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In my Enquire Within...

11/19/2020

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 For a truer Thanks-giving 

                  dessert with Wendell Berry quoting William Carlos Williams...

"I mentioned earlier the politics, esthetics, and ethics of food. But to speak of the pleasure of eating is to go beyond those categories. Eating with the fullest pleasure -pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend. When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to me merely honest: 

There is nothing to eat,
        seek it where you will,
                         but the body of the Lord.
The Blessed plants 
              and the sea, yield it
                                         to the imagination                 
intact.
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In my Enquire Within...

8/20/2020

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a covid plan shared by Melanie:
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The Cake of Not Much Has Changed

          "Well, a lot has changed. 
  But still, we gather.
  We plan. We get confused.
  We end with cake."


          Maira Kalman & Barbara Scott-Goodman  



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In my Enquire Within...

4/15/2020

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I used the pattern below with pouch for coffee filter and ties to allow for hearing aids.
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In my Enquire Within...

2/25/2020

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Pruning a Crabapple in winter.
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In my Enquire Within...

11/10/2019

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​"At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them."


Laurence Binyon, For the Fallen
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In my Commonplace...

10/12/2019

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" A framed photo, like a pot or a pen or a table, must serve its purpose, just as it is, without apps or upgrades. In the digital era, this irreducible thingness may seem like a drawback. But let's not forget that it is also an enduring human value. A well-made object is informed by thousands of years of accumulated experiment and know-how. Whenever we make or use an everyday tangible thing, or even when we contemplate one seriously, we commune with this pool of human understanding." 

- Glenn Adamson, Fewer Better Things
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In my Commonplace...

4/17/2019

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MY Magnolia
in Just...
e.e.cummings

in Just-
spring   when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles  far   and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far  and   wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
   the

      goat-footed
balloonMan   whistles  
far
and
wee
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In my Enquire Within...

4/12/2019

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image Martha Stewart
Spatchcock Chicken*
1. Wash and dry chicken

2. Turn bird breast side down. Using kitchen shears cut along the backbone.  Cut along the other side of the backbone and remove (can be used for making chicken stock later).

3. Turn bird breast side up and press hard on breast bone with both hands to flatten chicken.

4. Remove wing tips if desired. Tuck legs and wings close to body. 
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5. Follow favourite oven or BBQ recipe.

*late 18th century (originally an Irish usage): perhaps related to the noun dispatch + cock
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In my Enquire Within...

3/27/2019

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The photo recipe includes nutmeg? My method below.
"With Egg" 

4 Large Eggs
coarsely ground salt and pepper
good bread for toasting
butter

Tuck eggs in a saucepan in a single layer and cover with water to your first knuckle. On medium heat bring water just to the boil. (otherwise rubbery eggs!) Cover pan and remove from heat, letting stand 2 minutes by the timer.  Remove and serve in egg cups immediately with toast soldiers. Eat with salt and pepper.

"The grave is without egg."  - Ursula Le Guin
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In my Enquire Within...

7/8/2018

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French Rhubarb Cake
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