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- Quick and Easy Part 15 - Quick Baked Potato Soup
[Food-and-Drink:Soups] This delicious potato soup is simple, thrifty and can be prepared in less than 10 minutes. Microwave cooking is handy for reheating leftovers, but in this case can speed up the soup making process. I used a teaspoon of butter in this recipe but you could probably use olive oil. instead if you are interested in keeping away from saturated fat, which can raise your blood cholesterol.
- Quick and Easy Part 18 Quick Chicken Piccata
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] The traditional Italian Piccata recipe calls for veal. This one is a variation of that classic using chicken breast meat in place of veal. Capers are used in most versions but I have omitted them here, not so much for economics but rather for simplicity. If you prefer, go ahead and use.
- Quick and Easy Part 14 - Chicken & Noodles With Mint Sweet and Sour Sauce
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This is another quick and easy chicken dish. The mint sweet and sour sauce was made separately, but it could probably be made using the sweet and sour ingredients to deglaze the pan used to saute' the chicken. As with almost any recipe you are trying to do it as quickly and efficiently as you can, you start the pasta (in this case noodles) cooking while you are working on the rest of the dish.
- Friendship Day - It's Not Just About August 1 - Celebrate it Every Day
[Relationships:Friendship] National Friendship Day is celebrated on August 1 every year. Although I had never heard of it I think there's a need for such a holiday. It doesn't need to be another of these "I like it because I get off work" holidays. Rather it should be a day to spend some time remembering some of the friends from the past. All the way from grade school to high school to workplace, we have all had friends.
- Pro Baketball in Pittsburgh?
[Recreation-and-Sports:Basketball] I am trying to think of reasons Pittsburgh does NOT have a pro basketball team. Could it be that it's so hilly that most yards are on a slope and aren't amenable to kid basketball. In Indiana it's called the Hoosier Hysteria. At one time you could drive through almost any little town and every other yard would have a hoop fastened to the garage or barn. You don't see that around here. A pro basketball team could bring in big bucks if it was done right. I started wondering if there ever was a pro or even"semi-pro team in this area and did a little research.
- Quick and Easy Part 17 - Two Quick Banana Breakfast Dishes
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Breakfast is many times a hurried affair and sometimes spending even a half an hour cooking is not an option. These two banana based recipes are not only quick and easy to prepare, but very tasty as well. Bananas are a good source of vitamin C and so can be part of a a healthy diet
- Quick and Easy Part 16 - Garden Salad
[Food-and-Drink:Salads] This delicious salad should be made from vegetables form your own garden, or a farmer's market if you don't have your own garden. Nutritionally it's hard to beat fresh from the garden vegetables, and by eating them in their raw natural state, you are more likely to keep the vitamins, enzymes and other natural substances contained in them. Wash the vegetables before you use them, especially if they are from the supermarket, or if you have used any pesticide sprays in your own garden.
- Quick and Easy Part 13 - Tuna Lettuce Appetizer Salad
[Food-and-Drink:Salads] This quick salad with plenty of protein (tuna and eggs) can be prepared quickly from ingredients you probably already have in your pantry or fridge. Try this one at lunch time when you can't take the time, or want an alternative to putting together a sandwich. It is not only delicious but makes a eye pleasing presentation for you and your guests.
- Quick and Easy Part 12 - Kiwi-Banana Pie
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This recipe was made on the fly to use up some kiwi fruit before it expired. A future pie with similar recipe will be made with lime so I can call it a Kiwi-Lime Pie (Not Key Lime Pie). The name would be an attention getter because of the similarity.
- How to Solve Cryptograms Part 3 - Why Do People Solve Cryptograms?
[Self-Improvement:Mind-Development] Solving a cryptogram word puzzle, like solving a crossword, is a recreational activity for some people, while for others it is more like an addiction. This addiction, unlike other addictions has good side effects, rather than bad.
- How to Solve Cryptogram Word Puzzles Part 2 - Maintain Your Brain by Solving Word Puzzles
[Self-Improvement:Mind-Development] One doctor from a hospital in RI has said working crossword is just as effective as the commercial and formal brain training that has become popular in recent years. Crosswords have also been used in children to improve language and thinking skills and to improve spelling, vocabulary, grammar skills, and even comprehension.
- How to Solve Cryptogram Word Puzzles Part 1 - What Are Cryptograms?
[Self-Improvement:Mind-Development] What is a cryptogram word puzzle? Want an example of the beginning of a cryptogram?
