Sunday, June 27, 2004

Leftovers!!!

That's right folks that's what I want to talk about today!!! So many people I know don't care for leftovers! The first thing I have to say is don't cook so much I'm not going to lay the guilt trip about the starving people of the world on you, but it's a shame to waste. I on the other hand think of it as a lovely meal that I don't have to prepare.. just think about it, the food has time to really become flavorfull! Leftover pasta dishes are awesome and so yummy. In fact I had leftovers tonight and they were delicious!!!

So what to do with your leftovers? Well, you can always give them to your dog Killer, but why should he enjoy all the fruits of your hard work (or the labor of the guy at the local grocery store)? Check out how to store and actually enjoy your leftovers -- there are so many possibilities, you'll be forced to cook more next year to ensure some food remains.


· Before you handle any food whatsoever, make sure to wash your hands with soap and warm water (note to self), so that you don't spoil the food.
· Remember that food should always be refrigerated within 2 hours of the time it was prepared.
· Although it may be tempting to leave food on the counter in order for it to cool, it's better to cool it in the refrigerator (even if they're hot leftovers).
· Food shouldn't sit in 40-140 degree (Fahrenheit) temperatures (at least not for more than 3 hours at a time), as this warm temperature is a breeding ground for bacteria. Make sure your refrigerator is always at 35-40 degrees.
· Store meat and desserts in aluminum foil, plastic wrap, or tightly sealed plastic containers, and other leftovers such as stuffing, potatoes and vegetables in tightly sealed plastic containers.
· Remember that meat, seafood and stuffing should be eaten within 3-4 days.
Final tip: it's recommended to store smaller portions in separate containers rather than pack more into fewer containers, as leftovers cool better this way, especially if the containers have a little bit of space between them while in the fridge (note: time to get rid of all those empty Chinese food containers) Just kidding I can't remember the last time we ate chinese food it's really not that good for you.

And there's so many things to do with leftovers:
Stir fryJust stir fry some leftover ham or pork, fresh or leftover vegetables, and add some noodles or rice if you like.

Salad
Slice or dice some leftover stuff and add to leftover or fresh salad. Add whatever other leftovers; it'll be a jumbled mix of taste in a salad.
Soup surprise
Make broth with leftover bones and scrap to add flavor), and as well as diced vegetables.

Most of these options can make for a great packed lunch to enjoy at work, but sandwiches and salads are easiest to prepare on the go.

Omelet
Just fry up some eggs and toss in whatever leftovers you have

Desserts
Any of the desserts you have left over can be enjoyed as snacks for work, or just invite people over for coffee, tea and dessert the next day.(not there's dessert leftovers very often)

Alcohol

Although it's tempting to finish up all the alcohol you have left over yourself, there's no need to rush; alcohol can remain for a long period of time if it's covered, so you can keep your bottles handy for the next time you have a party or a hot Dude or babe over.


Remember that food may smell or look good, but it won't look so good after you've gotten sick from the rotten stuffing and turkey you just had. Leftovers don't just happen at the holidays!! So if you have doubts, just throw it out.

You can always share the leftovers with your dog, but once you see how good they can be, he'll have to fight you for them.






Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Speaking of art

Hello all! So I've been slowly working on this painting for the last couple of weeks. I really like how it is turning out, The only problem is that I tired of working on it. i'm only about half way through it. I used to sit down and do a painting in a couple hours. But I am tiring to slow down and put more time into these pieces, I like the results i'm getting. the only problem is I tend to get bored with the painting before i get done. Enough about that serious sounding stuff...

Check this out!!
Not only does San Francisco's Solid Waste Transfer and Recycling Center (i.e., the city dump) have an "artist in residence," but sculptor Rick Carpenter is actually the 43rd person to hold that position, according to an April San Francisco Chronicle report. Carpenter said his specialty is discarded bulk items, citing, for example, the weaving he made from 40 orange extension cords, and his latest, an object stuffed with the contents of a 5-gallon bucket of wigs someone tossed. [San Francisco Chronicle, 4-22-04]

I think I'll stick with painting in my living room..i wonder if he sells his work??? He could become stinking rich...hehehehe...no pun intended. oK it was intended...

