Such things are not left overs; they are planned overs. We make more than enough, freeze it and use it instead of retail frozen dinners.
Here’s what you do with those drumsticks.
You thaw them out.
Boil some rice
Put the drumsticks with plenty of the salsa that you saved with them in the microwave and warm them up.
You [...]
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Seventy-three employees at American International Group received bonuses of $1 million or more, with one receiving more than $6 million.
Am I outraged? No.
For me, it’s depressing and sad; the depth of greed that some people can sink to.
Among the questions I get about Thailand, because I lived there so long, relates to corruption. While the [...]
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OK, I am risking the wrath of the politically correct and all for a joke or, yeah, I admit it, a little attention.
Hopefully, most blog readers have outgrown political correctness and will accuse me only of being a shameless attention seeker with an obvious and substandard chicken recipe. But beat the drums if you [...]
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On February 12, the day my son turned 10 years old, I gave him a birthday present. I told him I would not smoke cigarettes that day.
I made no promises about tomorrow. I took each day as it came. I have not smoked since then, but I make no promise about tomorrow.
Yesterday, I did not [...]
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Somehow, we tend to move on. Learn to live with our grief and eventually it is reduced, but never leaves us entirely.
We learn to live with being poor. Our friends help us. We march on for those we love. In my case I am lucky to have a wonderful 10 year old son. He truly [...]
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