- The Fastest Omelet in the West - The In-Situ Omelet
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] After watching a TV chef make a quick omelet by using a wire whisk to stir while cooking, I decided to make one like it only even more quickly. The advantages of my procedure are that you use only one vessel for the whole procedure, and you eliminate the extra egg beating step.
- Quick and Easy Chicken and Sausage Crock Pot
[Food-and-Drink:Crockpot-Recipes] This modification of a classic Philippines dish is quick and easy as are most crock pot recipes. The chicken and sausage are browned, the onions , potatoes and garlic are chopped, and then it's a matter of dropping them into the crockpot along with the other ingredients, then setting it and walking away for a few hours.
- Quick and Easy - A Fast Cheese and Egg Omelet
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] The omelet is a classic breakfast and brunch dish. A very simple cheese omelet can be made very quickly and an omelet with more than one cheese takes very little more time.
- Quick and Easy Part 11 - Delicious Chicken Drumstick Crock Pot Stew
[Food-and-Drink:Crockpot-Recipes] The Crock Pot dish is not only a wonderful time saver but some slow cooked dishes are very tasty when compared with the same dish made other ways. This recipe makes a delicious chicken stew using only the drumsticks. You could use chicken thighs or leg quarters, or even the whole chicken if desired.
- Quick and Easy, Part 8 - Chicken Breast With Sauteed Bamboo Shoots
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] In these fast moving times many people are tempted save meal preparation time by either buying frozen dinners, or packaged "fast food" at the supermarket or going to a take out place to get their food in a hurry. While this may seem OK most people ignore the possibilities of the extra additives in these pre-packaged and take out dinners.
- Quick and Easy, Part 4 - Fresh Asparagus and Mushroom Saute
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This saute dish takes a little over 10 minutes cooking time and the ease of preparation would make it a good luncheon dish. This dish was cooked in my own kitchen and served as a side dish. If you would like to make this a main dish (it is vegetarian by the way), you could add about 1 tbsp of cornstarch to 1/2 cup of water or chicken stock to act as a thickener, then serve over cooked spaghetti, or elbow macaroni. Start the pasta first and prepare the saute while it is cooking.
- Quick and Easy Part 7 - Penne Rigate and Vienna Sausage Meatballs With Pasta Sauce
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Using some of the same techniques used by professional chefs, you too, can learn to cook foods that can be prepared quickly and easily, so that you can avoid the highly processed "pre-made" dinners from the supermarket. The simple recipe shows you how to do it.
- Quick and Easy - Part 6 - Asparagus Soup
[Food-and-Drink:Soups] When preparing fresh asparagus for using in a recipe, mot cookbooks and also many TV chefs tell you to snap off the bottom part of the stalk because it's usually tough and contains hard fibers. Most of these people also discard the leftover pieces. As a great believer in the Benjamin Franklin's quote that I think comes from his Poor Richard's Almanac which is "Waste not, want not", I am hard put to discard anything that can be used.
- Quick and Easy Part 5 - Chicken Breast With Sausage Crumb Crust
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Kielbasa or Italian sausage will add a wonderful blend of spicy goodness to this baked chicken breast recipe. All the flavors from the sausage blend with the flavor of the chicken. Since the sausage is already seasoned you don't really need much more seasoning but cayenne pepper gives this dish a little heat boost. You could use boiled ham in place of the sausage, but since ham is usually not seasoned as much as sausage, you might need to add a little extra sage and salt and pepper.
- Quick and Easy Part 2 - Noodles With Tomato Sauce
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This quick and easy tomato sauce and pasta dish would great for a light luncheon dish or a suppertime side dish. The dish is not only fast and easy to prepare but is also delicious! Hope you like it!
- Quick and Easy Part 3 - Sesame Chicken Breast With Water Chestnuts
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This stir fry dish takes less than the cooking time for the noodles it is served over, and the ease of preparation would make it a good luncheon dish. Start the noodles first and prepare the stir fry while the noodles are cooking. Most of the flavor comes from the chicken, and soy and sesame oil. The crunchy water chestnuts add a great contrast in texture to the soft chicken breast bites.
- Quick and Easy Part 1 - Noodles With Lemon Onion Sauce
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This quick and easy pasta dish would great for a light luncheon dish or a suppertime side dish. The beauty is in the speed and ease of preparation and it's also delicious! Hope you like it!
