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Cindy Fuller
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Nov 05
Cookies
I’m not much for baking cookies. If I do bake cookies, it’s brownies or some other bars. I don’t remember the last time I made drop or shaped cookies – until today. I found a recipe for double ginger crackles in my file from Fine Cooking magazine and decided it was time to bake some …
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Nov 05
First Snow
Friday morning, a “wintry mix” of rain and snow hit the Seattle area. As the day wore on, it turned into all snow. Luckily, there was no accumulation and the rain resumed in the afternoon. This morning the snow returned and briefly accumulated over the Doug Fir needles on the upper deck. Again, the white …
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Nov 05
The Falling…Needles
One disadvantage of living in the Evergreen State is the damn evergreen needles. The slightest wind sends a fine flurry of them to the ground. A stiff wind sends a blizzard of needles. The needles get tracked into the house and ground into the carpet, and are a bear to remove. In theory, the only …
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Oct 29
Another Beverage Boondoggle Bites the Dust
Apparently the Teamosa (see prior post, Yet Another Beverage Boondoggle) has met the fate of the Juicero. Who put up the capital for this product? Obviously nobody who drinks tea.
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Oct 28
Paella Para Dos
Although paella is a party recipe at heart, we have made it for just the two of us. Sometimes it’s just chicken and sausage, other times it’s seafood. Today we were on our usual caffeine run downtown when the question of dinner came up, as it always does. Julian suggested paella, so I did a …
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Oct 22
Smoke Screens
What if the constant Twitter wars and kerfuffles are strategic smoke screens to hide what’s really going on in the current administration? Alternately, are policy pronouncements timed to when attention is focused on other headlines (e.g., hurricanes and wildfires)? Diversionary tactics are common in military actions and in dictatorships. Administrations past and present have released …
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Oct 21
Garden Postmortem
The Italian basil is history. The shiso plants have gone to flower, as has the Thai basil. The padrón pepper plants are soldiering on, but it won’t be long before they need to meet the compost bin. The peppermint plant is thriving, but the spearmint plant is DOA. The survivors are all waterlogged with the …
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Oct 21
Oh, Pear
To me, fall hasn’t arrived until locally-grown pears reach grocery stores and fruit stands. Part of the former family orchard consisted of Bartlett pear trees. Two Bartlett trees grew in my grandfather’s front yard, and two Seckel pear trees grew near the old chicken coop on the farm. My grandmother used to can both varieties. …
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Oct 20
More Utopia, Less Dystopia
I am no fan of the dystopian movies, television shows, or books foisted on the public these days. As I said earlier, the real world is dystopian enough. Last week Julian cajoled me into going to Blade Runner 2049. The original Blade Runner was one of his favorite films. I fell asleep during it. I …
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Oct 17
Holy Mole
Chicken mole (pronounced mo-lay) is one of our standard weeknight meals. It’s reasonably quick, courtesy of the jarred mole concentrate you can find on the Mexican aisle of well-stocked grocery stores. And it’s quite tasty. In Mexico, moles come in a variety of colors. In the US, the standard mole found in restaurants is mole …
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