green is the new orange…

Hey, if a tv show can do it (Orange is the New Black – a Netflix Original series), so can I!  This, however, is not another episode of Piper Kerman’s memoir-turned-tv-show, but a tribute to an island. Okinawa, that is. I visited the local fruit market yesterday, and walked away with way too much for…

Protein in little packages

Just before Tony left for his deployment last time (back when it seemed we were only eating grilled tacos with nopalitos or just wilted spinach with garlic and tomato), we made a healthy life-style change with P90x2. The program whipped our behinds for the first 3 weeks, but then we noticed it was also whipping…

Cooking out of the box…

My life, as a military spouse, has me jumping through hoops at times – I’m not alone in this (mostly) sisterhood, and I know I haven’t perfected living out of a box/suitcase; but the cooking thing? It’s out of the park, or in my case out of the box – For the movers I made:…

Cinnamon Roll Muffins

OK ~ I don’t know if I’m the first to do this, but now that I’ve done it once, I’m asking myself, “why didn’t I do this before now!”! Cinnamon roll muffins ~ so easy!  I even made some, popped them in the freezer for later!  Now I don’t have to worry about getting rid…

Go Nuts!!

        “I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.” ― John Steinbeck I love pistachio ~ I go through about 48 oz every four days… by myself! Hey! When I was in the hospital last month,…

Will Work for Food

  No, really!  With aging cars, kids in college, one broken thing after another, I could use a serious cash flow solution!  I have been kicking around many ideas ~ a job, winning the lottery, a very generous donation from an anonymous multi-millionaire, a job, writing a book, getting said book published, becoming famous, getting…