer packaged processed food over fresh home-cooked. I see absolutely no advantages and this comes from someone who raised and cooked regularly for a family of four. We had active schedules with band, cross country track, ballet, karate for the two children on top of simply living an active family…
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Grill time!
Today has been pretty much a do nothing day. Not a bad thing. We slept in….. anything over 7.5 to 8 hours is sleeping in for me. Today I got 9 hours! Picked a few figs, then prepared breakfast while Randy got his morning shower. I’m almost finished with that large knit project and continued…
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