For those of you who like to plan your menus in advance, like I do, this morning I uploaded a PDF file with printable monthly calendar grids for 2024. Below you can see what the pages look like. You can download the file from my main website HERE. MAIN SITE | UPDATES | MENUS | RECIPES | LINKS ..read more

NEW STOVE Almost ten years ago, I blogged HERE about getting a new stove after the oven in the old one had died. I was excited at the time because the new oven seemed to bake things much more quickly than the old one had done. Well, over the years I came to realize that there was a big problem with the new oven. OLD STOVE Apparently, our landlord bought the cheapest stove he could find and it was likely a "scratch and dent" one. I did notice one large dent in a place that didn't really matter but it took some burnt food before I realized the extent of the damage. I bought ..read more

DELUXE SLOPPY JOE STUFFED PEPPERS 1 pound ground beef * 1 pound ground turkey * 1 onion, chopped 1 clove garlic, minced 2 8-ounce cans tomato sauce Sweetener equal to 1/2 cup sugar 1 teaspoon blackstrap molasses, optional 1/4 cup vinegar 2 teaspoons mustard 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 2 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper 8 ounces cheddar cheese, shredded 4 large green peppers, halved vertically Brown the ground beef, ground turkey, onion and garlic; drain the fat. Stir in all of the remaining ingredients except the cheese and green peppers. Simmer covered 30 minutes. Meanwhile, scoo ..read more

I have been a bit scarce for a while and I apologize for that. This is partly due to lack of motivation during the pandemic but also because my 14 year old Windows XP computer suddenly died a couple weeks ago on August 26. I thought I had better post an update on my situation so that nobody would worry that I had caught Covid-19 or something. My husband and I are both well. We are staying safe and taking every precaution to avoid the virus. He had a liver transplant in 2010 and he is on immunosuppressants. He has had three shots of the Pfizer vaccine but there is no telling how well he is prot ..read more

I was starting to wonder what was up when I realized that I had gotten virtually no donations since the beginning of July. I thought I'd better check to see if there was a problem with PayPal. It turns out that PayPal updated the donation page in July and it has some issues. First of all, I am no longer able to access the donations page at all from my ancient Windows XP computer. Thankfully, I have an Android tablet where I was able to open that page to see what was going on there. I don't have any Mac devices but I assume that the new donation page works pretty much the same on them. Besides ..read more

As of July 2021, Blogger will doing away with the "Follow by Email" feature. Those who receive my blog posts by email will no longer receive a copy of my latest post after this month. MAIN SITE | UPDATES | MENUS | RECIPES | LINKS ..read more

After many requests for cookbooks of my recipes over the years, I've finally decided to go ahead and publish my favorite tried-and-true recipes as eBooklets in PDF format. They are free for download and I will post links to more eBooklets as I create them (see the list on the right side of my blog). Download as many as you like. Each eBooklet contains about 10-15 recipes in a variety of categories. I won't be including the nutritional information in the booklets because there are too many possible variables. You can get the approximate nutrient counts by going to the original recipes where t ..read more

After many requests for cookbooks of my recipes over the years, I've finally decided to go ahead and publish my favorite tried-and-true recipes as eBooklets in PDF format. They are free for download and I will post links to more eBooklets as I create them (see the list on the right side of my blog). Download as many as you like. Each eBooklet contains about 10-15 recipes in a variety of categories. I won't be including the nutritional information in the booklets because there are too many possible variables. You can get the approximate nutrient counts by going to the original recipes where th ..read more

After many requests for cookbooks of my recipes over the years, I've finally decided to go ahead and publish my favorite tried-and-true recipes as eBooklets in PDF format. They are free for download and I will post links to more eBooklets as I create them (see the list on the right side of my blog). Download as many as you like. Each eBooklet contains about 10-15 recipes in a variety of categories. I won't be including the nutritional information in the booklets because there are too many possible variables. You can get the approximate nutrient counts by going to the original recipes where t ..read more

After many requests for cookbooks of my recipes over the years, I've finally decided to go ahead and publish my favorite tried-and-true recipes as eBooklets in PDF format. They are free for download and I will post links to more eBooklets as I create them (see the list on the right side of my blog). Download as many as you like. Each eBooklet contains about 10-15 recipes in a variety of categories. I won't be including the nutritional information in the booklets because there are too many possible variables. You can get the approximate nutrient counts by going to the original recipes where t ..read more