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National Corn Fritter Day
Everything has a day…..even Corn Fritters Today! Corn Fritters 1 can corn 2 teaspoons salt 1 cup flour 1/4 teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 eggs Chop corn, drain, and add dry ingredients...
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Birthday Casserole
It’s that day again…..Happy Birthday and many happy returns of the day! Foodways Pilgrim Because a certain someone has a BIRTHDAY TODAY …and one of his ulterior motives to help me with the technical...
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Flipping, Flapping, Frapping
Flip-flops. The Sound of summer includes the sound of flip flops. Flip-flop. Flip-flop. Flip-flop. Even in places where flip flops aren’t the best choice. Like anyplace that isn’t a beach. You can hear...
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Van Gogh – The End
A painting from the last days of Vincent’s life This is the day, in 1890, that Vincent Van Gogh died. His cause of death is often stated as a suicide, but the evidence is/was far from conclusive....
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Summer in the Seaside
A breath of salt air. The windows are open to catch the morning breeze…. Ah, the Sounds of a peaceful seaside town! In the distance, mallards quack on the brook. A gull caws overhead, then another...
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Lammas or Loaf Mass
Van Gogh, Haystacks in Provence, June 1888. Oil on canvas, 73 x 92.5 cm. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo. Harvest time! The First of August is also known as Lammas or Loaf Mass, to celebrate the...
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Possets, Fools & Trifles
OR How to eat Cream and Sugar before Ice Cream was part of Summer – or any other Season Possets: Using lemon or lime to curdle cream, which is like custard without the fuss – or egg. Bon Apetit July...
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Salad Daze
It’s August. Too hot even for toast. Salad. Easy salad. Take a bunch of fresh things, of the leafy/ veggie/ fruit sort. Wash. Pick. Peel. Seeding optional. Add a Protein: hard boiled egg cheese bacon...
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Of MGs Wooden Ships and Broken Promises
From a former Pilgrim Husband….as we still work for a contract Musings Perhaps the best advice I ever got in my life came from my Uncle Ed. “Don’t buy that MG”. Now I’ll be the first to admit. She...
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#GlimpseoftheOrdinary
Dear Laura Shapiro, Re: Instagram Your Leftovers I read your essay in the New York Times , but I don’t have a phone with a camera in it, so please accept this blog post v. an Instagram of my home...
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#GlimpseoftheOrdinary
Team photo: Boston Americans 1901 – proto-Sox Wednesday, September 6, 2017 8:20 pm Wednesday is Food Section Day. I pick up both the Boston Globe and the New York Times. Manage a fairly “on time” home...
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Salad Daze
Photo by Chalmers Butterfield The Hollywood Brown Derby Cobb Salad…. The same, real Brown Derby restaurant that Lucy and Ethel went to when they went to Hollywood. The Episode where Lucy dumps food...
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French Toasted Fluff
Fluff Fest is coming up – Saturday the 23rd – in Somerville Fuff Centennial Fest 2017 It’s been 100 years since Joseph Archibald Query created the magic that is FLUFF in his kitchen in Somerville, MA...
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Cineversary
Isn’t that the word for the anniversary of a cinema? Plimoth Cinema started up ten years ago…. 2007 was an autumn of really bleak pictures. We opened with which is about the life of Edith Piaf. It’s...
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Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbut…it’s a Hare
17th century Delft rabbit 18th century Delft rabbit Delft leaping Hare
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Dish-washing 101
Rocket science, this is not – unless you work for NASA… If you eat, you’ll probably have dishes. Eventually. You might eat out. Frequently. Regularly. Often. A whole darn lot. There are also times that...
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Pumpkin Spice and Decorative Gourds
Van Gogh, Still Life With Ginger Jar and Onions, September 1885. Oil on canvas, 39.3 x 49.6 cm. McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario. Must be AUTUMN Gourds, decorative and otherwise. Pumpkins,...
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