I’m very new to cooking lamb. Yes, I’m in love with lamb sausage – but that’s easy. The butchers take care of the hard part. Tonight I tackled (or attempted) my first leg of lamb. No recipe. No experience. No fear…. With fresh rosemary, elephant garlic, and fresh lemon already on hand, I made a…
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The title says it all. This sauce is “mad good.” I offered a sample taste to a fellow human being. He asked me before allowing the mouthwatering morsel to pass his lips, “is this healthy?” I smiled at him, with a twinkle in my eye. He tasted. He smiled back at me. “This tastes really…
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Ext-roar-dinary. Ext-ROAR-dinary. Not extra-ordinary. Ext-ROAR-dinary. Do you see the difference? Do you hear the difference? Do you feel the difference? Something special. Something amazing. Something really worth it – preternatural, perhaps. The latter really just sounds like a little bit more of the ordinary. “Would you like an extra side of ordinary with that?” “No,…
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We’re certainly not partiers. No, we are definitely home bodies. Going out is a rare occasion indeed. This year, though, we “rang it in.” Not really, we were comfortably home by 9pm, cozied up to watch a movie on the couch. Perfect. We did, though, venture out for an AMAZING dinner at one of my…
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Happy 2013 to one and all! Yes, this can certainly be read as an inviting and polite salutation for a fantastic 2013, and I do wish amazing things in this Life for all the world. HAPPY 2013 is also a declaration – an announcement and affirmation that this coming year will be happy. My dear…
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Kale is amazing. I love it. I love it. I love it. Can I say that again? I love kale. Lacinato, curly, red. I love it all and I love it on everything (well, maybe not cupcakes and cookies, but who knows, I’ve been known to try some pretty crazy things.) Sauteed kale with a perfectly…
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For Christmas this year, I decided to treat myself to fresh flowers. Years ago I convinced myself that a fresh bouquet every single week on the kitchen table would become a part of regular “life” for me. As it turns out, “life” has not yet played that card. I’m still waiting. For now, fresh flowers…
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The last year has been a challenge. As I investigated the synonyms for the word ‘challenge,’ in order to provide a more descriptive illustration of my intended conveyance, the results were less than appropriate. I will just reiterate the fact that we have been filled with challenge – financial, relational, health, mental, spiritual, emotional, situational,…
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Not one single person on earth is immune to the “life” that we are presented. Many, many wonderful blessings surround us each and every day, yet, we still may be utterly humbled by the aspects of this life that appear to be darker and heavier than the things that make us smile. I suppose this…
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Growing up, our Christmas Eve meal tradition was always soup. Heart warming, nourishing soup, with Mom’s Christmas Greens salad and a whole wheat Great Harvest roll. Christmas Eve service at church would follow dinner, with a lovely small Christmas treat at home before opening one special gift at bedtime. About 10 years ago, “we,” started…
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