We eat a lot of beans, and I like to use the instant pot to cook dried beans because I don’t even have to remember to soak them overnight. We eat beans in enchiladas, tacos, nachos, southern style pintos and cornbread, black beans and rice, and I love to add them to soups to bulk it up a bit. Tomato soup with chickpeas or heart northerns is fantastic!

I’m in the middle of a brain-candy cozy mystery “The Diva Cooks a Goose”, which is okay. I’m also reading nonfiction “Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I”. My teen and I are going to see the musical “Six” soon and I’ve been trying to learn a bit about the queens beforehand. I do like this one so far.

Bulbasaur. Years ago, I mentioned he looked like a garlic bulb so my kid gave me her plastic toy Bulbasaur and now he sits on the windowsill as the patron saint of my kitchen.

That’s amazing!

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Same here!

People who are constantly late. Sure, emergencies happen to all of us once in a while. But if you’re always late, then you’re just rude.

I enjoy it, but I only learned to eat it about a year ago. It took me such a long time because it looks so unappetizing. Now I love it with savory flavors. I especially like it as a replacement for salad dressing – I’m getting extra protein with some added flavor. And my current favorite snack is cottage cheese with cucumbers, red onions and everything bagel seasoning.

That’s beautiful! What a lovely gift!

I like embroidery, baking and cooking, exercising, and jigsaw puzzles. I just started my biggest one ever – 5000 pieces. It takes up about half of our living room floor, but we don’t have a table big enough.

My husband and I play Scrabble together, and have for the past 19 years. I even made our wedding cake topper to be two people playing Scrabble. We also have a notebook that keeps up with our scores, and unfortunately it notes that I’ve been on a losing streak lately!

As a family, with our 14yo, they like to go birding (it’s not my thing), or we play cards or board games.