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Sundays are always a day when I cook a big dinner. Sometimes it is a drudgery as cooking all week long I get soooo tired of it. The Sunday rolls around and I am thinking about what meal to make for the gang.

Here is a great recipe and the best part is that either my oldest son or my son in law will be more than happy to tackle the grill! Side dishes will be easy. A side of corn on the cob and a fresh salad should do the trick! BBQ food is always easy

Barbecued Marinated Flank Steak









INGREDIENTS

1/4 cup soy sauce
3 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 cup vegetable oil
* 1 1/2 pounds flank steak

DIRECTIONS

1. In a blender, combine the soy sauce, honey, vinegar, ginger, garlic powder, and vegetable oil.
2. Lay steak in a shallow glass or ceramic dish. Pierce both sides of the steak with a sharp fork. Pour marinade over steak, then turn and coat the other side. Cover, and refrigerate 8 hours, or overnight.
3. Preheat grill for high heat.
4. Place grate on highest level, and brush lightly with oil. Place steaks on the grill, and discard marinade. Grill steak for 10 minutes, turning once, or to desired doneness.

A couple of months ago I saw a product named Femestra. A natural herbal product that would help with certain symptoms that women have either pre-menopause or already in the menopause stage of life.

Those ladies that are going through this, either stage, know what I am talking about. Hot flashes, mood swings, bloating, lack of sleep and so on. A real pain in the rump.

I saw this and read and read on it. Deciding that I would try it. Now the symptoms that bother me the most is the lack of sleep (what is sleep???) and the bloating. Which the bloating I can deal with but the sleep loss is miserable to say the least. Hot flashes or surging as my children call it I do not suffer from enough to have it as an issue.

OK. I go ahead and order it. Personally I think it won't work. How often do you read the testimonials and they are all raves about how great this is? In actuality the product is a real piece of garbage. I know it is not a good marketing ploy to say its crap.

I started out by the dosage that they suggest. They state to take anywhere from 2-4 per day. It is not really clear as it says if 2 does not work add more and so on. I did the 3 per day. WOW! OK sleep was slightly better at least I was getting some. Bloating went down within 2 weeks. I was very impressed with that. The second month I said to myself I will keep it up even though it is $50 per month for the pills. If it works it is well worth the price.

Six weeks into the taking of the pills my mood changed. Uncontrollable anger. My children noticed it right away and were actually scared to say anything to me, calling me either a Beast or Medusa. Things that normally I shine on I went off like a raging lunatic. Literally. So I lowered the dosage to 2. Did that work? NO. I got worse. I was nearly killing people with my sharp tongue. Even students, business associates and clients were asking if I was OK because it was out of the norm of my behavior. I mean I went above and beyond being the normal bitch that I am. It even made me in awe of my bad behavior because no matter how I tried it would not stop. I knew there was something definitely wrong but kept right on taking the pills.

Struggling with the things that were going on I tried and tried to figure out why. I had no stress, no changes nothing really different. Then one morning I woke up and it hit me. It was the Femestra.

I stopped then and there taking it. Within one week I was back to my normal happy self. The funny thing was that there was also a slight craving to take the pills which I thought was total BS

I have been now clean of the Femestra now for a month. I feel great. I do not sleep, I have found some things to go around the bloating and I am not a flippin raging beast with flames shooting out of my ears and mouth.

I am not saying that it might work for you but I would really think twice about taking it. Maybe I had an allergic reaction that triggered something I do not know and do not want to know. All I do know is what it did to me and my personal experience with this herbal concoction. My family is now back to the abnormally happy people they always have been and so am I.

I just wanted to let women know to think before you take it.

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This coming week we will finally begin the addition and restoration to my room. I was sitting here looking around and thinking what a mess this is truly going to be.

I have to move all the dressers, the stands and other furniture into the near middle of the room in order to have the walls expanded and new sheet rock put up. That is just a start though.

When this is finished (finally) I will begin the planning of the reading nook that will be opened up. Right now we are using the space as storage. I want to open it up saving at least half for storage and the rest goes for the reading section. Also have the other side of the stair case to do. Now that will be a big job.

Have to figure out what to do with the pre-1700 loom that is there. Yep. It came with the house, being in the attic which I have restored into a bedroom with work area.

Right now I dread the mess. In the long run it will look so much better and I need the extra space. haha I can re-do the landing as well this summer Love that idea a lot!

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I just love the summer vegetables. Especially since here we are able to get fresh squash from neighbors that grow it or from the local farms. It is so good when it is that fresh.

Usually I like to boil it then after draining it place butter adding salt and pepper. Always a big hit. Plus it is so easy. And we all know by now I like things easy!!!!

I found this recipe and thought it sounded a little different and you know it, easy. haha This is for 2 servings.



Grilled Zucchini












Ingredients

1 large zucchini
4 tablespoons butter
salt and pepper to taste

Directions
1. Preheat grill to medium high heat.
2. Clean outer skin of zucchini, and slice lengthwise into quarters. Place a pat of butter or margarine on each zucchini quarter, and season with salt and pepper to taste. Wrap all four quarters in one piece of aluminum foil.
3. Place foil wrapped zucchini on heated grill, and cook for 10 to 15 minutes on each side.

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Have you ever just craved a nice, big, juicy hamburger? Not the ones that the fast food joints have, although some are pretty good, but a home made burger.

I saw this and the title not only grabbed my attention but my craving for a burger! The name just sums it up--- Biggest Bestest Burger. It is not a hard recipe to pull together and will take little to no time at all to do this.

Now in the instructions it says to place in your broiler. Who wants to broil when you can fire up the old barbecue? I think this will taste absolutely yummy coming fresh off the grill! Since it is mid week this looks like what we will be having for dinner!










Biggest Bestest Burger


INGREDIENTS
2 pounds ground beef
1 onion, chopped
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon dried basil
1/4 cup Italian seasoned bread crumbs
1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese
1/3 cup teriyaki sauce
6 slices American cheese
6 onion rolls

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to broil.
2. In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, onion, salt, ground black pepper and basil; mix together well. Then add the bread crumbs, cheese and teriyaki sauce. Mix this together well and divide into 4 to 6 large, round balls.
3. Place the hamburger balls onto a broiler pan, evenly spaced. Press down on each ball, either with your palm or with a spatula, until a perfectly round patty is formed.
4. Broil for 8 minutes, turn each patty over, and broil for 8 minutes more. (Note: The outside of each patty should appear almost burnt.)
5. Turn off heat and place cheese slices on each patty. When cheese is melted, remove from oven and serve on onion rolls.