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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
I’m not looking for car insurance at the present time but my youngest step-son is in the market for car insurance. He just looked at me like I was crazy when I told him about the old days when we had to get out the yellow pages and make call after after call and then compare quotes ourselves when we were looking for insurance. So many things are made better with the internet and world wide web. In our modern day world you can compare auto insurance quotes online from a variety of insurers with one simple process.
Finding free online car insurance quotes at OnlineAutoInsurance.com couldn’t be simpler. OnlineAutoInsurance.com provides an easy to use web tool which allows you to put in the information about yourself and your vehicle. They then match you with several providers to choose from. Remember, don’t go with the lowest priced insurer because they are the cheapest. Do your homework and check out the company before you hand them over any cash. Good luck and good hunting!
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
I’m not kidding. I just ran across Western Culinary on Myspace. So now I guess I’ve seen everything – a Cordon Bleu Program with their own Myspace page.
Not only do they have a Myspace page but I can say with some authority that it is one of the nicest Myspace pages I’ve seen in a long, long time. I honestly enjoyed looking around at the page and you can’t say that about many Myspace pages.
They have the beginnings of a blog going on but so far I only see one recipe listed. Not Your Mama’s Meatloaf is made with Stovetop Stuffing, ground beef and Italian sausage and it looks delicious. I’m going to have to try that recipe. I hope they put up some more recipes too! Of course if they did that nobody would have to go to school. *grin*
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
Hubby has been on vacation all week and we’ve just been cooling it. There is a ton of stuff we need to do but he is stressed with work and taking care of his mother so I’m not pressing him to do anything but relax. We had a nice dinner at the Old Lady’s house on the 4th and as simple as it was I don’t think it would have been any better if it had been prepared by a graduate of the Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts (http://www.twincitiesculinary.com/).
Our dinner was very simple. The main course was a 2.5 chuck roast slow cooked in the oven with onions and carrots. My husband fixed mashed potatoes, I fixed cole slaw, the Old Lady cooked the roast and a few other side dishes. The roast was especially good. We have been buying our meat at Apollo Meats for a few years now after getting some bad ground beef at Publix so many weeks in a row. bleh. When we complained to the manager at Publix he said that ground beef is “supposed to be brown in the middle”. Maybe he should tell that specification to the meat markets in the area because we have never gotten ground beef that is brown in the middle from the butcher shop. heh
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Sometimes I think I live in the stone age. For example, I never even had a PayPal account until a few months ago. If I couldn’t purchase with a credit card online, I just didn’t purchase. Another thing I’ve never owned is a camcorder. I was thinking about this yesterday while watching the news on TV featuring some of the Fourth of July celebrations that were going on around town. It seemed like everywhere I looked there were camcorders out and people were having fun video taping everything. I wonder if they plan to put their videos on YouTube, hehe.
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
My husband is taking one of his seven weeks of vacation from work next week but we don’t have any plans to go anywhere. It would be nice if we could take advantage of a service like Leisuretime Promotions but we won’t be able to do it this year.
Leisuretime Promotions offer worldwide flights from over 30 UK departure airports and has been offering luxury accommodations as well as fast and efficient reservation service to its members since 1993. Wow, that’s a long time and a lot of airports! If I lived in the UK I’d definitely be checking them out.
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
I already have the domain name picked out in my mind but I won’t say what it is because I don’t want to jinx it. The kind of blog I want to have won’t be for fancy recipes or the kind of cooking you learn at the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago (http://www.chic.edu/career.asp). Nope, the recipes I want to write about are some of my favorite short-cut recipes – the kinds of meals you can throw together in thirty minutes to an hour and make it look like you have been slaving away in the kitchen all day.
I was thinking about naming my cooking blog The Lazy Gourmet but I’ve decided to name it something different than that now. I really like the name Quickie Chef but that one has been done to death already. I’ll get to it one day – I have too many other irons in the fire right now and can’t take on another project. Some day I will have a cooking blog though. yeppers.
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Saturday, June 16th, 2007
One good thing about Saturday is that I don’t have to make the daily Old Lady call *evil grin* since my husband calls her instead. My husband is in the living room watching This Old House and procrastinating about calling her so even if I don’t make the call I have to yell “CALL YOUR MOTHER!”, hehe. He needs to get up off his butt and stop fantasizing about architectural classics and come back into the real world.
I keep hoping he will see something on This Old House that he might actually want to build. I don’t think we’ll be using many architectural classics here in the trailer but it is fun to dream. 
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
People that know my husband at work would never believe this but he makes bread machine recipes in his bread maker all the time. I call it “his” because I have never even touched the contraption.
Not only does he make bread recipes but he makes pizza dough in his bread machine and makes some of the most delicious pizzas that I have ever tasted. At Chefs.com I found some bread machine recipes that I don’t think he has tried yet so I’ll have to show them to him. Personally I find the bread machine to be more trouble than it is worth, but I don’t mind eating the bread my husband makes with ours.
I found a recipe at that site for bread pudding that I’d like to try myself (using the conventional oven). I haven’t had really good bread pudding in years. I plan to make it and when I do I’ll report back with the results.
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Yep, my thoughts have turned to food once again. I have some ground chuck defrosting in the microwave and my fine trailer park dining for this evening is going to be the old stand-by Hamburger Helper. I probably shouldn’t admit that we eat that, but hubby got home late from a visit to his mother’s house after work and I need something quick and easy to prepare. Too bad I don’t have the Le Cordon Bleu culinary training that is detailed at http://www.atlantaculinary.com/. I bet I could whip up something extra special if I had that training.
I think it is too late for me but one of my nephews really loves to cook and has had a few jobs cooking at some of our local restaurants. He is still a teenager but wouldn’t it be wonderful if he decided to take Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Training and become a world renowned chef? I think it would be awesome. I saved the link http://www.atlantaculinary.com/ to show him next time he visits us.
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
So as I sit here drinking my coffee (that is about one quarter cream) I’m reading a website about green tea. I’ve often heard that you can drink green tea for health benefits and I have often wondered what green tea tastes like. I can drink my coffee without sugar as long as I put in plenty of cream, but for some reason I can’t drink tea without sugar and plenty of cream. Hehe, I bet putting sugar in green tea would ruin any health benefits right off the bat. 
I did run across a website that tells you everything you would ever want to know plus more called O-cha.com. For example, their guide to brewing green tea explains the correct way to brew green tea right down to the last detail and explains how to brew green tea that is not bitter. I really would like to try some green tea but don’t know if I want to invest $30-100 for a teapot. I’ll have to give that a little more thought.
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