Hey! Where's My Feet?

Just over a week ago I was at Rudy's BBQ in Leon Springs TX feasting on beef brisket and the best tasting cream corn I've ever had!  I knew I wasn't going to be able to get any safely back to MI with me so I took it as a challenge to figure it out and make my own version.  I'd tried making cream corn once before like some character did on one of those cooking shows but I didn't have the patience... and being that today was a lazy day - it was cream corn by crock pot! Now I don't know if this tastes like Rudy's because I don't have any Rudy's immediately available for comparison but I will tell you... this turned out to be some damn good cream corn if I do say so myself!  The secret ingredient (thank you Danette for the tip) is cream cheese.  I knew I was gonna have to "cream" it up but wasn't sure what to use and I'll be darned if the cream cheese wasn't it!  The hard part came in getting the ratio right, which I didn't b...

BACON! BACON! BACON!  Who doesn't love bacon?  They have Bacon Camp, Bacon Fest, Baconaise, bacon makes everything better!  The basic low down... bacon is cured meat from several cuts of a pig.  If you want more history on bacon you can check Wikipedia or just Google it... cause this here ain't about to be a term paper on bacon.  I just wanna share my love of it and the latest recipe experiment I tried out... BACON JAM!!!  That's right, I said Bacon Jam.  Of course I first came across this mighty invention via Pinterest... did a little research, checked out several recipe versions and decided on this one here... Ingredients 1 1/2 pounds sliced bacon, cut crosswise into 1-inch pieces 2 medium yellow onions, diced small 3 garlic cloves, smashed and peeled 1/2 cup cider vinegar 1/2 cup packed dark-brown sugar 1/4 cup pure maple syrup 3/4 cup brewed coffee Directions In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium-...

Normally I make these things with a pound each of ground sausage and ground beef but since I've been trying to eat all healthy and what not I decided to change it up a bit.  Of course you know it's going to involve chicken, because apparently poultry is the almighty meat of healthy eats and you know what else that means... the queen of canned chicken has once again risen to the occasion.  MmmHmmm Like always, there's no measuring involved... just dumping with love.  What you'll need is.... 2 12.5oz cans of chicken drained, rinsed and shredded 1 can of bean sprouts 1 medium onion 1 pkg of tri-color coleslaw mix some Chinese 5 spice Teriyaki sauce/marinade Chop up your onion fairly fine... saute in a LITTLE olive oil and or butter... actually you'll need to add quite a bit of one of those because you won't have the drippings/grease from the sausage/beef I normally use.  Anywho... saute that up, mix in the bean sprouts and chicken like this here... B...

You've all heard about the toning shoes right?  There are MANY versions and brands out there but I believe the first to arrive was by Skechers  aka Tone Ups... A wonderful product that promised to tone and firm your tushie... riiiight.  I was fairly skeptical about the whole idea of them, so being that they were always so expensive I wasn't crushed about having to live with my jigglin rear shelf ... then Reebok came out with EasyTones, and the knock off's started appearing left and right - even Avon has their own version!  Well I eventually broke down and bought a pair of Reebok's version, because I'm a Reebok girl! I had ordered them online so when they finally arrived I was super excited to get walking and firm things up!  UGH... I don't know if it was the fact that at the time I had a bone spur in my heal, or that my hips were out of wack or maybe combination of both but after that first short walk I was ready to die... I was pooped!...

Yesterday we took the kids to the Toledo Zoo , it was our first time going, it was a last minute decision, and of course... it was darn near 100 degrees out!!!  No, seriously, I have a picture of a thermometer to prove it!  I don't think we took in all the zoo probably had to offer and the heat played a big part in that... it also played a big part in my motivation today.  Two hours walking around in the heat yesterday was still affecting my legs today... and of course, the entrance in and out of the zoo was up hill... up then down to get in, up then down to get out.  WTF were they thinking when they designed that?  So now of course because I was a lazy slug today, all that exercise went for naught. Started out the day nice and fresh at 6:00am to go do the weekly grocery shopping... it's so much nicer shopping when there are minimal people to contend with, not to mention when the kids are still at home sleeping.  Soooo... when I got home I was created ...

And by "alert" I mean, don't waste your money!  I'm always on the look out for new and healthy snacks so when I happened across this little "gem" I thought I was about to cross over into Heaven... that's what I get for thinking! It's a wholesome wholegrain cracker with pumpkin seeds and cheddar cheese, how can you go wrong with that combination right?  Well the good Doctor seriously needs to have his medical license revoked for this sick and twisted joke.  Just one bite is all it took to realize what I was really eating is a piece of cardboard infused with cheddar and pumpkin seeds... at least I think those were seeds and cheese.  So for this connoisseur of all things food, healthy and not so much... I give it a big two thumbs down!

I know I know, what an abrasively harsh title right?  But it's true, like I said yesterday - I'm not full of shit!  So here we are on day 3 of this 5 day cleanse and nothing's happening... quite the opposite actually.  I'm normally quite regular and the last couple of days its been minimal if anything at all.  That can't be good can it?  I suppose on the bright side, I wasn't feeling bloated or weighed down either.  Well today started out just like the other 2, with the exception that I had it in my mind that today I was going to eat - and oh boy did I eat! Seriously, if you think about it... if you're not putting anything in, than nothing's going to come out, right?  Right!  Thus the theory that I just wasn't and am not full of do do.  I mean I was putting a LOT of fiber into my body, you'd think SOMETHING would be just a rollin' out of me.  I'm talking about 40+ grams of fiber a day!  To my knowledge women over 30 should be ge...