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…
Tag: muffins
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…
zucca, قرع نباتي, pompoen, citrouille ~ a pumpkin, by any other name…
The following excerpt was taken from the History Channel ~ In the United States, pumpkins go hand in hand with the fall holidays of Halloween and Thanksgiving. An orange fruit harvested in October, this nutritious and versatile plant features flowers, seeds and flesh that are edible and rich in vitamins. Pumpkin is used to make…
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…
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…