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Daily Prompt: Five a Day — 5 Foods for Island Life
You’ve being exiled to a private island, and your captors will only supply you with five foods. What do you pick? On my little island there’s a cottage. I have a tiny kitchen, but well-organized for...
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Daily Prompt: Red Pill, Blue Pill – It’s Not Just Nutrition
That pill would be so convenient sometimes. But there are lots of reasons to eat and most of them aren’t about nutrition or even hunger. Food is about color, texture and scent. Meals are sharing with...
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Good book, bad title – Skinny Bitch in Love, by Kim Barnouin
Cooking, Food & Wine, Literature/Fiction (Adult) Publication Date – June 4 2013 I knew absolutely nothing about this book or the series to which it belongs and so came to it with no expectations...
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Weekly Writing Challenge: A Fine Recipe for Baked Me
Note: This is a complicated recipe. Full preparation may take decades. Patience is required. Part I: Mix three scant cups of child abuse and sexual molestation. Combine carefully (do not over-beat)...
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FOR THE PROMPTLESS – LAPSUS LINGUAE AND BIG MISTER MALAPROP
Once upon a time when me and the whole world were a good deal younger, my father had a business partner. I don’t remember his name, but he was a big, bluff Russian who used to come over the house,...
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DAILY PROMPT: PUTTING OUT THE FIRE
A bunch of us had gathered at Sandy’s house. She was a cook, aspiring to be a professional. When she invited us for a meal, it was good. Always a good feeding and delicious. We were her test subjects,...
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HOME FRIES
This ultimate comfort food is probably called something different depending on where you live. Originally, the recipe was a way to use leftover potatoes, but it has become a staple of diner breakfasts...
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PERMANENT K. P.
Back on the Chain Gang Last night I calculated I have been cooking dinners for me and a husband and/or children, other family and friends for just shy of 50 years. Half a century. I’m a good cook. I...
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EACH IN ITS PLACE ON PLATE AND PALATE
Unlikely Pairing – Bacon and chocolate, caramel and cheddar… Is there an unorthodox food pairing you really enjoy? Share with us the weirdest combo you’re willing to admit that you like — and how you...
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ANOTHER WEEK OF SHARING MY WORLD
Share Your World – 2014 Week 38 If you could be a tree or plant, what would you be? I think I’d like to be something useful. Maybe aloe vera. Good for skin, burns, hair. A very useful plant and it...
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IT’S NOT PIE WITHOUT CRUST
Pie - Food evokes all the senses: the scent of pastry baking, the sound of a fork clinking on a plate… I don’t think this is going to make anyone’s mouth water, but this is the way it happened. Another...
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AFTER THE TURKEY
I’ve learned a lot over the years. By my calculation, this is my 49th year of making Thanksgiving, not counting a few years when I was a guest at someone else’s table. I remember when the torch passed...
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SAVING SANDY
A bunch of us had gathered at Sandy’s house. She was a cook, aspiring to be a professional. When she invited us for a meal, it was good. Always a good feeding and delicious. We were her test subjects,...
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DAILY PROMPT: PUTTING OUT THE FIRE
A bunch of us had gathered at Sandy’s house. She was a cook, aspiring to be a professional. When she invited us for a meal, it was good. Always a good feeding and delicious. We were her test subjects,...
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HOME FRIES
This ultimate comfort food is probably called something different depending on where you live. Originally, the recipe was a way to use leftover potatoes, but it has become a staple of diner breakfasts...
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COMFORT FOOD – HOME FRIES
This ultimate comfort food has a variety of names. Cottage fries, home fries, onion fries. Breakfast fries. Whatever they’re called, it’s a way to use leftover potatoes and a staple of diner...
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IT’S WHAT’S FOR DINNER
It has been many years since food was all that important to me. I used to eat more than I do. I can’t eat so much — of anything — these days. I was a really good cook, back when cooking mattered more...
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NINETY DEGREES
Eleven months ago, I bought a Waring Pro Digital Convection Oven. Basically, it’s a high-end toaster oven with an added convection baking function. I picked it because it has the features I wanted, it...
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DOUSING SANDY
A bunch of us gathered at Sandy’s house. She was an excellent cook. Aspiring to be a professional. When she invited us for a meal, it was a treat, always a good feeding and delicious. We were her test...
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FOR THE PROMPTLESS – LAPSUS LINGUAE AND BIG MISTER MALAPROP
Once upon a time when me and the whole world were a good deal younger, my father had a business partner. I don’t remember his name, but he was a big, bluff Russian who used to come over the house,...
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