A Homemade Life in Fast Food Time
I’m always looking for ways to eat chicken that are a) tasty; b) healthful; and c) not grilled chicken breast. To be honest, chicken breast is probably my least favorite cut – I’m a thigh girl. But sometimes they’re on sale – or that’s what you have – so here’s a great recipe to transform a dry, boring chicken breast into a yummy dinner.
This is a fairly healthy recipe – using Wheaties or bran cereal like AllBran creates a crisp coating that is complimented with some spices – yum!
Fast, easy and tasty – this chicken parm recipe is quick and easy. Pounding the chicken thin helps it cook faster so you can have a great meal on the table in no time!
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This easy potato salad recipe was given to me by a very good friend and retired dairy farmer. She always had to cook for a crowd during harvest time. My church now uses this recipe as a “go to” recipe when we have large gatherings. It makes a huge batch but you can cut it in half for smaller groups or families. You can also use lite salad dressing and it doesn’t seem to harm the taste. I hope you will try it the next time you go to a BBQ or large gathering. I have tossed my own old family recipe in favor of this. It just plain tastes better!
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Great low-cal way to cool off and have something sweet in the evening. If you’re caffeine sensitive – be sure you use decaf instant coffee!
TIP: Make the mixture ahead so that you just add the milk, vanilla and ice to 3 Tbsps of powder mixture!
In an air tight container mix: ½ C. creamer ½ C. coffee granules ½ C. sweetener ¼ C. cocoa powder
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Easy weeknight dinners are sometimes hard to come up with – so finding something that i steady fast, and thaws quickly – is important. Kielbasa is a great option because it thaws in the microwave quickly and truly only requires warming. Roasting or frying to get a crispy crust on your Kielbasa makes it better.
Adding cabbage allows you to cut back on Potato – which can help you cut calories nicely. Use turkey kielbasa in this one for a lighter meal!
It's amazing how easy some recipes can be to changeup and make them healthier and still taste good. Since going on a major campaign to loose some weight a la Weight Watchers I've managed to find some pretty interesting ways to modify recipes. Try this one my DH just loves it.
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(First I must caution you I have never tried using this method on cellular blinds, only the plastic or wood louvered blinds.)
I hate the tedious wiping back and forth to clean blinds and sometimes that’s just not good enough to get all the crud off. If you’ve ever moved into a home or apartment that the blinds were so dirty you were sure critters were lurking in them try this simple method.
Fill the bathtub with some hot soapy water, use Dawn, Joy, or for wood I might use Murphy’s oil soap. Take a blind down and drop it gently in the tub one at a time. Let it soak while you take a rag and whip down the window area and around the top part that doesn’t come down. (Clean the window with Marge’s Magic Elixir from this blog while the blind is soaking.)
Next go back to the tub and with the same rag just slosh the rag over the louvers, swishing the blind back and forth a little too. Gather it up and stand it on end in the tub to shake off most of the water, then lay it on some bath towels and gently wipe most of the water off, just so it isn’t dripping. Then hang the blind back up, dropping it down all the way to dry.
Voila! A clean blind and window all at once.
