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Ingredients: Olive Oil Campbell's™ Chicken Gravy in a pop-top can Great Value™ chopped garlic Italian Seasoning [herbs] Kroger brand tomato paste Aquafina water Walmart frozen chicken breasts Brummel & Brown™ yogurt/vegetable oil spread Process: First the sauce: in a skillet, brown garlic in olive oil add herbs to olive oil while put olive oil/garlic/herb mixture in into a saucepan with tomato paste, gravy, and water to form the sauce(half liter of water for one small can of tomato paste) heat sauce in the saucepan and reduce to a simmer set this aside [perhaps on a very low heat] until the chicken and pasta are ready. Cooking the chicken breast: Fortunately, we thought ahead and thawed the chicken breast while we were making the sauce. Use the same skillet as the herbs started out in - add more olive oil and heat it up to frying temp for the chicken. Add more chopped garlic. Cook the chicken in garlic and olive oil. ...

Original Instant Garlic Toast™ If you have a pop-up toaster handy, and some of that garlic juice in a pump-spray bottle, and some extra virgin olive oil, Original Instant Garlic Toast™ is within your grasp, and just moments away. Simply: Toast some bread Spread some olive oil on the toast Spray the oiled toast with some garlic juice Logical standard substitutions and variations apply - for example: butter, Brummel & Brown™ 30% yogurt spread, or other types of oils may serve in place of the extra virgin olive oil Different types of bread should be tried we would like to try this will walnut oil and sourdough bread margarine is Evil, even if tasty - use it only at your peril and if you can't get any other ingredient for the oil layer you can use an oven for this, but it takes longer - arguably, use of an oven contra-indicates the use of the term "Instant" However, if you want cheese on your garlic toast, forgoing the "Instant...

The WikiHow site publishes some interesting practical and semi-practical instructions on how to do many common tasks - this week they have one called How to Organize a Kitchen . While the article overlooks those of us who are rigging makeshift kitchen's in hotel rooms, station wagons, homes without electrical power, and so on, it is a reasonably good article with some basic advice like "don't locate the spice rack near a heat source" that might be extrapolated for people who are living outside the kitchen-owning mainstream of netizens. The WikiHow site is in general "not bad" for a .com site - there's a lot of practical stuff there - a bit like the stuff that used to come thru Hints from Heloise or other practical, homemaker-type syndicated newspaper features...

I stopped at the Country Pride restaurant at the TA in Bloomington, IL . This entry is posted from their dining room, which is a really great spot - AC power, WiFi from the [new] TA wireless services - TA SpeedZone WiFi Since I still wasn't really, really hungry, and since it is generally better to eat smaller meals, more often, and infrequent large meals, I seized on the opportunity to get some oatmeal - Country Pride offers a breakfast called "Smart Start" which is a bowl of oatmeal with fresh fruit [seasonal] and coffee - I also ordered a side of wheat toast. The server was great - went and asked what sort of fruit was available, then asked me how I wanted the oatmeal - and she got it perfect - I was relieved that this is not "instant oatmeal" - I believe it was "quick oats" and she managed to get it just about exactly the consistency I make it when I make it myself. Really excellent. The oatmeal comes with a little pitcher of milk, and a pl...

Iowa 80 Truckstop bills itself as "the largest truckstop in America"   Well, They will need more than "biggest" to get me to stop there again - as it stands now, I won't waste my time going in there again. There is a TA (TransAmerica) logo on the side of the building, so I expected them to have at least WiFi and a decent buffet (the East Columbus [Hebron] TA on I-70 in Ohio has a really excellent buffet, WiFi , and plugins for the laptop at most tables. Unfortunately, Iowa 80 has none of these. I was very disapointed in Iowa 80 Truckstop Kitchen (the main restraunt - there are several fast food places in the building, as well - I didn't try those - in retrospect, perhaps I should have hit the Taco Bell). The cost was $12.xx for a crappy buffet and a cup of coffee, The buffet didn't have much selection. The meatloaf and mac'n'cheese weren't too awful, but there was no butt of beef roast to carve chunks off from (as with the East Colum...