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The baked potato is a favorite in our household. It’s one of those things I can throw into the oven and leave to pick the kids and it’ll be done by the time I get home. Potatoes are a healthy carb and for those of us who just can’t live without carbs, potatoes are great.

You can eat this as a main dish which we often do unless the kids are particularly hungry, then we might throw in a protein which then makes this a side dish. Anyhow, eating potatoes is like celebrating Earth Day every day because that’s where potatoes come from, the earth.

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It’s the eve of Chinese New Year and by now, I’m guessing everyone’s busy either preparing or preparing for their Reunion Dinner. Which basically it’s just the handful of us . No big deal, right? We don’t have to travel anywhere. We don’t have to book any tables. Reunion dinner or not, it’s just us pigging out at our dining table.

Sneak peek of our Reunion Dinner menu:

• Roast turkey, potatoes and carrots
• A simple salad
• Red wine

Yup, I snagged a frozen turkey the week after Christmas because my daughters were calling for an encore of our Christmas Dinner. So why not? There’s no big deal about going all traditional or anything. We just eat what we like and we happen to lurve our own, home roasted turkey.

Sneak peek of our Vegetarian First Day of the New Year:

• Homemade nachos topped with cheese, lettuce and salsa for both lunch and dinner

Sneak peek of our First Meal of the New Year on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year:

• I had planned to cook Shrimp Scampi Linguine but my aunt has very kindly offered to take over my kitchen, so it’ll be Chinese. We’ll have to see what she cooks up.

For the next 15 days, we’ll be avoiding Chinese restaurants like the plague. My friend started this tradition and we like it. So it’ll either be fast food, Vietnamese, Japanese or Western for a while.

Okay, I’m off to the kitchen to slave. Y’all have a good night and feel free to tell me what you’re eating.

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Last weekend was the second weekend in a row that I’ve baked bread. The storebought bread that is more air than bread is barely enough to last us an hour. Yup, eat 2 slices at breakfast and within an hour, I’m hungry again.

So I’ve decided that from now on, I’m going to be baking my own bread. And that’s exactly what we did last Sunday after my daughter came home from accompanying her friend to a plus size formal dress fitting.

Someone asked if I use a bread machine. The answer is no, I don’t own a bread machine. A friend gave us a loaf she had made with her bread machine and when left overnight, the bread was hard as rocks. My kids will not eat rocks.

So no bread machine for me. I make my bread from scratch, complete with an added inspiration – sweat. It’s a great way to tone my arms as well. My wholemeal bread, dense, rich and topped with nuts tastes so so good.

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We really have a thing for Vietnamese food. We inadvertently find ourselves drawn to its yumminess. This set meal of sweet sour pork is our current lunch favorite, if we do get to eat out on a weekday which isn’t very often.

Apparently we’re not the only ones who love this set meal. The servers practically have to wheel them out by the medical cartload. What’s not to love, the fried wontons are yums too.

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