Sunday Morning Coffee Musings 8/19/18 – Once a Month Cooking

OAMC. It’s an acronym for Once a Month Cooking. It can be the greatest thing you ever do to get your food budget under control. It can also be the biggest headache you ever voluntarily give yourself, other than asking yourself the question, “does my mother-in-law truly like me?”...

Sunday Morning Coffee Musings – 7/29/18

I am a morning person. This is a source of distress for my husband, who is a night owl and despises morning people with a passion equal to the heat from a million white-hot suns. He’s just not one of those people who’s brain immediately snaps to attention once...

To Tinker or Not to Tinker – that is the question

When I started this blog, I had an idea of doing a weekly post titled “Varations on a theme”. This was because I would find recipes that I liked that I knew I could tinker with to change the flavor profile while keeping the basic components fairly similar. Certain...

Sunday Morning Coffee Musings 7/22/18 – Mistakes were made

This is ridiculous. How can we be out of onions? We don’t use cumin seed for 10 years, all of a sudden we’re out of it? What the hell happened to the regular paprika? Where are the coriander seeds? It’s the last day of vacation. I decided that I...

Potluck Safe Salad – Greek Market Salad (with recipe)

It’s summer and the weather has turned warm – and sometimes hot – and this is the season when a young (or old) foodie’s fancy turns to the potluck cookout. We haven’t received a lot of invitations to cookouts so far this year but we do have a few...

Sunday Morning Coffee Musings, 7/15/18 – Vacation

Firstly, this is a Sunday Afternoon Coffee Musing, as I slept in for a change and wasn’t even awake until almost 10 a.m. This is unusual for me, the woman who gets up at 6 a.m. regardless of the day. I’m just hardwired that way. When I do sleep...

Forever is a Very Long Time

Recently I had a conversation with a co-worker about weight loss. I’ve been following a ketogenic diet, and I have lost a substantial amount of weight in a relatively short period of time. I’m doing this safely, I’m not missing any meals and my Doctor is aware of this...

Root Beer Floats for Dinner

It’s still 90 degrees and it’s 11 p.m. in Massachusetts. This is wrong on so many levels. When I first met my husband Eric, he introduced me to a marvelous piece of his family’s history, a tradition his mother started when he was little. If it was too hot...

Strawberry Shortcake with cream on top

First, a link to a recipe for an amazing Low-Carb Strawberry Lemon Shortcake.  I just made this for dessert tonight, and neither my husband nor I were disappointed. Most people who know me will answer if asked, that my favorite dessert of all time is Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Frosting....

Sunday Morning Coffee Musings, 7/1/18

Good Gravy, it’s HOT here today! It’s a funny thing about coffee. We love hot coffee, we love iced coffee.  Let coffee get room temperature, and it’s the most disgusting thing we’ve ever had the misfortune to drink! It’s 11 a.m., it’s already 87 degrees out in Massachusetts, and...