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December 30, 2011 09:36 PM UTC --
I think I'm broken. My health took a significant down turn during the week and a half I spent at my Mother's house watching over her. I'd hoped a break would help (and it did) but two weeks later . . .
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December 05, 2011 08:23 PM UTC --
We tend to think of duty as obligations imposed by others. But it's not.
My parents and I make quite a trio. Dad is dying of a form of leukemia (and old age in general, plus we think he had a mild . . .
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September 29, 2011 08:29 PM UTC --
Dad’s dying. He “doesn’t feel good” but doesn’t appear to be in pain. Instead he is a man once flunked by a physics professor who told him he should leave college. Instead . . .
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September 06, 2011 09:14 PM UTC --
Leave me alone in a room. This is my time. Not yours.
I want Bach and Vivaldi on the stereo, and Bobby McFerrin and Duke Ellington, and perhaps a touch of the Beatles. A few others - hell a . . .
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April 06, 2011 09:31 PM UTC --
I've been dead two days now and no one's noticed - except my cat. I wonder if she'll eat the food she spilled before she starts eating me?
Just kidding. I've only been dead a day. Still kidding. (I . . .
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January 31, 2011 07:22 PM UTC --
I was recently released from the hospital after a shunt in my portal vein became clogged. It was the third hospital visit resulting from my liver disease in seven years. I have one more visit to go. . . .
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December 15, 2010 02:26 PM UTC --
W hen I moved to Sacramento, California I spent the first two weeks living in one of those extended stay motels. Although it had a kitchenette, it really wasn't equipped for much more than heating . . .
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December 15, 2010 02:20 PM UTC --
W hen I moved to Sacramento, California I spent the first two weeks living in one of those extended stay motels. Although it had a kitchenette, it really wasn't equipped for much more than heating . . .
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December 05, 2010 06:42 PM UTC --
T he origin of eggnog, as with any recipe more than 100 years old, is more theory than fact. However, early recipes were often made with ale, which was often served in a "noggin" (a small cup) . . .
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November 18, 2010 05:14 PM UTC --
W hen I was a kid, Campbell's soups were a common lunch during the summer. It required no effort on my mother's part (literally, we heated it up ourselves), was reasonably healthy, and with a few . . .
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November 10, 2010 12:57 PM UTC --
I was making bean and turnip green soup using a genuine country ham bone as the stocks backbone. The soup was nutritionally well-balanced on it's own and required nothing more to be a complete . . .
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October 21, 2010 01:19 PM UTC --
I don't make my favorite chili very often. It's some trouble to make and takes time to cook. But several years ago the company I worked for had a chili cook-off and, of course, I had to enter. . . .
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October 11, 2010 01:26 PM UTC --
H aving spent years absorbing the Northern Mediterranean, during the past year I’ve extended my culinary explorations to the Eastern and Southern coasts of that salty font. These regions are . . .
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October 11, 2010 01:15 PM UTC --
The French Dip isn't French, but the inventor was. His name was Philippe Mathieu and he was the owner of Philippe the Original delicatessen in LA. The story goes that he was making a roast beef sandwich . . .
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October 11, 2010 01:08 PM UTC --
Like every other American of my generation and later generations, I grew up eating French fries. Some were, "ehh…" others, "Yum!" and most somewhere in between. Then in 1971 I was walking along . . .
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October 07, 2010 03:03 PM UTC --
J udi is a tall, elegant Southern woman in her 60s with what can only be described as a luscious, husky Texas drawl. I first met her in the cooking forum on Compuserve and subsequently fell in . . .
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September 20, 2010 06:52 PM UTC --
I n my last post about Paisano I mentioned he'd brought his niece and namesake Niki with him on a visit and that she was a recent CIA graduate. In fact, I was a destination on a post-graduation . . .
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September 09, 2010 11:58 AM UTC --
"So … are you a blogging chef or a chef blogger?"- Richard Frisbie
Neither. I am a writer and this is my 1000th post on Seriously Good . Writing is not what I do. It's not who I am. It's . . .
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September 06, 2010 01:37 PM UTC --
B oston Butt is my favorite piece of meat - bar none. It's cheap, loaded with flavor, and is ideal for making pulled pork. Some might say its drawback is that it must be slow-cooked whether in . . .
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September 06, 2010 01:10 PM UTC --
Although lamb is a legendary spring dish, spring being when lambs are born, in the US lamb is really a fall dish because most farmers prefer to let the lambs grow and fatten over the summer to maximize . . .
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