Monday, June 21, 2004

THROW AWAY MILK WHEN IT REACHES THE EXPIRATION DATE
Screw it!
The date on the carton is just the date after which it can't be sold. The milk probably has another week of freshness, says Susan Bowerman, M.S., R.D., assistant director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. Give it a sniff and proceed. And if you drink sour milk, there'll be a flavor problem--oh, yes indeed--but you don't need to have your stomach pumped. There's another word for curdled milk: cheese.

Warning food joke ahead!!


Sorry for eating the peanuts
A man visits his aunt in the nursing home. It turns out that she is taking a nap, so he just sits down in a chair in her room, flips through a few magazines, and munches on some peanuts sitting in a bowl on the table.

Eventually, the aunt wakes up, and her nephew realizes he's absentmindedly finished the entire bowl. "I'm so sorry, auntie, I've eaten all of your peanuts!"

"That's okay, dearie," the aunt replied. "After I've sucked the chocolate off, I don't care for them anyway."


heeheehee!!Ha..

I'm coming to you from my lil' sis's computer since mine is acting up at this moment. Sadly i won't be posting pictures for a little while.. i know that sucks. But we shall make do for now...don't worry my sense of humor is still at a rolling boil.

In other news I'm glad to hear that My Daddoo had an excellent Dads Day!! Happy Fathers Day to the most coolest Dad in the world!!!

Thursday, June 17, 2004

The Fan of The World Of K-c’s have some questions on salad dressing. We would like to answer them.The inquiry comes the one the only…that’s right Aunt Broccolli!! One was how to make a low- fat ranch dressing. This is the best compromise between good taste and health. Because if it taste like crap your not going to enjoy it any way. And the other question is about how to make a dressing like Catalina healthier??? Try them out and let me know what you think!

Low-Fat Ranch Dressing

3/4 cup buttermilk (1%)
2 tablespoons low-fat mayonnaise
2 tablespoons nonfat sour cream
1 tablespoon finely chopped green onion or chives
2 teaspoons white vinegar
1 teaspoon of dill
1 garlic clove
1/2 teaspoon sugar
Salt and black pepper to taste

Throw it all in a food processor and it that simple.. if the herbs are fresh chop them by hand and add last so the dressing doesn’t turn green.

_raft Catalina Salad Dressing

1 cup sugar (replace with splenda)
2 Teaspoon salt
dash paprika
1/2 Teaspoon chili powder
1/2 Teaspoon celery seed
1/2 Teaspoon dry mustard
grated onion to taste
1/2 cup vinegar
2/3 cup ketchup
1 cup vegetable oil (replace with olive oil)
Place all ingredients into blender and mix. Store in jar in refrig
This dressing is not all that bad for your health as you can see above, I added a few suggestions to lower the calorie count. I don’t know if every on is familiar with spenda. It’s sweeter than sugar so use less than it calls for. Do it by taste. The taste buds never lie. So trust them!

Monday, June 14, 2004

What do you think about as the day goes flying bye at work???

Most days I don't even think about food. I think about when my next day off is, or even something I saw on tv the night before. It seems that many times as the day goes on, that the time flew by so fast that i didn't really think about amything at all!! it;s scary to think that i can run like a robot, a put together such lovily food at a snap of a finger. Today was different because i had potatoes on the brain. I keep thinking about them, i really wasn't hungary for them but they made me start to wonder? What have other people in other times thought about potatoes? So I had to find out!! I thought some of these tidbits were quite interesting and some amuseing,too!

The Incas used to use potatoes for healing:

- Raw slices placed on broken bones to promote healing.
- Carried to prevent rheumatism
- Eaten with other foods to prevent indigestion.

Various folk remedies use potatoes to:

- Treat facial blemishes by washing you face daily with cool potato juice.
- Treat frostbite or sunburn by applying raw grated potato or potato juice to the affected area.
- Help a toothache by carrying a potato in your pocket.
- Ease a sore throat by putting a slice of baked potato in a stocking and tying it around your throat.
- Ease aches and pains by rubbing the affected area with the water potatoes have been boiled in.

Some of the most famous potato dishes we enjoy today were created by mistake Collinet, chef for French King Louis Phillipe (reign 1830-1848) unintentionally created soufflés (or puffed) potatoes by plunging already fried potatoes into extremely hot oil to reheat them when the King arrived late for dinner one night. To the chef's surprise and the king's delight, the potatoes puffed up like little balloons.

