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Category: Misc.

Another Glorious One-Pot Meal fan

Susan Joseph, a new initiate to Glorious One-Pot Meals, details her introduction to this quick and easy cooking method in a recent blog post. Thanks, Susan! Please keep spreading the word and enjoying deliciously healthy meals. I love hearing stories like Susan’s — they keep me going when it feels like the world just doesn’t […]

Recycle Your Used Cooking Oil From Turkey Fryers

If can feel like everyone is deep frying turkeys for Thanksgiving these days. But what do you do with all that used cooking oil after the turkey comes out? Pouring it down the drain or on the ground, or even tossing it into the trash, can have disasterous effects on wildlife and drinking water if […]

My Son, the Janitor

The latest studies on gratitude show definitively that feeling grateful can make you a happier and nicer person. Of course, you have to feel grateful more frequently than once a year to realize any effects. I like to contemplate my gratitude when I’m soaking up the energy from the sun and getting some vitamin D. […]

Gluten-free Coconut Flour Muffins

After all the anxiety I’ve endured since getting my first mammogram in July, seeing the spots, getting a second opinion, and then having them removed with a stereotactic biopsy last Thursday, hearing the news that all were benign (!!) has put me in a happy place. 🙂  Not only were all the spots benign, but […]

Post-biopsy Recovery

Smaller breasts have more densely packed nerve endings and hence are more sensitive. I never knew that. I learned this as the radiology tech pulled and stretched my breast – and eventually my shoulder, too – through the hole in the lead-lined table and into a position where she could clamp it tightly between paddles. […]