Are you afraid of success or afraid of failure? Are you afraid of what other might think? Are you afraid of criticism? Do you feel like if you really step out of your comfort zone you would be an imposter? I have to admit that I personally fit into every one of the questions above.  Unfortunately, I don’t have a magic answer to help get over any of the fears above but I do feel that we are all led in some way to our destiny and it is up to you whether you decide to take your leap of faith or not.  I believe that over the coarse of each of our lives there are several times that opportunity knock on the door. I can’t answer why some of us fail at the opportunity when we try to be… Read More

I’m signed up and following a Facebook group called, “Blogging Like We Mean It” and I am learning that I really really need to have an email list where people can subscribe and I capture emails for marketing purposes. Now, I am not a spammer so don’t worry, I have no plans on starting any email campaigns that just add more toxic email to your inbox. If anything, I’m just getting started myself on understanding this whole blogging thing and setting up a marketable website. To not beat around the bush, this website is my experience in building a blog that makes money for my husband and I.  Right now, today, I’m not making a single dime and if you are an aspiring blogger also, well, pull up a chair and feel free to share your discoveries with me and… Read More

Years ago I learned about blogs and the potential for earning money.  When I first started this blog I called it, “Beyond Just Over Broke” which was a play on an acronym of “Beyond JOB”. In other words I was looking for a way to make a living beyond the regular JOB. I wrote posts and worked on figuring out this thing called, “Affiliate Marketing”.  I worked on it pretty hard for about 6 months. I was probably on the verge of it starting to earn something and I just gave up. I kept the blog around and every so often I would post something. Over time I realized that I really needed to change the name and narrow my market down. One day I’m looking at a blog called, “Work at Home Mommy” and I thought why not be… Read More

Tonight for dinner I took a soup recipe and modified it to fit into keto as well as use up a pork loin that my husband had made last weekend that was just too dry. I don’t know about you but I just can never get a pork loin to be delicious and moist to call it “amazing”. Last weekend my husband decided to make a pork loin while we were making Instant Pot Louisianna Style Spare Ribs. It was a great idea since we are already cooking the ribs, we could throw in the loin and have it for other meals during the week. The plan was to make the ribs on Sunday, so he prepared a marinade on Saturday and put the loin in it to give it a nice amount of time to tenderize and soak up… Read More

This month is the first month of really buckling down and dedicating time to this blog. Earnings this month: $0 I did add a Jetpack on the urging of a friend of mine that has 20,000 visitors! She swears by it for the ease of use and I think I believe her. I added jetpack on March 21 and I HAVE 48 VIEWS! Wow, I am so excited! This month I also redid the Boomer Directory page and I will continue to up date it. 48 views! I am so excited. I had no idea. I checked my affiliate reports and I had 8 clicks but no earnings. This is my prayer. Dear God, please hear my prayer. Thank you for this day. Thank you for my family and those around me that make up my life. Thank you for… Read More

If I was to tell you that I have been writing this blog on and off for 10 years, would you believe me? If I told you that after 10 years I finally just started writing for me, would you believe that? I am going to tell you that I have been writing on this blog on a off for 10 years and I am going to tell you that after years of entertaining the idea of making blogging a real thing for me I did finally just decide it was a good place to store the things that I love to do. Prior to having this website I had blogged in Blogger. Here is my site that I have over in Blogger http://networkingink.blogspot.com/. You can tell I haven’t done anything to it in a long time. I suppose I… Read More

OK, this one is a laugh and its on me. I have been anticipating making cheesecake in the Instant Pot. I researched, I read, I watched videos, I really prepared. Finally, I found what I felt sounded like the bestest recipe for Instant Pot Cheesecake. So, I purchase a spring form pan. The one I purchased is a spring form silicone pan with a glass bottom. I thought that would be better than metal since I could release the cake from the pan easier by just peeling it off. There was only one fallback with this pan. I wanted to be able to use the trivet that came with the pot to get the pan out and I was unable to do it because the pan is just a little larger around than the trivet. However, in the end it… Read More

