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SQUASH!
Wild Word Friday! I love Christmas, and, because I’m a Christian, the holiday has an extra special meaning for me, but I can get burned out fast by all the preparations, parties, and commotion. That means it’s also the perfect time of year for comfort food, and for me comfort food includes winter SQUASH….
04.21.14
I’ve lived in Michigan almost all my life, except for a short time in Oxford, Massachusetts, and another in Denver, Colorado, but this morning as I look out over our icy bay, I’m BOSTON PROUD. Happy Patriots’ Day, and many blessings to all of those folks participating in the Boston Marathon as runners, volunteers, organizers…
GOBBLE!
Wild Word Friday! To consider the origin of the word GOBBLE, we need to go back to the Celts, who gave us the word gober, meaning to gulp down or swallow. From gober we get gobbet, a morsel of food, particularly meat, and we also find the related word, gob, in various Gaelic dialects, which…
Your Life & Mine: Treats!
The first word our schnauzer learned as a puppy was TREAT! I don’t blame her. Treats are an important part of my life, too. Here are a couple of my favorites, good examples of the mixed background in my family — a bit Hillbilly, a bit East Coast. We usually had pig hocks in the…