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November
Turkey tetrazzini
Dang it. The boy left me again. Just when I get accustomed to Noah being at college, he comes home for one holiday or another….
An apron with my name
I want an apron with my name on it. I stopped working full time in January. I can’t quite bring myself to call it “retired.”…
Falling out of love with my grill
I never thought I would see this day and I’m even hesitant to write about it, but I’ve had a revelation regarding my gas grill…
The Wedge
Forget grain bowls, coconut-oil based dressings and…please…no more kale. Lately, I’ve been pining away for a good old Wedge. No one knows who invented that…
Make yourself a regular
King Daddy and I adopted a travel plan when we first went overseas. Go to one locale and make yourself a regular. When we went…
Goulash
I seem to be surrounded by goulash these days. Now that Dammit Boy lives in Vienna he makes it or eats it in a restaurant…
The fruit ninja
My son, who many of you know as Dammit Boy, is a 26-year-old research associate at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. He is…
9
October
Chicken tetrazzini
So I have made a startling discovery sitting out here on the deck because the weather is nice and I can’t smoke in the house…
3
October
Ode to a starving college student
This weekend I participated in the leftover sweepstakes. This is a competitive sport involving the ability to produce mass amounts of leftovers in an extremely…
10
September
Pasta with Portobello cream sauce
This “only eat organic, antibiotic-free sustainable meat” thing is going to get me into some serious budgetary hot water. I can tell you that right…
9
August
Food therapy
It would be unseemly to boast about the exceptional quality of the funeral food that arrived at Bunny’s house after the passing of my father-in-law….
1
July
Asian chicken noodles at the dock door
I have been thinking a lot today about why I am sitting at our open dock door at my wonderful place of business, a nonprofit…
16
May
My $135 head of lettuce
It is Sunday morning and I’m heading to Aldi after church to get Noah some fruit. That boy is eating me out of house and…
7
February
Pasta the new way
I am simply shocked that I have discovered something completely new, totally unheard of, about the simple fact of boiling pasta. I have the requisite…
24
December
Lemon Spaghetti
So the boys are both off working and I am left to my own devices. I will freely admit that when they’re both home for…
21
December
Pasta and prosciutto
Do you ever get tired of making the same dish? That was a topic on Chowhound recently and it got me to thinking about my…
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