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Recipes from the Web, 12- 05-2009

I love reading recipes on the Web. The Squash, shrimp & beans is for later this week, the pancakes for breakfast tomorrow,and the lamb shanks for tomorrow’s dinner. Dinner Tonight: Acorn Squash, Shrimp, and Green Bean Stew (Ginataan Sitawa Kalabasa) | Serious Eats : Recipes We made this one Monday for dinner. it was wonderful! [...]

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Dinner Tonight: Lisa’s Lazy Pot Roast

Dinner tonight was pot roast using the recipe known throughout the Web as Lisa’s Lazy Pot Roast. The recipe is very easy,and the result, if you cook the meat slowly, is very satisfying. Super good on a chilly night. It seems that the recipe is published in The Complete Meat Cookbook You can also read [...]

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CyberTwin, Cool uses for a USB flash drive, the perfect boiled egg, and a recipe for braised butternut squash!

Getting ready for classes often brings some fun surprises. MyCyberTwin is one of them. It’s a site where you can set up an AI that will converse with a visitor. It also includes ways to train the AI so it has standard responses for certain types of statements or situations. MyCyberTwin – Chat to ernest [...]

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Links for Preserving Food

Where to Find Pick-Your-Own Fruit and Vegetable Farms / Orchards for Local, Fresh Fruit, Vegetables and Pumpkins, Along With Canning, Freezing & Preserving Instructions! “Find a pick your own farm near you!!! This website provides local listings of pick your own (also called U-pick or PYO) farms in the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, New [...]

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Localvore & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-05-13

Farm 2 Family We deliver organic and all natural milk, local produce, beef, pork, eggs, cheese and other locally made specialty products to homes in Locust Grove, Spotsylvania, Fredericksburg and Southern Stafford. Support local farms by purchasing local products and let us deliver them to your door. (tags: local produce health food) A Place to [...]

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Recipes – Tapenade, Cranberry Chutney 2009-03-06

We were having some friends over for dinner and looked for some recipes for an appetizer (the tapenade) and some cranberry chutney to go with dinner. The tapenade recipe was really good although the polenta was not quite firm enough. We ended up using the first recipe for the cranberry chutney although I’m thinking of [...]

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A pear and an apple, closely

Looking at some fruit on our table made me want to photograph them. After several shots it seemd that up close worked best, although I must admit I get a little squeamish looking at the close up of the pear. Click on the image and let me know if it affects you the same way.

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Medical Directives and Pantry links for 2009-01-09

VCU Massey Cancer Center :: Virginia advance directives All adults in Virginia have a right to prepare a document called an “advance directive” to put their wishes regarding medical care in writing. An advance directive lets other people know the types of medical care you do and do not want in the event you are [...]

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Rosemary Walnuts – recipe

We’ve used this recipe many times. The resuts are good , good for you, and easy to prepare. We always use fresh rosemary rather than dried beecuase we have had rosemary growing out of our front door for many years. The recipe comes from Herbs Health & Cookery, by Clyde Loewenfeld & Philippa Black, 1970 [...]

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Uplands Cheese & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-06

Uplands Cheese Company – Ordering Pleasant Ridge Reserve Cheese pasture cheese (tags: cheese) A Place to Bury Strangers A Place to Bury Stangers Rewires Noise Rock | Listening Post from Wired.com I grew up listening to The Jesus and Mary Chain, Slowdive, and My Bloody Valentine. That is what really inspired me to play guitar. [...]

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