Food

Waste

When I go to Costco, I try to make one meal a week easier on me and buy a ready-to-cook pizza. I come home and heat the oven while I’m unloading groceries from Farmers Market, Costco, and Vons. Ten minutes later, bam, lunch is ready to go. Today as I’m transferring the pizza from the […]

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Jell-o

  Pudding and jello are not common foods in my kitchen. I can’t extract a good explanation. Maybe because it’s instant food, processed food, empty calorie food? I ate it as a kid with little trauma associated to it. I had to buy soft foods for Daughter for her wisdom teeth removal recovery program so

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Social

Opening a container of ice-cream has the same effect on my family as opening a can of cat food has on my dog and cat. I try to engage my family in conversation throughout the day on a variety of topics and on different levels. I often get a flat-line of interaction as if I

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The Kumquat Incident

The experiment started innocently enough. Friends had a kumquat tree and gave us a haul. They had cut them open and poured vodka over them to begin an infusion process. It sounded like a good idea. What could go wrong? I filled 2 thermos bottle of kumquats and vodka and let them sit on the

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Tomatoes

My 6 tomato plants have happily been spewing out fruit at a regular interval. Unfortunately the birds will not allow the fruit to ripen on the vine. The winged bandits eat any thing that is remotely red and have even eaten some green fruit. This is most disappointing because vine-ripened tomatoes are so sweet. I

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