Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
Without a family, one seldom thinks long term
There is such a history to the use of eggplant in the foods of man… primarily as a meat substitute or meal extender throughout the ages.
Whatever the humble beginnings, it makes a nice dish in many forms, particularly if breaded and deep fried.
After a good head start from Aunt Jeanne, we worked up a new and improved version… that ws wonderful.
Roger
Yes, that is feta cheese on top … plus a whole lot more
Happy Birthday, Karen. Yesterday was Kristin’s Birthday and today is Karen’s. Along with our wedding anniversary and Laura’s birthday last month makes for a busy 31 days!
Karen has been a great partner on Jenny Craig with Mom and me, and inspired us to join her on Facebook with Kristin. Being of an older generation, we have had to ‘invite’ folks to join us. Karen is at the University of Tennessee working on her Ph.D.
The devilish horns of hair seem somewhat appropriate. 🙂
Dad
Kristin is coming to visit and we plan to put together a ‘historically’ accurate version of a berry wine. In areas of northern Europe and in the early American Colonies, berry wines were made where either grape wine making was impractical or grapes were unavailable.
In talking to a home brewer named “David” ( the husband of Laura’s cousin Pam), I thought… ‘hey, I could do this and it might be fun.’ Kristin though it would be nice to make up a batch and open it up next year to celebrate.
Thanks to some entrepreneurial folks at Mountain Home brew in Kirkland , Washington I picked up ingredients and all the basics to make my own wine.
Now, I have some friends who started out this way and ended up with a vineyard! I don’t think so, that is far too much work for me. However, I do feel it would be fun to dabble a bit and maybe get to the point where I have an old oak cask hidden away somewhere.
So, in following my own advice: ” to understand something fully, one must see it through from start to finish” … I am taking my first step into fermenting something wonderful.
cheers!
Roger
oh yes, I plan to produce an estimated ‘nutritional label’ and balance it’s ‘medicinal use’ with my Jenny Craig life.
Laura and I have always prided ourselves in embracing new technologies. I mean, we remember that an ‘upgrade’ to our first Apple computer meant finding the soldering iron! Even today, Laura finds herself having to buy various things on-line when her Cal Poly computer store carries only 5.0 and she already has the 10.0 version.
Naturally, when our daughters introduced us to the social networking sites, we found ourselves intrigued. Although we are not out there to meet new friends, per se, what we have enjoyed is the way you can communicate better even within the family. I liked the advent of email all those years ago, it allowed you to talk to people at your own time and answer them when it was best for you. Now sites, like Facebook, have expanded that connectivity more easily buy allowing access anywhere and at anytime, including their own version of Instant messaging. In addition, your ‘page’ is very much like your own web page ( we’ve enjoyed our web pages) but with the ability of selected others to ‘post’ on it.
I particularly enjoy torturing my daughters by posting on their pages recipes and pictures of culinary delights that drive them insane. We are foodies through and through. I am impressed with some of their friends that have connectivity with literally thousands of people, whereas others have more modest numbers… very modest numbers like me. I find that you have to invite boomers on board Facebook, whereas around college age are already there!
There is a disadvantage for college age folks to ‘invite’ their parents… the risk of ‘parental’ comments is always there… but then – in this ‘public’ domain – everyone would be well advised to be a little careful as some employer may see some thing you didn’t mean for them to see… on your social Networking site. Remember , the INTERNET is forever.
Karen blogged about one crazy guy.
So what are you waiting for?… find a social networking site, join and bring on your friends and family. Your kids might just understand… or not… but it aint all about them is it?
Roger
Some cakes are destined to become classics. The Simple Carrot Cake is worthy of Klingon Song!
When Karen returned from South Africa after working with ‘Total Media’ a Public Relations firm in Cape town, she introduced us to a variety of culinary offerings: Bobotie certainly was one of the finest, the Brai ( a BBQ), Smoorvis ( a rice and fish dish) and not to be forgotten… Amarula. Amarula is a creamy alcoholic drink ( 20%) that can be used in about everything… inlcuding Karen’s addition of 5 tablespoons in our carrot cake! In South Africa, the Brittish introduced the apricot and that is in there too!
And in the right size… it can be Jenny Craig Compliant!
Roger
If you are on Facebook, you just might receive this extraordinary carrot cake as “Foodie for Yoodie” from the ‘Skinny Chef’!