Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Mesclun greens and fruit make a great salad

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Between my wife going to Weight Watchers and my granddaughters spending an inordinate amount of time at our home, our fridge had filled ...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Farro and Porcini Risotto on a Budget

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Being retired means watching the budget. Then again, for most of us watching the budget is a wise thing to do even when not retired. As...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Is this art? Well, it sure isn't happenstance.

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I admit, it doesn't look like much. Yet, there's stuff to appreciate in this simple work of art. And what are these, you might w...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

A dinner a child could make -- and almost did

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My granddaughters visit often and, for this reason, I find myself playing kid's games. I hate kid's games. Why mess with Play-Do...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

What Brian Williams brouhaha and UFFI have in common: Torquing.

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Years after the damage was done, Harris Mitchell told the rest of the UFFI story. It seems the media are appalled that NBC news anchor ...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

It is hard to go wrong with good ingredients

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It snowed yesterday and the city failed to plow our street. We were stuck. I had planned on going to the nearby grocery store but with t...
Monday, February 2, 2015

Mixed use development coming to London

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Near the end of a discussion about a rapid transit development plan for London, the city’s planning chief John Fleming asked: “Why not us? W...