Good Life Menus http://goodlifemenus.com Leisurely Meals For A Hurried World. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:02:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Menu for The Week of February 4, 2012 http://goodlifemenus.com/2012/02/menu-for-the-week-of-february-4-2012/ http://goodlifemenus.com/2012/02/menu-for-the-week-of-february-4-2012/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:27:47 +0000 Tracey http://goodlifemenus.com/?p=1501 This week in the U.S. there is one of the biggest sporting events of the year: the Super Bowl!  It’s here in my town, Indianapolis, where two years ago we had one of the contenders in the Colts.  The other team was from New Orleans, home of regional specialities like gumbo, ettouffe and jambalaya.  My area raises lots of corn, turkey and pork, so we’re going to see those in this week’s menu (the corn in the form of Mexican-style hominy, which is very low carb).  We’ll also do some Tex-Mex things, something French-Greekish from southern France, and a [...]]]> This week in the U.S. there is one of the biggest sporting events of the year: the Super Bowl!  It’s here in my town, Indianapolis, where two years ago we had one of the contenders in the Colts.  The other team was from New Orleans, home of regional specialities like gumbo, ettouffe and jambalaya.  My area raises lots of corn, turkey and pork, so we’re going to see those in this week’s menu (the corn in the form of Mexican-style hominy, which is very low carb).  We’ll also do some Tex-Mex things, something French-Greekish from southern France, and a classic Italian dish.  The bonus recipes this week are things to take to any party you might be attending this Sunday.  And keep in mind, as always, that you are free to move these menus around to any night they make more sense to you–just do the Ginger Beef before you do the soup and you’ll be set.

I hope most of you haven’t been impacted by the winter storms this week. Stay safe!

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]]> http://goodlifemenus.com/2012/02/menu-for-the-week-of-february-4-2012/feed/ 0 Menu for The Week of January 28, 2012 http://goodlifemenus.com/2012/01/menu-for-the-week-of-january-28-2012/ http://goodlifemenus.com/2012/01/menu-for-the-week-of-january-28-2012/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:09:59 +0000 Tracey http://goodlifemenus.com/?p=1492 Anyone missing summer? It’s been grey here.  But I’m getting in the mood for summery food, as the Super Bowl comes to my town of Indianapolis!  So we’ll be starting the week with a fun burger recipe! We’ll do it on the stovetop.  We’ll spend some time in Morocco, India, Italy and Mexico this week.  A new ingredient I just found out is probably safe for those with blood sugar problems: Mexican-style hominy!  It’s the healthiest way to have corn despite that. Mexican-style hominy is soaked in lye water, as the natives in the Americas have done for centuries. [...]]]> Anyone missing summer? It’s been grey here.  But I’m getting in the mood for summery food, as the Super Bowl comes to my town of Indianapolis!  So we’ll be starting the week with a fun burger recipe! We’ll do it on the stovetop.  We’ll spend some time in Morocco, India, Italy and Mexico this week.  A new ingredient I just found out is probably safe for those with blood sugar problems: Mexican-style hominy!  It’s the healthiest way to have corn despite that. Mexican-style hominy is soaked in lye water, as the natives in the Americas have done for centuries.  It has only 4 net grams of carbs per half cup!  I’ve been enjoying it in all kinds of ways this last week because I’m a corn freak who’s been rather deprived for a few years now.  If you’re here for insulin/leptin problems, try and see what it does to your levels.  It’s optional in a recipe this week, and if you’re on any plan’s Induction, you should probably leave it out.  We’ll also do a bit of time-traveling back to the late Sixties, but update that night with a little twist.

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And my friend [...]]]> It’s now been nearly two weeks since the website problems here were all resolved. The two subscribers still affected could tell when the glitches ceased, I’m sure! In uncovering my website’s problems, I actually helped the subscription software company solve a bunch of niggling problems that were affecting a lot of their clients. In fact they’ve released a new version of their software that includes all the changes they made to this site.  As a result of not having to continually deal with problems, I’m now free to make improvements to the service and the site!

And my friend Heather of http://www.mamaiscomic.com is doing a giveaway for two six-month long subscriptions to my menu service! You can find it here: http://www.mamaiscomic.com/2012/give-away-good-life-menu/ . You can get up to eight chances to win!  That should give you a good start on learning a new way of eating.

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We have something special this week: Sauerbraten!  It needs to marinate for several days, so you might want to stick it in the marinade just as soon as you get the beef home.  We’re going to do something interesting with the leftovers later in the [...]]]> I am happy to report that all website problems are now resolved! In fact, the problems here helped the company uncover several very small glitches with big implications that were happening for many of their clients. They were so odd and sporadic that it took a very squeaky wheel (me) to get them resolved.

