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Life Long Passion for Food Part 6: Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving was always celebrated, sometimes together with the aunts and their families, sometimes the uncles from out of state and their families would join us. Mostly it was just the sisters and sometimes we had Thanksgiving for just the three of us. My mom was a...
Life Long Passion for Food Part 5: Holiday Cooking
Holidays always meant lots of cooking in our families. I say families because my mom had two sisters nearby and we often did joint dinners but not always. Sometimes the out of state siblings came in as well. And Italians can be so noisy! Christmas cookies were a...
Life Long Passion for Food Part 4: Pasta Fagiole Recipe
Due to a request on my previous post about Italian food and specifically Pasta Fagioli, this post is about how to make the soup. I wrote about a funny anecdote about Ron first tasting pasta fagioli at my mom's place. There is more. We stayed at my mom's that night...
Life Long Passion for Food Part 3: Abruzzo
In my last post, I mentioned my Italian mother. My grandparents came from the Abruzzo region of Italy. It's a region to the east of Rome and part of the region borders the Adriatic Sea. My grandparents were from the mountains in Abruzzo, a little town called Castel Di...
Life Long Passion for Food Part 2
In my previous post, I talked about getting started cooking. In this one, I'll continue on with my lessons from mom. My mom was one of the cooks in the family. Her sister, Aunt Louise, was not. Aunt Louise cooked but she did it out of necessity. Mom enjoyed cooking...
A Life Long Passion for Great Food
I always tell people I came out of the shute as a foodie. I have always loved food, good food. At the age of 10, I began begging my mom to teach me to cook. She finally gave in and by 12 I was making dinners for my mom, sister and I. Maybe it was a survival tactic, I...
Day 4: Feeding Your Joy
What was I thinking getting into a month long blog challenge? Yes, that means 31 days. I know I could stop or I could keep going and do what I can. I can make the effort to write every day. Maybe I'll do 31 blogs and maybe I won't. One decision I made was to not beat...
Nature or the Cacophony of Man?
One weekday morning a few weeks ago, I went out on the deck to have coffee. I sat and closed my eyes. And the following came to mind about the experience. "As the wind brushed across my face, hair began to tickle my cheek. My...
Final Collaboration of Paintings and Poetry with Gwendolyn Lawrence Alley
The last collaboration Gwendolyn Lawrence Alley and I did for the VCAC art show called Collaboration was with my painting called Water Ballet which is pictured on the left. It wasn't one of the paintings I had chosen to go into the show. However, when Gwendolyn came...
Plum Surrounded Painting and A Poem about Calla Lilies by Gwendolyn Alley
In my last blog I explained how my friend and poet Gwendolyn Lawrence Alley and I collaborated for an art show put on by the Ventura County Arts Council. This is another of the three which we submitted for the show. Gwendolyn had a larger poem she had done for Calla...
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