i’m clean!

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I’ve been cleansed!!  I finally tried a cleanse.  I’m such a fol­lower sometimes! My sister-​​in-​​law is a rep for Advo­Care and I’ve always been curi­ous but never really had the inten­tions of try­ing it.  She posted a pic­ture of a woman a cou­ple of months ago that perked my ears up.  It was a woman...

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Mak­ing this dish reminded me of our every once in awhile Mex­i­can nights in col­lege.  We’d host or go and serve our favorite Mex­i­can dishes… skinny mini soup, que­sadilla, salsa!  Of course mar­gar­i­tas.  At some point I read or was told the trick about putting cream cheese on the inside of the shell and I...

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operation DALS (9)

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I know we left the last operaioin DALS on a bit of a sour note.  But I’m over it for now.  I went on vaca­tion and ate non-​​kid friendly food the whole time.  It made me feel better. Fish Cakes 3 firm flaky white­fish fil­lets, I used cod (about 1 1/​4 pounds total) 1/​2 tea­spoon...

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operation DALS (8)

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**A dis­claimer… this is tech­ni­cally not the next one in the book.  There are three recipes that come before this one but all three of them are meant for enter­tain­ing.  My sweet chil­dren do not qual­ify as peo­ple I’d like to enter­tain with my expert (haha) cook­ing skills.  I’ll make them even­tu­ally but for now,...

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operation DALS (7)

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Hot soup on a cold Sun­day.  Mashed pota­toes that coat your insides.  Gravy that makes the bread too soggy to pick up. Com­fort food. I love it.  All the warmy, but­tery, com­fort­ing parts of it.  Espe­cially when the recipe for it calls for lots of “store-​​bought” items.   Chicken Pot Pie 1 cup chicken broth 1 small potato,...

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operation DALS (6)

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I am not much of a seafood kind of gal.  I like shrimp cock­tail, salmon pat­ties dur­ing lent, and the occa­sional crab cake.  The scal­lop is a recent addi­tion to this short list.  A sum­mer or two ago Babe and I made some scal­lops on the grill with mush­rooms and avo­cado and yum yum yum. ...

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