The power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life. ~Jamie Oliver, accepting 2010 TED Award TODAY’S PREPARATION HEALTH IS BODILY WEALTH What do people say when disaster strikes? At least you have your health. Being in good health is of such fundamental importance that, [...]
PART OF AN OSCAR PARTY MENU [Bobby wants plain toast, which isn't on the menu] Bobby: I’d like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee. Waitress: A #2, chicken salad sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise, and a [...]
Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward. ~George Carlin(1937-2008) H2O THERAPY I’ve been doing warm water therapy for several years and it still amazes me how agreeable it is to my particular bio-system. After a lifetime of my body’s not being able [...]
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin TODAY’S PREPARATION Many who looked outside yesterday morning were greeted with yet another snowfall, wetter and lighter than the last one. Welcome New York City [...]
Do Something Drastic; Cut the Plastic ~PoconoRecord.com TODAY’S PREPARATION I just heard about the best green craft idea: doing something useful with those dastardly plastic grocery bags breeding in their burgeoning colonies in kitchen cupboards or hall closets across the land. Banned in Bangladesh,Rwanda and San Francisco. Taxed in Ireland. In China, merchants are forbidden [...]
Many women are poor cooks only because their native greatness has been beaten down by ingratitude. ~Rev Robert Farrar Capon (1925 – ) TODAY’S PREPARATION Ever the experimental cook and game for almost any cooking challenge, I have always used the occasion of dinner guests as a reason to try something new. I know that [...]
Never eat more than you can lift. ~Miss Piggy (1974 – ) TODAY’S PREPARATION BAKING THE OCCASIONAL HAND I was preoccupied with the mukhwa of the day – a serious dose at the local court house as I fought a spurious claim of rent arrears – but finally home and getting dinner. The teriyaki chicken [...]
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw, aka Josh Billings (1818-1885) INSTANT BREAKFAST KIT Winter is a time for hot breakfast cereal. That most important meal of the day comes in many forms. Farina (I loved Farina as a child!), cream of wheat (never [...]
There’s a fool born every minute, and two to take him. ~Author Unknown, but credited to someone at Dewey, Cheatem & Howe Dashing around today, I ducked into the PathMark grocery on the waaay up upper east side to get something for dinner, and the display case right inside the door caught my eye. Looking [...]
DAILY POST FEB 19th:Â REVIVE . . . IT’S ALIVE! Chatting with my writer friend again, about the celery revival this time, and she recalled a science experiment done in the third grade that demonstrates how plants take in moisture, which was exactly the point of the initial post. I thought that it would be [...]