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 The Best Corned Beef Recipe Ever This recipe is what I use to make the best-corned beef for what I call the California Rueben Sandwiches. The corned beef must be cooked a day ahead so that it can be cooled overnight so that it can be sliced thinly the next day. We usually make an extra… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes When A Diabetic Recipe Is Not Diabetic I have been watching my sugar intake for the last 30+ years. Looking for sugar-free or No Sugar Added recipes is ingrained in me. I was following a string of 50 recipes that said they were diabetic. Reading the summaries and looking at the photos, I kept skimming until… Read More »
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 Apple peeler corer slicer It’s time to use my apple peeler, corer, slicer machine. When it’s fall the apples are plentiful and it’s time to make apple butter, applesauce, apple pie filling.  So my machine comes out and goes to work. This machine does all the work at once. Or it can just peel the… 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: 3 minutes Pedestrians drivers and rolling stops Pedestrians drivers and rolling stops are a recipe for disaster. If you are a rolling stop type driver your part of the problem. Thousands of pedestrians a year are injured or killed by drivers not coming to a complete stop. What is a complete stop? Let’s define a complete stop? I guess the… 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: 2 minutes New NSA Products in Supermarket I found some new NSA products in the Supermarket. I do the shopping for my family and since I am a diabetic I am always looking for NSA products.  I found these products were on the shelves in June 2016. The new products, Canned Fruit, Flavored Coffee Creamers, and Pickles. I… 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: < 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 Half of all Californian’s are Pre Diabetic Half of all Californians are Pre Diabetic, I heard that on the radio the other day. I could only cheer. Why you ask? Well, it goes like this. As a pre-diabetic for twenty-four years before slipping over to the diabetic side and being on this side for the… Read More »