Rating america's best fast food

Almost all fast food is complete crap.  I appreciate that most chains are starting to offer some HEALTHIER choices...but are you really going into Burger King to order a salad?  Probably not.

But If you are going to EAT some fast food, check out this article about the highest rated fast food RESTAURANTS in the country.  Three chains I like that seem to appear several times IN THE ARTICLE  are Panera Bread, Wendy's, and Subway.

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Karen's Garden gets first press

Special thank to Anna.  From the Daily Rye.

Feeling down and out?

Well if so read the following article.  This man is a true inspiration!

Cheesy buffalo chicken dip

I made a slow cooker recipe that I originally found on allrecipes.com.  However, I altered it a bit, and it came out pretty damn good.  If you enjoy football all day Sunday, this is the perfect dip for you and your friends.

Ingredients:

1 whole rotisserie chicken, about 3-4 pounds
16 oz shredded cheddar cheese
1 8 oz package cream cheese, room temperature
4 oz ranch dressing
4 oz blue cheese dressing
1 cup Frank's brand Buffalo sauce
1/2 cup Frank's Red Hot sauce

Optional:
chopped spinach, onions,, fresh parsley.

Instructions:
1. Cut all the meat from the chicken, discarding the bones.
2. Melt the cream cheese, hot sauce buffalo sauce, ranch dressing, and blue cheese dressing  together in a large skillet over medium heat.
3. Once mixture is smooth , pour over chicken.  Combine all ingredients, except 1/2 of the shredded cheddar cheese, to the crock pot.  After ingredients are well mixed, sprinkle remaining cheese on the top of the dip. 4.  . Cover and cook on low for about 40 minutes, or until cheese starts to bubble on top.

Once it is ready, you can serve it however you like.  I went with celery, carrots, ritz crackers, and tortilla chips.  But leftover ideas are plentiful.  Buffalo chicken qiesadillas?  Buffalo chicken tacos?  Buffalo chicken mac and cheese?  Why not try them all.

Onions! Onions!

They make you cry...they make your breath stink...they have many layers. But what a lot of people don't know are these fun facts:

-Soviet doctors used onions as an antiseptic to treat wounds during WW2.

-Ulysses S. Grant told the war department "I will not move my army without onions!"

-Olympic athletes would eat punds of onions and drink onion juice to prepare for the games.

-Every American eats 21.5 pounds of onions a year.

(Thanks to Raya's magazine for those facts)

Easy Bake Onion:

-Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.  Place 4 onions in the oven.  Bake for 1 hour.

-Remove skin from onions and season with fresh parsley, thyme, olive oil, course salt, and pepper.

If you have any great onion recipes or facts please share them here

Book of Mormon

This was my favorite part of the show....

What would Freud think of this?

This medical story seems a little bit weird to me.  If it works I think that is fantastic for the mothers who want to have babies of their own.  However, I feel this may have a harmful mental effect on the "Grandchildren?"

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Karen's Garden

Take an inspiring journey into Karen's Garden!  Learn about gardening basics while enjoying beautiful illustrations  of flowers, fruits, and vegetables.  The secret to a, luscious and healthy garden lies within.

Special thanks to Nano for his beautiful illustrations, which he worked tirelessly on.  Also, thanks to Libby for all her assistance with layout, publishing, and all other technical issues.

CLICK HERE TO ORDER

PLEASE like KAREN'S GARDEN ON FACEBOOK

Drunkest Guy Ever - Silent

Cyber-Chow

When I was young, I thought being a cyborg would be cool.  Now I am dealing with my own foolish desires.  At this moment I am waering two pairs of headphones while I sit at my desk.  One is connected to my Imac, which is reading me these letters as I type them.  I then have a smaller Iphone headphone in my right ear, literally inside my other headphone.  This is so I can hear my phone when my AppleTech friend calls me back..

Although I thinik it is incredible that this is possible, part of me feel like I am being sucked into the matrix.  And while My ears are subjected to all of these sounds,Raya is studying in our bed, about 3 feet away, enjoying complete silence.

Keyboardshortcuts can go suck a..

Lollipop!  Sorry for the lack ofposts the last couple of days.  I was having an issue with safari navigating to the previous webpage whenever I hit the backspace key.  The solution:

Hold shift while pressing back space!

so if you are having the same problem, remember ; Shift + backspace equals a safe delete.

Otis Redding

Aaron Rodgers to wear 49ers jersey all week?

It's a tough week to be a cheesehead...

Mac Tip#1: reset your RAM

I just spoke with a very knowledgeable and friendly apple tech named alan.  He taught me an amazing trick to reset my RAM, and basically make my computer run like it was brand new again.  It takes about 30 seconds and I HIGHLY recommend that you do it immediately if you own a mac computer.  Here is how you do it:

1. locate the commend, option, P, and R keys on your keyboard.

2. Shut down your mac

3. turn your computers power back on.  before the gray screen pops up, press and hold  command+ option + P + R.  KEEP THEM HELD until you here the power on "noise sound off for a 2nd time.


IF YOU LIKE THE RESULTS, PLEASE SHARE THIS POST WITH ANY MAC OWNING FRIENDS.

I want Eye Ring

Only the people at MIT would come up with something so ingenious.  It is only a prototype, but the independence this device could offer to the blind and visually impaired is unparalleled.

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Mission: Save the World with Scientology

Tom Cruise is a nutjob.  I'm all about religious freedom, and I prescribe to a few different faiths myself. But scientology is pure,, unadulterated bullshit.

It is based on a science fiction novel by L. Ron Hubbard.  You have to pay money to move up in the church hierarchy,  And now they are looking for a bride to bare Tom Cruise's offspring.  Offspring that will one day  "SAVE THE WORLD!"

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