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Posts Tagged ‘recipes’

What Are You Eating?

Posted by terrepruitt on January 4, 2014

For many food might not be something you want to talk about right now.  I know many of us might have had many large and delicious meals over the Holidays.  I know many that are thinking of cutting back on their food intake since they might have had more over the Holidays than they normally would have had.  Well, no matter what your present relationship is with food, I am confident that you will be eating.  So what is it you are eating?  I am looking to get some ideas here.  I am not asking for any particular TYPE of recipe, as in, I don’t need it to be gluten free, dairy free, meat free, or fat free.  I am just wondering what you are eating.  Not everyone that reads this blog is looking for any of that so ANY recipe you want to share would be welcome.  What can happen is that people can make adjustments as necessary.  Just give us your ideas and/or recipes as to what to eat!

It can be breakfast, lunch, dinner, or even a snack recipe.  I am often looking for dinner recipes.  You know my normal fare; roasted veggie, ground turkey, something in a tortilla (although I have been avoiding the flours ones because of the transfat/partially hydrogenated oils).  My friend just pointed me to a Martha Stewart recipe that I am sure you will be hearing about soon.  I am kind of interested in Polenta.  What about you?  Do you have any Polenta recipes?  I have been making a lot of Sausage, Beans, and Rice.  It is so flavorful and so easy, when I don’t have time to think of something else, I make that.

I am still enjoying my organic box of produce.  I love when we get fennel.  I love that Fennel Turkey Recipe I came up with.  I just made it the other day.  We haven’t really gotten anything new in the box lately, except cranberries and I have not idea what to do with them same as last year when I receive them.  What do you do with fresh cranberries?  My sister in-law put some in the stuffing over Christmas.  What about you?

Maybe you had a yummy dish over the Holidays you want to share.  That would be great too!  Just tell me what you are making and eating.  Give me some ideas.  You know most of mine ideas.  You know I have a stove, an oven, and a crock pot.  I am not versed in how to use the grill, but I might venture out to do so, if I can get at it before my hubby gets home.  He claims that as his — well, it is.

Ok so this is a call out for ideas and recipes.  Any and all is fine, I reserve the right to pick and choose because somethings I don’t eat, but you can still post the recipe because there are other who eat things I don’t eat.

C’mon, help me out.  What have you got?

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Recipe With Spices

Posted by terrepruitt on April 18, 2013

Dance Exercise, Nia, Nia at the City of San Jose, Nia classes in the South Bay, Nia Teacher, Nia Class, San Jose Nia, Nia San Jose, Nia workout, Nia, ZumbaWhen I go grocery shopping I like to have a list otherwise, I spend too much!  Too much time walking up and down the aisles and too much money.  What happens is I see something and get an idea then have to run around the store to get all the ingredients.  With the running around the store I end up seeing other things and it just snowballs into way too much!  Yet having a list equates to not always seeing the new products that come out.  And there are ALWAYS new things coming out.  One day after my Tuesday morning Nia class,  I was in the store and I was looking for a spice so I was on the spice aisle and I saw these packages.  These could not be new to the market but they are new to me!  I really think this is a cool idea!  These packages contain all the spices you need for a particular recipe and yes, of course, the recipe is on the back.

I showed my husband the picture and he said it was all a marketing ploy.  Well, DUH!  Of course!  These packages are probably really expensive if you were to use them all the time to make the same recipe over and over.  But they are BRILLIANT.  I love this idea.  I mean, sometimes I want to make something but I don’t want to invest in an entire bottle of the spice I don’t have that I need to make the recipe.  And this is the perfect way to try it out.  I can buy the package and then if I like the recipe then I can buy all the spices that I actually need to have on hand when I want to make the recipe again.  And, of course, you can make any changes to the recipe after you try the original recipe.

It is difficult to tell, but you may have noticed in the background of the photos, there are several different packages for different recipes.

Dance Exercise, Nia, Nia at the City of San Jose, Nia classes in the South Bay, Nia Teacher, Nia Class, San Jose Nia, Nia San Jose, Nia workout, Nia, ZumbaAs I said, I know food manufacturers come up with new stuff all the time, but I thought this was really cool.  I think it can be really helpful to people.  There are so many reasons.  You could just be in a rush and you don’t want to have to measure out all the spices or as I said before you don’t have that ONE spice you need to complete the recipe.  Maybe you are a new cook and just need a little help.

Plus the recipes look really easy.

I imagine there are many of you making faces and saying, “Oh, I would just use FRESH garlic, onions, oregano, and cilantro.”  I get that.  But again, there are a lot of reasons a lot of people could benefit from this nifty little package.

I know a lot of people who could just use this as a starting point.  They often share that they want to learn how to cook . . . this is a great start.

Ok, I am not often impressed by our food industry, but this I like.  It is not like a package of all the spices mixed together.  I think of this more as an educational tool, a starting point, a little push to get people started cooking and making their own food.

What do you think?  Have you seen these spice/recipe packages?

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