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Recipe: Simple Quinoa with Broccoli
1 cup uncooked quinoa 4 cups uncooked broccoli florets light olive oil salt + pepper Mrs. Dash table blend or Simply Organic’s Chef’s Shake Cook your quinoa according to package directions. Cook your broccoli using your favorite method; I like to roast in olive oil, Mrs. Dash and sprinkle with parmesan! YUM! Combine quinoa and…
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For the love of cucumbers…
I love cucumbers! I like the english ones but I’ll take the regular ol’ ones any day. Oh, and I recently was introduced to lemon cucumbers, which are round little things that taste amazing! If your garden is overflowing with cucumbers (mine is not, but I am buying a lot on sale) then this compilation…
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My scalp is tingling…
Revlon Colorsilk haircolor runs about $3 at grocery and drug stores, but it’s either really irritating, or I’m allergic to it, because it makes my scalp burn like nothing else! I’m no stranger to haircolor; for the past several years I’ve been bleaching and dyeing my hair all sorts of natural and un-natural colors. I…
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Expensive end to our expensive trip 😛
We came home to a non-working garage door opener and quickly realized that our electricity was off. I called our electric company and found out that they apparently hadn’t processed my August payment, and even though I already made the September payment, they had disconnected service, without any warning at all. I get e-mail notifications from…
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Dinner Meal Plan: 10/1 through 10/7
I don’t go out of my way to plan breakfast and lunch unless it’s a special occasion. I keep breakfast foods (bacon, eggs, sausage, pancake/biscuit mix, etc.) on hand at all times. Lunch tends to be sandwiches, leftovers or convenience (fishsticks, anyone?) foods. Planning dinner is important to me since dinner tends to need the…
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Vacation Time!!!
Okay, so we don’t leave for almost a week, but I know that time will go REALLY fast! 🙂 My kids and I have been performing in our local community theater’s production of Oliver! so we’ve been extremely busy the past couple weeks with dress rehearsals, sewing costumes and the performances…so I’m a bit behind…