I just love when the summer vegetables start coming in from the garden! I love planting them, nurturing them, and spoiling them with “treats” of epsom salt and Miracle Grow! That stuff really does work, doesn’t it? My plants are HUGE this year already. And lookie at my first tomato! One of the …
Wow what a crazy week!! We just went through having a new roof put on…need I say more? The mess….the noise….the total chaos! What was to be a 2-day job turned into 3 long days due to snags, of course, what summer project ever goes perfectly, right? 26 unexpected sheets of plywood later, …
Rice and potatoes. Such incredibly simple things, worldwide staples, yet two of the most amazingly versatile foods on the planet! I don’t get people who ban them screaming, “Carbs! Carbs!”, like an old black and white horror movie, people running and screaming from a theatre, arms flailing over their heads, stampeding, a terrible carb …
It irks the heck out of me when people ruin these and bake them. And then, to top it off, call them “chimichangas”. Everyone has their pet peeves, and I guess one of mine is authenticity and calling things what they really are. I get the healthy thing. Really. I do. But some things …