Archives in Category: Dining/Food

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Big

Posted on January 23, 2005

How big is too big?

I pondered this question as Earl and I made our Sunday morning visit to Meijer. It wasn’t our weekly stocking up either, just a quick grab of snacks for afternoon football games and “Desperate Housewives.”

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Grand Finale

Posted on December 8, 2004

Earl’s friends, Sue and Don, throw what I call the Grand Finale of Holiday Parties each year. They’ve been at it a long time and have it down to a science.

First the computer-generated invitation arrives before Thanksgiving, announcing the date

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Jimmy’s

Posted on December 3, 2004

Breakfast is Earl’s favorite meal; and, in the time we’ve lived in St. Joseph, he has scouted the restaurants, cafes, diners, and fast food chains for the best eggs in town. Of course, he has his requirements.

It must be a

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Thanksgiving

Posted on November 25, 2004

I have a lot to be thankful for. My joys are not the same as those hardy first Pilgrims, but they are as equally life affirming.

As I remember the story, Indians helped their new neighbors survive the harsh, November weather

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Fish Frustration

Posted on October 29, 2004

It started as a simple task: to wrap the three fish Earl caught yesterday and freeze them.

First, we cleared the counter and washed our hands. Obvious precautions. Next we cut the fish into serving portions and planned to wrap

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Carmichael’s

Posted on October 11, 2004

I looked forward hungrily to meeting Lew and Enid, our friends from New York City, at Carmichael’s Steakhouse in Chicago last night. We hadn’t seen each other since May; and Carmichael’s seemed like the perfect place to catch up on

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Sammy Sosa

Posted on October 8, 2004

Chicago Cubs rightfielder Sammy Sosa was fined a day’s work for his behavior on the last day of the season, because he came late and left early without ever participating in the game. Oh, by the way, a day’s pay

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Dieting

Posted on October 4, 2004

When I was fourteen I went to Europe with my grandmother for seven weeks and returned home fifteen pounds heavier than when I’d left. That was cause for my first introduction to dieting. Back then, calories were the way one

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Personal Choice

Posted on September 19, 2004

Breakfast has become complicated if you want to eat it in a restaurant. If you are like me, which means you are not a morning person, there are too many decisions to make before one is even half awake.

I don’t

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Democrats Unite

Posted on September 1, 2004

My friend Peg comes this Labor Day Weekend to hang out at River House. I can’t wait, since she is a card carrying Democrat and by then I’ll need reinforcements. The Republican National Convention will be over, but the images

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