Truffle update…& the thing about Chartreuse

The mango/coconut truffles will NOT be orange.I just learned that typical food coloring cannot be usedin chocolates. You need a special oil-based food coloringfrom snobby candy/cake supply stores.The water in the other coloring will ruin the chocolate… AND…I went with my dad to the liquor store(Kentucky LOVES its booze, the liquor stores are HUGE!)to get […]

Protected: The Tissue-y Drive & the Warrior Dream

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Do you ever get that feeling…You know…no? Let me elaborate. Every so often, I notice this point in the cycle.Even though I seem well balanced and productive and ‘present’I feel no reaction – or interaction – from the world around me. I am a pretty big guy, as stated before.Loud voice, big presence. Bigger than […]

another from the hole…

i was… and you were there [the mark of a true friend]for rich, and everyone else in my life2.22.95 i was once a tribal herbalist,and you were there, too,healing our clansmen, side by side.i was an actor in ancient greece,and you sat amongst the crowd of the amphitheaterenthralled by my recitation.i was once a knight […]

Protected: The Tribal Muses

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And I was doing so well…

This year I thought I was going to make it… My family has let go of the endless gift buying and giving thing,so I felt no financial pressure what-so-ever… I thought I was going to make it… Even though I knew I could not tolerate a big party this year,I decorated enough – inside – […]

Cookie-Marathon – Part Tre-foil

And another set done.One kind of cookie and two types of fudge. Vanilla-cranberry and butterscotch-pecan fudge.The easiest recipe EVER! Got it from my mom, of course.She is far too sensible and practical for those long, drawn-out75 step kinda recipes… The cookies are from my eldest sister’s recipe box,(which technically is mostly my mom’s and grandmothers’ […]

Cookie-Marathon – Part Dough

So last night I started the (hopefully) wrap-up of holiday cookie baking.More jello flavored press cookies and gum drop bars…Although I left the latter in the pan over night and they already may be stale.DAMMIT! Good thing everyone else in my family bakes those too, there will be plenty… I hope to continue most of […]

Some things left behind in SD & doing the right thing…

Okay, I am back in KCMO.The drive was long and the snow is gone… I found this slip of paper I kept from the place where we ate two lunches and a dinner.YUM! They had these place-mats with word jumbles and stuff,about hunting dogs and fishing…remember South Dakota. I wanted to share the fish humor […]

Protected: DAMM! These corn-fed boys…

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