Chips and Hummus With Hot Sauce. Squares cut from a flour tortilla fried in olive oil. I used relatively little oil which means that in a hot pan, had to move fast to turn over each and every one of the squares before they burned. Less oil is soaked up. Otherwise, you can deep fry them without all the turning but be sure to paper them to soak up the extra oil afterwards. Put Za’atar on the hummus with its thyme, sesame seeds, and sumac for the extra health benefits including the antibacterial, antifungal properties because the hummus had been out for three days. Don’t worry, I did not serve it to anyone else.

Fried Veggies with Kashkaval Cheese and Live Life to the Fullest Spices.
I figure there are two ways of looking at this – at least. First, you boil them and boil a lot of the vitamins out, they taste boiled, and you are unhappy. Or you fry them, they are not quite done but have retained more of their vitamins and minerals – where are they going to go?, and you are happier with the taste.  You may live longer with the boiled version, or not, but if I get run over by a truck, I don’t want my last thoughts to be “And here I ate all of those vegetables boiled.” I’d rather go happy. Ingredients: Peas, broccoli, onion, carrots fried in olive oil. Spices: Oregano, coriander, turmeric (curcumin), butter, salt to taste. Add the cheese (any cheese you like), and the butter at the end. Two tips: When you pour those vegetables into the hot smoking oil, have the cover in the other hand because all that water on the vegetables is going to hit hard. Second, do not keep the cover on too long in order to get the fried look instead of the well cooked look.

When I came back from vacation, my cat had small bumps all over the outside of her ears. Inside was fine. And it didn’t seem to bother her at all. The vet had no idea what to do but, being in business sold me some anti-flea stuff. To be fair to him, he did not see her because she is a street cat who found me and still spends a lot of her time outside. Except for petting, I have never picked her up. So, left to my own devises, searched the web, and in some filled-with-light, out of the way place found someone saying that you should try aloe vera. While I was waiting for the aloe vera from my daughter, I had some aloe vera juice which I was drinking for another reason (we’ll go into that at another time). Put it on her ears. She did not like that, and I had to put down the small bottle I had put some in for treating her, before she would come back to be petted. Within one day, the condition had improved considerably. Put a little on twice a day, and by the third day it was almost gone. Great stuff this aloe vera.