Hello My Dearest! I hope I'm finding you well today and happily looking out your window at a beautiful spring? Raining? Snowing? No worry, bright days are coming! For me this morning, it's still dark, the house is quiet and the pugs and I are snuggled in on the couch having a cup of coffee and wishing it was just a tad warmer so that I could go out on the deck, turn on the deck heater and write this to you from there. Maybe next week. But, enough of that..... ON WITH THE FOOD! This week, I would love for you to check out this... Then for the new cooks, we've got... How to Steam Carrots on the Stove How to Reheat Chicken without Drying it out and How to Boil Pasta so it doesn't all stick together. That should hold you till next week, right? _____________________ HOT COOKING TIP OF THE WEEK Here is something I truly didn't know. You can make a delightful and PERFECT baked potato in your pressure cooker OR your instant pot. When I say it takes just a few minutes, I mean it! Did you know this? Am I the last person on earth to find this out? I've got an article coming out about it, probably in the next week, but I've promised to let my newsletter folks know everything first. So, here you are. If you have a pressure cooker (or instant pot) 1-4 (ish) potatoes (a single layer in the bottom) will cook in JUST 5 MINUTES! 2-3 Layers will cook in about 12 ish minutes 2/3 pot full will cook in 20-30 minutes! Just let the cooker get to high pressure, then cook for the alotted time and then allow to return to normal pressure naturally. I will NEVER make a baked potato in the oven or microwave again! Then, here's the kicker.... If you love crispy skins on your baked potato, all you have to do is to pour a little oil over the top of the potato, sprinkle with salt and then bake in the oven at 425-450 for 5-10 minutes after using the pressure cooker. Easiest perfect baked potato ever. _______________________ THREE LITTLE THINGS I'm trying to be more thankful in my day to day life by noticing the little things and this helps with about a zillion other things, like, for example, my attitude when things go wrong. I'm sharing those things here with you in hopes that maybe you'll find a way to be more thankful too. Good luck, friend.
_________________________ A FINAL WORD Maybe you don't really know, but this newsletter is our sacred space. No one can tell us what to share here. You might think that is true on the websites I own (either one: Loaves and Dishes or Dorks with Sporks)and to a certain degree, it is. However, if I want the gods of the internet to approve of what I do and promote it on search engines, then I have to do what google thinks is good. Therefore, I can't share stories with you or uplifting comments or .... anything that isn't strictly recipe related. So, I have something exciting to share and I hope you will indulge me just a bit. I pretty much stick to the recipes even on this little newsletter. I have been invited to write a chapter in a book! The book will release on April 30 on Amazon and is called "Aspire". For the first bit, the book will be in electronic form and will be available for just 0.99c. After 2 weeks, it will be available in regular book form and at regular price. This is a book written by women and for women to inspire them in their career and life pursuits. All of the proceeds from this book will go to support the women's charity, "Womankind". I hope that you will consider checking this book out when it is available. I don't have anyplace to send you for a pre purchase, but I'll happily send you a reminder if you click "reply to this email" and then say, "please remind me about the book when it is available". If you purchase the 0.99c electronic version, that helps us to hopefully attain best seller status and will ultimately raise more money for this wonderful women's charity. Thank you! Till Next Friday in Your In Box, God Willing and the Creeks Don't Rise... Love you! Wendi P.S. Here's a short excerpt from my chapter in this book. I'm talking about how dangerous it is to compare yourself to others and their progress in life. I hope you enjoy it. "We find that while the other person seems to wiz right past obstacles, we stumble and fall, making first this mistake and then that mistake. We start to feel like perhaps this just isn't the right space for us. Why did we ever think we could make this work in the first place (six months in and we feel like a failure)? Surely it's time to throw it all away and start over again. This self-doubt sets up a home, and it reminds me of the cartoon where a psychiatrist tells the man on the couch, "You suffer from imposter syndrome, it is common among high profile successful people and frauds like you." It goes without saying that to succeed, failure cannot win. Failure is FELT long before it becomes an actuality. You'll find it in your vulnerable spots where it joins with all of your unfounded self-doubts, fed by fear until, like a self-fulfilling prophecy, you fail, and guess what, that's not surprise because you expected it all along. " Unsubscribe | Update your profile | PO Box 82 , Danbury, NC 27016  |
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