Interesting People #33: Miss Maryland Earth US 2017

Fiona Nagy is Miss Maryland Earth United States 2017. This interview covers the Miss Earth United States platform, how Fiona found purpose in the pageant circuit, and her struggles with depression.

The first half of the episode focuses her conservation platform. The second half is her fun retelling of going to the national Miss Earth United States event!

Fiona has a fantastic energy! She is also from my hometown of Damascus!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/missmarylandearthus/
Website: http://www.missearthunitedstates.com/

{Tom’s Take} Good and Bad Casting (from Book to Small Screen and Movies)

Fans of literary characters take this very seriously, but you can’t because we all cast different actors in our brains when we read about somebody in a book.

Jack Reacher fans were up in arms at the casting of Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher in the big screen film. There were boycotts of the movie and fans stopped buying the books. The author Lee Child said to give Tom Cruise a chance, he’s a good action star, and the movies worked! But, for the fans of the book…that ain’t Jack Reacher!

I’ve read all the early Bob Lee Swagger and Earl Lee Swagger books by Stephen Hunter. Mark Walburg on the big screen, Ryan Philippe on TV as Bob Lee. For fans of the books, neither one of these guys has a drop of Swagger blood.

Fans of Janet Evanovich’s, Stephanie Plum series, they cast Katherine Heigl. Great material- action, romance, food, humor and… it was the worst movie of the year. And she’s selling cat litter in a commercial on TV.

Just like movies don’t live up to the book, with a few exceptions (Godfather, Slaughterhouse Five, Harry Potter Series), don’t have any expectations or you will be disappointed.

-Tom

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Free Live! 01/02/18

Celebrate the new year by watching Patrick Hanes almost forget to do weather. We talk about New Years, how to recover from illness, and how to scold a cold!

Happy New Year!

I want everyone to be excited about 2018. Set more resolutions than you could ever do in a year. Just see where trying will take you. Here are my big picture goals for 2018:

1. Get back to Europe or go to Asia for the first time.
2. Create 200 new podcast interviews before 2019!
3. Meet as many new WFRE listeners as I can!

I can’t wait to see where this year will take me.

Home of the Week: 01/01/18

1231 William St

This beautiful 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom ranch style home features a Butler Stone exterior. Inside the home you will find hardwood floors throughout, stone fireplace in living room and partially finished basement. Newer refrigerator, dryer and hot water heater with warranties. Home is on a level lot with mature trees. Solar panels installed by Solar City.

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION

  • MLS® #YK10119940
  • Price$195,000
  • Bedrooms3
  • Bathrooms1.00
  • Full Baths1
  • Square Footage1,248
  • Acres0.34
  • Year Built1954
  • TypeResidential
  • Sub-TypeDetached
  • StyleRancher
  • StatusPending

COMMUNITY INFORMATION

  • Address1231 William St
  • SubdivisionHANOVER
  • CityHANOVER
  • CountyYORK-PA
  • StatePA
  • Zip Code17331

{Katie’s Kitchen} Healthy Chicken and Veggie Detox Soup!

If you like a little southwest flavor to your soup, you’ll love this!

Healthy low-fat, low-carb, gluten-free soup, and it packs a punch!

What a better way to head into the New Year and a busy weekend than with a delicious detox to get you feeling your best!

Super healthy with a little spice and lot of flavor! All of the ingredients will aid in helping to boost your immune system and provide you with ingredients to release toxins. Cabbage, broccoli, avocado, garlic and turmeric… All detoxifying ingredients.

A lot of times when you hear ‘detox’ anything you think, ‘a lot of vegetables and very bland’, but this soup was anything but! The spices gave it a serious boost of flavor and adding avocado on top just made every bite that much better.

Grab your biggest pot (I used my dutch oven) and heat it up to medium, add in olive oil and then toss in diced onion and garlic and letting that sizzle for 5 minutes. Toss in 2 big pieces of boneless, skinless chicken breast. Over top of all of that, go ahead and pour in the green chilies, red roasted diced tomatoes, chicken broth (3 quarts- I used all reduced sodium or no salt chicken broth), chopped carrots and all of the spices (Ingredients below).

Bring that to a boil and then lower the hear and simmer for about 20 mins.

Once the chicken is cooked through, scoop it out and sit aside.

Then, add in the chopped cabbage and broccoli. Next, shred the chicken and toss it back in the pot.

Simmer until the broccoli is soft and add salt and pepper to taste! Dice up some avocado and throw that on top for added yummyness!

That’s it!

My husband and I loveeddddd it! We were surprised by the spiciness and i’m glad I only used one can of the green chilies. It called for 3 4oz cans, I only used one and that was plenty!! There is red pepper flakes added and that made it spicy too.

If you like spice, then use one can of green chilies and the called for red pepper flakes like I did…If you LOVE spice then go ahead and do it up!

Ingredients: I got the recipe here! 

  • 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
  • 1 large onion, peeled and chopped
  • 4 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 3 – 4.5 ounce cans Chopped Green Chiles (I only used 1 can)
  • 14.5 ounce can “fire roasted” crushed tomatoes
  • 3 quarts chicken stock (reduced sodium or no salt)
  • 1 tablespoon ground cumin
  • 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoons turmeric
  • 2 1/2 cups sliced carrots
  • 4 cups chopped cabbage
  • 3 cups small broccoli florets
  • 2 avocados, peeled and diced
  • Salt and pepper

Perfect for a cold winter night!!! Yumm!

Here are pictures from Katie’s Kitchen!