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All My Dear Readers  Dear Retirees  Dear Retired Chef Dear Dietitian  Dear Nutritionist Dear Cafe Manager My Dear Student Friends I Like To Make Home Made Desserts Whenever I Can For Home Made You Know  What are You Putting in and How Much is in I Got Two Sweet Potatoes  To Make Dessert For a Change Microwave For 5 Minutes  You can Cut into Big Pieces  To Make It Quick Check with Knife if It is Done Take Off The Skin  Take Medium Pot  Smash with Table Spoon Add Milk - any Milk   I used 2 % about a Liter  Mix Thoroughly with Smashed Sweet Potatoes in The Pot Now Put The Pot On Stove with High Flame after 5 Minutes when It Starts Boiling Stir The Pot and Lower The Flame To Medium after 10 Minutes Stir and  Lower To One Digit Lower  Don't Cover The Pot Leave For 20 Minutes Stir  and Leave Further  Until It is Like Thick Gravy Now Add Sugar To Taste Leave ...

To All My Readers Sometimes You Buy Chicken  But No Time To cook OR You Take Chicken Out  Of Freezer To Defrost  But Something Happens and You Change Your Mind Same Thing Happened To Me  I Have Taken Chicken Out Of Freezer It was Chicken Legs  Cut into 2 Pieces Skin Off and with Cuts Like To BBQ I wanted To Make Curry  For Dinner To Have with Rice But Not in a Mood For That So Made Something Else I Mixed Some Spices in The Chicken Pieces and Put It in The Fridge Made Curry 2 Days after When I Had Time  Here is The Recipe For That Take Any Pot  Wash Chicken Pieces  Sprinkle Salt Black Pepper Powder Red Chili Powder Turmeric Powder  Yogurt Couple Of Table Spoons Try To Cover The Whole Surface  Of Chicken Pieces  with Fork -- Spoon or use Hands The Best Tools From God Now Sprinkle Some Oil Over  The Chicken Pieces --  I use Olive Oil Cover The Pot and Put in Th...

All My Dear Readers  Dear Retirees  Dear Retired Chef Dear Dietitian  Dear Nutritionist Dear Cafe Manager My Dear Student Friends First Thing When Enter Your Kitchen Put an Smile On Your Face and Just Relax  Never Take Cooking Or Making Anything in Your Kitchen Like a Serious Project Play Around with Whatever is Available No Pressure My Son Loves To Take Home Made Lunch For His Work Place To Enjoy I Make It Ready Every Night For Him I Never Give a Thought What I will Make I Make after My Dinner So What is Available I Make Use Of That Yesterday There was Beef Curry Small Portion In The Fridge was Some Mushroom Omelette  Left Over  My Son is Not a Vegetarian Still Doesn't Like Meat Or Chicken I Keep That in Mind  I Planned To Make a Burrito  Take Soft Flat Bread  With Spoon Covered It with The Curry Paste If You Don't Have Curry Paste  Don't Make It If You Don't Have It You Can Use Yogu...

My Dear Readers  Dear Retirees and  Dear Retired Chef Dear Dietitian  Dear Nutritionist Dear Cafe Manager My Dear Student Friends             & All My Dear Readers Third Thursday Of Every Month We Have Pot Luck at Our Seniors Club I was Trying To Make Something Quick and Handy I Baked Hash Brown with Mozzarella  It was Great Everyone Liked That Take Baking Dish Put Some Oil  I use Olive Oil Spread Oil --  Put Hash Brown in The Dish Now Spread On Top Shredded Mozzarella Cheese Sprinkle Spices of Your Choice I used Pinch of Salt Pinch Of Black Pepper Powder Chives and Crushed Red Pepper Sprinkle Few Drops Of Oil On Top Cover The Dish with Foil and Bake at 450 For 20 Minutes Then Take The Foil Off and Broil For 4 To 5 Minutes It will be easy To Cook and will be Tasty Try That

My Dear Readers  Dear Retirees and  Dear Retired Chef Dear Dietitian  Dear Nutritionist Dear Cafe Manager My Dear Student Friends             & All My Dear Readers Cherries are Great But at My Place No One Likes Except  My Eldest Grandson Who Left To London Ontario For His University There were Lots of Left Over I Made Smoothie of That Take Cherries Seed Out Put Some Sugar To Taste Yogurt Couple of Table Spoons I Use 2% Yogurt Half a Cup Milk 2%  Don't Have To Measure Anything I always Keep in Mind Kitchen is Meditation Territory  While We are Cooking Anything or Making Anything at  Kitchen Counter First Thing We Have To Be Relaxed Nothing To Worry About The Outcome Product It is Not A Job Not A Work We Have To Play around With Ingredients of Our Choice  So Just Relax and Put Your Smile On The First and The Most Important Ingredient is " Love " I am Not...

