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Two Dates for Breakfast

Two Dates for Breakfast

March 2026 Slice of Life No. 14 Two dates. Take one slice of rustic bread. Cut it in half so it fits into the toaster. While the bread is toasting, split open two dried dates. Remove the pits. With your fingers, work the dates until they are spread flat and thin like...
Hershey’s Best Brownies

Hershey’s Best Brownies

March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 12 I post my slice today with a nod to Diane Anderson who wrote a slice about a recipe and connections. As I read her slice, I thought about people who are connected to my brownie recipe. I thought about the teacher who shared it with me,...
A Black Tiger

A Black Tiger

March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 11 “It will definitely get your heart to racing!” my dear friend, my sister from another mister, recalled. Black Tiger Rare and Wild It was a hot July afternoon when my friend arrived on a flight from DFW for her annual summer...
Christmas Cookies

Christmas Cookies

SOL25-1230 From my journal: Before sunrise . . . Christmas cookies and coffee–Cookies: ice kipfels, date pinwheels, date tartsCoffee: Black Rifle Coffee And while I enjoy my coffee and cookies, As I am pondering the year past and the new one ahead, I am...
A Smoothie

A Smoothie

March Slice of Life No. 30 It was very warm afternoon on a mid-August day the summer EN was four. I loaded the blender with the ingredients for a chocolate smoothie and threw in the lone banana from the fruit basket on the counter. I poured Carl a tall glass. As I was...
Pot Cheese

Pot Cheese

March Slice of Life No. 12 I.The prompt…Today’s poetry prompt in Laura Shovan’s annual poetry project (we are writing poems about food each day): Day 11. Cheese of any variety . . . my photo . . . taken in The Cheese Shop in Williamsburg,...