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Encouraging Your Teens to Eat Breakfast

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day… so the saying goes. But try telling that to your family! My younger brother used to hit the snooze on his alarm clock until the last possible second, then throw on some close and rush off to high school without eating. There are lots of “good” reasons for skipping breakfast: I wanted to sleep in. There’s nothing good to eat. It takes too long to make something. I’m not hungry when I first wake up. I want to lose weight. But research has shown that eating breakfast can help boost concentration … Continue reading →

Super Saturday Morning Breakfast

I’m all for lazy Sunday brunches, but I grew up with a dad who relished making a huge breakfast each Saturday morning. Our big breakfasts included everything from pancakes and coffee cake to made-to-order omelets plus ham, bacon, sausage and fresh fruit. If you are looking to create a new tradition in your family, I would highly suggest adding these simple and delicious recipes to your breakfast menu: BREAKFAST PIZZA Ingredients: 4 ounces softened cream cheese 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt 1 (12-inch) pizza crust 6 eggs 1/4 cup water 2 tablespoons butter Salt and pepper 6 pieces of cooked and … Continue reading →

Bringing Home the Bacon

If you not only bring home the bacon, but also are responsible for cooking it up, then you might find the following recipes quite helpful. One Christmas my dad was gifted with 15 pounds of fresh bacon as a thank you from a guy he helped at the office. For weeks we ate bacon for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Once the pig product was gone I took a break from bacon… for about 12 years. I’m not kidding. I swore off bacon until well after I graduated from college. To this day I rarely, if ever, eat bacon. However, that … Continue reading →

Dining in the Woods—Cooking Breakfast in a Bag

We are just hours away from the start of the Labor Day holiday weekend–the official end of the summer season. For many families the weekend marks the last chance to escape city life before the new school year begins. If you are one of the millions heading off on a camping adventure today or tomorrow you might find the following recipes helpful. If you have never cooked a dish in a paper bag now is a good time to start. Unique cooking techniques are often employed out of necessity when you’re roughing it. Start your day in the great outdoors … Continue reading →

Shakin’ & Bakin’ with Bacon

When Oscar Mayer introduced its Ready to Serve bacon a few years back you could have gotten a sunburn from the megawatt smile my bacon loving mom flashed each time she picked up a package from the grocery store. Heck, if it were not for my mom’s obsession with bacon my preschooler wouldn’t be walking around telling people that her grandma puts bagels on her salad. (She means Bac-Os.) With the weekend fast approaching I’m sure home cooks the world over are planning to fry up a pretty pound of the pork product to go along with their pancakes and … Continue reading →

A to Z Cooking: B for Bacon is Not Just for Breakfast

Bacon is meat that comes from the side of a pig and has been cured and smoked. Because it is the fat in bacon that makes it so tasty, fat should be 1/2 to 2/3 of the total weight of the bacon. Slab bacon is bought in large slabs and has to be sliced. It is moderately cheaper than sliced bacon. (Frankly, I don’t care–I don’t want to mess with cutting off the rind and slicing a large slab of pig meat!) Everyone knows that bacon is great on salads, or as a standard breakfast side dish. Bacon can be … Continue reading →

Fad Diets: The Grapefruit Diet or New Mayo Diet

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(This diet has no connection to the Mayo Clinic.) This diet promises that you’ll lose 52 pounds if you follow it properly for 10 weeks. Most of us can lose about that much by exercising every day and replacing a fatty meal with a salad every day but there seems to be more attraction to following a rigid diet like this. There are lots of rules to this diet: * As with all diets, you must drink eight 8 ounce glasses of water every day. You can eat at every meal until you are full (the items listed are the … Continue reading →

Twice Delicious: Pot Roast Cheese Steaks

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Twice Delicious is a series of recipes dedicated to what I do with my leftovers. I rarely have leftovers except from my crock pot. But I have found that I can’t possibly consider simply reheating the leftovers and serving them to my family as is. That would be akin to offering nothing but bread and water. In fact, I have a child who would opt for bread and water rather than leftovers! Not only would it mean they’d have to eat the same thing twice in a row (apparently that’s forbidden–I wish someone had told me earlier in motherhood!); but … Continue reading →

Week Night Menu: Crustless Quiche, Home Fried Potatoes, and Pineapple ‘Muri Sonando’

Thanks to a recent reader suggestion, here is a new feature I’m introducing to the food blog. One reader writes: I have such a hard time coming up with something quick enough to make in the middle of the week. Do you have any ideas? One trick to planning a healthy and complete meal in the middle of the week is planning ahead. You have to have your pantry well stocked, your meals planned, and your prep work done. However, it is possible! To help you, and others, work on your endeavor, I am going to write one blog per … Continue reading →

Biscuits and Sausage Gravy

There is something about a good and hearty biscuit topped with creamy sausage gravy that gets me going in the morning. I am sharing a recipe that my grandmother used to make for us, and that I now make for my family. My grandmother was from Texas and most of her recipes were hearty and southern in nature. I enjoy making Biscuits and Sausage Gravy on a weekend when I can spend the time to make it right, and then savor it with a cup of good coffee. The preparation is easy and the total cooking time is very little. … Continue reading →