Month: January 2008

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Travel Deals Are Always Around!

When they are not worknig they are traveling or traveling and worknig!
One of the things I have enjoyed about my adult children is their interest in seeing the world and meeting its people. Certainly, their travels have only just begun… but the three of them have been covering the continents and now their explorations have taken more personal interests.

One of the things I have enjoyed is helping them find great travel deals. Deals that don’t involve sleeping in a luggage compartment or stowing away on a coffee boat. Why pay $4500 to travel to Beijing from Tennessee when you can pay $1000 on Cathay Pacific or for the same price go from Los Angeles to Australia on Qantas? Obviously, rates change and there is a big asterisk as to when you have to take these trips… but it is worth it!

British Airways has remarkable deals to England right now from almost anywhere in the United States — and once there — it is a great jumping off place to the rest of the world!

So the dollar may be soft… but the great airline fares more than make up for it! So, tell me… what’s holding you back?

Roger Freberg

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Cook like a Pirate!

avast! thar be scoundrals & pirates be here!
Ah… you’ll have to wait for the Crab Quiche recipe… but we be having some secret ingredients in thar spices!

Being on Jenny Craig, has me longing for the weekends when I get to really cook… and for some reason, a Crab Quiche sounds like it will hit the spot. No rum, but a nice bottle of a sweet South African Klein Constantia “Vin de Constance 2001” might go well.
Weekends are made for cooking!
Roger Freberg

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What do you REALLY want to eat & drink?

Food Proccessing.Com identified the following trends in consumer food trends:

1) The chocolate renaissance ( away from indulgence and more as a healthy ingredient)
2) Keep an eye out for increased safety documentation
3) Consumers are looking for bolder, spicier notes
4) Flavors will continue to blur the lines between savory and sweet. Beverages both on- and off-premise will explore infusing herb and spice flavors in order to differentiate. Food will work beverages into the mix via increased juice and tea ingredients.
5 Convenience Nutritionally Fortified Foods
6) “Smart” food that boosts memory, cognitive endurance and mental energy
7) Ethnic flavors become regional
8) Sustained energy (food and beverages with effectiveness lasting over five hours. without excess caffeine.)
9) Recovery products (more Food and beverages designed for recovery)
10) More veggies, please (flavors and formulas will be bent to meet this nutritional requirement)

It sounds like too much sizzle and too little substance to me.
Roger Freberg

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SeaFood Lasagna by Kristin

soooooo many ideas and sooo little time!
My daughter Kristin is coming home in a couple of weeks and we’re all getting ready to have a good time. With Kristin this means doing some of the things that she doesn’t get to do much of in her line of work… cooking is top on the list.

So, we all have been talking about what she wants to cook while she’s out here and we brainstormed about various seafood dishes, fusions and combinations.

What we are exploring is a Seafood Lasagna. There are plenty of similar dishes out there and I am sure you have had the opportunity to try out a few yourself, but most seem to be missing something.

Many recipes for this type of dish have very little seafood and compensate by adding vegetables and an abundance of cheeses. My wife would say… “you can’t have too much cheese’… but unless you are a cheese-asaur, it’s a bit much for me… I want more meat!

This type of dish opens itself up to so many delightful variations… providing me with the opportunity to sautee the seafood in Armagnac and add white wine to the white sauce. The choice of spices won’t be inexpensive or skimpy… there is much we can do. Kristin has some wonderful ideas.

In the meantime, we’re still exploring ideas.

While exploring the wonderful world, I found this amusing “Mother-in-law tongue” with it’s serrated edges looks and feels like the real thing!

Roger Freberg

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Cancer & other ‘comedies’

Quotes are a wonderful way of not having to reinvent the wheel…

” Tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when you walk into sewer and die.” -Mel Brooks ( as related by Jerry Bunin)

zLeroy SieversAll of us tend to be preoccupied about things that affect our lives and we –hopefully — have a few folks on the planet that we care about nearly as much… and maybe, a bit more. However, the reality is that we never really know what the other person is going through until we ourselves are faced with similar serious issues. In fact, some people have a real difficult time putting themselves in another person’s ‘moccasins’ even in simplest things… we call this inability… lack of empathy.

I don’t believe in ‘sympathy’ which you can find in the dictionary somewhere between SH*T and SYPHILLUS, but empathy is much more. Empathy is genuine.
But for many of us, seeing what others face provides understanding and courage … for ourselves in the issues we deal with today and down the road.

I have blogged about this before… but this site — for as long as it continues — it is well worth the look. LEROY SIEVERS

Roger Freberg