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Healthy Eating Made Easy: How Meal Prep Services Can Support Your Wellness Goals

Healthy Eating Made Easy

Healthy Eating Made Easy: How Meal Prep Services Can Support Your Wellness Goals   In today's fast-paced world, maintaining a healthy diet can be a challenge. Busy schedules, limited time for meal preparation, and temptation from convenient but unhealthy food options often hinder our efforts to eat well. However, meal prep services offer a convenient solution to support your wellness goals and make healthy eating…

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Read more about the article Apple Chipotle Glazed Ham

Apple Chipotle Glazed Ham

Apple Chipotle Glazed Ham  Apple Chipotle Glazed Ham, just three ingredients. But, oh what great ingredients! We cut an 11lb. Zaycon Fresh ham in half. Then we made a glaze with just apple jelly and Country Bob’s All Purpose Sauce in Apple Chipotle providing all the seasoning we needed for a delicious main course. Patti and I have set one night a week just for…

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Read more about the article Can You Use Energy Drinks for Cooking
Can You Use Energy Drinks for Cooking

Can You Use Energy Drinks for Cooking

Can you use energy drinks for cooking? Here are some fun ways to try them in your food. There are plenty of ways to flavor food. Depending on the dish you're making, and your preferences, the method of flavoring food includes: Adding herbs and spices. Adding acids. Making sauces and condiments to go with the main dish. Cooking with oils and fats. Using sweeteners. Can…

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Read more about the article Bourbon Bacon Beanie Wienies

Bourbon Bacon Beanie Wienies

  Bacon Bourbon Beanie Wienies adds a little distinction to a simple classic that’s loved by kids of all ages. We used the best wienies we could find: Raider Red Beef Franks. Everybody loves Ken’s baked beans; after all he’s been working on the recipe for over thirty years. The difference with these is we added a whole bottle of Briggs True Bourbon Bacon BBQ…

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Read more about the article Tailgater Shredded Beef Tacos

Tailgater Shredded Beef Tacos

Tailgater Shredded Beef Tacos Tailgater Shredded Beef Tacos, friends of ours are going to the “big game”. They love football and their perfect to go grill for tailgating and camp cooking is the Green Mountain Grill Davy Crockett. It smokes and grills great and the handles become the legs. Being Ken made his awesome 16lb. chuck roast they wanted instructions to make simple tacos that…

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Read more about the article Pulled Pork Green Chili

Pulled Pork Green Chili

Pulled Pork Green Chili Pulled Pork Green Chili was Ken’s brainchild. He loves pulled pork and green chili. We had plenty of one and none of the other. We had some of his smoked pulled pork in the freezer, plus his smoked jalapeno sauce and lots of other goodies blended into an awesome Smoky Green Chili. We smoked our peppers and onions on our Bull…

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Read more about the article Guest Chef Robert Blackout Stew
Guest Chef Robert Blackout Stew

Guest Chef Robert Blackout Stew

  Guest Chef Robert Blackout Stew, it was October 29th, 2011 we had a very unusual and extremely rare ice storm in New Jersey .  Leaves were still on the trees and from the weight of the ice, tree limbs and whole trees were coming down knocking out power lines and left us and tens of thousands of others without power for 5 days. Coincidentally,…

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Rusty Double Burger

Our Rusty Double Burger is a great big mouthful of goodness. We made our Rusty Double Burger with double cheese covering 2 big juicy beef patties with all our favorite veggie condiments and then drizzled with our Rusty Mustard Carolina Style BBQ Sauce.  Crazy Good!!! This is an in your face burger or should I say it’s an “On Your Face” burger! Patti and I…

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Read more about the article Bacony Sauteed Cabbage

Bacony Sauteed Cabbage

Bacony Sauteed Cabbage, Patti made this as a side for our corned beef, but Ken loves it with anything and he’s not a cabbage sort of guy. It helped a lot that Patti added bacon and Cindy Lou's Big Kahuna Seasoning. Cabbage was a great price and we knew it would be fresh and top quality because we got it from the Murrieta Farmer’s Market.…

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Little Smokies

Little Smokies, Ken and his daughter Katie introduced these to me when Ken & I were dating. Now we make little smokies every holiday, parties and tailgating... These are quick and simple, can be done on any grill, stove top or the crock pot. Make a great last minute treat that your guests will love and is very low cost to make… Little Smokies A…

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Read more about the article Butter Pecan Stuffed Texas Pork Chop

Butter Pecan Stuffed Texas Pork Chop

Butter Pecan Stuffed Texas Pork Chop Butter Pecan Stuffed Texas Pork Chop, Ken wanted a stuffed pork chop…a big one. So Patti bought one aka bone-in pork loin roast at almost 6 lbs. Now that’s a pork chop! Being this was a manly sized pork chop power tools were required. Ken used a drill to make a whole for Patti’s butter pecan stuffing. Then, a…

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