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Home alone….
First, there was a teeny little fun project. Then there was dinner. There was some good wine….. and a good book…… It was almost a shame that the evening had to end. Sometimes you get such a perfect balance of simple, well- cooked and seasoned food, with plenty of color and a varied amount […]
Sweet Summer Raspberries
If I had any say in the matter, I would wish to line the road to Heaven with wild summer raspberry bushes. There is nothing more rewarding and satisfying on a warm morning in late July to find the narrow country road upon which you’re walking lined with loaded wild raspberry patches. I was back-tracking […]
Potato Salad Nostalgia
If you had asked me a week ago if I liked potato salad, I probably would have done some type of combination eye roll with a detestable smirk to show you in no uncertain terms how much I really can’t be bothered with all that cold potato with mayo and god knows what else kind […]
My apologies for running away
So this is how I am, hmm? Wax philosophic about blogging for three years and then vamoose for parts unknown? Some ‘reach out and touch someone’ blogger I am. In my absence I have been astonished, overwhelmed and sometimes moved to tears by your comments and I hope I adequately thanked you individually for your […]
Three years blogging
Today marks the 3rd anniversary of this blog. Am I happy about it? That depends on the day, but usually yes. And sometimes, more often than not these days, I would say no. I admit that I’ve toyed a lot lately – a lot!– with quitting this past time of mine. Part of me feels […]
The small things, and life lessons
My apologies to those who come here for the food. Although, yes, I am mostly about food in my little corner of the blog-world here, there’s a lot more to what nurtures me than the food I cook; hard to believe, I know, but in the snippets of insight you sometimes get to the rest […]
Dads of any shape or kind
Here’s to the Dads of life, no matter what form they take. Here’s my Dad That’s me, yup…on the right; kid sized anyway. My sister Kris is on the left. I must have been 7 or 8 because I still have my original front teeth which were broken in an accident when I was 9. […]
Perspective shift
For a brief and terrifying moment, the very real possibility of never being able to do any of this again presented itself in our lives. Mike fell off the roof at our lake home during a roofing project and landed flat on his back. But I’m here to tell you that nothing short of a […]
Bread for the blues
Seemingly a whole lifetime ago, I worked for five years in the office of a wholesale bakery and I have to say, the smell of yeast has been and still is one of my most favorite smells of all. I loved walking through the production area in the early afternoons as the baking staff began […]
Sesame Seared Salmon from the memory ashes
We all have events in our lives that aren’t the most pleasant to look back on, but when traced with the correct pencil of perspective we can firmly point out maybe a benefit or two gained from the experience. This Sesame Seared Salmon is one of the good things that came from a not-too-pleasant occasion […]