peas at a party

According to Thomas and Ruth Roy at Wellcat Holidays & Herbs, October 19 is Evaluate Your Life Day. I don’t know why it’s today; but it’s their holiday, copyrighted and everything, so they can have it when they want to. Neat.
And according to Emeril (so it must be true), we each eat 130 [...]

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Our first apartment was furnished.  Okay, not so much furnished.  It was more like the previous tenants left things behind that they didn’t think were worth moving.
There was a bed.  Actually a frame and springs and a mattress that was just fine.  Okay, it wasn’t fine.  But with a heavy duty mattress cover . . . what can I say?  We [...]

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It’s been quiet here in Blogville.  We were travelling for a few days; then rushing around to catch up. 
As we were driving into Dallas, we were consulting by cell phone to choose a place to meet everyone for dinner.  The consensus of the group was a restaurant that is often described with statements such as “But their food is [...]

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I know, I know.
Every time you check the food news, “research” seems to change.  But once again this week, there is a report on the importance of fish in our diets, even for pregnant women or those thinking about it, who had been told to avoid fish.
Actually the wording has changed from “no more than 12 ounces” to [...]

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It always fascinates me that certain flavor combinations have such a definite geographic stamp.  For example, to me lemon and oregano says Greek and tomato and oregano says Italian.
Several years ago, we tried an African dish with tomato, peanuts, and hot pepper.  I don’t know how close to authentic this is, but the rich complex combination has become a new [...]

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