REMINDER Friends!Shopping around the World will be hosted on Friday, June 29th. This month we will be highlighting easy dinner ideas for the summer months. Summer brings heat and who wants to be in the kitchen cooking, right? So this month, let’s concentrate on what you prepare for dinner in the summer months.
Post your meals and prices on Friday, June 29th and link back to my blog so everyone has a way to your blog to check out your menu’s.
Hope to see you here!
Welcome my friends. I’m tweaking my weekly journey with my healthier living. It’s a step in the right direction for sure. I hope you come along for the ride. Instead of day-to-day comments, I’m going to post something from my personal journal to share. Hope you enjoy. Remember all of us go down this path and we are all in it together ❤
Week of 06/10-06/16/2018 – Week 23
“Dear Journal – Baby steps. I’ve been tweaking dinner options this week. There really are some amazing foods that you can prepare that are totally tasty and the hub unit loves. Planning is the key though. I’m trying to do my cooking prep on Sundays for the week. Then during the week, I pull from already cooked ingredients in the fridge. It saves time and getting the house hot from actually cooking the first time. What a time saver this is! I can’t believe I haven’t tried this earlier. But like they say, better late than never!”
Miles walked: 4.11
TOTAL 2018 Miles: 160.74
TOTAL 2017 Miles: 541.06
❤ small goals turn into big accomplishments ❤
Mark Your Calendars Friends!Shopping around the World will be hosted on Friday, June 29th. This month we will be highlighting easy dinner ideas for the summer months. Summer brings heat and who wants to be in the kitchen cooking, right? So this month, let’s concentrate on what you prepare for dinner in the summer months.
Post your meals and prices on Friday, June 29th and link back to my blog so everyone has a way to your blog to check out your menu’s.
Hope to see you here!
Shopping Around the World
Shopping Around the World is hosted by us and our friend Fozziemom. This month since it is the Thanksgiving holidays here in the States, we are focusing on Thanksgiving foods. We have elected to post a side dish that everyone loves here in the south – black-eyed peas. Yummo! I admit that even this little oinker loves these peas. They are tasty… but of course I like mine without the bacon – you know for obvious reasons – snorts and rolls with piggy laughter. I leave the recipe and other delights of this recipe to mom – take it away mom! ❤
Black-eyed peas. Some people hear the name and stick out their tongue making a grimace while others smile and can’t wait to jump in feet first and eat their way out of the bowl. Which category do you fall into my friends? You’re not sure yet? Let me tell you my recipe and then you can make your choice. You will need the following:
⇔ Two cans of black-eyed peas (you can use fresh peas- I take help where I can) $0.98 each = $1.96
⇔ Four slices of bacon $3.99 pack/12 slices = $1.32
⇔ Cilantro $1.49 a pack; onion $0.49; olive oil $6.99 bottle; red pepper flakes $1.49 bottle = $1.50
Total Cost per Dish $4.78
The first thing we do is get out the old southern iron skillet. Put a tad of oil in the bottom, cut up the bacon strips and fry them in the skillet. While the bacon is cooking, dice up your onion and chop up your cilantro. Once the bacon has cooked, scoop out the fried bacon and put on a paper towel to drain. Leave the bacon grease in the skillet and add your onions to give them some color. While the onions are cooking, open your cans of black-eyed peas, drain them and wash them. Now some people use the juice out of the can, we don’t. If you like it, by all means use it. Once the onions have some color, pour in your two cans of black-eyed peas. Season with salt, pepper and red pepper flakes to your taste. Your black-eyed peas will have a semi fried taste – awesome. Trust me. Once everything is heated through, pour into a serving dish and top with cilantro and your fried bacon. You will never want black-eyed peas the old way again 🙂
Don’t forget about our important dates next week – after the holidays. Keep these in mind while you enjoy your holiday 🙂 ❤
Shopping Around the World
Shopping Around the World is hosted by us and our friend Fozziemom. This month it is scheduled for November 30th – after the holiday so we can all make plans. Since it is the Thanksgiving holidays here in the States, this month we will focus on Thanksgiving foods. So, you can post appetizers, side dishes, salads, soups, main entrees or desserts. What is something that you look forward to once a year at Thanksgiving. I mean yes we can have it throughout the year but having it at Thanksgiving screams the holiday? This gives you a wide variety of foods you can come up with. Fix whatever your dish is, take pictures and post it with recipes and prices on November 30th on your blog. Remember to link back to my blog posting so people can see yours. This is a wonderful way to (1) meet new friends in blogville and (2) get some wonderful recipes. And I’ll admit it. This piggy has been known to visit on these days and lick the computer screen at some of your awesome dishes. I’m just sayin’ – some of pictures look out of this world!!
Bacon’s Show and Tell
To me, what better time of the year to share some embarrassing stories from Thanksgiving. Did you gather as a family for dinner and someone do something hilarious? Did you have a mishap and spill your plate or cut the turkey in a strange way? Go ahead my friends, let’s talk about something funny our humans do or did during their Thanksgiving holidays. I know these stories will be good! Bacon’s Show and Tell is scheduled for November 29th due to the holiday. Remember to do your blog and link back to my blog so we can all see what everyone shares. Thanks my friend – can’t wait for some great stories.
Never fear, we did not forget about our most important dates of the month – no way! Please remember to mark your calendars for our two important dates below and make plans to participate. The more participation, the more recipes and embarrassing stories – yay!
