By:
On:
In: Hamburgers
With: 5 Comments

Hamburgers for the Family Spring has arrived! The thought of it makes me think of several things. Outdoors. Flowers. Gardens. Children playing outside. Smelling the aroma of hamburgers on neighborhood grills. Everyone has a favored type of hamburger. Some like it grilled the old-fashioned way over charcoal. My mother-in-law always told her kids, if the hamburgers (or any other food) were burnt, that charcoal is good for your teeth. How do you like your hamburgers cooked? Medium well, well done, or medium rare? With cheese? Would you like that with onions? Years ago my friend, Dimity, got me hooked on hamburger buns toasted or grilledRead More →

By:
On:
In: Snacks
With: 0 Comments

When I was young and went on road trips with my family, my parents would purchase snacks for the car and hotels. Mother loved apples and peanut butter. Daddy loved peanut butter crackers and Doritos, nacho cheese, chips. There were plenty of other snacks, but those stand out in my memory – probably because those were their favorites. Even later in life, my parents continued to favor those particular snacks. Have you tried an apple with peanut butter on it? It’s really good. If you’re traveling and stop by a convenience store, of course, the easiest snacks to find are chips and crackers. So let’sRead More →

By:
On:
In: Kids Food Recipes
With: 4 Comments

Healthy Easter Treats What treats can you make your grandchildren when their parents have put them on a strict diet – one without sugar? Many children and adults are required to maintain a diet without sugar all of the time, every day of their lives. It’s like a culture shock for a person used to eating sweets to change over to a healthy way of eating without sugar. But imagine if everyone agreed to live without sugary foods. That would change everything, wouldn’t it? How would candy, bread, dessert, and everything-else-loaded-with-sugar-in-it companies make it? They would close their doors. I love sweets, and so doesRead More →

By:
On:
In: Sandwiches
With: 1 Comment

Corned Beef, Sauerkraut, and Rye Bread Is it the corned beef, rye bread, or sauerkraut that makes a Reuben sandwich Irish? If you research the history of the Reuben sandwich, you’ll learn that it originated in New York City when it was invented by German immigrant Arnold Reuben. Neither corned beef or sauerkraut (fermented cabbage) is a popular food in Ireland. You can, however, find organic rye bread there. Irish immigrants to America substituted corned beef for pork because it was less expensive. So if you’re planning a trip to Ireland and hope to enjoy the best Irish Reuben sandwiches everywhere, you should probably countRead More →

By:
On:
In: Vegetables
With: 1 Comment

Raw Veggies Grilled Meat and Veggies Time changes tonight already, and spring will arrive soon. Know what that means? Time to bring the grilling gear out. In my household, we don’t wait for weather temperatures to go way high before grilling. In fact, this afternoon my hubby grilled hamburgers, hot dogs, onions, and mixed veggies for dinner (we like to grill extra so there will be plenty of leftovers). The aroma of those wood chips on the burning coals – AH! In my household, we don’t wait for weather temperatures to go way high before grilling. In fact, this afternoon my hubby grilled hamburgers, hotRead More →

By:
On:
In: Vegetables
With: 3 Comments

Salsa with Sweet and Spice Salsa amazes me. There are so many to choose from at the supermarkets. I like to look at the varieties when I go on road trips across the country. Individuals and food companies have special secret ingredients. I’ll let you in on a secret. I have my own secret salsa recipes. How it works is I come up with certain vegetables, spices, and herbs to make the recipe and forget to write it down. My husband loves salsa, and I make it often for him. One ingredient added or left out can complete When I try salsa that friends haveRead More →

By:
On:
In: Pancakes
With: 8 Comments

Blueberries for Breakfast NOTE: This post contains an affiliate link which means if you click on it and make a purchase, I make a commission. This doesn’t cost you anything additional. These commissions help to keep the rest of my content free, so thank you! Blueberry Nutrition Blueberries are perennial flowering plants and have excellent nutritional value to begin the day with. One cup of blueberries has 85 calories, 0.5 g fat, 1 mg sodium, 114 mg potassium, 21 g carbohydrates, 3.6 g fiber, 15 g sugar, and 1.1 g protein. You can eat a light breakfast of blueberries and yogurt with a hot cupRead More →

By:
On:
In: Vegetables
With: 2 Comments

Stir Fry Veggies How to Make Veggies the Easy Way Choose all the vegetables that you want to cook for meals for the day. Prepare them – cut, chop, dice. Get the electric griddle out, plug it in, and turn it to about 300 degrees. Take about two tablespoons of organic coconut oil and melt it on the griddle. Now add all the veggies to the griddle, season them with salt and garlic powder and any other seasoning you like, cook them on one side for 3-5 minutes, turn them over and cook for another few minutes. That’s it. Easy. Simple. For Breakfast Now thatRead More →

By:
On:
In: Holidays
With: 8 Comments

 Easter History of Easter Easter will be here in 4 weeks – the last Sunday of March. Why does Easter fall on different dates every year? The date of Easter is determined by the Ecclesiastical Full Moon table. The table was able to be established because astronomers could determine approximate dates of future full moons. Therefore, in Western Christianity the date of Easter is the first Sunday after the Paschal (Passover) Full Moon which is the first Eccleasistical Full Moon after March 20. The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ happened after the Jewish Passover, so the early believers of the Asia Minor church wantedRead More →

By:
On:
In: Breakfast
With: 1 Comment

Ribbon Cane Syrup – a Breakfast Food   NOTE: This post contains an affiliate link which means if you click on it and make a purchase, I make a commission. This doesn’t cost you anything additional. These commissions help to keep the rest of my content free, so thank you! How can you go from craving homemade salsa and chips to ribbon cane syrup? It’s simple. When you grow a garden, especially one with several tomato plants, you constantly have tomatoes and peppers. Add an herb garden to that, and you mix in cilantro, dill, and any other tasty greens to make an original homemadeRead More →