Only just two days ago I wrote about how I’d discovered pine nuts and how much I was enjoying them. Well, there’s been a development. Short version: now everything I eat leaves a bitter aftertaste. Even the toothpaste flavor after I brush tastes bad. Long version: A sciencey article about taste disturbances after pine nut [...]
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Pine nuts
Sherri’s folks come down every year to do the snowbird thing in a house a few miles from here. One of the benefits to us is that come late March, we get a huge influx of leftover food from them and their other snowbird friends. One of the items they left with us last March [...]
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On September 26, 2010, I weighted in at 182.8 lbs. A few days ago, on November 18, I weighed in at 162.6. That’s a 20 pound drop in two months. It was done all through diet. Back in late September (the 26th, not coincidentally) I put myself on a low-carb Atkins-style diet. The diet is [...]
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Someone (me) has a new toy (grill). Gotta love the Celebration Front Porch web forum. New in box, cheaper than Amazon, and didn’t have to wait for Ken the UPS guy. There’s nothing like cooking on charcoal. More work, sure, but worth it. I enjoy the ritual. Thanks, Patrick.
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I like more kinds of food now than I did in the past. Why is that? When I was growing up(*), I wouldn’t eat: Squash or zucchini Mushrooms Asparagus My, how the times have changed. For whatever reason, I am hopelessly in love with mushrooms and asparagus. I buy asparagus at the Celebration Farmers Market [...]
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