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Archive for the 'Recipes/Food' Category


   Apr 11

Responsible Drinking

About the only I drink these days is vodka or an occasional glass of wine. Vodka goes with or in just about anything, so it is a good all-around alcohol. But we don’t drink very often. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I had a drink other than a glass of wine at [...]

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   Feb 28

The cookie, or the cream

This funny video I found on YouTube is about a guy that supposedly spent many hours creating a machine that would open up an oreo cookie and remove the cream filling. Personally I like the cream part better than the cookie part, but to each his own! One interesting thing that I observed about this [...]

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   Feb 22

Leftover Chocolates?

I got such a huge red foil heart box of Valentine’s Day chocolates that I flat-out cannot eat them all. I love the chocolates, but wow – it’s like a lifetime supply of them! Today I realized that I have eaten the last of the dark chocolates that was in the assortment and there are [...]

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   Feb 20

Lean Pockets

While at the grocery store I decided to shop for a few new frozen snacks. I have been eating the frozen burritos for a long time, and sometimes I have a pot pie. But I wanted something different this time, so I bought a box of “Lean Pockets” and will give them a taste test [...]

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   Jan 12

Chicken Stock

The grocery store had whole chickens on sale for such a good price that I bought two of them and need to get them cooked up. I didn’t have any recipes in mind for the chicken, so I decided to boil them, set aside the chicken stock and cube the cooked chicken. I popped some [...]

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