Publix and I are best friends. When you spend hours at the grocery store as I do you have to love the place. I love their apron simple meals and have used them on this blog and have prepared them for my classes many times with great results. This Parmesan-Crusted Chicken that I discovered this summer is a keeper. Anyone that can boil water and turn on the oven has got it made. Plus the meal is so delicious. By the way for all of you that are interested school starts for me two weeks from today. Where has my summer gone? So I’m digging in and enjoying every last minute.
I have fallen in love with Donna Hay’s Magazine. Thanks to a tweet from Tami who writes a beautiful food blog 
I’ve not always shopped at Publix. In fact here in our suburb of Atlanta we have not always had a Publix. When vacationing in Daytona Beach , Fla. we fell in love with Publix. I cannot say it was because of the pristine clean environment or the wonderful produce, it was the bakery. For the record it was their apple turnovers with the sugar on top. We were in heaven! We now have a Publix and guess what we stopped buying the turnovers. Not because they were bad, but we did not want to buy a new wardrobe. Publix is my friend. I really like the fact that they give you a new recipe every week that is fast to fix and all the ingredients are right there for you to pick up. Psychologically they really know what to do that will make you just automatically buy the right stuff! They time it perfectly. You go in the store starving! The aroma of good food just hits you in the face. Then you buy whatever they want you to buy. I am just saying that their marketing department should be paid big bucks because they know how to work it. Some of their recipes are fabulous! This is one of them.
I am really enjoying my summer. It started with a beautiful wedding in Louisville, Kentucky and last week a couple of days at the lake with my good friends. When I came home from the lake GI Joe said, ” Well what did ya’ll do?” And I said, “Talked and ate a lot of good food.” Men just don’t get it when women get together that we love to talk. My husband will get together with some of his buddies and when he comes home I will ask about one of their wives. And it is always the same. “We don’t talk about stuff like that!” They just don’t discuss personal or emotional things like women do. Why is that? Anyway I am loving my summer. Getting a little “me” time before I have to start giving a lot of it to my students again. 
The Teacher Cooks 