Drunk Chicken Drumsticks

When it's comes to cooking I'm all about easy, fast, and healthy. I want to spend as little time as possible and have delicious outcome. I am constantly experimenting with ingredients, and in most of the cases results exceeding my expectations.


Yesterday I bought tray of chicken drumsticks, dumped them in bowl, and cover it with Budweiser beer sprinkles generously turmeric, cover with plastic screen and put it into refrigerator. Next day, placed marinated legs into a frying pan (make sure no plastic handles) cover with little bit of olive oil, add Budweiser beer + half cup of apple cider, halve way covering legs, add crushed garlic, sprinkle with salt, black pepper, cumin, coriander, thyme. Cover pan with aluminum foil, and place it into preheated oven (400F) for 1 hour.
I served it with another experimental dish, brown rice cooked in green tea. Unexpectedly delicious, great color, texture, and interestingly highlighted natural fruitiness of full bodied rice. Green salad with red pepper and shredded carrots necessary addition to this dinner. Bon Appetite!

Warning! One more danger of plastic and it's in your car!

I just got e-mail form my friend with this, to my opinion, very important information and I feel obligated to share it with you. Please read it, it may change your health.

No wonder more folks are dying from cancer than ever before. We wonder
where this stuff comes from but here is an example that explains a lot of the
cancer causing incidents. Many people are in their cars first thing in
the morning and the last thing at night, 7 days a week. As I read this, it
makes me feel guilty and ill.

Please do NOT turn on A/C as soon as you enter the car.

Open the windows after you enter your car and turn ON the AC after a couple of minutes.

Here's why:

According to a research, the dashboard, sofa and air freshener emit Benzene, a cancer-causing toxin (carcinogen - take time to observe the smell of heated plastic in your car).

In addition to causing cancer, Benzene poisons your bones, causes anemia and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer. Can also cause miscarriage.

Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq. ft. A car parked indoors with windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene. If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level.

People who get into the car, keeping windows closed will inevitably inhale, in quick succession, excessive amounts of the toxin.

Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver. What's worse, it is extremely difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.

So friends, please open the windows and doors of your car and give time
for the deadly interior air to clear out before you enter.

Please pass this on to as many people as possible. Guess it’s not too late to make some changes.

Not Just a Jar of Honey

We all know honey is one of the miracle products. It’s not only great and healthy substitute for sugar, but it’s magical medicine used for centuries. It’s strengthening immune system, it’s has Bacteria-Fighting Benefits, it’s can be also used for Allergy Relief. But not all honey is the same. Most that sold in supermarkets are a heavily processed: chemically refined, blended, heated, which can all eliminate the numerous health benefits that honey has to offer. Raw honey is not like most honey, it is unique in that it keeps the same traits it had when it was made in the bee hive.
WEE BEE Naturally Raw Honey is my most favorite brand (sold in Whole Foods). Two reasons: First - the price $13.99 for 2lb, which is great value for the money.


Second - product packed in absolutely reusable jar. It’s a glass, that make it eco-friendly, is easy to wash and best of all, you don’t have to pay for it, that got a PaylessLiving Seal of Approval. I use it to refrigerate leftovers of soups, sources, dressings and other products I buy in bulk at Whole Foods. Soak in water easy label removal.


Choose products, that’s not only health, but could be purposely recycled in your household.
My love for Tomato Juice turned into this collection for other bulk produce: rice, beans, cereals (ops, I have to refill them).


Till next time. Happy, Healthy, Payless Living to You!

What to do with not-so-fresh garlic?

If you a garlic lover, and spice up your food with it, you most likely come across a glove of not-so-fresh garlic. You can toss it away, or you can make something useful out of it - Garlic Sprouts. Take a small cup, place a layer of tissue or paper towel, saturate it with water, put a glove on top, and place it next to a window. Couple of days, and voilà, you have a great, delicious, spicy sprouts to garnish your salads, soups, meats... Great for your taste buds, wonderful for your health!

Eggs probably the most inexpensive food. They’ve being wrongly accused as a unhealthy, as they increase cholesterol, but recently reevaluated they even got the status of the super food. There are many different dishes you already know and like, but some of my favorite, you probably never tried before.


Omelet with Tomatoes

It’s my absolute favorite.
Tomatoes (even the one from produce clearance shelf) slightly fried, then the mixture of eggs, milk, dash of salt & cumin poured on top. Cover the frying pan with lid and let if cook on a small fire until done (5-7 min).




On picture: omelet with yellow cherry tomatoes.