Mediterranean Diet
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Tuscan Cannellini and Kale Soup
Okay, I give up. WordPress … you win! I will post this with ONE picture. I’ve been trying since last Wednesday to upload a batch of pictures for this recipe, but until this morning, I couldn’t load a single one. And now I have … a single one. Sorry about that. You’ll just have to imagine the spoon close-up, and the bowl close-up, and the picture I managed to snap of Big Foot right outside my kitchen window while I was making this soup. It’s a shame. Mine wasn’t all blurry and questionable like the others that have been published. And now no one will ever see the way he…
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My New Salad Obsession
It’s over. The big turkey platter is back in the dark recesses of the cupboard, where it will remain for another 359 days. The leftovers are gone. The stretch pants? Well, they might still be on you, depending on how involved you were in the disposing of all those Thanksgiving leftovers. So you might be in need of a healthy recipe at this point. And have I got a salad for you! It’s my new addiction. If you put a bowl of this in front of me alongside, say, a Rib Eye steak, I’m pretty sure I’d eat the salad first. (I mean, I’d eat the steak after that … I’m…
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Turning a Page
I set Gage on the bed next to his grandpa, and I listen while the two of them say hello. “Hey there, Big Guy!” Dave says, grinning. Gage grunts and grins back. He loves his grandpa. And he has no idea how close he came to losing him. This last week, after months of asking politely and being politely rebuffed, I finally insisted that Dave go to the walk-in clinic. The chest pain he’d been told last year was “probably arthritis” had gotten so bad that he couldn’t do anything physical for more than a few minutes. He got winded loading garbage cans into the back of the truck, or…
