Menu du jour thumbs : 42 Recipes


  • Recipe Thumbs Up!
    Thumbs Up!
    Photo Credit I have added a new label to the blog, "Try This".  These are products I have tried and would recommend to anyone.  I hope you enjoy these items as much as I do.
  • Recipe purple thumbs
    purple thumbs
    I have a purple thumb.  No, pink.  Yellow.  Orange. Chartreuse ? Well, whatever it is, it's not green. My mother can grow anything.  She's always had a garden of sorts, lush with squash, herbs, potatoes, and even loofah[...]
  • Recipe Another Thumbs Up
    Another Thumbs Up
    Hello peeps, how's ya Thursday? Mine has been rather good, tasty food and exercise, happy days! I enjoyed my pud so much last night I thought I'd create a similar breakfast, cause pudding for breakfast is the way I like to roll! I had chocolate[...]
  • Recipe Brown thumbs crossed
    Brown thumbs crossed
    Who am I kidding? I am not a gardener, though I fancied myself one this weekend as I went about My Garden Take Two. Last summer's rain and cool temperatures nipped this budding green thumb, well, in the bud. But this year, with preliminary forecasts[...]
  • Recipe Thumbs up for Breakfast
    Thumbs up for Breakfast
    So I woke up this morning thinking about how much I miss my healthy eating habits and how much I miss working out and taking care of myself. Is kind of a love-hate situation but at the end of the day, treating myself well always brings me a sense of[...]
  • Recipe The greening of thumbs continues
    The greening of thumbs continues
    Voles, wandering onions and venetian blinds. There isn't much they would appear to have in common, unless you attended tonight's Lettuce, Turnip and Wine gardening group meeting. OK, well, even then finding what they have in common ? other than[...]
  • Recipe Chicken & Broccoli Casserole - 2 Thumbs Up!
    Chicken & Broccoli Casserole - 2 Thumbs Up!
    If you don't know by now, I have an aversion to fat-free products. Its an issue of taste and a doubt of quality but we won't go there again! (I promise). This recipe is from my new Cooking Light cookbook. It required a lot of[...]
  • Recipe Pomegranate & Date Lamb Tagine, 2 Thumbs Up!
    Pomegranate & Date Lamb Tagine, 2 Thumbs Up!
    This recipe has been on my to-cook list for like forever. I had all the ingredients ready since months ago except for the pomegranate fruit, well..and the meat. Dealing with the fruit is a PITA. You have to open the fruit, slowly scrape off the[...]
  • Recipe Buttermilk n' Fruit Popsicles: 5 ingredients, 5 thumbs up!
    Buttermilk n' Fruit Popsicles: 5 ingredients, 5 thumbs up!
    I have been a major slacker in the popsicle department this summer and not in the sense that I'm at the market hanging around the freezer section in my recliner watching the tube and pretending the dishes, laundry, weeds, and kids aren't[...]
  • Recipe Two Thumbs Up to Betty Crocker Gluten Free Mix and a Streusel Cake You Will Love - Plus a giveaway!
    Two Thumbs Up to Betty Crocker Gluten Free Mix and a Streusel Cake You Will Love - Plus a giveaway!
    Wow - what a title, but you have to read to the bottom for the giveaway. First, I have to give Two Thumbs Up to Betty Crocker for their four new Gluten Free Mixes - a Yellow Cake Mix, Devil's Food Cake Mix, Brownies and Chocolate Chip cookies. [...]