Tag: kdweeks
member name: Kevin Weeks
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December 23, 2009 11:53 AM EST --
M y parents recently sent out an email asking ten specific questions about what my siblings and I remembered about our childhood Christmases. "How tall was our tallest tree?" "Who was first to . . .
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December 22, 2009 02:49 PM EST --
I pulled the pot of stock from the fridge and it shimmied. It didn't wobble. It didn't shudder. It didn't ripple. It didn't sashay. Nor did it undulate, shake like a bowl full of jelly, or shiver. . . .
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March 10, 2007 10:44 PM EST --
"Accede gracefully to the inevitable." This is my motto. It is expressed at greater length in the Serenity Prayer:
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage . . .
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June 08, 2007 05:33 PM EDT --
In January of 2005 I made a decision that's had unexpected, and sometimes unwelcome, consequences: I decided I would include a photograph of every recipe I posted on my blog, Seriously Good. It seemed . . .
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September 16, 2008 06:08 PM EDT --
There was a time, a long period of time, when I admired John McCain. I didn't agree with him most of the time, but I thought his bus was well-named, I thought he had principles and stood by them, . . .
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May 06, 2009 08:18 PM EDT --
On a spring evening I passed away quietly while napping on the couch.
Or perhaps it was a winters night in a burst of glowing agony,
Snatched from my sleep in a twisting paroxysm of pain.
Maybe it . . .
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March 17, 2007 04:41 PM EDT --
Geeks come in all sizes, shapes, religions, colors, and areas of geekdom. I have a good friend who's a financial geek -- she really gets off on things like estate planning and income averaging. Go . . .
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April 09, 2007 10:22 PM EDT --
The flavor appeared from nowhere -- literally. I was trying to decide what to fix for supper, flipping through magazines, when suddenly I tasted a shrimp cake. I'd never had a shrimp cake before. Never . . .
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April 19, 2007 04:30 PM EDT --
The entire meal was seriously good. Not fancy, in fact, quite the reverse, but each component was delicious and they all worked in perfect harmony. It was a great Father's Day meal.
I poached the . . .
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February 16, 2008 07:42 PM EST --
A s a Southern cook, I have an obligation to attempt to keep track of cookbooks purportedly offering Southern food. This means that The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook by Matt and Ted Lee was on my list . . .
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October 03, 2008 06:53 PM EDT --
Palin was so folksy all I could think of was a corncob in an outhouse.
Which means, she was about as genuine as the Dukes of Hazard.
And if she'd winked at me one more time I would have crawled . . .
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November 13, 2007 11:48 PM EST --
Sonny Purdue, Govenor of Georgia: Please, Lord, we need rain.
Lord: Oh My Self, I had no idea you needed water! I was so busy playing with my WII that I just plain lost track. Tell you what, . . .
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December 01, 2007 12:35 PM EST --
A lthough garlic as a ward against evil is most closely associated with vampires, thanks to Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula , it has in fact a long and near-universal reputation as a form of protection . . .
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April 05, 2007 02:39 PM EDT --
el·e·gance: 1 a : refined grace or dignified propriety : URBANITY b : tasteful richness of design or ornamentation c : dignified gracefulness or restrained beauty of style : POLISH d : scientific . . .
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April 24, 2007 04:04 PM EDT --
I eagerly anticipate the spring startup of the farmers' markets each year. They begin around the end of April and stretch through to October. There are four in my area, one on Wednesday, one on Thursday, . . .
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May 05, 2007 03:36 PM EDT --
Fishies Again
A few weeks ago Stephanie (Dispensing Happiness) and her husband and son and Marianne (The Unemployed Cook) and her husband got together for dinner here. We all cooked and, as expected, . . .
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June 02, 2007 04:41 PM EDT --
I had strange tastes as a kid. One of my parents' earliest photographs of me shows me sharing food with the dog -- not my food, the dog's food. When I got a bit older I loved cornichons, smoked . . .
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June 26, 2007 02:04 PM EDT --
A recent piece in Slashfood highlighted studies that linked curcumin, a compound found in turmeric, to reduced risk of cancer and Alzheimer's Disease. Turmeric is the spice that gives curry powder . . .
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July 04, 2007 04:38 PM EDT --
I began collecting recipes when I was seven or eight years old. One of the recipes I collected was a peanut butter candy served in the school cafeteria. I don't remember the details, but apparently . . .
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July 11, 2007 02:51 PM EDT --
I was probably 26 at the time. I wasn't married but was living with my then-future and now-past wife. She and I met when I was managing Pier 1 Imports in Knoxville and I hired her as assistant manager. . . .
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