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Nov 10
2 min

It's All In the Planning

My intentions to write on this blog more have faltered, as I thought they might, but not for the reasons I anticipated. Writing is a proc...

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KitchenBeard

Sep 8
4 min

Stone Fruit Gazpacho

Gazpacho is one of those dishes I keep in the back of my mind whenever the temperature creeps over 75. When I was a kid, we lived in Nort...

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KitchenBeard

Aug 12
4 min

Coming to Jesus

I recently signed up,for a new fruit and vegetable delivery service after reading about it in the SFGate. The article talks about a guy n...

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KitchenBeard

Jul 28
2 min

Trying Hard to Impress

Sitting at my computer working after dinner and I see motion out of the corner of my eye. I look out the window and see my upstairs neigh...

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KitchenBeard

Jul 22
3 min

Recipe Development: Truffle Mac

A couple of weeks ago I did some volunteer work for a woman who was cooking for the homeless. It was a couple of hours of light kitchen w...

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KitchenBeard

Jul 20
2 min

Pepper

"There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' Alice said to herself, as well as she could for sneezing. There was certainly too much ...

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KitchenBeard

Jul 17
2 min

Reinvent. Renew. Remake. Restart.

Years ago, I blogged and wrote and took pictures. I enjoyed it. And then came Facebook and all that went away. Let's do something about ...

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