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Confession No. 74 — You want New Year’s resolutions? Fine. I’ll give you New...
I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. It’s not that I am without resolve. Or without hope for a better next year. I just see New Year’s resolutions as … trite. But this time around, I’m taking a bite of...
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Food Snob Chronicles — Meyer Lemons 101
Google ‘Meyer Lemon’ and you’ll get more than 2.95 million returns. That’s a far cry from the 300-500 returns of just 10 years ago. What makes the increase especially interesting is that Meyer Lemons...
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Confession No. 82 — Rudeness is unbecoming. More so for some.
‘I hate rude behavior in a man. I won’t tolerate it.’ — Capt. Woodrow Call (Tommy Lee Jones) in Lonesome Dove, after beating a man nearly to death. Out of certain people I expect certain things. But,...
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Confession No. 98 — Want drama? Go to your nearest middle school.
Kitchen Nightmares. The Bachelor. Jerseylicious. Desperate Housewives … They’ve got nothing on any group of 20 middle school girls. Throw in a few episodes of Dallas, General Hospital and Chopped … and...
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Confession No. 103 — Who are we? Really?
I’ve donned horns. Had jowls that drooped almost to my shoulders. Even represented myself as a single item of red-colored clothing. But that’s not who I am. Really. Neither did my son ever brandish an...
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Confession No. 106 – The problems with friends
If greeting card sales and massive search engine returns are reliable indicators, friendship is a good thing. But friend problems also seem to be a popular subject, with more than 662 million results...
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Confession No. 118 — This is one vice I’ve never outgrown
If patience is a virtue, impatience must be a vice — unless it comes from a child. Or a child at heart. And that is never more evident than on Christmas morning. ‘Wait Kaiden,’ Catherine said from her...
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Food Snob Chronicles – Why these food products have improved through the years
I’m talking neither about mushrooms nor bleu cheese. And never mind that you were an adult before you found bliss in the crunch of a Vidalia onion or from the buttery texture of a rich Lula avocado....
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The Unorthodox Epicure (Recipe): Antipasto Pasta Salad
Being Southern and German as I am, the whole antipasto thing always confused me as a child. Even as a young adult, I couldn’t imagine why the Italians were anti such a wonderful plate of cured meat and...
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Confession No. 130 — Confidential to modern drama queens: You’re no Sarah...
This essay is dedicated to all of you folks who have gone way out on that overemotional limb about 2,064 times too many. My disdain for drama queens is nothing new. I’ve lived through about 11-dozen...
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The Unorthodox Epicure — (Recipe): Sopa de Fideos (Vermicelli Soup)
Fideo is the Sam Spade of Mexican and Tex-Mex food — its background is a cloudy mystery. We know fideo as the pasta used in sopa de fideos, or vermicelli soup. But where did it come from? And how did...
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Confession No. 134 — My kid said what?
He’s our fourth child and without a doubt, the most forthcoming with his words. Following are a few conversations that happened in the past year — before he turned seven on December 19. Keeping me...
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The Unorthodox Epicure: Chicken Jerusalem (Italian Artichoke Chicken)
Marshall (Texas), for such a small town, is known for quite a few notable sons and daughters — Lady Bird Johnson, Y.A. Tittle, George Foreman and Bill Moyers, to name a few. History buffs know this...
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Food Snob Chronicles — Orzo w/ Manchego and Peas
I don’t typically care for rules. But the long-established rules for Manchego Cheese are different. First, to be called Manchego, this wheel of wonderfulness must have been made in the La Mancha region...
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Food Snob Chronicles — Shrimp & Pasta w/ Fresh Tomato Basil Cream
Aside from citrus, tomatoes are my favorite fruit to grow. And, despite that I’ve propagated dozens of varieties over the years, I’ve neither popped a cherry tomato into my mouth, nor have I indulged...
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Confession No. 74 — You want New Year’s resolutions? Fine. I’ll give you New...
I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. It’s not that I am without resolve. Or without hope for a better next year. I just see New Year’s resolutions as … trite. But this time around, I’m taking a bite of...
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Food Snob Chronicles — Meyer Lemons 101
Google ‘Meyer Lemon’ and you’ll get more than 2.95 million returns. That’s a far cry from the 300-500 returns of just 10 years ago. What makes the increase especially interesting is that Meyer Lemons...
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Confession No. 82 — Rudeness is unbecoming. More so for some.
‘I hate rude behavior in a man. I won’t tolerate it.’ — Capt. Woodrow Call (Tommy Lee Jones) in Lonesome Dove, after beating a man nearly to death. Out of certain people I expect certain things. But,...
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Confession No. 98 — Want drama? Go to your nearest middle school.
Kitchen Nightmares. The Bachelor. Jerseylicious. Desperate Housewives … They’ve got nothing on any group of 20 middle school girls. Throw in a few episodes of Dallas, General Hospital and Chopped … and...
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