Daily Archives: 17 July 2008

Comfort Food

If you have ever dieted in your life, other than chocolate the words “comfort food” have probably sent you running, trying to hide from the kitchen.  I know I cringe when winter comes and I am dieing for real homemade mac and cheese or lasagna of any sort. 

Sarah Fuss, over on Yahoo! Food blogs, has a current blog up that makes over ten standard comfort foods.  She visits some of my favorite sites for not so heavy but still so comforting foods.  Her list includes mac and cheese – my ever-present nemesis – and fried chicken.

She also discusses fries – as in french fries – but not with potatoes.  The recipe she links to is with butternut squash.  If you can take the carbs in the potatoes, I suggest sweet potatoes or yams baked with rosemary as fries.

Click on over and see her list.


Wildflowers

Tiger Lily

Tiger Lily

This is not your normal field of wildflowers.  I have several patches of wild Tiger Lillies in and around my home.  I love these day lillies and thought I would share an image of them I took a while back.  From all I know, the bulbs of these lillies are edible – being in the same family as onions.

Tiger Lillies

Tiger Lillies


El Duque

While I will readily admit I live in NYS but do not, generally speaking, follow NY sports teams, I am heading out to the local Mets Double A affiliate to watch tonight’s game.  News hit the NY papers on Wednesday a little after noon and our local paper’s web site about 4 yesterday that Orlando HernandezEl Duque – will be making a rehab start in Binghamton tonight.

Both my sons – age 17 and almost 14 – were thrilled and I was online getting box seats at the NYSEG Stadium.  Four tickets printed out later – I am not willing to waste my time standing in line at will call – and we are set for a good time tonight.  I have charged the batteries in my digital camera.  Hopefully, I will have pics to put online tomorrow.

So, if you are at the game tonight, look for me in my Mets blue sleeveless shirt with two teenage boys and one of the boys’ girlfriend.  We’ll be in Section 17, row B.


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