Reading Time: 3 minutes Colorful Marinated Zucchini Salad How I got to this colorful marinated zucchini salad started out when I had just picked zucchini from the garden. I didn’t feel like another zucchini bread. My wife had made a bean salad that had sparked my imagination. The flavor of that bean salad was something special. I thought it might… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes No Sugar Added Cinnamon Rum Raisin Rolls I have been thinking about a no sugar added cinnamon rum raisin rolls for a very long time. My last cinnamon roll was over 30 years ago. I remember walking into a local bakery and buying one cinnamon roll with raisins. This was the yeast type bread with… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Mom’s Refried Beans with Cheese These are my mom’s refried beans with cheese. She would make this version just for me. For anyone else, she had a different recipe. She always kept a jar of bacon grease in the refrigerator. When I would drop by that jar would come out and she would make these… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ranch Chicken Kabobs for Carnivores This is a great way to serve chicken in a new way. I had been looking for a chicken recipe for kabobs. I purchased some baskets that would let me produce kabobs without fear of the meat or veggies dropping into the barbecue flames. This recipe was going to be… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sugar Free Chocolate Chip Donuts I made sugar free chocolate chip donuts today. This is a baked cake donut. My favorite! For someone who can not have donuts due to diabetes, this was a banner day. These are plain donuts, no icing is used on these beauties. Off the shelf mix I love that I… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Low Carb Faux Brown Sugar Today, I made my first low carb faux brown sugar. I can no longer find my brown sugar substitute. I don’t want to spend twenty bucks for a pound of sugar-free brown sugar substitute(next best option). This is the next best thing for me. Unfortunately, this not sugar-free or no… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Perfect canned biscuits Perfect canned biscuits are available now. We use canned biscuits when there is no time for the kneading or dough making process. But getting canned biscuits fluffy and up to their full potential is another thing. We have used cake pans and cookie sheets to bake up these golden little beauties. But they never lived up… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Chipotle Chicken and Veggies Panini This is how I developed the chipotle chicken and veggie panini sandwich. I had some sauteed veggie leftovers and was looking for some way to use them. I had some Chipotle chicken lunch meat and sourdough French bread too.  It got me to thinking that maybe I could make some panini sandwiches.… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Chorizo with eggs (Huevos con chorizo) Chorizo with eggs is one of my favorite breakfasts. Gather a few jalapenos in escabeche and a couple of warm flour tortillas and you have a great breakfast. The Type of Chorizo to Use There are several types of chorizo available. There are beef, pork, and soy varieties available. Each… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Store bought Sub Sandwiches a perfect no-cook summer meal They have many names, submarines or subs, hoagies or heroes whatever their name they make a perfect no-cook summer meal. Store bought Sub Sandwiches can be found at most supermarkets.  It is very easy to make these store-bought sandwiches your own in no time at all. The Sub… Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minute Panini Press Chicken with barbecue steak topping Panini Press Chicken with steak topping. One of the most important things with making boneless skinless chicken breast on a Panini press is to use thin even cuts of meat. If your cuts of chicken breast are too thick they can be butterflied or you can always slice it in half… Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minute Barbecue Steak topping Barbecue steak topping is something extra special. This is not a barbecue sauce and it’s not a basting sauce. This is a recipe for a topping that takes equal footing with the meat that it goes on. This topping is perfect when your steak or chicken needs a little extra to push… Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minute No Sugar Added Summer Drinks For kids No Sugar Added Summer Drinks For kids with diabetes are a must. As a kid, I did not have to worry about sugar but early on in my life, I crossed over into a no sugar managed life. I don’t think I could live on diet cola alone.… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Great Crockpot Apple Butter I love No Sugar Added apple butter. What if you could cook up a great crockpot of apple butter that is No Sugar Added? For years I was buying a No Sugar Added apple butter from the supermarket. Unfortunately, they stopped carrying the brand. I was stuck, no apple butter, and… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Basic Hash Brown Potatoes I was looking at a TV celebrity make hash browns today. It got me to thinking as I watched the celebrity add what seemed like exotic ingredients to his hash browns. It got me to thinking that I had not seen anyone of the television personalities prepare simple hash browns. That brought me to… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Homemade Pizza Sauce Homemade pizza sauce finished pizza sauce There is nothing like homemade pizza sauce. I developed this recipe after purchasing some store bought pizza sauce. The taste of which, in my opinion, was very bad. My thoughts were that it shouldn’t be that hard to come up with a pizza sauce from scratch that I would… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Diabetes Pancakes and Me This recipe is about diabetes pancakes and me. I love pancakes so this was one of the first foods I had to learn to make my way(diabetic).  No more pancake mix, it’s baking mix or flour recipes for me. This recipe is inspired by a Bisquick recipe. It has evolved over the years… Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minute Thousand Island Dressing Thousand island dressing is a simple 5 ingredient recipe. I use it in my California Reuben Sandwich recipe. The origins of this dressing are mixed. There are two stories. The first is one says that a fishing guide’s wife, Sophia LaLonde, made the condiment for her husband George’s dinner. The name comes from the Thousand Islands region located on… Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minute Coleslaw Recipe This is the coleslaw recipe I use for the California Reuben Sandwich. This recipe is inspired by the Betty Crocker Cookbook. The one cookbook that my wife has held onto for her entire adult life. Over the years we have made this recipe our own. She has adjusted it to our likes and dislikes.  … Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Corned Beef Taco Bar Set up a corned beef taco bar the next time you have friends and family get together. The taco bar is really easy and simple to serve your family and friends on your next get together. The taco bar only has one thing to cook. The rest of the ingredients are either… Read More »