You are here: Home / Marica Sounds like not everyone in 1994 had a food processor. From Vegetarian Fast Food: Over 200 Delicious Dishes in Minutes by Rose Elliott (1994) These are crisp on the outside, moist and spicy within, lovely with a yogurt sauce and a fresh salad – perhaps diced cucumbers and chopped scallions. You really do need a
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Coffe and brandy. What more can I say? From Adventures in Good Cooking (Famous Recipes) and the Art of Carving in the Home: A Duncan Hines Book (1939) MADELEINE NORMAND’S SPANISH BEANPOT Serves 4 to 6 2 large cans red kidney beans2 Tbsp bacon fat1 clove garlic, mincedPinch English thymePinch rosemary1 small bay leaf2 whole
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By every act of good, we quantitatively … do make the world better, and we disproportionately make the world better for the receiver of our kindness. “The Capacity for Good of an Ordinary Man” at ThinkingWest One might think that the greatest good one can do is that which benefits the most amount of people.
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Dr. William M. Mann, Director of Washington’s National Zoo, is on speaking terms with every one of his 2,800 animal wards—even though his specialty is ants. He has penetrated some of the least-known parts of the world to learn more about ants and to collect wild game. His collections are more varied than the public
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Yesterday the A/C didn’t come on until about 3pm. Today it came on at 6pm. Oh, it’s still warm outside. The high was 89˚. But we are in that sweet spot where the overnight low–50˚F!–cools the house down nicely if the windows are open and the fans are moving the air around. Looking forward to
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I don’t often associate beans with cream, but this sounds good. “This flavorful vegetable dish is made from dried butter beans and an irresistible combination of onion, garlic, carrots, ham and cream. To add color, sprinkle it with fresh parsley before serving.”—The Creative Cooking Course (1982) CREATIVE COOKING BUTTER BEANS IN CREAM Makes 8 to
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“While this baked bean dish is typically served with barbecued meats, it can double as a hearty main dish meal in the fall and winter.”—Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications, One-Pan Recipes (2013) FIVE-BEAN BAKE AND SLOW COOKER VARIATION Makes 12 to 16 servings; per serving 245 calories, 3 grams fat (1 gram saturated
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A refreshing 61˚ right now so I’ve had the doors open this morning. Walking from the back to the front after feeding Tiger and thought this was a nice pastoral scene. Those bales have been sitting out there and all over the place for over a month. Makes for a pleasing view but I wonder
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From “Vegetables,” Cooking with Czech Recipes Cookbook, Texas Czech Genealogical Society (2021) “Be prepared for many requests for this recipe if you serve it to your guests. Submitted by: Sandy Matush” “Makes a lot and is a great side dish for brisket. Makes a good “leftover,” if you have any left.” SANDY’S BAKED BEANS 1
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Powerline’s The Week in Pictures Bonus.
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Sounds like a good fall dish “Great side dish at a picnic or potluck. Recipe comes from my beloved sister-in-law, Wally Krasniansky.”–Posted by: Ladylibertatian, The Deplorable Gourmet by The Horde (2017) “This is a great substitute for regular beans. It also can be a main course.” AUNT WALLY’S BEAN CASSEROLE Serves 12Prep time: 1.5 hours
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It would have been more fun if the outdoor humidity had been 65–like all palindrome–but you take what Mother Nature gives you. This new Department of Redundancy Department weather station is not nearly as detailed as the other one, but at least I don’t have to get up and walk three paces to see what’s
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From Master Chef Louis P. De Gouy, The Gold Cook Book (1947) Beans have been cultivated in the Americas since prehistoric times. Lima beans have been discovered in burial mounds in Peru, and early explorers found beans being cultivated by the Indians, from Canada to South America. In 1605, in a letter concerning the Indians
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From Vegetables, Old Carolina Tobacco Country Cook Book: From the Great Depression to World War II (1985) THE MAIN DISH: The main dish at a meal was not always a meat dish. Perhaps one of the main reasons for this was that the wife, who did the cooking, also had to help with the many
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This isn’t a political blog, though I have my share of opinions of politics and the state of worldly affairs. But this must be stopped one way or another–and hedged against if we can’t. By ‘we’ I mean normal human beings, the sort who have been on the planet long enough to know better than
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Ahh. The olden days. Came across this from September 2019. Made me smile. Here’s the background. As part of his day job, Mr. Big Food and I had been going to the Alabama Philosophical Society annual meetings, held at Pensacola Beach, for a few years. In 2018 he arranged to have a one day session
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As in could have knocked me over. I’ve been reading a lot of calls for stories and short story writing contest blurbs lately looking for place to submit. I reject a great many out of hand because I know I would be rejected out of hand. They are written by 27 year olds (not that
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One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001 (Time, Inc. Little Brown and Company, Boston. 2001.)
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A few weeks ago we received a threat from Home Depot: If you don’t use your Home Depot Credit Card your credit limit will be reduced. We get one every year because a) the nearest Home Deport is more than an hour away, 2) there’s a Lowes in Starkvegas, and iii) there’s just not much
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