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Create Something
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Sweet Potato Zucchini Bread w/Chocolate Chips
Bake with vegetables and make them into sweets, after you've had them savory in nourishing meals. How can you not like something so versatile. Make use of everything, even with your foods. If you don't like sweet potatoes in soup, perhaps you will enjoy them in sweet bread freshly baked and put into a box that everyone at work can sample, having an … [Read more...]
National Pancake Day
Rose-Colored Glasses (5)
A nice cup of hot cocoa on a cold morning, spiced pecans to go along with it-- gives it a Mexican flare... October 1972 Joy of Cooking cookbook in immaculate condition-- "That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it."-- Goethe Faust (says this on the inside front flap of the page)... charming as well as … [Read more...]
Red Hot Stuff
There are 3 things currently being featured on SITK: the M&Ms characters-- Mrs. Brown as the boss, the "firecracker" red guy; 'fire' lyrics; and Rose-Colored Glasses-- got the quirks; take a break from the kitchen-- grab some ice cream. … [Read more...]
Tulips in Winter
Getting with the program-- for the young at heart, the cool gang of hipsters, lol-- Let's play some young-blood kind of lyrics... lol... Planting tulips indoors for spring by plant lights so I will have mature tulips when others are beginning by seed... smart woman? Yes-- I'll get to enjoy them early, plus market them if I want. … [Read more...]
Bloody Mary
Bloody Mary ~~ adapted by the Best of Fine Cooking ~Pour 1 quart good-quality tomato juice into a pitcher; ice into glasses, halfway-filled into 4.Squeeze the juice of 1/2 lime taken from 4 cut wedges of the half-lime, into the pitcher of tomato juice. Fill glasses with each squeezed wedge of lime; also with celery stalks...On a cutting board, halve 1 chipotle chile … [Read more...]
New Orleans Gumbo – Super Bowl XLVII
Gumbo Ya Ya ~ adapted from Mr. B's Bistro ~Roast the chicken-- dark and white, thighs and breasts, for 3 1/2 pounds skinless and boneless pieces. Chop bell peppers-- 2 red, 2 green. Do the same for 2 medium or 1 very large yellow onion; plus 2 celery stalks. Set aside for later addition, but get ingredients prepared beforehand.In a 12-quart saucepan, … [Read more...]