#1. What’s your favorite beverage containing chocolate or chocolate flavoring?

Starbuck’s hot chocolate
#2. What’s your favorite chocolate bar? OR Share a pic of your favorite candy, chocolate or otherwise.

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Dove Dark Chocolate

#3. What’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever eaten that had chocolate in it?

A long time ago, I ate something that had chocolate in it and was surprised, but I can’t remember what it was. lol
#4. Share a recipe using chocolate.

There are so many great recipes using chocolate. When I was searching for a picture of a Dove candy bar, I came across this recipe that sounds awesome! It’s “DOVE Tunnel of Dove” cake.

#1. How do you make chicken salad?

I haven’t made chicken salad in a while, and I’ve been so busy this week that I haven’t had time to find my recipe. Mine had grapes in it. Here’s one from All Recipes.com that I would like to try: Gourmet Chicken Salad
#2. Fast food chicken. What fast food restaurant makes the best chicken?

We really like Chick-Fil-A’s chicken sandwich on a whole wheat bun.
#3. What’s your favorite way to eat chicken?

Just about any way. We eat a lot of chicken, so I like variety.
#4. Share a recipe using chicken or take a picture of a chicken dish.

Here’s a recipe for Texas Two Step Picante Chicken (Weight Watchers Recipe)

#1. What brand of frozen dinners do you think are the best and why?

It’s been a while since we’ve had frozen dinners. I don’t remember the brand, but there was some frozen manicotti that we really liked a lot.

#2. What is your favorite frozen waffle or breakfast food?

Eggo Whole Wheat Waffles
#3. Frozen appetizers. Which one is your favorite?

Cheese sticks
#4. Share a recipe or meal made from at least one frozen food.

I use frozen veggies a lot, so a lot of meal variations could come from that.

As far as a recipe, this is quick and easy: Take a frozen pizza, add more cheese, and top with lots of your favorite fresh veggies. We add sliced Roma tomatoes, fresh mushrooms, onion, and green olives.

#1. When going out to dinner what items do your order? Appetizers, soup, salad, dinner, dessert.

Sometimes we order an appetizer to share. I usually order a dinner that comes with a salad. We rarely order dessert, but if we do, we get one piece and split it .

#2. How predictable are you when eating out? Do you usually order a meal that you’ve had before or do you like to try new things?

I am very predictable. Every once in a while, I’ll try something new.

#3. When eating at a restaurant, what beverage do you like to order with your meal?

Usually water with lemon, but sometimes I order iced tea with lemon.

#4. Name a meal that you ate at a restaurant that you liked so much you tried to recreate it, as well as the name of the restaurant and the recipe.

I have tried to recreate several dishes in the past, but artichoke spinach dip is probably the main thing. Here’s a recipe a friend of mine gave me for Olive Garden’s Artichoke Spinach Dip. It’s really good, but I’m still trying to make the dip closer to what we’ve had at Charleston’s.

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#1. Cottage cheese. Small curd, large curd, chunk or whipped?

Small curd, low fat.
#2. Burgers. Made fresh, preformed fresh or preformed frozen?

Fresh, either way, on whole wheat buns made in Central Market’s bakery.

#3. If you could only buy one kind of salad dressing what would it be?

Ken’s Steak House Creamy Caesar is what my whole family really likes!

#4. Share a crockpot or slow cooker recipe.

Crock Pot Chicken

(I post the recipe separately so I can index the recipes.)

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#1. What’s your favorite food smell?

That’s a hard question. A good meal cooking on the stove and lasagna or pizza baking in the oven. Cookies, dessert, or bread baking in the oven. I guess I don’t really have a favorite…there are too many that I like.

#2. What’s your favorite kind of apple?

Fuji, Pink Lady, & Honeycrisp

#3. What veggies do you like in your salad?

Mostly Romaine lettuce, with some spinach, cucumbers, carrots, sprouts, mushrooms, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini and yellow squash sometimes.

#4. Share a recipe that uses beef.

Tamale Spoonbread Pie

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#1. American cheese. Sliced fresh or prepackaged processed cheese product?

Sliced fresh, but most of the time prepackaged is more convenient

#2. What is your favorite cracker?

Triscuits with Rosemary and Olive Oil

#3. What hot breakfast cereal do you like? Think oatmeal, farina, grits, etc.

Oatmeal with added cinnamon and a little brown sugar (and sometimes raisins)
#4. Share a recipe that uses corn.

I wrote a post last week for Shoepeg Corn Casserole that I published yesterday. It’s something I wouldn’t make very often because of the fat content, but it’s great for a special dish. (Shoepeg corn is a type of white corn known for its sweetness.)

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#1. What’s your favorite form of potatoes?

I guess my very favorite would be fried potatoes with onions, although we rarely have those because of the “fried” factor. A close second would be my “easy mashed potatoes” which are like a comfort food and yet healthy at the same time. I don’t have to feel guilty about eating them like I would the fried potatoes or mashed potatoes loaded with butter and cream.

#2. Pie crust. Premade or from scratch?

I loved my mother’s homemade pie crust. It was so delicate and flakey…so yummy. She passed away in 2000, so it’s been years since I’ve eaten her pies. (My friend, Michelle, makes the closest thing to my mother’s pie crusts that I’ve tasted.) I rarely make pies, but when I do, half the time I buy premade pie crust and half the time I make it from scratch.

#3. Vegetables. Fresh, frozen or canned?

Fresh, when in season. The majority of the time I buy frozen.

#4. What one dish do you wish you could prepare better?

I wish I could make pie crust exactly like my mother’s.

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#1. What’s your favorite fruit and how do you like to eat it?

I like all fruit. My favorite is a fresh fruit salad with a variety of fruits, and then in the hot summer we like to have a fresh fruit fruilatti nearly every day.

#2. What is the one spice in your kitchen you use more than any other?

I add parsley to a lot of dishes when I’m cooking because it’s super healthy, so it would have to be parsley.

#3. Pudding. Instant, stovetop or premade?

I prefer stovetop made-from-scratch pudding. It’s delicious plus I know it doesn’t have a bunch of additives in it. But if I don’t have the time, premade is good.
#4. Share a recipe using potatoes.

For those who like lumpy mashed potatoes, this is a healthy, different, & easy way to make them. You don’t have to boil the potatoes, just bake in the microwave: “Bake First” Mashed Potatoes

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#1. What type of m&m is your favorite?

My favorite way to eat m&m’s is to make a simple trail mix with:

• 1/3 plain m&m’s
• 1/3 cup salted peanuts
• 1/3 raisins

#2. Peanut butter. Smooth, chunky, creamy. How do you like it?

I like Creamy Jiff Reduced Fat on a sandwich. If I’m making “Ants on a Log,” I prefer the chunky.

#3. Do you usually drink out of glass, acrylic, Tupperware type or paper cups?

I drink out of a glass. I’m a big tea drinker, so if I’m drinking hot tea then I’ll choose a mug from my collection of mugs that family and friends have given me.
#4. Share a chicken recipe.

Crunchy Chicken Crescents are easy to make and great for company or taking to a party.