Collecting My Thoughts

 I've seen a lot of very negative ads about oatmeal flash by on internet ads, and I have a friend who is always pushing something health...

I know eggs are expensive, but the dozen I have in the frig were about $3. So, I made a fried egg sandwich for breakfast rather than have th...

About 2 decades ago, before I started saving everything at my blog, I was searching for the perfect bread pudding recipe—like my mom made fr...

Who has a breakfast potato sausage casserole recipe that uses NO prepared/frozen potatoes, NO Campbell's soup? I've made somethin...

             87% of Americans don't meet recommendations for fruit consumption, and 91% don't meet recommendations for vegetable co...

Dear Danny  Hamen, Your ridicule of religion in your chicken and waffles article published in Stock & Barrel, Summer ‘15 (a 614 publ...

My husband's breakfast is usually the same (except with the Thursday Cursillo guys when it's bacon and eggs), oatmeal with raisins. ...

I was watching a medical segment on Fox News this morning with Dr. David Samadi which was a display of breakfast cereals and which ones ar...

The last two days I decided I’d try for my fruits at breakfast.  Usually I have either an apple or an orange, and maybe nuts. But this was r...

We had lunch at the OSU golf course dining room for our son’s birthday yesterday and of course, I had to celebrate with some decadent chocol...

2 carrots, shredded 1 zucchini, shredded 2 bananas, mashed 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1/4 cup yogurt 2 eggs 1 cup whol...

Or one. Me. I've tried a recipe in my New Inglenook Cookbook (Brethren Press, 2013) and declare it tasty. It's baked French toast...

I’m not sure why this would be any easier than baking it in the oven, but maybe some people want to sleep in. Ingredients: 1 bag 26 o...

1) Spray each muffin well with nonstick spray. 2) Place a slice of ham in the bottom of each muffin well. 3) Place about a ...

Most days I have the same breakfast. An apple, handful of walnuts, and raw carrots. I figure if I'm careless the rest of the day, at le...

The man in front of me at Panera's today (fabulous bakery items, in case you've never been there) was buying a delicious selection o...

Real food in times of real stress and real need. Today I looked up the raw peach to check the nutritional value. It is low in calories an...

Lakeside 2008--a happy Lakesider! Another Lakeside artist gave my husband a gift certificate to Summer Stock, a tiny deli and "take and...

3900 Who buys the food in your household? Kellogg's is going to stop marketing to children under 12. Excuse me? They never sold a ...