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A hodge podge about my life. Sundays, I talk about music and Wednesday, I feature what's for dinner. In between, I'll talk about RSD, my family, living with a child with Asperger's Syndrome, travel, job searches and anything else that floats my bo
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What\'s For Dinner Wednesday
We went to the market today to get some meat for dinner. Everything was frozen at home, and well, I wanted something easy after dealing with paperwork today.Hmmm, sale ground beef. Ed thought Hamburger Helper and I knew I wanted taco salad. Save t...
It Started With a Turkey
Last week, Jessica mentioned she had a turkey. "We should do a Christmas dinner with the people of Noah's Ark!". With that, a meal was planned.Two turkeys. A large chicken. Two pork loins. A bunch of Suzanne-made sides and the cookie making fact...
What\'s For Dinner Wednesday
This week, I had plans for the marinated Flat Iron steaks I got from Land and Sea the other day. However, neither boy was interested in steak. They must not be our children, they don't like steak? Instead, there have been some ham steaks waiting i...
What\'s for Dinner Wednesday
There are many meals in this house that we disagree over. I love pork chops-Ed can do without ever having them. He likes veal, I refuse to prepare it because I lived near farms with 'veal calf jails' for many years.The number one, don't make it fo...
Back to the Flats!
We live about halfway between Tampa and Orlando. What this means for us is that when we get a taste for certain restaurants or stores, we have to drive 30 miles or more east or west to dine in favorite establishments. When we visit those favorite p...
What's For Dinner Wednesday
I mentioned making a huge batch of that favorite marinade the other day. The chicken has been soaking in for two days! Tonight, I went simple and grilled some of the marinated chicken tenderloins, made a rice pilaf and nuked some broccoli.I'm thin...
A Winning Marinade Recipe
Is one that the family likes so much, you make two quart batches of it!This is not a refreshing drink, this is my latest batch of the Sweet Chili marinade I came up with a couple of months ago to use on chicken legs. Since then, it has been used on ...
What's For Dinner Wednesday
Jane actually requested today's meal. When I mentioned that I would be making some marinara sauce, she asked if I'd make sausages to go with it. Normally, sausages are only paired with onions and peppers in my kitchen. What the heck, I'll give it ...
The Promise of Dinner
Yes, it's What's for Dinner Wednesday, and you'll get pictures of the completed product later. In the meantime, the preparations are in the fridge, proofing. It's funny, the year plus of doing WFDW has challenged me. I don't like to repeat, so that...
There is Nothing Better Than
Using one of your own recipes for a marinade on fried wings and it turning out awesome.I created a Sweet Chili Marinade a couple of months ago and it's quickly become a go to for chicken and pork and possibly shrimp(haven't tried it on shrimp yet). ...
Hope You're Not Hungry
A couple of months ago, I bought a couple of those TGI Fridays Skillet Meals to keep in the freezer for nights when I was too lazy to cook from scratch wanted to enjoy a restaurant meal without killing the wallet. Well, the wallet's dead, so I pulle...
What's For Dinner Lunch Wednesday
Dinner tonight will either be uninspiring Dominoes Pizza (blech!) or Chef and I will grab a meal afterward. We are visiting Game Teen at camp for Family night. There's another post ahead about that, but Game Teen politely asked if we'd come tonight...
Road Food
When I was a kid, my Dad gave me a great book. Well, actually, he gave me a lot of great books. The one I'm speaking of is Jane and Michael Stern's "Amazing America". In it, listed state by state, were some cool places to visit that were a little ...
Where There Are Limes
There soon will be Mojitos!The traveling Mojito Muddler and the aforementioned limes:I hope that's enough!...
What's For Dinner Wednesday
Tonight, I had envisioned some Chicken enchiladas for dinner. Well, the corn tortillas don't cooperate when I'm rolling them. (Maybe I need to steam them first). Then I realized that one kid will turn up his nose at them, even without enchilada s...
What's For Dinner Wednesday
Recently, I mentioned on Facebook that I was making Stir Fry for dinner and boom, there were a bunch of comments. A friend mentioned that she liked to use Trader Joe's Sweet Chili sauce to stir fry.Inspiration struck-how about I make a marinade with...
Next Food Network Star-Week Three
This week's episode was interesting, in that you see how the finalists handle shopping on a budget, provide information on the fly and work when paired with a teammate. It was a pressure cooker and some handled it well, but others showed their true ...
What's For Dinner Wednesday Thursday
Last night, I had plans of an Asian style stir fry. However, studying kept me from getting my chicken into the marinade until a few hours before dinner time, and I preferred that the meat have a good long soak.Instead, last night we had the chicken ...
