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Dysfunctional Chef: Eat This, Lose Weight-Sicilian Eggplant Caponata

This week’s less guilt, healthy-living recipe, Slow-Cooker Sicilian Eggplant Caponata, was a major-league, big-time, booyah success! It can be served as a side-dish especially for fish, over pasta (preferably whole grain), on top of polenta and/over thin, toasted slices of [...]

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Dysfunctional Chef: Deviled Mexican Eggs

posted by Janice Taylor, Editor

I was thrift shopping and found an “deviled egg tray” in the “fancy” cabinet that holds all the really prized and expensive household items. It was marked $18, which I thought was crazy high for the corner thrift store; and [...]

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Eat This: Lose Weight – Cantaloupe and Tomato Salad

posted by Janice Taylor, Editor

This morning, this Dysfunctional Chef (that’s me), was sort of in the mood to cook, but sort of not in the mood, which ultimately led me to this very fabulous, easy to make, simply delish recipe that I am sure [...]

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Dysfunctional Chef: Creamy Squash n’ Corn Casserole

posted by Janice Taylor, Editor

Heavy in comfort, low in calories, this recipe is brought to you by your favorite Dysfunctional Chef. Creamy Squash n’ Corn Casserole – a.k.a. Mellow Yellow Blend Ingredients: 2 cups (16 ozs.) cottage cheese (full fat, 2% fat, low fat [...]

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Eat This: Lose Weight - Crunchy, Satisfying, FAT-Burning Broccoli Salad
Last weekend, we (DH and I) were invited to a Garden Party! Imagine that!!! Outside, in a garden! Thus the name, garden party! Duh :)

posted 11:12:24am May. 24, 2013 | read full post »

#OneWord Thursday: What is your #style? Inner-style? Spiritual style?
What is your style? Inner-style? Spiritual style? What is style? Style is a combination of self-awareness, self-knowledge, personality and fashion. True style, inner-style, spiritual-style requires that one feels comfortable in their own skin, at home in their body. Your outer-style re

posted 12:36:33pm May. 23, 2013 | read full post »

Best Weight Loss Tips: Set Your Table for Change!
Here, today, right NOW, Our Lady of Weight Loss shares some of her best non-food weight loss tips! Tips that set the stage for change, and set your table for success! Use dark, small plates! Studies show that people will eat whatever is put in front of them and, in fact, they are actually left

posted 10:23:23am May. 22, 2013 | read full post »

Kick in the Tush Tuesday: Empty Your Mental Junk Drawer
“I believe in roses. And I believe in putting roses into a vase and sitting the vase on the table. I believe in getting lost and being found, I believe in going barefoot, and in laughter! My religion is to laugh at myself, whenever I can! I believe in the sunlight and in grey skies with big, bea

posted 12:40:02pm May. 21, 2013 | read full post »

Puzzled? "Chuga-Squeak" speaks
"Chuga-squeak, Chuga-squeak," repeats the Grackle. Our Tucson courtyard, amass in Palm, Olive, Mesquite and Cyprus trees, is home to the Grackle. The Grackle is longer than most blackbirds, slimmer than most crows. Grackle males are colorful; very iridescent with their long tails, distinct

posted 11:06:35am May. 20, 2013 | read full post »

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