About once a year I give my cast iron a real scrubbing and conditioning.  For this I do use soap and wear some good cleaning gloves and a full front apron I personally like the japanese style apron.  What I do is I use a scouring pad pot scrubber that is made of stainless steel. You can probably find the same kind of scouring pad at your favorite local store. Fill your sink with hot soapy water, put on the apron and gloves, grab a scouring pad and the target pan and scrub. Scrub like crazy all over the pan. I start with the inside up the sides of the insides since they get slightly scaly. Then go after the outside and for this cleaning you want to concentrate a majority of your scrubbing to the outside of the pan.… Read More

I Purchased An Affiliate Marketing Kit Thingy So, I purchased an Affiliate Marketing Kit. This kit is called 1 2 3 One Hour Affiliate. Anyway, it is pretty interesting. The instructions state to create a blogger site that you connect to Amazon using your Amazon affiliate account and create a targeted gift site that targets a specific group such as teens, or knitters or hunters. I’m giving it a try and so far I have created a blogger site called GiftStoreForTeens.blogspot.com. I’m hoping it will get some traffic and I will have it built up by the time people start shopping this year. I’ll be sharing the results of this experiment. I really want to find out if it works and if it does then I’ll report it here. I don’t have much to say so keep an eye on… Read More

Finding a niche is a huge challenge and I have had a problem with it since day one that I started Work at Home Boomer, my challenge has been trying to figure out how to help you. Today, right now, the writing of this post I actually don’t know if I have any readers. I could look at the google webmaster reports and see if I have any unique visitors but there is a part of me that I think I would just be discouraged. So I have decided to just keep writing and building and coming up with more content and trying to offer value to anyone that comes across this blog. If they like it I have to trust that they well return. I am determined to figure this out and I don’t have a lot of money… Read More

This soup is a basic Tortilla Soup. You can use any kind of meat of choice such as shrimp, beef, or chicken. When I make this soup is it because I have some leftover meat that is just enough for the soup. That is about 8 to 16 ounces of meat. This soup has a really nice flavor that you can make hot by adding more jalapeno pepper or you can leave it mild and not add any pepper. You can add bean or not add beans, however I do suggest that if you add beans that you rinse them very well before adding them. In this recipe I use organic plain greek yogurt or if you want, you can use sour cream. Like I said the recipe is very flexible which is nice because you can make this recipe… Read More

Have you read the long drawn out methods for “seasoning” your cast iron cookware? I have and it’s just overkill. I read all the time where people post this long drawn out method for seasoning cast iron cookware.  Ya know, the one that says lather your cookware with oil and bake it in the oven at some temperature for over an hour then let it cool and wala! Really? I have had cast iron pans all my life. Sure, I had a while that I tried the nonstick cookware and it was really nice but it wore off and if it can wear off then I think I must be eating it in my food. Yuck. So I don’t buy any kind of nonstick cookware. In fact my cast iron is pretty much nonstick and it stays that way very easily. So,… Read More

Spare ribs was the second thing that I learned to make in the Instant Pot.  The first thing that I made was a 4 pound pork shoulder and it was absolutely delicious and I repeated that a few times. I had watched several videos showing people making spare ribs and I finally decided to make them. Since then I have made them countless times and we (as in my husband and I) are now adjusting the pressure cooker time to get them cooked to the point that they are done and tender but stay on the bone enough to transfer them to the grill without them just falling off the bone. Just a quick point about adjusting time when using the Instant Pot. I first was adjusting the time in 10 minute or more increments. That does not work very… Read More

I am always wanting to figure out how to cook different things in my Instant Pot. I will say I have found a few that I just don’t really prefer to cook under pressure. One of those being meat loaf. While you can cook meatloaf in the instant pot the time it saves it minimal and really not worth it. It still takes 30 minutes cook time in the Instant Pot and that is not counting the 20 minutes it takes to come up to pressure. As opposed to baking it in the oven that takes 1 hour and 30 minutes but enough of that. The point is that there are foods that when you cook them you don’t want them in a lot of water and the moisture or water is necessary for the Instant Pot to build up… Read More

