Category: meals
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Simple equals loads of flavor
I’ve gone the gamut of eating and preparing all kinds of food in my life time. From spicy to sauces, deep fat fried, and breaded. As I’ve aged and mellowed I’ve come to realize simple is best for great flavor and nutrition as well as keeping a healthy body. This earth is loaded with the…
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When Fried is Good for you
It is very rare that I eat fried foods, especially deep fried. There is nothing healthy about saturating food coated in white enriched flour with vegetable oil till it drips with it. It may taste good to the untrained palette, but healthy it is not. That’s what we southerners were raised on. Fried chicken, fried…
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Raspberry infused goodness
I remember images from long ago of large groups of people celebrating in a massive hall of a castle. Whether it was a holiday or a victory or some other important event it always centered around a table laden with food. The centerpiece of that table would be a large platter with a whole roast…
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The Scot-Irish in me….
… was really jonesing for some traditional comfort food. So we headed to our favorite local Irish pub Harp & Clover. We were told that the chef is now full owner which is wonderful because he can expand and cook what ever his Irish genes thinks up. I expect to see even more Irish specialties…
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Productivity Feels So Good!
Been a busy day here at the home on the mountain. I’m not one to sit still for long and always need a current protect or two. Well, today I managed several. First chore right out of bed this morning was harvesting the morning crop of figs. Once I got inside and cleaned the full…
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Nutrition fast and delicious
I’ll never understand why people prefer packaged processed food over fresh home-cooked. I see absolutely no advantages and this comes from someone who raised and cooked regularly for a family of four. We had active schedules with band, cross country track, ballet, karate for the two children on top of simply living an active family…
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Grill time!
Today has been pretty much a do nothing day. Not a bad thing. We slept in….. anything over 7.5 to 8 hours is sleeping in for me. Today I got 9 hours! Picked a few figs, then prepared breakfast while Randy got his morning shower. I’m almost finished with that large knit project and continued…
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Another Hot Day….
….in the deep south. This type of extreme hot and humid, which actually is NOT normal for the area, much less the whole country….. doesn’t lean to much of an appetite with forced reduction in physical activity caused by the energy being sucked right out of a body. But, we still need to eat and…
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Happy Independence Day
I miss this wonderful man and great patriot. We watched him on television regularly when I was a child. With today being America’s Independance day I thought it a perfect time to document this particular segment of one of his television shows. Red Skelton recites the Pledge of Allegiance His version brings tears to my…
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Summer time in the country
Summer time was special growing up. While we lived in the burbs, we had aunts and uncles that lived on the river and were good old country people. They knew how to have a good time. We cousins played outside while the men grilled, the women cooked the side dishes, then every one chipped in…
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