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Without a family, one seldom thinks long term

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Who’s Cookin’ at Home? ………. If you don’t learn, you’ll never enjoy this great Seafood Gumbo!

ZEE Best Seafood Gumbo!!!

All too often today, busy and scattered families don’t sit down to 1 meal a day together, let alone 2 or 3. This is unfortunate, since usually the only conversation that takes place in the family is at the main meals.

What complicates mealtime is that fewer and fewer people know how to really cook. Being able to press the popcorn button on the microwave does not constitute enough knowledge to get you around a major meal. If more and more young men and women are abandoning cooking in favor of fast food or microwavable dinners, it spells disaster for future generations who have little understanding of nutrition or balance.

In our little group, we made it a fun activity to learn how to prepare everyday simple meals as well as those that might impress. Besides the feminine arts of weightlifting, martial arts, hunting and fishing… I wanted my daughters to learn how to cook. They do this very well!

So, back to food!

Here is my favorite recipe for seafood Gumbo! We developed it after a lot of helpful conversations from a variety of great folks. I hope you enjoy! By the way, one of the great things about extra gumbo is that you can freeze it into about 8 two serving portions!

So Here it is CLICK here for my recipe! Bon Appetit! Make it for someone you love!

 

Roger Freberg

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How to be happy…. make your first decision well!

Sweet Old Married Couple 

For those folks around my age can look back on the first half century of our lives with some amusement. Yes, we were supposed to be the ‘leisure generation’, our biggest challenge was how we were going to take care of ourselves in all of our ‘spare’ time? Well, a lot of those delusions have been laid to rest over the intervening decades. It is interesting to note that few of the ‘truisms’ from the 60’s and 70’s have any ‘relevance’ today.

A lot of what permeated popular culture via the media from those years has been resoundly repudiated either through research or from one’s own practical experience. The ‘alternative’ lifestyles from this timeframe have virtually dissolved …. and their ‘purpose’ seemed to have provided no useful service to society other than to delay procreation and the much feared ‘over population’ tsunami! Our population has grown, but from immigration alone.

In any event, the much abused ‘institution’ of marriage is making a comeback. The reasons are very simple:

“the data are clear: you’ll live longer, stay saner, get richer, and be happier.” — Maggie Gallagher

Maggie makes a lot of good points. I liked her point that the longer you are married the better the marriage and happier it can become. Obviously, the cynic will say that this is because each individual has more to lose as time goes by, basically, more to divide in half. However, She brings out the obvious, that any two committed people can resolve their issues over time… yes, there will be conflice, but with conflict comes resolution and with resolution comes greater love and respect for each other.
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