My Dear Readers  Dear Retirees and  Dear Retired Chef Dear Dietitian  Dear Nutritionist Dear Cafe Manager My Dear Student Friends             & All My Dear Readers Today I Baked Egg Plant for Dinner Everyone Liked That Take Few Egg Plants Small ones Cut into Four Don't Cut the Top so it will be Joined at Top If Separated Don't You worry about Take a Baking Dish Put some Oil  ---     I use Olive Oil Chopped Onion Spread in the Dish Take a Bowl Now Put Yogurt    ---        I use 2% Red Chili Powder Black Chili Powder Salt to Taste Cumin Seeds Pinch of Turmeric Powder   --  It is Bright Yellow Color Gives color and Taste Too If You Don't have Turmeric Just Leave it Some Oil --  Couple of Tea Spoons Some Water Not Much  Just to Make Steam To Cook                      ...

My Dear Readers  Dear Retired Chef Dear Dietitian  Dear Nutritionist Dear Cafe Manager My Dear Student Friends             & All My Dear Readers Take a Pot Put Some Oil  -- I use Olive Oil Add Cumin Seeds Whole Black Pepper Couple of Whole Red Pepper Just 2 or to Taste You can add Red Chili Powder just a Pinch Salt To Taste ---- I take One Tea Spoon  for one Tea Cup of Rice It Depends To Taste Take Potatoes  Wash Thoroughly If Small Take the Whole Don't Peel Put in the Pot If Big Cut into 4 Pieces Take Rice Wash in another Small Pot Now Put Rice in the Main Pot with Oil  and Spices Put on Stove Heat Full Put Water into the Pot Take More than Double Quantity of Water Nearly 2 and Half Times of water Keep Pot Open Let Water Boil well after Boiling Stir Rice well ---  Leave Pot Open  --- Leave it for Cooking for 10 Minutes on Full Flame Stir again well No...

My Dear Readers  Dear Retirees and  Dear Retired Chef Dear Dietitian  Dear Nutritionist Dear Cafe Manager My Dear Student Friends             & All My Dear Readers Today I Baked Fish For Family Dinner It was Good with Baked Garlic Bread and Fries Take Baking Dish Sprinkle Oil I Use Olive Oil Spread Fish Slices I used Salmon You can Take any Fish of Your Choice Sprinkle Fresh Lemon Juice on Fish Not Much --- It will be Too Sour Sprinkle   --- Red Chili Powder                        Black Pepper Powder                       Salt to Taste                       Olive Oil                        Crushed Red Chili No Water Cover the Tray with Foil Heat Oven to 450...

Father I Make My Own Breakfast Please Don't Bother Hannah --  For Your Breakfast It is Abuse to Throw Water on Niklas Face  Please Don't Do That I Can Not See Niklas To Suffer Kids are My Weak Point My Dear Retiree Friends  I Have to Clarify That I Walked Throughout My Trip --  Everywhere I am used to That Much Walk My Dear " N " Please Plan Your Day Take a Book Sit Down in Your Back Garden Listen Music of Your Choice Do Bird Watching in Backyard I Mentioned Earlier in My Blog No Genie will Come To Make Your Day We are the Music Makers We Have To Make Our Day These Tips Work For Everyone Specially for My Retiree Friends Literature Fellow My Friend I am Happy that You are  Reading Blogs At SRC I am Waiting for Your Work on Encyclopedia To Start We are now at Cottage in Quebec Two Hours away from the Old City -- We settled Down for a while -- It was 8 pm I Started making Tea and Omelette M...

My Dear Readers  Dear Retirees and  Dear Retired Chef Dear Dietitian  Dear Nutritionist Dear Cafe Manager My Dear Student Friends             & All My Dear Readers Take White Potatoes Wash Thoroughly Don't Peel just Slice Take some Oil in Pot I use Olive Oil You can use any Cooking oil Heat the Burner to Full Put some Cumin Seeds in Hot oil Few Whole Black Pepper Some Crushed Red Pepper Put the Sliced Potatoes Pinch of Salt Couple of Small Whole Green Pepper If You are Using Big Green Pepper Cut it into Big Pieces Put some Water Not too Much For Steam and some Gravy Now Cover the Pot After 5 Minutes  Stir with Spoon Cover again Check Water Lower Heat to Medium Cook For 5 Minutes Stir with spoon Check Water There has to be some Water for Gravy If Not Much You can add some Water Not Much Cover the Pot Now Bring Heat to Full for 5 Minutes Stir...

Today Please Check  My Recipe Blog Too Thanks Kris My Friend You Say No One Talks to Father  Father Has To Change His Attitude He has To Stop Yelling to Everyone Stop Making Fun of Niklas  Before Friends Kris You Have To Teach Father  How To Talk with Family and Friend He Has to Respect Everyone Why Niklas and Hannah Suffer Because of Father Father is Yelling and Getting Everything Literature Fellow My Friend I am Happy That  You People are  Back on Track Don't You Worry You will Do it Everything is Fresh at the Back of Your Mind and You Have Initiative You will Do it again I am Talking about Encyclopedia It is Tuesday Sunny with 24 Degrees I am off Today Planned My Day to Go to Value Village to Look for Shoes Value Village is very Big Oxfam Like Store where They Sell Second Hand Stuff It is 25 Minutes Walk From My Place I also Promised Two of My Grandsons to Buy Lunch of Their Choice so We De...