In 1853 railroad magnate Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt complained that his potatoes were cut too thick and sent them back to the kitchen at a fashionable resort in Saratoga Springs, NY. To spite his haughty guest, Chef George Crum sliced some potatoes paper thin, fried them in hot oil, salted and served them. To everyone's surprise, Vanderbilt loved his "Saratoga Crunch Chips," and potato chips have been popular ever since.

hmmm very interesting....

What do you think about as the day goes flying bye at work???

Most days I don't even think about food. I think about when my next day off is, or even something I saw on tv the night before. It seems that many times as the day goes on, that the time flew by so fast that i didn't really think about amything at all!! it;s scary to think that i can run like a robot, a put together such lovily food at a snap of a finger. Today was different because i had potatoes on the brain. I keep thinking about them, i really wasn't hungary for them but they made me start to wonder? What have other people in other times thought about potatoes? So I had to find out!! I thought some of these tidbits were quite interesting and some amuseing,too!

The Incas used to use potatoes for healing:

- Raw slices placed on broken bones to promote healing.
- Carried to prevent rheumatism
- Eaten with other foods to prevent indigestion.

Various folk remedies use potatoes to:

- Treat facial blemishes by washing you face daily with cool potato juice.
- Treat frostbite or sunburn by applying raw grated potato or potato juice to the affected area.
- Help a toothache by carrying a potato in your pocket.
- Ease a sore throat by putting a slice of baked potato in a stocking and tying it around your throat.
- Ease aches and pains by rubbing the affected area with the water potatoes have been boiled in.

Some of the most famous potato dishes we enjoy today were created by mistake Collinet, chef for French King Louis Phillipe (reign 1830-1848) unintentionally created soufflés (or puffed) potatoes by plunging already fried potatoes into extremely hot oil to reheat them when the King arrived late for dinner one night. To the chef's surprise and the king's delight, the potatoes puffed up like little balloons.

In 1853 railroad magnate Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt complained that his potatoes were cut too thick and sent them back to the kitchen at a fashionable resort in Saratoga Springs, NY. To spite his haughty guest, Chef George Crum sliced some potatoes paper thin, fried them in hot oil, salted and served them. To everyone's surprise, Vanderbilt loved his "Saratoga Crunch Chips," and potato chips have been popular ever since.

hmmm very interesting....

Thursday, June 10, 2004

Did you hear about this?

In January, University of Utah hospital surgeons removed half the skull of Briana Lane, age 22 and unemployed, in order to save her life after an auto accident, but because putting the skull back in place was not quite an emergency, it was delayed by negotiations over cost. The skull remained in a freezer for three months, with Lane battling serious pain (and wearing a plastic helmet for protection, feeling her brain "shifting" on her) while the hospital negotiated with the state Medicaid office, which pays only for long-term "disabilities." Her skull was finally reattached on April 30. [Salt Lake Tribune-AP, 5-11-04]


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I think that is pretty sad. But if you notice it was out in Utah, where all those crazy folks live. Sometimes when I am surfing the web and reading stuff like this i begin to relize how good I have it. On the other hand I must have to much time on my hands...to spend time looking for news like this. I really don't care about this kind of stuff, but for some sort of reson I get so sucked in by it. This is just another example of insurance being screwed up!!! I think i put in my 2 cents!!

Wednesday, June 09, 2004

Your Body's Efficiency
Have you ever wondered why, for so many people (and especially for anyone older than 30 years old), weight gain seems to be a fact of life? It's because the human body is way too efficient! It just does not take that much energy to maintain the human body at rest; and when exercising, the human body is amazingly frugal when it comes to turning food into motion.
At rest (for example, while sitting and watching television), the human body burns only about 12 calories per pound of body weight per day (26 calories per kilogram). That means that if you weigh 150 pounds (68 kg), your body uses only about:


150 X 12 = 1,800 calories per day
Twelve calories per pound per day is a rough estimate -- see How Calories Work for details.

