Fixin' Supper

Now that I’ve finally redone my blog, I want to send a shout-out to a friend I’ve been meaning to spotlight for a long time. My high-school classmate Jimmy Moore has really been through a lot since we graduated from Bolivar Central in 1989 — but I am so proud to call him a friend and classmate and hope he can say the same about me. Jimmy had gotten to be quite overweight — a problem many people struggle with today. But in 2004, he lost 180 pounds! Here’s a clip from his blog, Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb:

My mission here is to encourage and educate people about the healthy
benefits of the low-carb lifestyle. After losing over 180 pounds in
2004 by following the Atkins diet, I released a book about my
experience called "Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb" in October 2005. This blog
was birthed out of a desire to help people combat the daily lies that
permeate throughout much of the media and from so-called "health
experts" about low-carb and to provide encouragement to those who
desire weight loss.

Jimmy, I am so proud of you! I feel certain that most of what I talk about on Fixin’ Supper won’t qualify as low-carb. :) But eating better is something we can all feel good about, and I applaud you for your work encouraging others on a daily basis. Keep up the good work yourself, and keep sharing your healthy outlook.

So I love Publix. I know I have mentioned this before. I could change my blog’s name to the "I love Publix" blog and I would feel completely OK with that. I discovered about three weeks ago that unbeknownst to me, at some point in the past few months, this blessed chain opened a store in Brentwood, a mere 14 miles from my house.

I haven’t yet counted the grocery stores I drive past to get to the Publix (substantial number, I feel sure), but I am not feeling bad about that.

So strolling through the Publix the other day, I discovered this great little product from the Lundberg rice folks. If you haven’t ponied up for Lundberg rice yet, please do. It is worth every penny. And the Lundberg Jubilee rice is so pretty that I described it to my sister as looking like "a party in a bag." At which point she says we have different understandings of the word party.

Nonetheless, I determined that we must do something special with this beautiful rice. So we found this awesome recipe from Crescent Dragonwagon’s Passionate Vegetarian cookbook…combined brown rice, mushrooms, corn, carrots, onions, garlic, sundried tomatoes and her dragon salt. You bake in the oven. Wow!!! We’ve decided that, all due respect to CD, we’ll probably unfortunately end up calling this dish "party in a bag" forever.