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What is the TJ’s Diet? I have already introduced you to my friend (“do not call me a cook”) Jill who is on the Trader Joe’s (TJ’s) Diet. What is… [Continue Reading]

This June is the 3rd anniversary of the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge, a national initiative to bring back the bees. And the week of June 19-26 is Pollinator Week. If you… [Continue Reading]

Updated 10/2019 Now that PG&E has cut power in anticipation of wildfire weather, I have made some changes to this post to better reflect what I have learned. Mainly, if… [Continue Reading]

So we have prepped, cooked and now are ready to serve the food we have made. Side Note on Parties The art of food-based entertaining is a dying art in… [Continue Reading]

What is so interesting to me about cooking, is that the amount of time we actually spend cooking is relatively small. Most of what people think of as “cooking” is… [Continue Reading]

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” ― George Bernard Shaw There are a lot of kitchen stores, cooking shows, and gadgets or tools that promise to make your… [Continue Reading]

Personal In 2016 my arthritic knees were starting to get to the place that I was considering replacements. I called the doctor and essentially was told I needed to lose… [Continue Reading]

I started to read a healthy-cooking article, and it reported that according to the CDC, every year 1 in 6 Americans get food-related illnesses; which I think is an amazingly… [Continue Reading]

Revised 24 December 2020; Original 3 May 2019 Plastic is a human-made product that is literally every where humans have been. We have plastic litter left on the moon, it… [Continue Reading]

Originally published 4/26/2019, revised 9/21/2020 Types of Fats We need fats in our diet, as they play a very important tole in our health. All oils have a combination of… [Continue Reading]

In April my cat Katie died. It is so very hard when one loses a pet, especially one who had the capacity to provide me so many hoursofcalming pleasure by… [Continue Reading]

There are lots of frozen food that are healthy and at times more appropriate to use than what you can buy in the store. This allows for eating food out… [Continue Reading]

The connotation of the phrase “two fisted drinker” is that of someone who has an alcoholic drink in both hands, they drink a lot, and can apparently hold it. However,… [Continue Reading]