Last December my pen pal friend, Denise Sinkora, began doing recipe videos that she posted on Facebook. The recipe here that I am sharing is her Lasagna recipe. We decided to try it for Christmas dinner as this year it was just my husband and I home for the holidays. I have to tell you [...]

Summer is upon us. It is starting to ramp up to be a very hot summer. But this craziness about our country is bogging us down. In the movie Forrest Gump he ran across America. And just kept running and running then one day he stopped. When asked why he stopped he just said he [...]

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Life in California in the 70’s was about healthy living. My friends and I would go to the local food co-op to acquire all the “healthy” foodstuffs then get together and parcel out our goods. And unlike today with all the convenience of ready food items we made every thing from scratch. Thinking “green” was [...]

Ingredients:
1 box pasta of your choice, cooked, drained, cooled
½ small zucchini, chopped in squares, cook in pasta water
1 small jar artichokes chopped; save oil for dressing
3 sun dried tomatoes, chopped, fine
½ cuke, cut in half lengthwise, then thinly sliced
1 t capers
½ onion, chopped, fine
1 mini bok choy, chopped
2 dozen green olives with pimento cut in [...]

Ingredients
· 1 lg coffee mug
· 4 Tbsp flour (plain, not self-rising)
· 4 Tbsp sugar or Splenda
· 2 Tbsp cocoa
· 1 egg
· 3 Tbsp milk
· 3 Tbsp oil
· 1/3 tsp vanilla
· 1 Tbsp chocolate chips and/or chopped walnuts – **optional**

How To:

Add dry ingredients to mug, mix well with a fork.
Add egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in milk [...]