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“Life without books, chocolate, and coffee is just useless.” ~ Lokuliyanage

How to celebrate?  Morningstar Farms Veggie Bacon Strips over roasted garlic aïoli, organic home-grown tomato slices, and lettuce on toasted ciabatta. Paired with organic tomato-basil bisque and a Spanish Garnacha. That’s how!

“it’s hard to imagine a civilization without onions.” ~ Child

This dish, Curry Pot Pie, is essentially 2 great comfort foods at once…Asian-style curried vegetables and pot pie. It’s a Trader Joe’s recipe and I recommend it highly. I’d been looking forward to trying it for a few months, and when Linda announced that she was making it for me, well, I couldn’t wait! AndContinue reading “Curry in a Hurry”

“The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.”  ~ DeVoto

“The light music of whiskey falling into a glass—an agreeable interlude.”  ~ Joyce

Through some miracle of inner strength, we’ve decided to age the Manhattans for 2 more weeks…I’m as surprised as you are.

The dining car from the Union Pacific’s City of Denver streamliner, sometime in the 1950′s.