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My sweet valentine
I’m no fan of Valentine’s Day. I don’t know many people who are. It stands, in it’s cheesiness and hype often regarded as the very pinnacle of love, but in reality I can’t think of anything that is as antithesis to romance as February 14th. I’m jaded, admittedly; jaded by men who pulled out all […]
The best $20 I ever spent
As a prelude to tomorrow’s ‘holiday’- and a precursor to my gushing post about my wonderful spouse that you can read then, I thought I would relate our ‘How We Met’ story because, well for one thing it’s pretty neat and secondly, in our current snug economy, where everything is so much more about what […]
Sun in February
February is here and the bitter chill we experienced in January will, hopefully, be all behind us. The light is longer in the afternoon; twilight comes around 6:00pm as opposed to 4:30, and with the last day of our arctic first month we had a brilliant thaw- temps in the 40’s, and a balmy breeze […]
Nourishment
Thank you for the kind get-well wishes and emails. I appreciated them a lot. Mercifully, the illness that swept in so quickly, leaving me flat on the couch for three days, left just as swiftly as it arrived. I suffered mostly a numbing fatigue and head congestion, lacking energy to do much of anything except […]
A very Merry Christmas to all and a huge Thank You!!
You’ll notice the orange fluff to the right of this photo- that’s Harmon, trying to get in on the Christmas action by the tree. So it’s Christmas- again. We have lots of fun family time planned for the next few days and I hope you do too, if you indeed celebrate something this time of […]
A word about chickpeas
I’ve often been wary of chickpeas. The very name sends images into my head of a certain something that I never consider to be a food, and for some reason, I expect a particular texture from them- something certainly un-legume like- and as a result, have been overly cautious about putting them, whole, into my […]
Childhood Cookie Memories
Coconut Tempters 2 c. sugar ½ c. cocoa ½ c. milk ½ c. butter ½ c. peanut butter 1 t. vanilla 3 c. quick cooking oatmeal ½ c. coconut (optional, but yummy) Place sugar, cocoa, milk and butter in a medium saucepan and cook to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil 1 minute. Add peanut butter and […]