- How to Write a Resume If You Have Time Gaps in Your Work History
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] You may get that all important job interview more quickly using a "functional" resume' in place of the standard chronological resume'. People with time gaps in their employment, or very little actual job experience may get a better response this way. This article covers the reasons for choosing functional, and some or the mechanics for writing one.
- The Italian Sausage Clafouzza (SM) - A Hybrid Clafoutis and Pizza Recipe
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This easy to make dish will blow you away. It's a marriage of 2 wonderful dishes one from France, one from Italy. Compare the fast, easy preparation of the Caflouti (a French pancake), with the tasty but time consuming pizza pie.
- Two Vintage Soups to Warm You Up on Winter Days
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] A great way to keep warm in winter is to have a big bowl of steaming hot soup. These two cream soups will do just that. They are vintage recipes, but not to worry, they are as tasty now as they were when some busy cook(s) came up with them. Both recipes are vegetable based and good for you nutrition-wise.
- Caramelized Onion Lime Chicken
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This great combination of citrus and caramelized onions over chicken tenders makes a great meal for 2. Great accompaniments would be a baked potato and cole slaw. When you taste this one you'll think you went to heaven without having to die first.
- Caramelized Onion Scalloped Sweet Potatoes
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] A "Comfort Food" marriage between 2 favorites, scalloped sweet potatoes and caramelized onions. This sweet on sweet original dish will tickle your taste buds. Try my "Carmelized Onion Scalloped Sweet Potatoes" and I think you'll agree.
- Four Steps to Quitting Smoking in 2 Weeks (For Free)
[Health-and-Fitness:Quit-Smoking] Stopping smoking, whether it be cigarettes, cigars, or a pipe is not easy. Some "wag" made the remark "Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it 100 times." I don't remember who said it but I can tell you it is NOT easy.
- Delicious Crockpot Chicken and Ham Chili
[Food-and-Drink:Crockpot-Recipes] This very simple chili is made with chicken and ham but ground beef could be substituted for the chicken and or ham if desired. The recipe was based on a number of (edible) experiments in an attempt to match a particular commercial chili originating in Texas. This brand is so popular that I am told that some people who have moved out of the area ordered cases of cans of it shipped to their new residences. I believe the "magic" ingredient that makes this dish stand out is the use of refried beans in place of pinto beans.
- Wonderful Chicken, Potato, and Gravy Crock Pot
[Food-and-Drink:Crockpot-Recipes] A delicious easy to prepare chicken, potato and gravy crock pot recipe. Optimized for flavor by 2 key ingredients. You will love this one!
- Use Your Brain to Remember Your List Next Time You Go to the Grocery Store
[Self-Improvement:Techniques] How to use your brain, a free computer, to remember a simple grocery list and more. Use chain linking and word associations to remember lists of things.
- How to Prepare For That All Important Upcoming Job Interview
[Business:Careers-Employment] Preparing for a job interview is a crucial part of the process of getting a job. Whether it be your first job, or changing employers, you need to be prepared.
- How to Answer Ten Tricky Questions You May Be Asked in a Job Interview
[Business:Careers-Employment] How to answer 10 tricky questions you may be asked at a job interview. Advance preparation is the key to winning a new job at the interview. The author tells you how to best answer some of the trickier questions you may be asked.
- How to Buy For Sale Items at Auction So Cheap They Are Almost Free!
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews] Like to go to local auctions? Love the thrill of a good auctioneer's chant and fast talk and the chance to bid on all kinds of stuff?
- How to Brew the Perfect Cup of Cappuccino
[Food-and-Drink:Coffee] The perfect cup of cappuccino requires excellent frothing technique. This article gives some tips and tells how I do it.
- How to Write an Interview Winning Resume
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] A great resume can be produced by just about anyone with a computer equipped with a jet ink or other "quality" printer and a word processing program. This guide tells how to do it step-by-step. If you feel uncomfortable doing it yourself, get a professional resume writer to do it.
- How to Break the 125 Year Maximum Lifespan Barrier
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] The maximum lifespan of humans has been determined as about 125 years. Dr. Roy Walford and others have shown that the maximum lifespan of laboratory animals can be increased significantly by what is termed as Calorie Restriction with Optimal Nutrition.
- Wonderful Holiday Oyster Stuffing
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Recipe for a delicious oyster stuffing, perfect for that Thanksgiving turkey, or maybe the Christmas goose. My friend said a couple of years ago "that's the best oyster dressing I have ever eaten. I hope you like it too! -- Frank
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