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Sunday, March 1, 2026
My Recipe Box - Stuffed Peppers
Stuffed Peppers
Another old recipe I've made forever, but never wrote the recipe. I originally used the Betty Crocker recipe and added to it over the years.
As I make this for just the two of us, I use 2 green peppers and adjust. You can use any colour pepper, but green happens to be my favourite.
Servings: 4 to 6
Prep Time: 30 Minutes
Cook Time: 45 Minutes
Total Time: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Ingredients
1 pound 90% lean ground beef OR pork
1¼ teaspoons salt, divided
3 large red, yellow, or orange bell peppers, cut in half from the stem to the bottom and cored
3 tablespoons extra-virgin oil
1 medium yellow onion, finely chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1½ teaspoons chili powder
½ teaspoon ground cumin
¼ teaspoon dried oregano
1 (8-oz) can tomato sauce
1 cup cooked rice, quinoa, or any grain
1½ cups shredded cheese - cheddar or mozzarella
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 425°F and set an oven rack in the middle position.
Line a 9x13-inch baking dish with aluminum foil for easy clean-up, if you like. Place the peppers, cut side up, in the baking dish; drizzle with 1 tablespoon of the oil and sprinkle with the remaining ¼ teaspoon salt.
Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil over medium heat in a large nonstick skillet. Add the onion and cook, stirring frequently, until soft and translucent, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the garlic and cook 1 minute more; do not brown. Add the ground beef mixture, chili powder, cumin, and oregano and increase the heat to medium high. Cook, breaking the meat up with a wooden spoon, until the meat is browned and almost cooked through, 4 to 5 minutes.
Add the tomato sauce and bring to a boil; reduce the heat to medium low and cook, uncovered, until the meat is cooked through, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the cooked rice and ¾ cup of the cheese, and stir until melted. Remove the skillet from the heat.
Remove the peppers from the oven and spoon the meat filling evenly into the peppers. Sprinkle with the remaining ¾ cup cheese and place back in the oven. Roast for 10 to 15 minutes, until the filling is hot and the cheese is melted and bubbling, and serve.
Women's History Month
Women's History Month is an annual observance to highlight the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. Celebrated during March in the United States, Germany, and Australia, corresponding with International Women's Day on March 8, it is observed during October in Canada, corresponding with the celebration of Persons Day on October 18.
Goodreads curated a collection of new & recent nonfiction reads, from general nonfiction to histories, biographies, and memoirs.
Here is a list, however if you go to the linked (above) Goodreads article, you can see the book covers and click to read more about the books, making it more interesting than a list!!
History and Biography
Sisters in Science
The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
A Flower Traveled in My Blood
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West
Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women
The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising – The Holocaust Biography of Female Resistance Leaders
Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis
When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice
The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin
The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us
Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance
The Sea Captain's Wife
Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power
Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane
Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights
Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress
Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler – A Biography of the Visionary Science Fiction Writer and Black Power Voice
For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising
Paris Undercover
Queens at War (England's Medieval Queens, #4)
We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
A Woman's Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering
The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America – A Political History of Reproductive Freedom
Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty
Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
Crash of the Heavens: The Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh and the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe's Jews During World War II
You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson's Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode with Her
Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World
Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown
It's No Wonder: The Life and Times of Motown's Legendary Songwriter Sylvia Moy
Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973
The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State
Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong
Carson McCullers: A Life
The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement
Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality
The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
A History of Scottish Witches: The Devil's Handmaidens
Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship
Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors
Margaret Beaufort: Survivor, Rebel, Kingmaker
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore
Alice Baber: An Artist's Triumph Over Tragedy
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men
Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
General Nonfiction
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today
The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate
Good Woman: A Reckoning
Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty
Single and Psycho: How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told
I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America
Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause
The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
Digital Girlhoods
Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden
If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead
This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood
The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up
My Recipe Box - Greek Lemon Potatoes
1 March 2026 - Toronto ON
This recipe serves 4-6. For the two of us, I use one baking potato and adjust the rest of the ingredients.
My oven tends to be on the slower side for baking.
Greek Lemon Potatoes Recipe
Prep time
10 minutes
Cook time
1 hour - depending on your stove and how crispy you like
Serves
4 to 6
Ingredients
3 cloves garlic
2 medium lemons
1/2 cup low-sodium chicken broth or low-sodium vegetable broth
1/2 cup olive oil
2 teaspoons dried oregano
1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 pounds Yukon gold potatoes (3 large or 4 medium)
Instructions
Arrange a rack in the middle of the oven and heat the oven to 400℉.
Mince 3 garlic cloves and place in a 9x13-inch baking dish.
Juice 2 medium lemons until you have 1/3 cup and add to the baking dish.
Add 1/2 cup low-sodium chicken broth, 1/2 cup olive oil, 2 teaspoons dried oregano, 1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt, and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper. Stir to combine.
Peel 2 pounds Yukon gold potatoes and cut into 1-inch-wide wedges. Add to the baking dish and toss to coat. Spread into an even layer. Cover the baking dish with aluminum foil.
Roast for 30 minutes. Uncover and toss the potatoes. Return the baking dish to the oven and roast uncovered until the potatoes are very tender, 30 to 35 minutes more. If you’d like browned edges, turn the oven to broil and broil until the potatoes are lightly browned, 2 to 4 minutes.
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Funnies
YES! Unexpected items in bagging area!!! I only have two hands, where would you like me to put it? Don't answer...
This along with grocery cashier, standing idly by, as I bag my groceries (on the too small counter) impatiently waiting for payment.
Dating
You know what drives me crazy? Signs that say "closing at 12 PM" what time is that?????
According to Royal Museums Greenwich:
'Noon' means 'midday' or 12 o’clock during the day. ‘Midnight’ refers to 12 o’clock during the night. Simple right?
Well, maybe not, especially if you're using a 12-hour clock.
When most people say 12pm, typically they're talking about the middle of the day: 12 noon. When they say 12am, they normally mean 12 midnight.
While some people follow this convention, technically it's not quite right – as you'll see from the definition of am and pm below. To avoid any confusion (and to make sure you arrive on time), it might be best to say 12 noon or 12 midnight instead.
Alternatively, you could use the 24-hour clock system, where 12:00 is noon and 00:00 (or 24:00) is midnight.
Once every month, the correct and the US date formats agree.
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