Category: Random

  • Welcome!  This October, I decided to take the 31-day challenge of writing / posting a post every day in October.  My topic for the challenge is Slow Cooking Meals.   My crazy self decided I needed a separate blog dedicated to slow cooking.  I aim to post at least once a week or every other…

  • Weekly Ramblings – October 3, 2015 and 31 days of Slow Cooking Day 3

    This week we had a home-cooked meal four out of the five work days.  The fourth day was out to eat before a concert.  I felt much more accomplished. The slow cooker was used for all four meals, which made getting dinner on the table easier.  The family was super happy having a home-cooked meal.…

  • I haven’t been posting any recipes or my menu plan this week.  Last week I battled a nasty sinus infection.  I thought I got better from it.  Then my boys got sick.  They were very sleepy and weren’t eating very much.  The Wee One ended up staying home from school for two days last week.…

  • Many states in the United States are currently dealing with the Polar Vortex. From my understanding, it is always around, but this is the first time in 20 years that it’s gone so south and stalled. We are experiencing record lows that have not been felt in 20 years which was my first year in…

  • 11.  Hubby – He’s been a brave soul trying the new foods I’ve been cooking.  A lot of them, he’s actually liked :)  Yeah! 12.  My favorite book series – Leslie Meier’s Lucy Stone series, Joanna Fluke’s Hannah Swenson series – I love visiting my “friends” and catching up with them. 13.  Spring is almost…

  • One of my challenges for Healthy Self is to make a list of 20 things you are thankful for.  It was supposed to be done on Monday.  Monday was such a crazy day for me, so I didn’t get it done.  Yesterday I was just LAZY, plus because of the changes in the atmosphere –…

  • The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 7,400 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 12 years to get…

  • I thought I had blogged about this before, but when I looked for it, I couldn’t find a blog entry about crock pot chicken.  If there is one, I apologize. Cooking for a semi-picky eater is a challenge.  The Imaginative One is often fearful about trying new foods, especially if he doesn’t know what ingredients…

  • If you are reading my blog and are on Facebook, can you please come on over and like it.  Pretty please.  I’ve only 38 likes, and one of them is my own. https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Im-Hungry/148102251895946 Thanks so much!

  • The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,600 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 43 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…