I’ve often mentioned that John and Hank Green are some of my real-life heroes. I relied heavily on their free Crash Course videos when I was homeschooling. At the end of each video, John would say, “Don’t forget to be awesome.” So this Sunday morning, I wanted to share that wisdom with my readers by … More Don’t Forget to Be Blissful!
This is the stuffing I made and put in the crockpot this morning at 9:00 AM to transform into a savoury bread pudding by our meal at 2:30 If you are one of the millions of Americans scurrying around, trying to create the “perfect” Thanksgiving meal, take a breath and relax. If you get to … More For Those Madly Making Thanksgiving Food
So, for my Halloween dinner, I made Diablo Soup with Zombie Eyeballs. The soup is actually a vegan vegetable soup, which used up most of my final summer vegetables from my beloved Cary Downtown Farmers Market. However, I think a couple of the peppers I thought were tiny luncheon-style bell peppers were actually some variety … More Hallowalimuertos Day 1, Food
I am not a big believer in coincidence, but I’m a firm convert to synchronicity. Synchronicity is a concept developed by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung about what he called “meaningful coincidences”—events that line up in a way that feels too connected to be random. Most of us have had an experience like thinking about a … More Celebrate Hallowalimuertos With Me
Today in my home town of Cary, NC, they are having the nation’s ONLY Pimento Cheese Festival. I believe this is the first large scale version of this Festival since pre-COVID. They have live music and a pimento cheese sculpturing contest and other activities. But mostly, they have a LOT of food with pimento cheese. … More Sad Trombone WAH WAH. I Don’t Get to Eat Spicy Pimento Cheese Ice Cream Today.
Another post in the saga of my food detox program (click here to read about that). Yesterday I asked people to consider what their last meal would be if they were going on a restricted diet, and listed what statistics say are the top 10 most popular foods in the typical American diet (click here … More One Door Closes, Another Opens
Image by John Hain from Pixabay If you were about to start a food detox program like the one I described I was doing in a previous blog post (click here to read that), what UNHEALTHY and BANNED food do you think you would have for your last meal before starting your healthy eating regimen? … More The Last Supper, American Style
I told my friends that a solar eclipse is like a National Homeschoolers holiday. Homeschoolers LOVE things like this…natural events that students can see and participate in and study from so many angles. When the last one in our area happened in 2017, we OF COURSE got glasses and watched it, but we also made … More Hope You Had a Happy Eclipse Day!
Anyone who has been on my blog knows I’m a devoted Farmers Market advocate (just enter Farmers Market or Cary Downtown Farmers Market in the blog’s search function to bring up tons of my posts on the subject). So opening day of the regular season has always been a big day for me. However, yesterday … More And So It Begins: My Internal Spring Cleaning
Long-time readers know that my traditional Halloween dinner are stuffed peppers with jack o’lantern cut-outs that allow the stuffing to show through their bell pepper containers. But since I’m home alone this Halloween, I chose something a little simpler. This is homemade refried black beans, cooked with peppers, onions, and cheese (although you leave out … More Meatless Monday: Halloween Edition
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