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Oh, I love orange chicken! But I do pick out the peels…

I made a sheet pan dinner last night too! Ours was seasoned broccoli on one side and a flat meatloaf on the other side. It was pretty good and I learned that flat meatloaf cooks much faster than bread-shaped meatloaf. I might start making all my meatloaves flat. It also called for putting a...

Says the man who eats cake for breakfast! 🤣 I know you are right. OJ is one of the highest sugar content juices. I just happen to love it, and not-so-much like real oranges. No way you’re getting me to eat orange peel in any form! 😂 But even with the current elevated prices, it is cheaper per...

Speaking of shrinkflation, I was about to buy a gallon of orange juice at WM the other day when I noticed that it wasn’t a full gallon! It was a mere small 2.25 quarts! No way I’m paying full gallon price for that! (Apparently the American orange tree farms got hit hard by some disease a while...

Lucky! I have my eye on that 17 quart model because it’s tall enough to water bath quart jars. But it’s just so pricey for getting a second machine. 65%off! Score! Wish I had that kind of store around here!

Oh, and I too have experienced the knife point stabbing the pretend wood!

When we moved here 21 years ago, we had been used to real hardwood floors (old house was built in 1959). This house has pretend wood floors and we hated the plasticky feel and sound of it! But over the years I have grown to love it because it cleans up so easily. It’s almost like non-stick! (Not...

If you are posting from an iPhone (maybe it is similar on other phones too?) when you click to attach files and then click Photo Library, look way down on the bottom right and you should see this unassuming little button: Clicking on that will give you these options, which clicking on large or...

Love canoeing on the Platte River! ❤️

I didn’t know I could shake them! I was kind of wondering about the ones floating above the water -or should I say juice- line.

Well this was not very messy or exhausting. My neighbors said I could pick their tomatoes while they are on vacation for two weeks. So I did this: I will probably do it again when these get ripe enough:

(Not canning, but still preserving) Peach Freezer Salsa. Anyone ever hear of the Flashfood app? Your local grocery store sets aside markdown stuff and posts it to their page, and then customers can buy it through the app and pick it up in the store. My friend who told me about it tends to look...

But still perfectly edible, right?

I went to a thrift store that I don’t go to very often because they have odd hours and seem to always be closed when I drive by. (They run a food pantry and I guess they aren’t open during the scheduled food pickup times. Anyway, I got 22 jars for 50 cents each! Regular and wide mouth pints and...

Chicken enchiladas last night. Tonight is still TBD.

I’m doing another marathon of broth. Beef this time. On Easter I was in Meijer and found a prime rib roast marked down to $7/#! (And also a marked down brisket, but in retrospect it wasn’t that great a mark down.) Between both pieces there was a lot of fat, so I tried my hand at rendering some...

Our goodwills around here raised their price to 1.99 per quart jar!! Just not worth it! I can’t imagine WHO is paying that! And they stopped doing the color of the week, so no more half off stuff. 😒 I have got to start going to estate sales. Whenever I see one I’m usually just too busy to stop...

My TSC’s chick bins are always empty too, but it’s because they get chicks every week and they sell out immediately. Last time I went in there were actually 4 chicks left. (They always have ducklings. Those don’t sell out.)

Hyacinths are blooming and tulips starting to bud.

Spring buds: Daffodil and Hyacinth