Recipes, Food Tips, Healthy Eating & More

Posted by Debbra Williams, Alumna Mentor @debbraw, Feb 22, 2019

Some of the members of the Gratitude Discussion Group were interested in having a place to share recipes and food ideas. I’m hoping that we can use this thread as a place to have that kind of discussion. I’d love to hear your ideas for quick meals, comfort food, healthy snacks, and more.

Personally, I’ve just been through a bad reaction to one of my medications that left me with a very queasy stomach. I would love to hear ideas – or recipes – that might be used when you need to get something on your stomach, but don’t want to overdo it.

Hopefully, this thread will even be a place where we can share recipes for special treats and yummy rewards. It doesn’t always have to be healthy!

I’d love to hear from members who have been part of other discussions AND from new members who have good ideas, recipes and food tips to share. I’m excited to see who might start us off here with an awesome food suggestion!

Interested in more discussions like this? Go to the Just Want to Talk Support Group.

@contentandwell

@Erinmfs We used to go to CA yearly to visit my stepson in the SF area, and then our son in the L.A. area. Now my stepson has returned to NH after more than 20 years out there, and my son is in Denver! I love Sausalito too. When you said Cliff House I immediately thought you were talking about Maine, there is one there too, one of those older grand hotels. I love those beautiful old hotels. There are a number of them in New England, and I have been to the del Coronado in SD also.
JK

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NH is just beautiful. I was at a business conference in Boston one time, my parents came to Boston to meet up with me. Then we did a car trip around Martha's Vineyard, up through Rhode Island, Maine, NH, and Vermont. You are right, those old new england hotels are really amazing! I would love to go back again someday and check it out. Maine lobster, wow, everyone must goto Maine and have a real Maine lobster.

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@contentandwell

@parus @Erinmfs I just ate dinner (just a salad with a little meat in it) but I am drooling over the sound of these vegetables.

@merpreb I think vinegar on french fries is a Rhode Island thing maybe.
JK

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@contentandwell
I love malt vinegar on practically everything. I must be a Rhode Island transplant.
Jake

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@Erinmfs

NH is just beautiful. I was at a business conference in Boston one time, my parents came to Boston to meet up with me. Then we did a car trip around Martha's Vineyard, up through Rhode Island, Maine, NH, and Vermont. You are right, those old new england hotels are really amazing! I would love to go back again someday and check it out. Maine lobster, wow, everyone must goto Maine and have a real Maine lobster.

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@Erinmfs I do love living here, but I am a city person so I would prefer to live in Boston and visit NH rather than the other way around. I love Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket too. They are what the cape once was before it got out of control. I would love to eat more lobster but the sodium is high in it.

Vermont is special to us, my husband and I met skiing there at Killington.
JK

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Dark Cherries must be in season! I have been enjoying some dark cherries recently delivered from the grocery. The dark cherry package says they are from Washington State. They are yummy!

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@Erinmfs- Hi. We have cherries too. They are delicious-

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@merpreb

@Erinmfs- Hi. We have cherries too. They are delicious-

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@merpreb The dark cherries are good here this year. Since we had so much rain this past winter I am enjoying the fruit taste like eastern fruit nice and juicy with a taste . The nectarines I am in particularly liking

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@contentandwell

@parus @Erinmfs I just ate dinner (just a salad with a little meat in it) but I am drooling over the sound of these vegetables.

@merpreb I think vinegar on french fries is a Rhode Island thing maybe.
JK

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@contentandwell
Hi,

Malt vinegar and fish and fried cod is very much an English tradition. When I visited England to see family (lived there for 6 months as a child) we always got the fish and chips in paper wrapping with the vinegar all over.. My mom was from Kilkenny and my dad from Manchester so I grew up with malt vinegar as a staple . Grew up eating Welsh rarebit, corned beef and cabbage, Bubble and Squeak, liver and onions with bacon (use to eat that for breakfast) and of course, fish and chips. I’m the only one in my family who loves liver. Had to make sure everyone was out of the house before I cooked it because of the smell. We always had calfs liver...not beef liver like in the markets today. Lots of butter and eggs and still everyone lived into old age.

Waxing nostalgic here in hot humid Florida

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@Erinmfs

Dark Cherries must be in season! I have been enjoying some dark cherries recently delivered from the grocery. The dark cherry package says they are from Washington State. They are yummy!

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@Erinmfs
Hi,

I love dark cherries so much I have them frozen in my freezer year round. Publix frozen brand here in Florida is really sweet.
But I do love eating them and spitting the pit out lol.

Regards from FL Mary

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@contentandwell

@Erinmfs I do love living here, but I am a city person so I would prefer to live in Boston and visit NH rather than the other way around. I love Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket too. They are what the cape once was before it got out of control. I would love to eat more lobster but the sodium is high in it.

Vermont is special to us, my husband and I met skiing there at Killington.
JK

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@contentandwell
Hi,

I am from NY originally and we use to travel up and down the coast to visit family in Canada. Fantastic states, seafood!
I skied many many years in college and after in Vermont also on Mt Killington. My favorite slope was Mt Prospect...smaller slopes back then and not too many people knew about it. I never got off the Intermediate slopes but I can remember hearing the sssh sssh of the skis over the snow and sometimes I was the only person on that particular slope. A stress free healthy way to spend the day and then amble up to the bar at night for the hot toddies and then off to an uninterrupted night of zzzzzzzzs.

I’d break a bone if I tried that today although I always did want to try bungee jumping. I got over that when my son who was in his 20s back then wanted to try bungee jumping and a chiropractor friend of ours said why don’t you just drive your truck into a stone wall....are you nuts? End of bungee jumping.

Regards from FL Mary

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@imallears

@Erinmfs
Hi,

I love dark cherries so much I have them frozen in my freezer year round. Publix frozen brand here in Florida is really sweet.
But I do love eating them and spitting the pit out lol.

Regards from FL Mary

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@imallears - what do you make with them off season? Are they frozen sans pits?

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