Category Archives: Food

Food, Geek, Humor, Words

Food Phrases

  • Egg on your face
  • Tossing your cookies
  • Have your cake and eat it too
  • Let them eat cake!
  • The cake is a lie
  • Bring home the bacon
  • Don’t cry over spilled milk
  • Don’t spill the beans
  • Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
  • Easy as pie
  • Pie in the sky
  • Time to make the donuts
  • Butter him up
  • Smooth as butter
  • When life gives you lemons…
  • How corny
  • Two peas in a pod
  • In a pickle
  • Salt of the earth
Books, COVID-19, Events, Family, Favorites, Food, Games, Geek, Health, Links, Memories, Travel, Trivia, Work

Surprising Things I’ve Accomplished This Year (specifically given that it’s been a corona-year)

  • Checked two new states (North Carolina, Mississippi) off my list
  • Missions trip to Haiti
    • Three “airports” in one day
    • Landing & taking off on a dirt runway
    • Attending/walking in a Haitian funeral processional
    • Ate goat for the first time
  • Iguanas in the wild (in Miami… they chased me away from my lunch)
  • Finished unpacking all boxes from moving end of 2019
  • Started packing up to move again
  • Attended nephew’s high school graduation
  • Vacation to San Diego
    • Lodging at the fabulous beachfront Tower23
    • Riding bicycles to Mission Beach
  • Completed “Visual Communications” course through Sophia Learning
  • Put more than 10,000 miles on my car
  • Ran three trivia nights before the world shut down
  • Read 29 books
  • Successfully began intermittent fasting (lost 8 pounds and dropped my A1C from 6.1 to 5.4!)
  • Watched multiple full series on Hulu and Amazon Prime
  • Achieved level 40 and then level 41 on Pokemon Go
  • Applied for 66 jobs
  • Got hired for exciting new position with city of Clinton, Iowa!
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Books, Favorites, Food, Health

Cookbooks on my Bookshelf (As proof that at one time in my life I actually did cook on a regular basis.)

  • Lickety Split Meals for Health Conscious People on the Go (Seriously the best, go buy it.)
  • Oh Deer! The Venison Cookbook for Beginners
  • Sunset Wok Cookbook
  • Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook / Feasting with your Slow Cooker
  • 4 Ingredient Recipes for 30 Minute Meals
  • Three Ingredient Cookbook Volume II
  • Fat Free Living Cookbook
  • Miserly Meals
  • Pampered Chef All the Best
  • Low Fat Mexican Recipes
  • Betty Crocker Great Pasta
  • Food for the body and for the soul
  • Treasured Recipes / Far & Near Missionary Fellowship
  • Magazine issues: Taste of Home’s Quick Cooking
  • Magazine issues: Kraft Food & Family
Lickety Split Meals for Health Conscious People on the Go — I am not a paid representative, just a person who used this book every single day for years. By far the best cookbook I’ve ever owned in both the way it functioned and the recipes it provides. Do yourself a favor and go buy this right now!
Food

Foods That Start With R

  • Ramen noodles
  • rutabaga
  • rhubarb pie
  • rigatoni
  • ravioli
  • rarebit (Which I’ve heard of but have no idea what it is)
  • rabbit (Which I’ve tried and it was not good)
  • raisins
  • red pepper
  • red grapes
  • red potatoes
  • red onions
  • rice
  • raspberries
  • ricotta cheese (Which is not as tasty as a cheese should be)
  • radishes
  • ribs
  • romaine lettuce
  • ranch sauce (Which according to my sister should be its own food group)
  • refried beans
  • rattlesnake (Tried it and it was tasty)
  • reindeer (Also tasty)
  • rocky mountain oysters (Which I’ve never tried and please nobody ever put them in front of me because my personal rule is that I must try every food once and I don’t want to try these)

And a few beverages

  • root beer
  • rum
  • rumchata

I looked it up. It’s cheese toast. Why haven’t I tried this??