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Tuesday Tunes: Flash Mob

Members of Queen on black background

Freddie Mercury: “Do what you want with my music, just don’t make it boring.”

This has been going around, but I wanted to make sure everyone saw the original. If you click over to YouTube, in the description are the credits of the entire cast and crew.

Monday Menu: Letting Julia Do The Cooking

bowl of apples on a table

The last month has been wild and I’m having trouble keeping up. I desperately need to focus on the Full Sail revisions, so for the next few weeks I’m going to let Julia Child do the menus for me. I love that PBS has an entire YouTube channel of her shows.

Since it’s fall and apples are coming in, I thought we’d start with this one:

Tuesday Tunes: Now My Entire Childhood Makes Sense

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…

Monday Menu: Frozen or Fresh Meats and Fish

Continuing the discussions about frozen versus fresh, this time focusing on beef, pork, chicken, and fish.

Frozen chicken breasts
Credit: Maliflower73/Getty

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.

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