For dinner on Saturday the McLains took us to a “fast food” sushi restaurant. We called it the conveyor restaurant because the sushi comes to your table on a conveyor belt! You can pick from what you see going around or you can place a special order for more unique sushi or sashimi (raw fish [...]
Inspired from our visit to 105degrees, I made ravioli from the chef’s recipe book for dinner tonight. This ravioli has a ricotta-like filling made with blended cashews and tarragon and the ravioli “noodles” are actually thin slices of red beet. They’re each topped with chopped pistachios and drizzled with sweet yellow bell pepper sauce. It [...]
As an early Valentine’s Day treat Ryan took me to Oklahoma City for dinner at my new favorite restaurant: 105degrees. A huge thank you to our great friends Tristan & Leslie who gave me a gift card to this restaurant on my birthday! 105degrees specializes in what’s called “living food”–greens, fruits, vegetables, and nuts that [...]
Today, January 29th, our beautiful state Kansas turns 149 years old. Growing up I was surrounded by Kansas history and spent a lot of time at the Kansas Museum of History volunteering in the gift shop with Grandma Betty. I’m pretty sure that’s where our tradition of making Kansas Day cookies started. Each year Grandma [...]
Well, here I am 8 months after our first post on our raw food experiment; one dose LESS of methotrexate (*loud cheering*) and 21 pounds lighter. This “science experiment” was to see if eating fresh, unprocessed, uncooked food could cleanse and heal my body’s cells enough that they could start to heal my rheumatoid arthritis. It is [...]
Success!! We had a fantastic turnout and everyone loved Pi Day (despite the inherent nerdiness of it). Our secretary pointed out that hardly anyone brings food for our monthly birthday day, and yet nearly everyone participated in Pi Day. We even got to meet people from different departments in the building (news of pie spreads [...]
My industrial engineer colleagues and I organized a Pi Day celebration at work today. (Nerd alert! There is a brief discussion of math, and the pie is after that.) Pi is the ratio of a circle’s diameter to the circumference, or 3.14159. The calculations of Pi go as far back as ancient Egyptian papyrus, and [...]