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[Noel7]

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@Irshgrl31201 wrote:

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This looks great @Noel7. I love every ingredient in it and I have all the ingredients for it except for the cherries, so I will use dried cranberries. I will make this tonight.

I am pretty good. Fighting off a cold which turned into an upper respiratory infection. I just had pneumonia before Christmas and had gotten rid of that but last week this started and I have gone downhill from there, lol. I didn't feel well today at all and have a fever, so I came home early and I am just lying on the couch, watching a DVR'd Barefoot Contessa. They gave me Tussionex cough syrup which taste a lot better than the last one I had so I just took a huge tablespoon full of it. Hopefully that will help. It better, it cost me $85!! The pharmacist said most cough syrup isn't covered by insurance, even the good ones. I just get sick and tired of being sick, but I have been eating a lot of foods high in antioxidants and despite this illness, I do think it has been helpful. I have been adding turmeric to everything. I really love it. 

How are you doing? I know you haven't been feeling well either. Have you been in the hospital recently? 

Speaking of nails, I am going back and forth between here and a couple of nail blogs to check out the new spring colors. I have been thinking of purchasing some suspension bases and trying my hand at making some of my own just for fun! Have you gotten anything new?

Hope all is well with you too. Thanks for the recipe, I can't wait to try it tonight. I cannot believe I have everything for this, even the pumpkin seeds which I love!!

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@Irshgrl31201

There are really bad viruses going around this year.  It sounds like you have the same one DD and I have been fighting for going on three weeks. 

I hope the Crohn's hasn't been acting up, Irsh.

I got the three new Essie chromes.  I was thinking of doing an ode to winter today, all a soft white with the ring finger the silver chrome.  Then on to Valentine's nails after, I got a couple of new Sinful colors that will work well. 

Best to you and your family

ps I like to use the dried cranberries also.  I love the cran-orange from Trader Joe's.

[SilleeMee]

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@cherry wrote:

@SilleeMee  If you go to Dr. Axes website, he refutes the claim ,Ezekiel bread is gluten free. I tried to do a copy and paste, but it wouldn't work

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Oh, yes I know Ezekiel bread is not gluten free. But it has far less than most other breads. 

@cherry

[QueenDanceALot]

My father made the best home fries in the Universe.

I can smell them all these years later, just thinking about them.

I once kept dating a guy I wanted to ditch because he loved to cook and his home fries were the only ones I'd ever had that even came within a hundred miles of my father's.

Now I can't even remember the last time I had home fries.  

[QueenDanceALot]

I really can's think of many things more unappealing than a plain baked potato.

I used to make a plum tomato, onion, peppers, and garlic sauce to put on top of a baked potato.  Had that often for dinner.

[Noel7]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

@Noel7

Good information here and in Recipes, but one thing wasn't clear to me.   Are those stats for both sweet potatoes and yams ... or just sweet potatoes?

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@Tinkrbl44

I've wondered the same thing since they told us some years ago we are usually eating yams.

WebMD, which I subscribe to, especially their reports on food, specifically says SWEET POTATO.

Here's what I found out from the NC Sweet Potato Organization:

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SWEET POTATO AND A YAM?

That sweet, orange-colored root vegetable that you love so dearly is actually a sweet potato. Yes, all so-called “yams” are in fact sweet potatoes. Most people think that long, red-skinned sweet potatoes are yams, but they really are just one of many varieties of sweet potatoes.

More info here:

http://www.ncsweetpotatoes.com/sweet-potatoes-101/difference-between-yam-and-sweet-potato/

[QueenDanceALot]

I do like a plain old baked sweet potato, though.  Doesn't have to have anything on it at all.

[Q4u]

I hand pick the potatos I want to buy so I can get the right size, color skin, no black spots, etc.  I know it's more expensive but I don't have to throw any of them out.  We don't have potatos that much even though we love them (I especially love potatos) but am Type 2 Diabetic and yes, they do a number on my blood sugars.  

I have also taken Statins and have had an adverse reaction to them. Simvastin was the first and I took it for a year and a half until I finally associated my lack of muscle strength (had great difficulty getting up stairs for the first time in my life) and what I call "electrical pains" shooting up and down my legs.  Even with this (because I'm not sure the doctor really believed at the time it was related to the Statin drug) he wanted me to continue them because my numbers were excellent.

I weaned myself off the drug and within a few weeks, when the half life wore off... my muscles started to regain their strength.  I also stopped having the electric spasms.  Only thing has been that after a year and a half of taking this poison.... my strength has never returned to what it was prior to taking them!  ...  my second doctor wanted me on a different kind of Satin (water-soluable) but I had a reaction to that med within the first week of taking them.... stopped them as soon as I knew.

I will take my chances.  What is worse?  Not being able to get around and constant muscle pain or having a cholesterol total of 200?  Because that is all it was....(and is). 

[tansy]

I am beginning to be concerned about Sid's Mom.  Hope she's okay🙂

[Q4u]

That should read simvastatin

[Noel7]

Years ago, there was a WW recipe going around that we all tried.  I loved it then and I still do.  I go years forgetting about it, then I'm reminded and make it:

Take half a baked potato, break up the inside a little with your fork, top with up to 1/2 cup of cottage cheese and eat.

I love that!  And I'm not necessarily a big fan of cottage cheese, but I love the potato half with Safeway cottage cheese with chives, which is low fat and small curd.  Or you could just add sliced green onions to cottage cheese.