How To Know if an Avocado is Ripe
Squeezing the fruit is a good way to determine its doneness—the flesh should yield to moderate pressure—but it’s also a good way to mistake a bruised avocado for a ripe one. To be sure, flick the small stem of the avocado. If it comes off easily and you can see green underneath it, the avocado is ripe. If the stem does not come off or if you see brown underneath it, the avocado is not ripe.
I have a bunch new recipes on my menu for this week, so I will actually be posting a few ORIGINALS soon!
I know, I know, we are all shocked ;-)
coming soon:
Soft Pretzels, Baked French Toast, Crock Pot Chicken Cordon Bleu, and MORE!
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craving peaches!!
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Herbs!!
(I realize this image is SO small, if you click on it you will find a larger version!)
Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra share their respective recipes for hamburgers.
This is relevant to our interests, right?? ;-)
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(Source: pro-health-pro-fit, via randomlancila)
I’m (expletive deleted) starving!—
Celebrity chef Mario Batali • Discussing the diet he’s currently on — he’s eating like he’s on food stamps (an average of $1.48 per meal, or $31 per week) in protest of potential cuts to the federal food stamps program. His family was nice enough to join him in what he calls a conversation starter about being hungry in the U.S. Unlike most people on food stamps, he knows ways to make the best of a bad situation, smartly sticking to foods like lentils, apples, rice, beans, peanut butter and jelly. But the problem is, eating good on a diet like this is tough, so many do not. Think his family’s experiment will be effective? (via shortformblog)
He’s not the first chef to do this — I wrote about Karl Wilder doing the same experiment last year. But yeah. Food stamps are not a luxury item that our nation’s poor people are using to buy steaks and bottles of champagne. Though food stamps are designed to be supplemental, for many, they’re the only source of food.
-Jess
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This is why I adore Mario Batali!
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p.s. I love your URL :)— hardpressednotcrushed
Which one, thekitchenvirgin or wheeliewifee? he he
The Kitchen Virgin was originally the idea that every recipe I posted on this cooking blog would be something that I was trying for the first time. I soon realized that wasn’t going to be entirely feasible, but it’s still a fun name. and it does motivate me to experiment a lot more than I normally would!
I love the Wheelie Wifee story <3 My D and I were driving for my wheelchair fitting, and I was a wreck—- anxious, crying, self-pitying, the whole mess. Then my darling husband, who has always looooved nicknames says: “but now I can call you my wheelie wifee!” and for some reason I CRACKED UP. We laughed and the name stuck ever since.
Since then I have tried to adapt a more casual, silly, optimistic attitude to my wheelchair use.
:-)
I love your recipes! It makes me kinda sad I can't get some of the things over here for me to try some of them!! :(— lazulibutterfly
awww, thank you! I admit, I am hopelessly American when it comes to my cooking, lol. :-)
Hopefully you’ll find at least a few you can work with!!
Thanks for the follow, lovely <3
