Usually I just have coffee. Sometimes I'll have oatmeal. Today, DH is cooking again!

• How about a "What's for Breakfast" Post? - Mmmmmm good
  • Health shake s/m - bk
  • Slimfast - MTMommy
  • Usually I just have coffee. Sometimes I'll have oatmeal. Today, DH is cooking again! - spoiled DW
  • Apple & cinnamon oatmeal and water 8-) nm - Just a regular girl
  • Coffee and a big cup of ice water so far...nm - Jeri
  • Leftover chili, mango soda and coffe. - breakfest of champeeens! n/m
    • chili!!? lol nm - me
      • I would blame it on too many years of night shift, but I have done it - forever! n/m
      • Oh yeah, try it on top of eggs...yum. - not OP and no message
      • You think that's bad? I had cold - split pea soup YUM! ;-) nm
        • mmmm.. it was cold chili too. - now want cold pizza. n/m
          • Mmmmmmmmmmmm..cold pizza - no message
  • blueberry muffin and juice - memt
  • PB on multigrain toast and a plum after walking the pooch. nm - passing thru
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We usually have everyone bring a dish of some sorts.  Large family, probably about 30 plus.  Set up 3 extra tables in the garage for smokers and cardplayers and have a great day stuffing ourselves. 

Looking for different side dishes, suggestions anyone?

in the morning (used to be 4) w/Nutrasweet, a little regular powdered creamer and a little liquid French Vanilla creamer (yes, I do like it sweet!)  If I'm really sleepy and need the boost, I'll have another cup or two. 

Then I immediately start drinking diet Dr. Pepper, and not the caffeine-free kind.  Love it.  I drink diet Dr. Pepper throughout the day and night, about 6 cans a day (it used to be diet Coke).  I've joked with my friends and family that it might be time for them to hold an intervention for me with the Dr. P. 

I do sometimes worry about the mass quantity of Nutrasweet I consume each day.  Anybody else? 

People who grew up with it and have moved have it sent to them now or stock up when they visit Louisiana.

I've about had it with cooking any beef or pork at all.  Even cooking with hot oil.

I cannot get the lingering odors out.  I wash the pots and pans, put up the leftovers immediately, clean the stove and all surfaces but it just lingers.

Does anyone have a solution?

Here are the links to the recipes that I printed off of Google.  (I love the Internet!  No more cookbooks, only Google for recipes.)  I cheated on the plum sauce by buying a jar because our plums aren't quite ripe yet.  Buy the egg roll skins instead of trying to make your own, too.

http://www.cooksrecipes.com/sauce/homemade-plum-sauce.html

For the fried rice, you can use any type of rice.  I use brown basmati or jasmine rice mostly.  You can also throw in extra vegetables and leftover meats (pork, beef, chicken) to make a meal out of it instead of a side dish.  I like those Oriental pea pods, bok choy, water chestnuts, baby corn, and Chinese cabbage.

http://japanesefood.about.com/od/friedrice/r/friedrice.htm

I'm going to combine and modify the eggroll recipes so I have shrimp/pork egg rolls.  I use canola oil instead of vegetable, peanut, or sesame oil.  I don't care for sesame seeds or bamboo sprouts, so I add extra water chestnuts.  Use frozen or fresh instead of canned crab or shrimp.  Use diced, boneless pork chops instead of ground pork or sausage.

http://pork.allrecipes.com/az/BestEggRolls.asp

http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1816,145177-230200,00.html

http://www.absoluterecipes.com/international-rec/shrimp-egg-rolls.html

my ShortHand would type only the first letter of an expansion and then take all the letters away!  I checked and the Type It button is grayed out!  I have restarted the computer and looked on the Shorthand Help menu but can find nothing that applies.  Can anyone please help me ASAP?  I am lost without it!  TIA

But this article states it would only affect new customers right now.  So I am upset over nothing.  I went through heck with BellSouth when they charged me a surcharge of an extra 50 a month and then would write a letter saying I had to switch to a long distance service and pay by the minute because of my "excessive" use. They told me the unlimited charge was for an average of an hour a day not somebody who worked out of their home and I needed to switch a business plan at over 200 a month charge.  I switched over to cable because of that and then to read that cable was going to charging on a per use fee and not a flat monthly fee it upset me.  It is the nature of our work, VR, only paying for VBC, having headers and footers taken away, now being charged for being on line, etc.  It just seems that everything is done to keep to insure less money.

It's kinda like Survivor in that people get voted off...  I think it's called America's Next Great Cooking Show Host or something.   and the guy from Iowa (reminds me of Dudley Do-Right) stayed in there!   WOOHOO!

Whole bean and grind it yourself.  It blows away the stuff in the can already ground.

I buy what is on sale, because it all tastes good when you grind it yourself.  But I prefer 8 O'Clock Coffee, which may or may not be available in your area. 

Whole bean all the way.