I have had a reprieve from working on the house for a couple of weeks. I have more flooring to put down, but I can't do that until Tony is done with the tile work. Good news, we will have a working toilet on both floors by the end of this weekend. That doesn't sound [...]
I got the floor laid. I managed to finish without busting up any more of my fingers. If you can afford not do, don't buy the Home Depot Trafficmaster laminate flooring. It's not worth the headache to install. Tony gets the easy flooring (the stuff that costs $2.39 a square foot versus 49 cents a [...]
I found this recipe as I was browsing through news articles. I stopped because of the recipe and stayed because of the great story behind it. Melissa Vickers came up with this recipe to help her grandfather satisfy his sweet tooth as well as get him to eat something healthier. Looking at the original recipe [...]
With the beets I have left, I made my savory dish. The Borscht was AMAZING. Now I am trying out something sweet. I found out you can make brownies with this red root vegetable. I'm all for that. I am starting with a recipe from Vegaterianized for their Dark Chocolate Beet Brownies. They describe them [...]
When I had birthdays as a kid, there were only two options for my treat: raspberry pie and ice cream or ice cream cake. I had ice cream cake a lot when I was older. It was the perfect blend of cake and ice cream. Baskin Robins got a lot of money from us through [...]
I'm doing another dessert this week. I know it's not the holidays any more, but my doing a dessert, I am being strategic. Since I am at home, I am not using as many of my frozen leftovers. Tony wants to stay on lentils and rice for a while to lower his calorie intake. So [...]
Let me know in the comments what things you had to give up in your diet that was really hard for you to do. Since the time I started this blog, I have mentioned the food I have had to give up in my life. It started around 2007 when I started getting gastrointestinal distress [...]
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