My Dear Readers  Dear Retirees and  Dear Retired Chef Dear Dietitian  Dear Nutritionist Dear Cafe Manager My Dear Student Friends             & All My Dear Readers Take any White Bread Cut the Slices into 4 Square Pieces  Spread the Bread Pieces in Baking Tray Sprinkle Sugar ---- Enough to Taste Sweet Pour Milk in Tray over the Bread and Sugar For Half of the Bread  Pour  One and Half Liter Milk   ---  Homo Milk ---  I use 2% Any Milk Doesn't Matter Homo will give Creamy Touch  Sprinkle  Shredded Sweet Coconut Spread Almond Slices You can Sprinkle just a pinch of Yellow Food Color Or any Food Color of Your Choice Put The Tray in Oven at 375 Don't Cover Don't Wait for The Temperature Put The Tray right away Check after 30 Minutes You can Leave it in the Oven  for more Time to Bake Keep an eye on the Liquid Left in the Tray Not Too Dr...

Please Check also My  Recipe Blog Today Niklas My Dear Friend I am Happy for You Enjoy with Family Kris My Friend  Please Take Care of Niklas Ask Father to Calm Down and Give You a Break Don't Do Everything for Him It is Costing Your Job  Your Family Leave Father for a While It is Important to Focus on Niklas It is Sunday Hot and Sunny it is Morning Still 25 Degrees -- Red Bird -- Rabbit and Sparrows Keep coming to Have Breakfast At My Back Garden Father Please Don't Yell at Hannah as Birds Don't Need Fresh Food Please Stop Yelling  Birds are Scared of That so They don't Come Same is with Niklas --   Father Please Try to Understand Everyone Needs Love Go for That and also Have some Patience My Dear Reader Doing 2 Jobs I Need Your Help There is so much going on in Our Readers Family Last Week was Crisis in Smile Garden  Now Niklas  ----  Situation  I Feel Not Good if anyone of My Famil...

My Dear Readers  Dear Retirees and  Dear Retired Chef Dear Dietitian  Dear Nutritionist Dear Cafe Manager My Dear Student Friends             & All My Dear Readers Take Baking Tray arrange Chicken legs or Big Pieces of Chicken Take a Bowl Mix Yogurt 2% Ginger Paste \ Garlic Paste /  I use Fresh -- Blend and Keep                         in Bottles in Fridge it will be Good                         for Weeks You can use to Taste I put more as It is Therapeutic Ginger good for Digestion Garlic for Heart Add Oil  in the  mixing Bowl it will give Taste and color I use Olive oil Red Chili Powder Black Chili Powder Salt to Taste Tomato Paste to Give color Mix Everything in the Bowl with Spoon If it is too Thick mix some water Now spread this on Both sides...

My Dear Readers  Dear Retirees and My Dear  Retired Chef Dear Dietitian  Dear Nutritionist Dear Cafe Manager My Dear Student Friends             & All My Dear Readers I pack Lunch for My Son to take to Work I made Lunch of Pita Bread  spread Spicy Yogurt with spoon on the Bread I don't use Mayonnaise or other Dressings I use Yogurt it is Healthy Spread Salad leaves over that and Put ground chicken  Patty You can use any Meat He had some Party so left it in the Fridge over there after couple of Days it became soggy  I asked Him to bring it Back Now take the Meat Patty from the Bread You can stir fry in Pan with couple of Drops of Olive Oil I put few drops  of Olive Oil in a Frying Pan Put the Bread sprinkle a pinch of Crushed Red Pepper and Black Pepper Powder on that Bread No Salt        There is already Salt in  Spicy Yogurt on th...

My Dear Readers  Dear Retirees and My Dear  Retired Chef Dear Dietitian  Dear Nutritionist             & All My Dear Readers Yesterday for Dinner Kids had Baked Chicken  Others wanted some Light Stuff so I made Veggie Omelette  for Myself My Son and for My Daughter in Law I chopped Onion and Bell Pepper Put some cooking oil in Frying Pan I use Olive oil Take eggs I make Omelette from Egg white only throw away the Yolk in a bowl whip the egg white with Fork No Spices Put the Chopped Onion and chopped Bell Pepper in the hot oil stir for a while I use Olive oil  Don't Fry just stir put a pinch of  Ground Black Pepper and pinch of Crushed Red Chili on the veggies  in the Pan Now spread the egg white from the Bowl on the Veggie in Frying Pan If you have some Mint Leaves put some over that in the Pan Now lower the Flame to Medium after just couple of  ...