There are a variety of different things that you and your family can do to save on the electricity that you use in your home. A lot of the things that you can do are free or just cost very little to switch over to. The biggest thing about trying to conserve on electricity is the discipline. It takes discipline to break our old habits which tend to be quite wasteful when you come to think about it.
Dinner at Sharps was delicious, as always. The girls had something nonvegan. I had the brazilian slow-cooker-feijoada-brazilian-style-black-bean-stew burger with no cheese and no mayo. I also like to order pizza at Sharps. They make it vegan for me with no meat and no cheese but with artichoke hearts, ripe olives, bell peppers, and mushrooms. I like to drizzle a little olive oil over it and sprinkle it with salt and black pepper and red pepper. Perhaps the best part of Sharps for the past several years that my young friend and I have gone to eat at Sharps, howevr, is playing hangman on the ubiquitous magnadoodles.
You need to keep that refrigerator cold and you’re not going to get that done if you stand there for 10 minutes staring inside of it with the door wide open. You know your kids do it and this is something that needs to be stopped. You should get what you need and shut the door right away. You also need to keep the cooling coils cleaned and in good shape. If you have an old refrigerator you might want to consider investing in one that has the brazilian Feijoada Energy Star rating.
Nutrisystem Ham And Beans Soup: I did not think that I was going to like this one, but honestly, it taste a lot like what my mother used to call Spanish Bean soup. The ham comes off as having an almost sausage taste, which might be why I am thinking this. The beans are not as over powering as I feared they would be. There aren’t any noodles in this, (which I would often call a minus.) But, this soup is a bit heavier than the others (which might be why it’s 180 calories.) I use this one in my rotation quite a bit.
The Childress Vineyards slow cooker Feijoada in Lexington North Carolina is something you have to see for yourself whether you’re a NASCAR fan or not. In fact many of the people who stop by the Vineyard everyday have no clue at all that it’s actually owned by NASCAR car owner Richard Childress. Last year on our annual road trip to Charlotte my best friend and I stopped by the Childress Vineyards on our way out of town. This year we knew we’d have to make a return trip.
We use the last of the mashed potatoes, drippings, and roast beef slices to make a shepherd’s pie variation. I make a crust to fit a 9 by 13 inch pan, then layer the beef slices over the top of the crust. I put either two one pound bags of frozen or two drained one pound cans of mixed vegetables over the beef slices.
While for their entrees you can order from their house specialties like the beef steak (bife a Brasileira) which is thin cut tender beef sirloin steak, grilled and finished with garlic and sliced onions served with fries, rice and beans, or the fish stew which has salmon, whitefish, shrimp sauteed with olive oil garlic, onions, bell peppers feijoada em lisboa tomatoes, or even the bean stew (feijoada) which is black beans cooked with bacon, pork sausage, cured beef and pork ribs. Served with white rice, collard greens, farofa, banana, vinaigrette and orange just to name a few.