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A Tale of Two Recipes
Recipe the First: The Recipe not followed……. ‘It was the best of times, it was – not exactly the worst of times, but definitely a sub-prime, not all cylinders sparking, Dickens of time. Travel back in...
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A Tale of Two Recipes, cont
Recipe the Second: ‘It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; “ I can’t think of A Tale of Two Cities without hearing Ronald Colman …. And now for a far better thing. Not that...
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Chayote
Chayote Evidently, I’ve known chayote all along…..it’s been hiding in plain sight for DECADES right under my very nose. As it were. Jane Grigson’s Vegetable Book American pb edition 1981. $6.95 (that’s...
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Susie’s Brownies
Susie loves to bake and she bakes great cakes. Susie makes some pretty awesome brownies, too, and since her sons are grown and live away, she doesn’t bake as often as she used to. Often when she does...
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Darling Clementine
and other sunshine substitutes to warm up the winter… I haven’t found that many Darling Clementines this winter…until this week! The grocers shelves have been full of Halo Mandarins ( a New York Times...
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Caffè eterna
Renato Bialette died at age 93 last week. If you ever had a cup of coffee made in a Moka then you know him. He’s not the man who invented this machine; he’s the one would made it SOOO popular. He...
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Mushroom Mouth
Growing up, a mushroom mouth was not the mouth of a mushroom lover….. Bob Ross and Happy Pizza with Mushrooms Mouth….. ‘Mushroom mouth’ was the English translation of an Italian phrase , ‘mussi di...
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Piece of Pie
Pizza Pie, that is. Is there a point where pizza and pie are redundant? Maybe the point would be at the point of the wedge….. Piece of pizza – New York style slices But then there is Pie Pie…. Pumpkin...
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Not a Pizza
I know, you can have an English Muffin Pizza Thomas’s English Muffins Pizza-ed But what if you took a tortilla instead of an English Muffin??? Flour tortillas And What IF you happened to have hummus...
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Welcome, Spring!
Yes, YOU Spring, over there… as I listen to the WEATHER WATCH to prepare for 3 or 5 or 7 or 12 inches of snow…. Winter Storm Warning in Massachusetts Active for next 19 hours · National Weather Service...
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Hello, Spring!
On this day in 1888 Vincent Van Gogh painted Grass and Butterflies because SOMETIMES in SOME PLACES, April is Spring. Oh, Spring, you are a tease. Botticelli’s Primavera Boy, Spring – you fool!...
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International Carrot Day
Carrot Song If you’re going to put your foot in your mouth….. Vincent Van Gogh Now it just so happens that I like my carrots in sticks to pick up dip – or hummus if I want to appear virtuous or in...
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Bee looking for Spring, Honey
Me, too, Bee, me, too. Golden treasures I contain, Guarded by hundreds and thousands. Stored in a labyrinth where no man walks, Yet men come often to seize my gold. By smoke I am overcome and robbed,...
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D.E.A.R. Beverly Cleary
Drop Everything And Read DAY and Beverly Cleary is 100 years old today.. so drop everything and read some Beverly Cleary! Like Henry Huggins or or There are lots and lots to choose from – she’s been...
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“April is the cruellest month”
Thank you, TS Eliot for summing up the weather situation in New England – too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry. He wrote really great poetry, not just random lines that sound like rants. Eliot is pretty...
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Hello
A new site for the historical postings – the mid-century to now, my personal life, will continue as the focus of Foodways Pilgrim Plays with Fire This is a introduction. What Cheer! Plays with Fire...
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May Day
Corinna’s going a Maying By Robert Herrick Get up, get up for shame, the Blooming Morne Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. See how Aurora throwes her faire...
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