1 cup water (or chicken broth) pinch of salt 1/2 cup chopped celery 1/4 cup sliced carrots 2 Tbs. red or green bell pepper, chopped 2/3 cup couscous 1 can chicken meat (or 1 cooked, shredded breast) Place all ingredients, except couscous and chicken, in sauce pan. Bring to high boil and remove from heat. Stir in couscous and chicken meat and cover tightly. Let sit at least 5 minutes or until couscous has “puffed”. Great as a side dish, or a light main dish.
Read MoreBlood Reaction by DL Atha
Buy on Amazon Blood Reaction: A Vampire Novel (Volume 1) By: DL Atha Published by: Foxboro Press Released On: 2011-05-21 ISBN: 0979335604 Genre: fiction/fantasy/thriller Pages: 316 Author’s Website: http://bloodreaction.com/ Recommendable for people who: enjoy vampire, thriller It looks like the e-book is only .99 at the time of this posting. Purchase HERE Synopsis (from Amazon): Annalice, a single mother and physician, is ready to immerse herself in the mundane chores of her farm as a diversion from her hectic professional life. But she becomes the victim of a home…
Read MoreCorn Bake
1 can whole kernel corn Milk (varies – see directions below) 1/4 tsp dry minced onion 2 tbsp butter (melted) 1/2 cup jiffy corn muffin mix Preheat oven to 375. Butter a casserole dish. Drain the juice from the canned corn into a measuring cup, and add enough milk to make 2/3 cup. Combine all ingredients, including the milk mix liquid. Dump into buttered casserole dish, and bake 18-20 minutes.
Read MoreHave A Nice Day by Mick Foley
Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks by Mick Foley Mick Foley is a nice man, a family man who loves amusement parks and eating ice cream in bed. So how to explain those Japanese death matches in rings with explosives, golden thumbtacks and barbed wire instead of rope? The second-degree burn tissue? And the missing ear that was ripped off during a bout-in which he kept fighting? Here is an intimate glimpse into Mick Foley’s mind, his history, his work and what some might…
Read MoreEZ Broccoli n Cheese Soup
This tastes like TGIFridays Soup of the Day! 4 cups chicken broth (abt 32 oz so one big container of Swanson Broth) 1 cup half n half 1 cup water 4 slices cheddar cheese (about 1/3 a cup shredded) 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon dried minced onion 1/4 teaspoon black pepper 4 cups broccoli florets (chopped into bite sized pieces) In a large sauce pan (med high) or crock pot combine: broth, half n half, and water. Whisk in: flour, onion, and pepper. Once its well combined mix in…
Read MoreWhite Shark by Peter Benchley
White Shark by Peter Benchley A quiet Long Island fishing community is suddenly struck with terror when an amphibious beast created by a mad Nazi scientist is unleashed on the town. Dr. Simon Chase, a struggling man who leaves his wife and child to finish school at a Marine Biology science institute sees his son, Max for the first time in twelve years. A crew tracking a pregnant Great White spot a porpoise with a claw gash in its tail and see massive kills of sea life; when they…
Read MorePandoras Succession by Russell Brooks
Buy on Amazon Pandora’s Succession By: Russell Brooks Published by: Russell Brooks Released On: 2011-04-30 ISBN: 0986751316 Genre: action Pages: 282 Author’s Website: www.russellparkway.com Author’s Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/authorrussell Facebook: HERE Recommendable for people who: enjoy action, spy, warfare Synopsis (from Amazon): Where would you hide if you learned the CDC and a major pharmaceutical company unleashed a hyper deadly microbe on the human race? CIA operative, Ridley Fox, never stopped hunting his fiancée’s killers—a weapons consortium called The Arms of Ares. When an informant leads him to an old bunker outside…
Read MoreGrans Fruit Cocktail Cake
1 can fruit cocktail 2 eggs 2 cups sugar 2 1/2 cups flour 2 tsp soda pinch of salt This is a basic “dump” style cake. Beat eggs and sugar together add fruit cocktail, sift together flour salt and soda and add to sugar mixture. Bake 30 minutes in a prepared pan at 350.
Read MorePromise of Wolves by Dorothy Hearst
Promise of the Wolves: A Novel (Wolf Chronicles) by Dorothy Hearst The first title in The Wolf Chronicles trilogy brings the imaginative storytelling of a fantasy adventure to years of research on a species that has been revered as mysterious symbols of nature lost. • Fantastical plot based on science: Inspired by the theory that it was wolves, and later dogs, that made humans the dominant species on earth by teaching mankind to hunt cooperatively and form complex societies, The Wolf Chronicles begins 14,000 years ago with Promise…
Read MoreGerman Chocolate CHeesecake Squares
The Cake 1 package dry yeast 1/2 cup warm water 2 cups all purpose flour 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 tsp salt 1 egg 1/2 cup butter, softened 2 (8-oz) packages cream cheese 1 (3 oz) package cream cheese 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup cocoa 3 eggs 2 tsp vanilla I know this one looks difficult but it’s not. First, put your warm water in a large mixing bowl, and dissolve the yeast in it. Once the yeast is dissolved, stir in 1 cup flour, 1/4 cup sugar, salt, 1 egg,…
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