Day 31 – All of this shelter-in-place is starting to feel, well, normal. Some days it seems like this is the way it has always been and always will be. And other days it seems like this has just been a horrible dream. Today is a good day for me. I am beginning to see…
Tag: Cooking
Cheesy Italian Sausage Dip
Day 30 – We have one family member who is loving having us all home all the time. She is loving all the attention and that there is usually someone with a free hand at all times day and night to pet her and love on her. Her fur is amazingly soft from all the…
Feeling Grateful
Day 28 – Next week my wife will be furloughed by her company. We have known this was coming for a few weeks. It will be short-term but we are grateful because she will have a job to go back to. So many people we know right now are being laid off or out right…
Chicken Tenders with Hot Honey Sauce
Day 27 – I have been doing a bit of reading on stress eating. Everything I read is everyone talking about how we are all seeking comfort foods. Grocery stores are reporting spikes in processed foods, chips, cookies, and candy sales. Cortisol, the stress hormone, is the main reason we seek out the foods high…
Hamburgers with Balsamic Vegetables
Day 26 – I am keeping track of the days on here mostly for my own sanity. Some days it seems like nothing has changed and other days it seems like nothing will ever be the same. I had an “I don’t want to day” the other day. I went to bed early and layed…
Beer Battered Fish Tacos
Day 25 – They say it takes 3 or 4 weeks to change habits. We have now been in shelter-in-place for 25 days. Have we changed any habits? I think so. We are a bit more patient with each other. If we snap we almost immediately take a step back and say, “I’m sorry.” We…
Leftover Turkey Hash
Day 24 – I couldn’t bring myself to post yesterday. I just wanted to do nothing for the entire day. I know it is a bit of depression but I just needed a day to feel bad about everything and wallow in it. I am much better today. I think I was mourning all that I…
Top 5 Blog Posts for March 2020
The top recipe for the past 5 months has been the Pork, Sauerkraut and Apples (click for link to recipe). With pork having been super inexpensive in most places it makes sense. This dish has great flavor and is super simple for a nice easy dinner. Throw it in the slow cooker and dinner is…
Gooey Butter Cake
Day 20 – Another gray day. At least it is slightly warmer today. The gray 30 degree days need to end, now. We are making dessert just about every day right now. We never used to have dessert before this shelter-in-place started. I think the whole emotional toll has made us crave carbs. Oh, wait….
Pimento Cheese
Day 19 – I am so over the gray days. I have started taking Vitamin D which I really think has helped improve my mood and my tiredness but these dark gray days are awful. It has been this way over a week now. I want to go outside and be warm. I was shopping…
Air Fryer – Fried Ravioli
Day 18 – We are just waiting for the Governor to declare that the school year is over for both kids. Neither one is happy. My son has 3 Advanced Placement (AP) tests to take and I know that they were trying to come up with a plan for the students to take those so that…
Revisited: Sweet and Sour Spam
Day 17 – We are in a small rural county in Michigan. Even here the Coronavirus has reached us. We are not like other areas with huge numbers of people infected (well at least identified as infected) or dying from it. But, we are not as immune as we think we are. We live near…
What's for Dinner Moms? 