The directions state, “Let stand at room temperature for at least 4 hours before serving.” Yeah, right – like that’s going to happen! You will be hard-pressed to follow those directions after stirring the thick spicy sauce into the noodles. And after sprinkling fresh red peppers, carrots, green onions, cilantro leaves, and fragrant, toasted, sesame [...]
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Bun Bun Noodles With Spicy Peanut Sauce
Posted in Recipes, Uncategorized, tagged asian noodle salad recipe, asian noodles, Asian noodles with spicy peanut sauce, blog, food, noodle salad, noodles, pasta salad, pasta salad recipe, peanut sauce recipe, Recipes, spaghetti salad recipe, spicy peanut sauce, spicy peanut sauce recipe on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Friday’s Fresh Five! (2/24/12)
Posted in About me, Art and Crafts, Creativity, Gift Ideas, Helping Others, In The Kitchen, inspiration, Recipes, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged bird feeders, birds, blog, creative design, Helping Others, how to preserve lemons, inspiration, John Pierpont quote, lemons, life, Limbs for Life, Paris vs. New York, pay phones, phone booths, preserving lemons, protheses, Repurposing, repurposing phone booths, Vahram Muratyan on February 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Chirping up a storm, the birds in my backyard are letting me know that their feeders are empty. I look out the window to the feeding station and see that the sunflower seeds have disappeared and all but one-inch of Nyjer seed remains in another feeder. It’s a quite a job to stay on top [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (2/17/12)
Posted in Aging, Art and Crafts, Health, Helping Others, Holidays, inspiration, Photography, Uncategorized, tagged advice for women over fifty, blog, calories, Fab 50, food portions, Helping Others, inspiration, life, life is art, liquid paint sculptures, Martin Klimas, Miguel Angel Ruiz quote, National Heart Lung and blood Institute, ordinary and extraordinary things, over fifty, painting with sound, photo of the year, portion distortion, super sized food, super-sized, Women over 50, women over fifty, World Press Photo on February 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes the ordinary can be extraordinary. Lowly landscape flowers shine in otherwise flowerless gardens; wet paint vibrates with energy creating liquid sculptures; one person helps another and both lives improve. There are many things that exist and happen in our everyday lives that we deem ordinary, but when reflected upon, they are truly quite extraordinary! [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (2/10/12)
Posted in Community, Creativity, Health, Helping Others, In The Kitchen, inspiration, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged accepting others, Arches National Park, Art House Co-Op, blog, Bryce Canyon, creative community projects, Helping Others, human similarities, images of the Milky Way, inspiration, Joseph Campbell quote, joy, Letters to Home, life, Milky Way, moods are contagious, Photography, romanesco, romanesco broccoli, Royce Blair, spread the mood, The Meal, the Sketchbook Project, Utah, Utah National Parks on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The world’s other 6,993,541,793 human inhabitants are more like you than you think. People’s emotions, actions and reactions are not so different from one part of the world to another. Cultural and religious customs do exist, but smiling, kissing, and hugging are among the many emotional gestures people around the world share. So the next [...]
Marinated Blood Oranges
Posted in Holidays, Husbands, Recipes, Uncategorized, tagged blog, blood orange, blood orange recipes, blood oranges, citrus compote, citrus desserts, compote, easy desserts, food, fruit compote, fruit desserts, healthy desserts, healthy Valentine's Day recipe, oranges, Recipes, Tuaca, Valentine's Day recipe on February 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Round with bright flavors, citrus fruit bring the sun into our winter kitchens. Blood oranges, in particular, with their sweet hint of raspberry-like flavor and famous vermilion to ruby-colored flesh are true winter gems. Wanting to test a special, yet healthy Valentine’s Day dessert for my sweet-toothed husband, this recipe fulfilled all of my requirements: [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (2/3/12)
Posted in Aging, Entertainment, Health, Helping Others, Jewelry, Recipes, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged Audrey Hepburn quote, blog, brain games, computer game, crocheting with newspaper, healthy snacks, healthy Super Bowl snack, life, life's regrets, quesadillas, Recipes, recycling newspaper, regrets, Super Bowl snacks, the game you can't stop, what are you made of on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Stones, tumbled by the sea, collect on the shore. The waters have worn some smooth and round, while others remain irregular and pockmarked. That they existed in the same turbulent waters, but weathered the forces differently, can only be attributed to their individual compositions and, perhaps, the length of exposure. If you were one of [...]
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