Nourish
Sometimes all you need to get out of the rut you’re in is your family…because as simple as it sounds, this is what nourishes us.
Author: Marisa B
Happy Cinco De Mayo – My Favorite Recipes
I want my children to see and taste all the wonderful cuisines that are out there.
Mangia, Mangia…No Talk!
Wishful Eating
This is my second day for the May NaBloPoMo
Today’s prompt is:
How do you wish you ate if it’s different from your day-to-day realty.
“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
I am not sure where I am going with this but bear with me because somehow I know it will come out.
Day to day my realty is me being a wife, mom and working in a cubicle counting beans; we all meet one another at the end of our day; we share a meal, a story, a laugh, or a conversation. What follows is an end to that brief time… of taste, connecting, and nurturing. It becomes chaotic of sorts because we all need to prepare for the next thing.
My wish is to slow down; I want those oysters that Earnest Hemingway writes about, taste the sea, and wash it away with the white wine too.
We all work hard…these days more so, we have too. At times, I am worn out, not physically but drained. We are all spread thin, not only the adults the children too.
I work hard and I want to play hard; my wish is to enjoy the moments away from the pressures that make day-to-day reality.
If I could change the way I eat and cook, it would be to create feasts, yes feasts!
Not necessarily, a banquet, nonetheless, an opportunity to celebrate our hard work, to forget the daily pressures, the stress and enjoy what we sow… to simply relish what we are all working so hard for.
Perhaps then we,or I, will lose the empty feeling and begin to be happy and to make plans; as Earnest Hemingway writes in A Moveable Feast.
Mangia, Mangia…No Talk!
How Do I Eat?
The question for me should be.
How Do We Eat?
Truthfully if it was only me, I wouldn’t eat…actually when it is only me I don’t eat.
Catching up –
So I survived the holidays, I’m not sure if it’s only me, but the holidays beat me up each year – it’s true I am on a stress level that’s not enjoyable. The pressure starts around Halloween and lasts through New Year’s Day
Here I am …. I’m back!!!
Here I am again!!!!!
Here is a quick explanation of what happened; on New Year’s Eve, I noticed that my posts, on both blogs did not have any pictures. All my pictures were gone and replaced with a minus sign inside of a box.
apps.facebook.com/bitstrips
My Bitstrip of me; the closest picture I had of what I felt like.
Huh? ….. Oh no! I thought I knew what happened right away – see the day before, I noticed that my Google account had added recent pictures that I took with my phone – Huh I thought again; how did these get on my Google account I did not add them on the site? I panicked and removed all the pictures on Google; even though my settings were set to private, I removed every single one of them. I did not like that the pictures on my phone automatically linked onto my Google account without my doing. Yet once I realized what had happened, which is, I think it has something to with URL addresses. Do you know that all your photos on your post have an URL address? Well I do now, and I think that once they are loaded onto the posts they are also stored on Google, without that link they can’t load onto the post. Arrgh! A cycle, huh! I decided as long as the pictures on my Google account are set to private then it’s okay to leave them there….
So my next step was to try to restore all the deleted pictures back onto Google, thinking that the pictures would magically link to my blog posts that each picture belong to; well that did not work.
So alas my only option was to reload all the pictures on each post, one post at a time.
It took me 12 weeks!!!
Last Week I finally completed fixing up my blog posts for Mangia, Mangia…No Talk and SquaareKat.
23 posts on SquaareKat and 64 posts on Mangia, Mangia…No Talk!
YAY! Hip, Hip hooray!
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Silver-linings
Normally I am not a patient girl…there are things that I feel that are blood-clutching torture! Gardening being one of them; folding socks too and switching seasonal clothing! I guess what I’m trying to say, things that take a looong time.
Although this project felt like it dragged on – it was somewhat pleasant.
Yes, I had many silver linings,which are:
- The pictures that are on the posts are now grouped in individual folders named after the post.
- All pictures reloaded onto its post have a watermark on it.
- All posts that have a recipe also have a print-friendly recipe button.
- Lastly, I got to see and enjoy all my past posts all over again.
I was able to go down a memory lane.
I encourage you to do the same; here are some of my favorite posts:
It should go without saying the posts that featured my grandparents top them all! Yet I wanted to showcase some of the ones that were fun and special to me as well….
Please visit some of my past posts; and stick around for more… I have so much more to write and share with every one of you. One last favor please, please talk …let me know what you think! Leave me a comment and join the party!
Mangia, Mangia…No Talk!!!
Ching e Ching Christmas is Coming!
Only a culture that loves food could have come up with multiple techniques for cooking the cardoon—this thistle (a cousin of the artichoke that also tastes like one) with the texture of overgrown celery requires meticulous preparation. But the fact that Italians and Italian-Americans alike scour the markets for it come fall is evidence enough that it’s worth it. A light coating and deep-frying really enhance the vegetable’s subtle flavor. found on Epicurious