What's on your Wednesday Menu?

Great news about your son. So happy for him.

Yay good news on your son! Glad to hear it!

So glad that you son is doing well!

Good morning! Hoping your week stays perfect JB so you can continue to recover!

qotd - Aleppo pepper, crushed red pepper, jalapeno olive oil, smoked paprika, harissa spice, fennel and ginger are my favorites.

menu today

coffee+ half and half x3

left over roast beef X2

smoked mozzarella and proscittio

light and fit or skyr

have a great hump day. We're getting closer to the weekend!

Ooh, I would like to eat at your house, please! I love those flavors but I have no idea how to cook with any of them so they are what I get when I go out, but I keep it boring at home.

One day you can visit! I will cook you all the things, we can listen to Dolly and I'll show you around Colorado.

also, I am excited to getthis next month!

That book will be wonderful. I will be ordering it too. I watched Dolly from the very beginning when she was introduced on the weekly show with Porter Wagner. I feel in love with country music when I was in my teens and heard Johnny Cash sing Ring of Fire.

I used to listen to the Grand Ole Opry on my transistor radio when I was supposed to be sleeping. Nobody that I knew liked country music then. I did have a friend who put aspirin in her Coke. When a local TV station started carrying Porter Wagner on Saturday afternoons, I always watched and loved Dolly from the very beginning.

QOTD: I am on a cleaning, organizing, and redecorating project for the next few months. So I am not cooking much at all. I really love fresh spices, like thyme and basil. I might set up a place to grow them with lights. I have a large amount of spices that I would buy for one recipe and then never use again. So getting rid of a lot of old spices will be one of my organizing projects. What I have found is spices in a tube that looks like toothpaste. They can be sealed up and kept in the refrigerator and taste almost as good as fresh.

We use a lot of the spices in a tube as I like the fresh flavor but fresh herbs get old and dry before I use the whole batch.

Those tubes have tomato paste too and that's a much more efficient/scaleable way to use tomato paste, I was so excited to find them.

I have seen that on cooking shows, but have not found it in the stores yet. I am going to look for it again.