by Wanda | Aug 23, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
My husband found this trivia game app on his phone. He starts throwing out questions. I’m not paying much attention, intent on something else in the kitchen. But after I got like 29 of 30 answers right, he said, “You’re GOOD at this,” and my...
by Wanda | Aug 22, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
The other day I got a yen for Chex Mix. I bought a commercial version and spent the evening digging the Chex out of the tangle of oddly shaped cracker doodles, teeny toasts and other stuff. The only thing I like is the little basket-weave cereal squares that soak up...
by Wanda | Aug 21, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Before I tell you how my beef stew experiment came out, a few words about my approach to the dish. As I noted yesterday, my stew is very plain: beef, potatoes, that’s about it. Occasionally, I’ll get fancy and use another starch besides potatoes: chayote...
by Wanda | Aug 20, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
What a week! A family emergency took me into the country where my phone didn’t work much of the time and I had no Internet access. Helping to care for my ill relative left me with plenty of time for reading. But all I had with me were several boxes of books I...
by Wanda | Aug 12, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Your unconscious mind ever play a trick on you that your conscious mind decided to take seriously? It’s happened to me often and it happened again the other day: I saw a recipe title in Southern Living, one of my favorite magazines for easy, practical recipes (with no...
by Wanda | Aug 11, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
You know what I don’t understand…? WHY DO THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP SPAMMING MY WEB SITE WITH LAVISH COMPLIMENTS LACKING ANY DETAIL OR SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO WHAT I’M DOING THINK I’M GOING TO FALL FOR THEIR BLANDISHMENTS AND LINK TO THEIR SITES, POST...
