On long drives, the temptation is always to go eat at some place you know, which usually means McDonald’s or a Whataburger if you can find one. The last place I wanted to eat, driving through the central part of Arizona was a McDonald’s. Fortunately, the central part of Arizona is free from likes of McDonald’s, at least on the road between Winslow and Payson.
Last night, I had to go to the grill. I didn’t want to go make another sandwich. I was ready to step out into the back yard, passing the tricycle, the Tonka truck, the plants that needed watering. I needed to venture out there, and reclaim it as mine. It’s been a while since I fired up the grill and last night I couldn’t put it off any longer.
I had already been encouraged by Elliott and my brother, Stokely. Elliott encouraged me to bake the potato and not nuke it. He told me to rub oil into the skin, then wrap it in the aluminum foil. I added crushed sea salt as well.
NOTE: This piece is a light, humorous, off-the-cuff piece about lunch and is not intended to spark any deep thoughts other than the thoughts of what we will have for lunch today. Bon appetit!
“We are eating Chinese this week.” This is what I told Jody on Sunday as we planned for our weekly luncheon.
I got a real hunger for carbonara a few days ago and went searching on the internet for a good recipe. I came across the a recipe put out by Tom Cruise via the Oprah conglomerate It seemed liked a great recipe by reading it and one that I could put together without the aid of the real cook in the family. I was so excited to give it a shot.
I learned about carbonara when I was living in Italy back in the early 1980s. Carbonara to southern Italians is like chili to Texans, every family has their own recipe and every family believes theirs is the best. I got to try lots of recipes while I was there and really developed a love for it. However, it’s been years since I had any that I liked. Olive Garden offered it on their menu years ago, but it wasn’t anything like I remember from Italy.
This brings me to Cruise’s recipe. It looked like it might be right, so I tried it.
Nope! If you like fried onions and garlic on noodles then you will love this recipe. But that is not carbonara like I remember it or like the Italians cook it. Given that, I think Cruise’s recipe is like everything else he does, mediocre. I would give you the link to it, but alas, just don’t care to go looking for it again. It’s not worth it.
Now, if I can just get Nunzia or Antonella, my friends from Italy, could just send me a couple of stellar recipes!
Possible next recipe.
I have a confession to make. I love Oreo cookies. Of all store bought cookies, Oreos are at the top of the list. In fact, if they are store bought, more than likely I won’t like them. I will eat them because they are cookies, but I would rather have Oreos than say… Chips Ahoy!, or… Pepperidge Farms. I admit that Pepperidge Farms are better than Chips Ahoy!. But if given the choice, I would rather take Oreo cookies, especially since the people at Nabisco have done such a great job of keeping the product fresh and new.
I must not be the only who feels this way since Oreos are celebrating their 100th Anniversary this year! That is a lot of cookies over the past 100 years, and I’ve done everything I could to eat my share over the past 50 years!
Since this is a Top 10 list, let me start with ways to eat the cookies, followed by the different Oreos that are provided by Nabisco.
Now the follow part of the list was what made it so hard to do list in the first place. There are ways to eat Oreo cookies, and there are ways that Nabisco has taken it upon themselves to make Oreo cookies. The following list are my favorite ways they make them, so that I can eat them in the ways described above.
Well, I hope you enjoyed thinking about all these Oreo cookies. There is a reason the product has been around for 100 years. We have eaten so many Oreo cookies over the years, it has become a part of our culture.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!!! A new study out shows that eating cake for breakfast can be a good thing. Yup, is says that by eating cake for breakfast, just one piece, helps us feel full and we don’t have the cravings we do throughout the day, which lead to eating less healthy once we get to our next meal.
In the study, obese participants who ate a breakfast high in protein and carbohydrates that included a dessert were better able to stick to their diet and keep the pounds off longer than participants who ate a low-carb, low-calorie breakfast that did not include sweets.
The findings suggest that both meal timing and meal composition play a role in weight loss. Carbs and protein eaten at breakfast may keep us full throughout the day, plus allowing ourselves some sweets helps to stem cravings for these foods, said study researcher Dr. Daniela Jakubowicz, of Tel Aviv University in Israel.
Can you believe this? Eating cake may lead to weight loss. I always knew cake for breakfast was a good thing. After all, cake is filled with eggs, flour, sugar, icing… all four major food groups. So it can’t be bad for us… right?
The cake pictured above is one of Elisa’s works of art. She made it for out potluck lunch for church yesterday. I’m so grateful that the good people of FCC focused on the other desserts that were there so we could bring her cake home. I had a piece shortly before I heard the good news about breakfast. I guess it was my second breakfast!
(Note: Didn’t have time to finish this and publish it back when I wrote it).
I was talking with my father in-law, telling him that there were only 4 more Brach’s chocolate covered cherries left to eat when I declared that Brach’s chocolate covered cherries were one of my favorite ways to eat chocolate. No, I won’t say what he said when I informed him of this bad news… news that only 4 were left. Let’s just say that I was caught red-handed with my hand in the Brach’s box. But in view of that, I felt like it was time to put forth one of my valuable Top 10 lists, especially since we are in Christmas cheer, eating and dining, dining and eating. Without further adieu, here is my list.
OK, you can see that I like chocolate. I know one woman that told me I had love for chocolate that supersedes most women. I’m just man enough to not let that bother me. I do love chocolate. But I also hate the migraines that follow if I’m not careful. In fact, there have been times where I have tried to deprive myself of chocolate just so I wouldn’t get a migraine. As those of you who know about migraines, the last thing you want is to realize the white lights are beginning to dance throughout your vision, the fingers start to tingle, and you realize that having that extra piece of chocolate pie, or cake, or candy bar, was just too much.
I guess you could say that the migraine headache is God’s way of saying ‘too much of a good thing, it too much.’
Hope you enjoyed this list. Add you own list in the comment section and be sure to heat those M&M’s next time you get a bag.
I wanted to share this blog with all my readers. It’s put together by Kelly, a cousin by marriage and it is all about cooking and her photography (above picture is hers). She is a lawyer by trade, but a cook by calling. She does this as a hobby and out of love of great food. We have been able to get an excellent barbecue recipe from her as well as our famous chili recipe, which many in the church have experienced. We took chili to our last pot-providence luncheon, and barely made it home with any left overs.
The point is that Kelly is a absolute wonderful cook. So go to her site, spend some time looking for great recipes and try a few of them. I love it whenever Elisa pulls down a few recipes and starts to work.
BTW, the good cooking must run in the family because Elisa is becoming a great cook. She made scrambled-egg pie on Saturday that was absolutely wonderful. (Most people call it quiche). She will probably submit it to Kelly’s blog soon.
The Bible Alone is the Word of God
After grace, follows gratitude, truth and light. Ps.139:14-18
The journey of a mother, learning to love every aspect of her warrior son, through the grace of God.
What I believe and why.
"We're About The Children, it's about time." (800) 787-4981
Christ came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief....
Just another College Football Blog; only this one is better!
A CONSERVATIVE CHOICE FOR THE MINORITY'S VOICE
Bible, Puritans, Inklings, Faerie, Et Cetera
Read our Mission. Find out how you can help us adopt James.
An Inspirational Journey Through Life...
Reformational, Calvinistic, Puritan, Covenantal, Baptist
850 + Christ-Centered Quotes for the Renewing of Your Mind
The place where I write about my family.
The things that MATTER to Timothy
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active . . .
...integrating Christian faith and knowledge in the public square
