This week's quinoa kitchen sink salad was literally just a mish-mash of everything I thought might taste good mixed into light and fluffy quinoa. I pulled things out of the fridge, chopped, added some oils and vinegars from the pantry and just … [Read more...]
Coconut Milk Shrimp and COOL new food site!
When I have a craving, I google the keywords and I start comparing recipes. Today I googled 'coconut milk shrimp' and sure enough, within a few minutes, I had a recipe I wanted to work with. In fact, I not only found a recipe that looked delicious … [Read more...]
Here Comes the Sun
The last quarter of her junior year, and a pre-dawn drop off at the airport for an early Easter morning flight to her home 2000 miles away. A long, curbside hug goodbye after an extended visit home – three weeks instead of two. Tender admonitions, … [Read more...]
Three Things I Like about You (If You’re a Local Burger)
I have feelings about burgers. The good news is that Amadorians are in a good place, burger-wise, and my feelings are so strong I feel compelled to write about them. Right now, a burger worth mentioning can be found from one end of Amador County to … [Read more...]
Fresh Veggie Cornmeal Fritters
Sometimes on a Sunday, before I do my grocery shopping for the upcoming week, I pull all the veggies I didn't get around to using during the previous week and make something -- sometimes a pot of minestrone or other vegetable-based soup, other times … [Read more...]
Mossimo’s Oil, Part 1: Ciao, Italia!
Some love affairs begin with a jolt, epitomizing the phrase “falling in love.” Others emerge slowly, even reluctantly, with both parties revealing themselves over time until the attraction takes hold. It is the latter that most closely describes my … [Read more...]
The Roaring 20s
As my four technically grown children insist on continuing to get older - grow up as it were - I have no choice but to keep revisiting how this feels. What I have noticed recently is that the feeling won’t stay still long enough to actually put a … [Read more...]
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Since the beginning of this whole COVID-19 fucked up fiasco, which I’ve renamed FUF-20, I’ve been thinking things and wondering if other people are thinking them too. For example, how many people reading this have seriously considered having a … [Read more...]
Virus, Schmirus!
I’ve got this. It took me a couple weeks, but I finally wrangled this dismal situation into submission like a cowboy gets a cow to submit. That actually sounds a little kinky, but this is no time to judge cows. Back to my story. Yesterday, I had my … [Read more...]
Stranger in the Mirror
Turns out, when faced with a life-altering situation like a health pandemic, I’m not exactly who I thought I was. In fact, I’ve caught myself doing things that are so out of character in the last three weeks since being mostly housebound, stressed … [Read more...]
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