Cornbeef With a Twist

Monday I made BBQ corn beef. I know I am behind schedule. I Saw this on eat streets and I thought wow I never thought of cooking corn beef  bbq style. so I gave it a try. It was delicious. Now Eat Street is a show about food truck eats..but I accommodated it to my kitchen cause I don't have a food truck. This is what I did. My corn beef was 4 pounds. I trimmed the fat. and cut it into smaller pieces and put it in my slow cooker with 2 1/2 cups water. I used the seasoning packet that came with it and I cooked it for four hours. I cooked it with the seasoning packet because I still wanted the cornbeef flavor to be present. After the four hours I took the pieces and sliced them med thin. At this point it is pretty tender. I poured all but 1 cup of the water/juices out of the slow cooker. Put the 1 cup of juices, half an onion, half a bottle of open pit mesquite bbq sauce, a half a bottle of sweet baby rays honey bbq sauce and 1T corn starch for thickening into the slow cooker. I whisked this all together. When the sauce started warming back up and thickening I put the corn beef back in the slow cooker and left it for 1 1/2hr. That meat was soooo tender it was falling apart. The bbq seeped into the corn beef and I tell you..in my sister's voice BAAABY!!!! that sandwich was awesome. Oh I put a slice of chipotle cheese on my sandwich. I put some cheese puffs with it because that was all I had.. I would rather have had potato chips..but hey that did not stop the flow. And I completed my meal with and ice cold cream soda zevia. Tender and delicious. This may not be new to some people but it was new to me and I totally enjoyed it. Give it a try..tell me what you think about this Corn Beef with a Twist.

WEIGHT LOSS

Losing weight is so hard. I always get so nervous when its time to weigh in at weight watchers . I get butterflies so bad in my stomach. Just the worry that you have done everything right and when u get on the scale it may not show a loss and then get frustrated and just be like why bother. I have given up b4. I remember one week I didn't lose any weight, so I said by next week I am going to give it all I got and more. So I watched and wrote down everything I are and even worked out 2x a day for 6 days..by day 7 I was too tired to anything. And believe it or not I gained 2 pounds. It may have been muscle but at the time I didn't care..all I know is I gained. So I cried when I got to my car and I quit for 2 weeks. After that I went over my logs and read my WW weekly I saw where I could make some changes. Now I am happy to say I am down 4 more pds. As of yesterday I am 32pds down. I started out having a very hard time to get the scale to budge. More details later on how I did it. But I did use MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, and HCG program.i don't have any picture of me before I started losing weight. I never never never wanted to take pics. I am so happy with my success. I have 11pds to go. Any body else want to share their weight loss story with me.

 

 
 

Self Hate....Is it self-hate when black women down others that choose to go natural

I've defiantly had my share of haters when is comes to my natural look....I cant tell you how many times I've been asked to straighten my hair that is would be prettier, like my curls are less attractive!
While cruising on my social sites I came across a person's status that shocked me and got me to wondering....
She said "I just cant get with the "natural" look that a lot of women are doing...my hair, eyelashes, nails and body parts are all real but, I absolutely can not go around looking "nappy" whats cute about that? Nothing! The slave look is not hot!!!! IJS....(no offence natural ladies)"
She goes on to joke about the Florida Evans look and how ugly natural hair is, that they look like they stepped off the mother ship!  She said she would rather have nice silky hair.
So is this self hate or just a persons prefence?          -Mu

Tip of the Day-Asparagus

I am tired of the same veggies: Spinach, broccoli, romaine, green leaf  lettuce and cucumber(which is said to be a fruit). I stopped eating broccoli because of the gas and bloating. I have been trying new veggies and 2 weeks ago I tried asparagus..I thought they might be in the same family and was worried it would give me gas too but I found no info confirming that. But OMG it gave me worse gas and bloat than broccoli ever did. I awoke the next morning with belly pain.  I was so mad at myself  and hurt because I enjoyed eating it. I had sauted it in that new flavored butter by land o lakes. The Italian herb. It really was delicious. Well I passed gas for about 2 hours. my pain had finally left and my tummy went down. So I thought that was that..no more asparagus for me. Well last week there was a sub sponsor at weight watcher(WW). I almost left because the reg sponsor wasn't there and I didn't want to hear any body else talk. I hesitated but I stayed. So glad I did. TIP: She mentioned if your having trouble with broccoli or asparagus to boil them in club soda for just a couple of minutes and you wont have gas or bloating. I was leery but I thought this info was meant to be because I almost left. So I tried it. I didn't want to just have it boiled because I found a recipe I wanted to try. So I boiled it for a quick minute or 2. Flashed chilled them and then incorporated them in to my intended recipe. YAY!!!No GAS and NO Bloating. So there it is..boil asparagus in club soda. I used Kroger brand. Other info I found out is asparagus has less calories(20) per 100g less carb(3.9) and less protein(2.2) than broccoli. So if either veggie doesn't agree with you, give this tip a try and tell me if it worked for you.

Deal of the day!!

Ok so I went to kmart to put my youngest daughter some clothes in the layaway..they have free layaway and u get $6 in reward points for opening a one. When I go to get in line its only me and a lady in front of me. She has 2 carts of stuff. I knew this was gonna take a while so I decided to walk around some more. And I always look clearance aisles no matter what store i'm in. And I find these scarves on an arm I somehow overlooked the first time I went by there. And I needed a yellow one and that is exactly what I found. The thing is they were $9.99 marked down to $6.99. I go to scan it on price checker and they come up $2.99. I always price check clearance because otherwise I might pass it up if I feel the price isn't right. So now I have to go back and check the rest and I find more 2 scarves for $2.99. Well I had to get all 3. I got 3 scarves for the price of 1 original price. Woohooo. When I got home my teen daughter thought they were for her. Ummm no!!