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The Best Pound Cake – Two-Tone Pound Cake
Try To Ignore the crust! No matter how well I grease and flour my “non stick” bundt pan, disaster unfolds! However…this is Sandy Stubblefield’s recipe for pound cake…it is DELICIOUS! Perfect balance of texture and flavors! Thanks Sandy!!! From Sandy Stubblefield…Marbled Pound Cake This is the only pound cake recipe I ever use – comes … Continue reading
Homemade Pork Jerky
Homemade pork jerky (chu yuk gone)! Taught by someone’s dear mother 🤤 Ingredients 2 lbs. lean ground pork 225g sugar 3 tbsp oyster sauce 2 tbsp fish sauce 2 tsp cooking wine 1 tsp soy sauce *optional: add chilli oil to make a spicy version* Meat prep Place all ingredients into a bowl and mix. … Continue reading
2020 - new decade. new me / I love it & I hate it / Kidney Failure / Mom Badge / self love / The Grind / Till death do us part - We're Married
Covid Pandemic – Working Mom – Caregiver Wife
I’d love to write a more eloquent post that starts with how I’m feeling, the different reasons why, and then conclude with some profound insight. The reality is it’s a shit storm over here and today my rose coloured sunglasses fell off. I am PMS’ing hard and have noticed my patience and ‘go with the … Continue reading
Vegetable Lasagna with Spinach and Ricotta
Ingredients 8 Fresh lasagna sheets (2 per layer) Mozzarella cheese Parmesan cheese Vegetable sauce: 1 eggplant, chopped in chucks 3 zucchinis, sliced 259 gr mushrooms, sliced 1 brown onion, diced 3 cloves of garlic, crushed 2 T oil 400g tin diced tomatoes 2 Tbsp tomato paste 4 cups of vegetable stock Salt, pepper, dried or … Continue reading
Dialysis During Covid-19
When Covid-19 started I was worried like most people about food. I wanted to make sure I had enough food to feed my family. We didn’t hoard food (not enough money or space), but we did buy a case of water, eggs, bags of chips, cheese, bread, milk, batteries, cookies, wine, fruits, veggies, and meats. … Continue reading
CHICKEN TIKA MASALA
INGREDIENTS – Part 1 – Make night before 1 cup yogurt/sour cream 1 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice 2 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp ground cinnamon 2 teaspoons cayenne pepper 2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper 1 Tbsp minced fresh ginger 1 – 2 tsp salt 3 boneless skinless chicken breast cut in cube INGREDIENTS … Continue reading
Spanakopita (Greek Spinach and Feta Pie)
Thank You YiaYia Apostolides for your Spanakopita Recipe. You were right…don’t let the phyllo scare you. you meet someone fantastic and she teaches you how to cook! Ingredients FOR THE SPINACH AND FETA FILLING 16 oz frozen chopped spinach, thawed and well-drained 2 bunches flat-leaf parsley, stems trimmed, finely chopped 1 large yellow onion, finely … Continue reading
