If you do stuff, stuff gets done.......

If you do stuff, stuff gets done.......

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

BEDA #20 Freeze warning, Nashville Hot chicken and etc

Hello everyone
Crazy weather has us expecting a freeze tonight but thankfully it won’t be a long hard freeze. 
We have garden plants in the grown,  flowers about to bloom and our strawberry plants and berry bushes are loaded with blooms 
So,  we’ve covered everything with old sheets and such- and are hoping for the


I made a few changes 

I decreased the red pepper to 1/2 t and it was plenty hot. 
I omitted the salt and subbed onion powder for the garlic.  

This is a recipe I will keep.  They tasted great and cooked up fast.  
We had oven roasted veggies with the chicken - and I guess I was really hungry for veggies 😳

My husband goes to physical therapy and has 3 therapists. 2 are expecting and he says they talks about cookies all the time.  
He asked me to make them some so I mixed up a batch of chocolate chip oatmeal cookie dough.  I will bake them just before he goes to therapy next. 
I used mini chocolate chips is why the dough looks so loaded.  


More Parsimony asked which salad shooter I recommend.  
Well. It just depends. 
The smaller one takes up almost no room so if you’re short on storage space,  it is ideal. 
However the smaller salad shooter has a smaller feed tube than the bigger one.  So if your doing potatoes or cabbage,  they have to be cut small to get them to fit in the tube. 
If you know how  big a 8 ounce  stick of Cracker Barrel cheese - then that will tell you how big the feed tube is on the small one.  
Potatos and wedges of cabbage would be much easier in the bigger one but they will still work in the small one, as long as they are cut to fit.  
Both Salad Shooters slice and shred food quickly and easily. 
I think I said yesterday that I wish I had a bigger one and will be looking for a bigger one at a good price.   I do cook a lot and people who cook less may prefer the smaller one.  

My daughter has a small salad shooter and I think she uses it only to grate carrots for carrot cake.  


Hope all info helps! 

About celebrity cookbooks,  my son has a Chrissy Tiegan book and he said her biscuit recipe was really good.  
I’ve made 3 recipes from the Joanna Gaines book and they’ve all been good.  I do think she knows how to cook.  Her recipes are just not the type of recipes I prefer to cook.  



❤️ Rhonda 

Monday, April 19, 2021

BEDA #19 To Do list and Replies

Sorry about no blog yesterday.  We were away from home much of the day. 
Today I’m at home and working my way through  new To-Do list. 
So far,  I’m on load #5 of laundry and have a couple more after these.  Why so much?  Bedding, towels to dry off Ducky after his at home bath, grands here over the weekend and then just our regular clothes and linens. 

I’m not planning any meals for a few days, until we use the yummy leftovers from the weekend.  


Next I’m going to answer some of your comment questions.  

The electric receptacle in that cabinet is for the stove vent hood.  

About this cookbook- it’s fun to read but after reading it,  I would not re-buy it.  Most the recipes are much heavier than I normally prepare- meaning I think she uses lots of butter and heavy additions.  

About the Salad Shooter,  this is my 3rd salad shooter.  I got my first one when my children were young.  
The first one was the small one and my second one was the bigger model.  I currently have the small one.  
If I wear this one out,  I will replace it with the bigger one.  
I use it mostly for grating carrots and cheese and also for slicing potatos and shredding cabbage for cole slaw.  
The prices I see on Amazon today  seem really high -if you don’t know,  Amazon prices fluctuate almost daily.  
I’ve seen salad shooters on EBay and Mercari. Yard sale season will be starting and I expect they can be found at some sales too.  



Thank you for all the YouTube channel suggestions.  I’ll be looking them all up. 
And I plan to link them a post here soon.  
I watch YouTube mostly when I ride a stationary bike or folding laundry and sometimes while cooking.  


❤️Rhonda