Some of my favorite No Kings pics:
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| Chiricahua National Monument, AZ |
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Everything But the Kitchen Sink
The secret to successfully negotiating a recipe with umpteen ingredients is to do all the chopping and cheese-shredding ahead of time. I.e., in late afternoon I chopped the onion and green pepper, minced the garlic, and shredded the cheese. The first three can all go in one bowl. Cover and refrigerate until needed. I have a grater with its own lidded catch-basket, which makes it very easy to store the shredded cheese until ready. No catch-basket? Dump the shredded cheese into a baggie before refrigerating. Or if chemical preservatives don't bother you, you can go with a bag of store-shredded cheese.
This recipe—a meal in one pan—is from Taste of Home's Cast Iron Cookbook, 2022. (This is a stove-top recipe. A cast iron skillet is not necessary, just a large, high-sided frying pan.) Great for a big family and freezes well for households of only one or two.
CHILI SKILLET
*I used 2 tspns. chili & Mrs. Dash garlic herb in place of salt.
In a large skillet, over medium heat, cook the beef, onion, pepper, and garlic until the meat is no longer pink.* Add the next seven ingredients; simmer, covered, until rice is tender, about 25 minutes.
Stir in corn and olives; cover and cook 5 more minutes. Sprinkle with cheese; cook, covered, until cheese is melted, about 5 minutes. If desired, top with green onions.
*I start the beef before the other ingredients.
ENJOY!
This week's featured books—my only two Contemporaries I consider more Romance than Mystery/Adventure
My father's first job out of Harvard Graduate School was in the small outer Cape Cod town of Wellfleet. Even after moving away, we returned every year to the place my family had grown to love. So no surprise when I compressed my scope from Regency Historical Romance to writing for Kensington, I chose Cape Cod as the setting. (I was living in a suburb of New Haven, CT, when I wrote it, so I believe I can say the background is truly authentic—including the skunk.)
Following a tough trial, all defense attorney Vicki Kent wants is a
few days of peace and quiet at her parents' cottage on Cape Cod.
Instead, she finds a man challenging her with a 9mm in his hand. John
Paollilo is an angry, burned-out homicide detective from New Haven,
exiled by his boss to an enforced vacation on the Cape. Needless to say,
conflicts abound—from a clash of professional viewpoints to the
odoriferous retaliations of a family of skunks—as Vicki and John
reluctantly share the cottage, exploring the Cape and each other, and in
the end discovering that opposites really do attract.
For most of the twenty-five years I lived on Florida's Gulf Coast, I was a member of The Society for Creative Anachronism, giving my hand-crafted costumes away only when I moved to Orlando in 2007. Therefore, the background in this one is also truly authentic, from the Joust on the grounds of the Ringling Museum to the traffic jam on I-75, and Medieval life in the 21st-century-Florida woods. Also, authentic—tho' not suffered by me, I hasten to say—is the abuse this heroine suffered.
Kate Knight fights memories of a former abusive relationship by armed combat with male members of a Medieval re-enactment group. To Kate, men are anathema, yet somehow she finds herself sharing a postage-stamp-size tent with a Florida Highway Patrol officer who is attempting to discover who almost killed his brother in a tournament at a Medieval Fair. For Kate, trust comes hard as they deal with obsessive enthusiasts, quirky personalities, and a ruthless killer.
Author's Note: My thanks to the Florida Gulf Coast shires of the Society for Creative Anachronism for providing so much colorful detail for this story. And to the John & Mable Ringling Museum for all the years it hosted truly grand Medieval Fairs.
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