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I love smoked ribs and briskets. But sometimes it's too cold, wet, or windy for barbecuing outside. So here is a great recipe to smoke your ribs indoors. Yes—you use wood chips and my ribs turned out juicy and flavorful. General Directions: Soak your chips: Place your wood chips in a large bowl, covered with water, for a couple of hours. You can choose any kind of chips you like so long as they’re strong enough to stand up to the hefty flavors of the meat and sauces in this recipe. Construct your smoker: Put one oven rack on the lowest setting in the oven. Remove the rest of the oven acks.

Column # 395       March 24, 2023 For awhile now Dr. Kevin Stock has been running a series of short articles on how nutrition impacts teeth development in his “Saturday 7" weekly newsletter. Many of us don’t think about this topic often but Kevin does because his primary profession is dentistry. But he’s also a longtime student of nutrition and fitness. Consequently, every time he looks into a patient’s mouth he sees far more than most dentists.1 I would say that virtually everyone knows some youngsters and young mothers who are dining on the Standard American Diet (SAD). This s truly sad.

Buffalo Chicken Dip is a great party favorite that has lot of uses. Watch out though, it does have a kick. Ingredients: 3 cups shredded, cooked Omega-3 Chicken½ cup Hot Sauce¼ cup homemade ranch dressing¾ cup plain sugar free Greek yogurt1¼ cup grass-fed sharp cheddar cheese shredded⅓ cup grass-fed mozzarella cheese shredded2 cloves garlic minced ½ tsp onion powder3 Tbsp. green onion chopped2 Tbsp. crumbled blue cheese (sub grass-fed feta cheese) Directions: Oven: 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Arrange oven rack to the middle of the oven.2. In a large mixing bowl (using a hand mixer orelectric mixer) combine shredded chicken, Hot Sauce, homemade ranch dressing, plain sugar free Greek yogurt, one cup shredded grass-fed cheddar, grass-fed mozzarella cheese, garlic, and onion powder.

Column # 394      March 17, 2023 In the Jewish community Purim is known as the “Jolliest Day of the Year.” Every year it is celebrated on the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Adar (late winter/early spring). This year Purim began Monday night, March 6 and continued through Tuesday, March 7. So it’s over for this year and, if it wasn’t for the movie titled “The Book of Esther 2013," I would not have learned about this particular day. It commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia from Haman’s plot “to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews, young andold, infants and women, in a single day.

Column #393      March 10, 2023 For sane folks, this is a topic that makes eyes roll back into our heads. So I’ll try to make this rather concise. But we can’t just sweep stupid under the rug anymore and pretend total nonsense is a passing fad. That’s because stupid continues to pound a louder drum than sane and there’s way too many folks out there who do not think for themselves. They are easily brainwashed and many of them are in positions of influence. I first started noticing stupid in grade school. A few kids never seemed to have personal limits which caused them (and other) grief.