TJ Wilde Trilogy · Duxbridge Mysteries · Jennifer McCaffrey Mysteries
Author of the TJ Wilde Trilogy, Duxbridge and the Jennifer Cozy Mysteries
Michael Symon, Clinton Kelly and Carla Hall
I am so very excited about this! When the Chew was on ABC during lunch hour, that’s how I spent my lunch. One of the advantages of working from a home office.
And when Carla, Symon, and Clinton said they were doing a YouTube show three days a week, I was ecstatic. My week needs this joyous thirty minutes!
Nora seems to be living her best life these days. She has adapted to being a pet duck. She enjoys coming to me skritches and hanging out with the dogs and cats in the main yard.
My soul longs for this solitude.
The other day, I made a commitment to write five hundred words before I would walk the dogs.
I can’t believe this is a thing and I didn’t know it. I follow Rick Springfield on FB, he’s funny as hell, and that man there is in his 70s (yes, Rick, thanks for making me feel old!), and he referenced this, so I had to go looking.
I have probably listened to it a dozen times today. Sigh…
Continuing the discussions about frozen versus fresh, this time focusing on beef, pork, chicken, and fish.
This past year has been ridiculously busy, and I have found myself taking more and more shortcuts when it comes to food prep. Two shortcuts I was reluctant to embrace at first, have become go-tos.
The first is frozen chicken breasts. I would shop sales and buy bulk “fresh” chicken breasts on sale and then spend an hour packaging them into freezer bags. It was messy and time-consuming. And the not-so-fresh packages were usually previously frozen, and then sold. This meant the quality of the meat was hit-or-miss, and I would often end up with tough, chewy chicken breasts.
One day, there was a not-to-miss sale at Costco on frozen chicken breasts. Since it was soup season, I took the chance and purchased a bag (it was Costco, it was a big bag, LOL), knowing a lot of inferior meat could be dressed up in a good soup. To my surprise, they were excellent, flash frozen, tender, and so easy to thaw and prep what I needed.
Annie DeMoranville 