Shopping Around the World
Shopping Around the World is hosted by us and our friend Fozziemom. This month it is scheduled for November 30th – after the holiday so we can all make plans. Since it is the Thanksgiving holidays here in the States, this month we will focus on Thanksgiving foods. So, you can post appetizers, side dishes, salads, soups, main entrees or desserts. What is something that you look forward to once a year at Thanksgiving. I mean yes we can have it throughout the year but having it at Thanksgiving screams the holiday? This gives you a wide variety of foods you can come up with. Fix whatever your dish is, take pictures and post it with recipes and prices on November 30th on your blog. Remember to link back to my blog posting so people can see yours. This is a wonderful way to (1) meet new friends in blogville and (2) get some wonderful recipes. And I’ll admit it. This piggy has been known to visit on these days and lick the computer screen at some of your awesome dishes. I’m just sayin’ – some of pictures look out of this world!!
Bacon’s Show and Tell
To me, what better time of the year to share some embarrassing stories from Thanksgiving. Did you gather as a family for dinner and someone do something hilarious? Did you have a mishap and spill your plate or cut the turkey in a strange way? Go ahead my friends, let’s talk about something funny our humans do or did during their Thanksgiving holidays. I know these stories will be good! Bacon’s Show and Tell is scheduled for November 29th due to the holiday. Remember to do your blog and link back to my blog so we can all see what everyone shares. Thanks my friend – can’t wait for some great stories.
This month we are concentrating on salads and I present to you mom’s salad. It has a little bit of everything and mom/dad eat these several times during the week as their meal at night. Hope you enjoy it!
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What you Need:
1 head of lettuce ($0.98); package of grape tomatoes ($0.99); croutons (package $1.19); shredded cheese (package $2.49); Cucumber ($0.98); sliced ham (2.49 for quarter pound); mushrooms (pack $2.49); chopped walnuts ($2.49 pack); Catalina Dressing ($1.49)
Everyone knows how to put together a salad. What’s interesting is what people put ‘in’ their salads. AND if this is what’s for dinner, you want the salad to be hearty. Mom/dad eat this salad usually 3-4 times during the week, especially here in the Summer where it’s just too hot to cook anything on the stove or in the oven.
Now mom will change it up sometimes and use chicken from the night before instead of ham, or sometimes she even puts spicy pickles in the salad. It just depends on what ingredients you have on your hand.
Mom fixes an entire bucket of salad and keeps it in the refrigerator for us at night. And yes, even I eat salad – wouldn’t you with all of these ingredients? Except mine doesn’t have ham – you know for obvious reasons but chicken night we all win.
When you think about the ingredients above averaging out for 2 people and 1 pig (snorts) over 4 nights, it only equals out to $3.90 for each dinner night. Now that’s not bad at all!
Since it is summer in most places and do I dare say hot, let’s concentrate on those easy meals. When one says they made a salad for dinner, we are always amazed at what they put into their salads. So this month – ‘salads’ is the key ingredient. Keep in mind that salads can be tossed, Cesar, macaroni, turkey, chicken – the list is endless. Share with us what is your favorite salad is along with the prices and pictures can.
Meet back here on Wednesday, July 27th, 2016 to share recipes, pictures and prices!
Since it is summer in most places and do I dare say hot, let’s concentrate on those easy meals. When one says they made a salad for dinner, we are always amazed at what they put into their salads. So this month – ‘salads’ is the key ingredient. Keep in mind that salads can be tossed, Cesar, macaroni, turkey, chicken – the list is endless. Share with us what is your favorite salad is along with the prices and pictures can.
Meet back here on Wednesday, July 27th, 2016 to share recipes, pictures and prices!
This month we are posting anything we want to share that you cook, prepare, fix or throw together at your crib. It can be anything. So knowing this, we want to share something that we absolutely love here at the Hotel Thompson. You here a lot of flack about one of the ingredients but to be a true southerner, you love it. And since some of the ingredients are shall we say pig related – this is Bacon’s mom taking over the posting today.
For those cool mornings or nights that you don’t feel like cooking much – we fix a big pot of southern cheese and sausage grits. Yep, you heard it – grits. Grits are a southern love. They are made from ground hominy. And in this picture, we went to our local Waffle House one night for dinner.
Grits are very cheap here. You can buy a 2 pound bag at most markets for around $3.00 – and trust me, they go a long ways (probably less than $0.50 a meal). Now here at the Hotel Thompson, we put about three cups of water in a pot and put it on the stove medium high. Season with salt and add one cup of grits. You are going to let the water boil and the grits cook for about 20-30 minutes. Make sure that you stir occasionally – grits will stick and expand.
While the grits are cooking, go ahead and fry up some sausages in a pan. I make sausage patties and cook them on a skillet beside my grits so I’m constantly watching. I buy a pack of 12 sausages and cook them for the entire week. One pack is $4.00 – we use about 6 patties with the grits.
When your grits are about done, add 1/2 stick of butter (around $0.30), more salt to taste and black pepper. Now add grated cheddar cheese (we buy blocks and rate our own (around $0.50) to your grits and stir everything together to melt the cheese. Your sausage should just about be done. Cut the sausage up into bite size pieces and add to your grits, stir everything together and there you go – a southern delight for sure!
And the bottom price with everything – around $3.50
Piglove 