Category: To Contemplate

Tangy Shrimp Mango Salad

A tangy shrimp salad recipe that explains quite bit, but not how to properly use the plural form of mango.

Baby Needs Shoes

Where my appreciation for Ray Charles is amplified when I contemplate #1 Son’s shoes.

Broth Pageant

Chicken carcasses and an old ham bone transformed.

Cheese Grits Life Line

I had the most wonderful phone call today from my friend Ronald.  He called to say Merry Christmas and that he wondered if I could come to California to make fried chicken, waffles and cheese grits. I worked with Ronald for 9 years in California before moving to Washington.  On the last working day prior…

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Imagine: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

Imagine  December 1980 and the junior English class at CK McClatchy High School (Sacramento, CA).   I can.  I was the student teacher for this course.  After having prodded the depths of Jonathan Edwards and Washington Irving, we had moved on to Walt Whitman.  What could I impart to a bunch of 17 year old students? …

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In a Rut

Have you ever been in a cooking rut where you cooked the same thing over and over?
I have.

Fang and the Cat Whisperer

Fang the Calico Kitty Warning:  this is a post for cat people.  Don’t bother reading further if you aren’t feline oriented.  It will just frustrate you and cause you to stop reading my posts. There was a farmer had a cat And Fango was her name-o F-A-N-G-O F-A-N-G-O F-A-N-G-O And Fango was her name-o. Actually,…

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Peach and Mint Sunday Chicken

When I was in college, my roommate Pam was the orchestrator of most of our meals.   There were four of us girls in a two bedroom apartment, and we organized ourselves into cooking/shopping and cleaning teams.   We had $30 per week to spend on groceries.(Don’t  try to figure this out, but suffice it to say…

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