I WAS LOOKING IN THE TRASH CAN......

 

and began to consider cutting out sugars and fats........but i just love chocolates, iced cream, bread with preserves and jams.....as you can see! that'll be my first new year's resolution .........for next year!

It was a miscalculation to have purchased the 720P SAMSUNG

for my bedroom.......the contrast ratio was too dismal and.....although its picture was better than the old clunker that I was using, an inheritance from my mother, this new 1080P unit is just about perfect.....well, almost just about perfect, anyway.....the sony sound system is beautiful and well-matched, if a bit shrill and "present" for my tastes......time for a B&W intercession, i think.....

provencial chicken with herbs in 27 minutes

 

fresh from the pan, herb covered organic chicken thighs cooked with majoram, dill, rosemary, parsley and thyme, in walnut and olive oil, flavored with bacon to which purple and yellow fingerlings, sauteed with ginger...after the fowl is removed...is then added .......i'll make a sauce from the roux with leftover champagne and thickly sliced shitakes sauteed in macadamia nut oil......let's see.....with a crunchy salad of mixed greens, or maybe a wilted spinach salad with Thai Wasabi Kakinotane......yes, that's better! tiny yellow radish slices, asian pears, toasted sesame seeds and mini orange and yellow pepper slices... and a light, thin rosemary foccacia or nan bread with pear chutney......sprinkle on the chicken some hot curry powder and go Goa style......then serve on beautiful square plates adorned with fragrant crushed bay leaves from the bush behind the pond...... not from an oil-soaked paper towel! to hell with the plate!....eat 'em up.......then refresh the palate with blintz entombed lemon cheesecake covered in fresh blueberrys...and a cup of Balinese blue moon coffee crowned with a sprinkling of fresh ground cinnamon upon thick, whipped cream, sweetened with contreau....

CASA MAKEOVER

 
 

My house was looking pretty ratsy.....Calvin has repaired the ageing stucco, primed and painted it with 30 year paint....that should do it! Although the vines growing over the house made it look so charming.......they were also taking the house back to the earth.......please, not quite yet!

southern delicacy....

 
 
 



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i just made a favorite dish.......yellow cornbread with spicy kidney beans topped with salsa verde....lots of it.....it's best when one adds peppers, onions, toasted garlic slivers and a bit of rasam powder to the bread and Trappy's Bull Sauce and Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning with lots of fresh bay leaves to the beans........yum...yum.... also good with the addition of spicy Argentinian red shrimp.....

this is who you see

 

THE SQUEEZEBOX

Thank you so, so much Mikey.....for setting up the network and installing the Squeezebox......I am so excited by the new technology! Streaming music from various home computers to the Living Room sound system certainly beats lugging cd's around.....

SUBLIME SUBLIMATION

 

Life is a liquid presence. When we attempt to "fix" our thoughts and feelings, pretending to "structure" Life, we are bound, in our efforts to bypass the state between the solidity, even stolidity of being, imagining the amorphous and perceived "higher" state of being via gassy plastic chemical manipulations within our cortexes, and jump straight to the 'higher' state of presence.....we but trick ourselves into looking foolish in the eyes of Buddahs, who see what is...denying the reptile, coiled between our brain stems and our still expanding, indeed pulsating, frontal developments......