OMG, its late Sunday afternoon. About 4pm to be exact. I’m trying to think of something for dinner and I don’t want to run to the grocery store. When I was very poor I had the talent of looking in the fridge and the cupboard and figuring something out. I always managed to just come up with something that would pass as a good meal. It seems like nowadays I’m not as poor and so I don’t have to work as hard at being so frugal because I don’t have money. Now that I’m thinking about it I really need to return to my use of figuring out great meals with what I have on hand and I’m going to do it today. First I need to check the deep freezer which I always keep stocked with “something”. <gone to… Read More

So, many of my recipes that I post I am thinking about my Grandmother. I think about what she would think about the dish, about the taste, would she be proud to serve it in her restaurant? I have never made squash soup or pumpkin soup,so this was a first. I studied a few recipes I found online and then I combined what I thought were the best parts of each recipe. I liked the idea of using heavy cream and sour cream. The recipes I found used more heavy cream or sour cream than what I used but I figured if I’m using both I need to cut back a bit on both. This soup came out surprisingly great! I could hardly believe it. Usually, when experimenting with a recipe, I would make the dish and then decide if… Read More

My daughter has found that she is gluten sensitive and I have a brother that also has removed gluten from his diet. They both claim to feel much better as a result. I have also cut back on gluten and I am now trying to avoid it where I can do it easily. I figure sooner or later I’ll probably figure our how to completely eliminate gluten. As far as turkey goes I have stopped stuffing my turkey. I think if you “stuff” your turkey it is called “stuffing” and if you cook your “stuffing” separate it is called “dressing”. Feel free to correct me on this. Over the past four years I have been experimenting with a gluten free dressing that is as delicious as the regular gluten version. Here it is for you to try.

I have a recipe that I have made countless times in a crockpot. This recipe is in fact perfect for a crockpot. I decided to try it in the Instant Pot to see how it would come out. Basically, this is turkey and dressing for 2 to 4 people without cooking the whole turkey. I first saw this idea years ago in the early years of Stovetop Stuffing. Obviously, you can make this with Stovetop Stuffing which calls for 1 1/2 cups of water per envelope. When using Stovetop Stuffing for this recipe you reduce the water to 3/4 cup. Over the years I stopped using Stovetop Stuffing and decided to just make my own stuffing for the dish, which is below. If you decide to make this in your crockpot or in your Instant Pot they both come out… Read More

So, if you have read any of my blog posts on cooking you know that I own a Instant Pot. This is the one that I have. It is capable of 7 different functions which includes, soup, Meat/Stew, Bean/Chili, Poultry, Sauté, Steam, Rice, Porridge, Multigrain, Slow Cook, Keep-Warm, Yogurt, Pasteurize and Fermented Rice (Jiu Niang). I will be making dishes using all of the functions above so make sure you check back. This post is about using an inner pot inside the Instant Pot stainless steel liner pot. This is useful for making things that you may not want to have a lot of water added to the dish. The first time I did this I was making meat loaf. I wasn’t sure how well it would work placing the meat in the Instant Pot inner liner without enough water to… Read More

My Grandmother was an amazing cook. I don’t say this without having some testimonial type of information. Let me give you a little bit of background about my Grandma. My Grandfather was a hemophiliac. He was a “Christmas Hemophiliac” also called “Hemophilia B”. Because of this incurable disease my Grandfather could not be fully insured for complications resulting from the hemophilia. It was not unusual for him to be hospitalized for bleeding and my Grandmother knew how to control it and would work with the doctors to keep him well. I can even remember a few times when they would be traveling and he would have a bleed and she would have to hospitalize him away from home. There were times that the doctors were not listening to her and she would check him out of the hospital and transfer him to a facility where they would listen… Read More