Those 1,800 calories are used to do everything you need to stay alive:

They keep your heart beating and lungs breathing.
They keep your internal organs operating properly.
They keep your brain running.
They keep your body warm.
In motion, the human body also uses energy very efficiently. For example, a person running a marathon (26 miles or 42 km) burns only about 2,600 calories. In other words, you burn only about 100 calories per mile (about 62 calories per km) when you are running.
You can see just how efficient the human body is if you compare your body to a car. A typical car in the United States gets between 15 and 30 miles per gallon of gasoline (6 to 12 km/L). A gallon of gas contains about 31,000 calories. That means that if a human being could drink gasoline instead of eating hamburgers to take in calories, a human being could run 26 miles on about one-twelfth of a gallon of gas (0.3 L). In other words, a human being gets more than 300 miles per gallon (120 km/L)! If you put a human being on a bicycle to increase the efficiency, a human being can get well over 1,000 miles per gallon (more than 500 km/L)!

That level of efficiency is the main reason why it is so easy to gain weight.

Just an interesting thought! It may make you go hmmmm?

Lettuce eat.
greg k-c









Thursday, June 03, 2004

HOW IT ALL BEGANPart 1
Cooking seems like such a simple art. It seems to me that if you cook, you must need fire. Fire was discovered by man probably millions of years ago by our archaeological ancestors. Of course
they did not cook with it, but probably worshipped it, felt it's warmth, it's pain, and gazed in wonder as it lit up the darkness of night. What an awesome discovery by the first man who
probably saw a tree burning after a lightning strike. How brave he must have been to get closer and investigate this strange phenomenon. The Gods surely must have played a part in this power. Many years of respect for that fire and sitting around it for warmth in the winter cold had passed before some clumsy cave man dropped his raw piece of meat into that fire. Before he could get it out of the fire and let it cool a bit to gnaw on again it was cooked. What did that taste like? Like
most foods, it could have been better tasting after falling in the fire, or his palate found the taste repulsive after being used to the taste of raw meat. If he found the taste to his liking, he probably told his friends about it, and they tried it. Being hunters and gatherers in those days and not
concerned with business as today, he did not secretly hide the fact that he had discovered cooking, and open a business called "burnt_meat.com". Instead he shared his discovery with
others by painting of his exploits on his living room wall. His attractors saw his paintings, and over eons of time, perfected his discovery.

Next to come is the evolution of cooking!!!
I hope you enjoy it i been working on this one for quite some time now. I even spell checked it.Sarah what do you think??

Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Did you hear about this perv??
Underwear Bandit NabbedMan suspected of long string of women's panties thefts is caught.

(Mayfield Heights-AP) -- Police in Mayfield Heights say they have arrested a man suspected of stealing women's underwear from apartments.

For years someone has been breaking into apartment buildings in the Cleveland area and swiping underwear, most often panties.

Police say Remigio Abello III, 46, of Twinsburg was arrested Tuesday night after a couple saw him come out of an apartment with a laundry basket. The apartment building residents knew he did not live there and they apprehended him. He was charged yesterday with one count of second-degree burglary. Police say he could face additional charges. He was being held in Mayfield Heights City Jail.

Abello's lawyer is Larry Zukerman. He says Abello has no criminal history and is law-abiding.

On Wednesday police searched Abello's Twinsburg home, which he shares with his wife. The search turned up women's briefs, T-shirts and sweatshirts, all packed in bags in a crawl space. Police also found photographs of women that had been stolen during several recent burglaries.


What can I say but there's a lot of sicko's out there!


Tuesday, June 01, 2004


Here's a picture of us on the way back from Liberty Island. Back row Greg(hubby), and Roy(bro-in-law). On the bottom row, Me(Laura), Paul( Pa-in-law), and Linda(maw-in-law) Posted by Hello

The Statue Of liberty on the way back from our boat ride Posted by Hello

We're Back from the Big Apple! You know where we are!  Posted by Hello

We are Back to Jax after an exciting weekend in N.Y. We had a great time, and we can't wait to go back! We saw Radio City, Rockefeller center, statue of liberty, St. Patricks, Carnegie Hall, The empire state building, The Met. Museum of art and lots of other stuff. We rode the subway which was very cheap and quick transportation. I still wonder if Manhattan has a speed limit, and why they have lines painted on the roads? After being home today everything seemed slow paced. I noticed by the end of the weekend We were walking and talking faster. We didn't want to go to bed because there's always something to do..The excitement just sucked us right in. Not only that but the food was excellent. We experienced itatlian, French, Thai, and good new York deli's. I say the cheese cake was so great, yummmm!!! There's just so much there, I think we will definitely go there again and again!!