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Malta Potatoes
This week, the grocery store folder offers a special on Malta Potatoes. [not Maltese Potatoes, but Malta Potatoes]. How, in my on-going love-affair with the Country of Malta, had I missed the significance of the potato harvest? Malta is a small land mass, thus I was surprised to learn that this is an agricultural export. …
French Yogurt Cake
This is a first. A recipe. This has become a neighborhood favorite. It is moist – key attribute, easy to make, fail-proof and above all delicious. It is the olive oil I found so intriguing. I believe it is important to use ‘Turkish’ yogurt which is a strained yogurt which means the whey portion of the milk …
57 Hours
That is the length of War and Peace. In listening hours. This many hours will cover a lot of baking, ironing, painting, gardening and chores. The big question, will I be able to keep the characters separate and follow-able.
May 5th
Celebration of Liberation. At 11:30 all the bells of the city chime in unison. This is a call to remember the end of WWII, when the Allied Forces marched over the border in claimed victory and German occupation of the Netherlands ended. There is no other inclusion in this celebration. There is much wrapped up …
Remembrance Day
May 4th is the national day of Remembrance. Initially a remembrance of those killed in WWII. At 19:58 hours 2 minutes of silence is observed. The thought being that those who died, gave up their freedom to give freedom to the living. The least the living can do is give two minutes of silent remembrance …
Where’s Waldo?
or find the cat. waiting for me to come downstairs and let him in.
Book by it’s Cover…
A good looking label. Who would imagine anything other than wonderful. The taste is indeed all one would hope for in a mushroom tapas spread. But the presentation…. and you know it isn’t caviar!
Flying
Riding home on one’s bike at the end of a lovely evening in which a glass of wine [or two] was had, is akin to skiing the day’s final run at Cortina d’Ampezzo fueled by a shot of grappa [or two]. The closest one comes to a sense of flying. [Unless of course one builds …
GodBless Wiley
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