We have something special this week: Sauerbraten!  It needs to marinate for several days, so you might want to stick it in the marinade just as soon as you get the beef home.  We’re going to do something interesting with the leftovers later in the week.  We’ll also have some chicken of which, when I asked my 13-year-old son what he thought would go well with, he responded enthusiastically ”More chicken!” He also inspired the salmon dish with his suggestion.  And for those of you missing burgers, we have those too–just not on the grill on your deck.  To top it off, we have chocolate chip cookies!

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We’ve not done Thai for awhile, so this week we’re going to correct that. We’ll start out by doing a fancy-looking, but easy, Italian dish suitable for company, and follow it with your French grandmere’s (if you have a French grandmere) classic, delicious, but easy beef dish, again suitable for company. But we’ll make extra and use it in another classic Southern French country dish later. There’s a classic American cold weather soup, too, and another typical, easy French dish. We’ll veer into the Middle East for awhile–or is it the American Southwest? by the end of the week. The bonus is a party-ready dish–in America, at least, this time of year is one of the high sporting seasons of the year with all the football games! Feel free to move the menus around to whatever day works for you; just be sure to make the Beef Provencal before you make the Tian. Welcome to our new Aussie and Canadian subscribers!

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For almost a year, a scant, everchanging random handful of people have experienced glitchiness, never more than one or possibly two people at once. This kind of thing is hard to track down, and if I could make it resolve for them, I did. Sometimes it wasn’t on my end [...]]]> Even though it’s been a week where many people are off work and most of us were celebrating one holiday or another, I’ve been working hard to try to resolve a series of odd errors. I’ve now got two of them fixed. Here’s the nutshell version of what happened:

For almost a year, a scant, everchanging random handful of people have experienced glitchiness, never more than one or possibly two people at once. This kind of thing is hard to track down, and if I could make it resolve for them, I did. Sometimes it wasn’t on my end at all (cache-clearing once in awhile is a very good idea, for the record).

In fact I thought I had had these odd errors completely resolved until just before Christmas. Then, upon looking into at the problem a new subscriber reported, I realized I was seeing a possible pattern, all having to do with the third-party software I use to control subscriptions. But I’m not that advanced a code monkey, so I contacted the company that makes that software.

They suggested I upgrade to their newest software, which had just come out. In addition, there were some other security upgrades I needed to make.

Let’s just say things got a little too secure there for awhile.

Even I was getting a blank page after logging in, and I’m the site owner!

I figured out pretty quickly if I just went back to the URL for the home page by deleting everything after the .com in the URL bar, I could proceed as normal. But I hit that as a fluke, not a real solution, and knew I needed to fix the problem.

Even though that happened just a couple of days before Christmas, the software company worked on the problem and found *two switched lines* in their upgrade that caused the problem!

The second problem was that if people clicked “Northern Hemisphere Menus”, no new post titles were showing after the date of the upgrade. If subscribers used the link in the week’s email, they could get in, but otherwise had nowhere to click.

Again, that was an upgrade glitch (part of the security upgrades), found and fixed.

The original odd glitchiness is still there. But it’s very minor compared to these. And given the fact that the company fixed *two* problems for me while they were elbow-deep in figgy pudding (they’re an English company), I’d say that’s enough until they’re officially back into the office, wouldn’t you say?

Have a Happy New Year!

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The weather has been cold in the Northern Hemisphere, and the holidays are pretty much over by Monday (unless you’re Orthodox or you count the Super Bowl, which is an occasion of parties in the United States).  So we’re going to continue with menus that include roasts and soups.  This week we’ll spend a little time in France, as well as Italy.  We’ll also have a little time on the other side of the Mediterranean, with recipes from Algeria and Morocco, before heading back to North America for a Tex-Mex dinner.  And we’ll clean out the fridge from all the holiday leftovers, as well as having a chance to use up some of the herbs and nuts you may still have left from the Christmas menu.  Bonus this week is a nice, munchy snack you might want to make once now and again for any New Years parties you attend.

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One thing: make sure you’re logged in. You must be logged in to access your subscription.

In the meantime, I’m doing a lot of work on the site, in conjunction with the people who developed the subscription software. I just upgraded several pieces of software, so if you notice a problem, *please* let me know. The software people are now closed for the Christmas weekend. If you’re a subscriber and get a message when logged in, I will email you next week’s menu. You can use the “contact me” form, but it would likely be better to use chefmama at gmail dot com so that your return address will be shown.

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