Tag: kevin weeks
member name: Kevin Weeks
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November 16, 2006 05:53 PM EST --
I don't know who "the self-appointed recipe police" are, but I wish they'd quit tormenting Shannon 'cause I'm tired of reading that stupid disclaimer. So what if she copies all . . .
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April 26, 2006 04:39 PM EDT --
Just Like Mom's
The urge to nostalgia seems universal. We are most aware of it when nostalgia for some aspect of our past becomes fashionable again as with automobiles like the Ford Thunderbird . . .
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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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June 15, 2006 04:05 PM EDT --
In the News
In the event anyone is interested, the reporter from the local paper interviewed me a couple of weeks ago and the story appeared yesterday.
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July 19, 2007 07:39 PM EDT --
Oh, alright: As much as she loved receiving affection, showing it wasn't one of her strong points, and so, this is my favorite photograph of SweetThing.
Got a Smoke? For 14 years . . .
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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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April 10, 2006 12:38 PM EDT --
Sins of Commission
Most of us have a few guilty secrets. There are early transgressions we might now admit to with a wry, if slightly embarrassed, grin. For instance, as a child I was sometimes unable . . .
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September 01, 2006 05:41 PM EDT --
Thanks to all who offered criticisms last night. They were all to the point and valuable. Here's a second pass.
Food Porn
I walked in the front door and confronted a huge bowl of paella. . . .
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October 03, 2006 05:26 PM EDT --
Fall is coming early this year, rushing in like a river when the levee breaks. And like a flooding river, fall creates turmoil. Looking to the hills I see oaks still sporting their summer work . . .
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December 08, 2006 09:44 PM EST --
Bridget said, "Do it."
Do what?
She often confused me that way. Giving orders, making assertions, delivering pronouncements with no clear beginning. Or end for that matter. They arrived . . .
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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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July 21, 2007 06:28 PM EDT --
Chicken is one of my favorite foods, its flavor infinitely adaptable to mood, style, and cuisine. A simple roast chicken with herbs can speak to you of a French bistro or an Italian trattoria. Braise it . . .
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September 19, 2007 02:09 PM EDT --
Casseroles get a bad rap, and many of them deserve it. But I happen to love them. You mix up a bunch of stuff (avoiding any canned soup mixes, which are the single greatest reason for the bad rap) dump . . .
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October 06, 2007 01:00 PM EDT --
The Sand Wich is There
C reeping like a cat chasing a dust bunny, the odor of baking bread slips up on me and then pounces. Wrapping my senses in paws at once softly padded and clawed, . . .
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November 02, 2007 11:31 AM EDT --
" S pice is the variety of life," read a slogan used by Spice Islands some 30 years ago. Back in those days Spice Islands offered not only the best spices and herbs you could find outside . . .
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November 09, 2007 11:04 AM EST --
T he British do love meat pies. There are Cornish Pasties, Steak and Kidney Pies, Pork Pies, Pot Pies, and Shepherd’s Pie. My theory for their popularity is the atrocious British weather. A good . . .
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November 25, 2007 02:14 PM EST --
D uring my long absence from East Tennessee there were three things I missed most, in fact they're the only three things I can specifically recall missing. Not surprisingly, they're all food. . . .
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January 27, 2008 01:16 PM EST --
L ast week my father asked me to spend a day with him in the mountains. I'm not sure what prompted the invitation, but he rented a cabin and we drove up around noon on a warm, bright winter's . . .
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February 02, 2008 01:03 PM EST --
I n my house there is one kind of food that is not tolerated -- bland food.
I can stand too much of almost anything, but not enough flavor is an abomination. A sin of omission by commission. Intolerable! . . .
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