While my wife is at home for several weeks recovering from abdominal surgery, we’re making some overdue upgrades to our house and our lifestyles. In this series of posts I’m sharing these changes with my readers. Two weeks after her surgery, my wife surprised me by uttering a phrase I never thought I’d hear from …
Tag: cooking
Ban Anna? No, Just the Wafers
SOMEONE PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME. Where in the U.S. Constitution does it require that any dessert involving bananas must include vanilla wafers? Bananas do not usually get too ripe at the RBT house, as we all prefer them before they get brown and spotty. And I eat one for breakfast just about every day, especially before a …
Lean Dinners for Fat Tuesday
TODAY WAS MARDI GRAS, bien sûr, and in Ann Arbor you couldn't take three steps without running into some place selling pączkis. Traditionally, these were made to use up lard and sugar you weren't allowed to eat during Lent. With 40 days of relative privation ahead, one could be forgiven for packing away a few …
Putting the P.I.E. Together
IT'S BEEN A QUIET FEW DAYS at the Fitness at 50 household, primarily because I'm spending a lot of time writing. It's National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and my goal this month is a novel, from scratch, of at least 50,000 words. I'm trying for an average of 2,000 words per day, which is tough …
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