I eat out often which is why I get food poisoning once a year. More or less. To avoid food poisoning and ending up in the emergency room, there are certain things I avoid. I never go near the salad bar, buffets in general and I stay […]
I am not a cook. I have some dishes I can make when I am so moved. I used to love to bake but have not done so in ages. As a matter of fact, my son has baked recently more frequently than I have. He was taking […]
I use the word “smooshy” all the time. Do you? Well, I don’t use it all the time. I use it occasionally as necessitated by smooshy items that need describing. Makes sense, right? I am pretty sure that I did not invent this word. It is in […]
Right at this moment I am eating, although I shouldn’t be, a bag of potato chips. I had told myself that I needed to cut back on my carbs. And. I have been doing a relatively good job of avoiding potato chips as those are my biggest […]
I have always had a penchant for sweets. Happily, merrily so. Nothing has really ever changed that except for pregnancy and being around miserable people. The latter just takes the fun, life and sugar out of things. I feel rather sorry for miserable people who chose to lead […]
A few months ago, I started a cleanse. I didn’t finish it. Well, I did end it. But I ended it after six days instead of the ten I had originally aimed for. As I write this today, I am a bit delirious as I re-started the […]
Did you make a New Year’s resolution? If so, did it include losing weight? Or eating healthier? I made no such resolution. I instead made a vision board where I do see myself being healthier overall by the end of 2018. That is a ways to […]
Well, my cereal bowl was actually not remarkable in any conventional sense of the word. I had cereal today. That’s a rarity for me. I also had it for lunch as opposed to breakfast. I hate conventional breakfasts. I had a version of corned beef and rice […]
All he wanted to do was chomp He was born to chomp And a good chomp he had Everyone told him so growing up He could chomp, chomp, chomp with the best of them He was boxed up Ready to serve the world or at least a […]
When I lived and worked in New York, I was quite fortunate to work with a lot of other Puerto Ricans. Why do I consider that fortunate? For Christmas, so many of them would make my favorite pork dishes and Puerto Rican eggnog. Our version of eggnog, called […]