Category Archives: Food

A Gift of Pistachios

Posted on August 16, 2021 by sputterpub

Our mom gave us pistachiosthat couldn’t be outclassed.I meant to make them pose for prosebut ate them all too fast.

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Laying in Food

Posted on June 10, 2021 by sputterpub

Already living with uncertaintybeyond the usual organic span,with virus plaguing us and frequentlyprovoking changing rules about what canbe done in company, so every planis tentative … And now Mom’s health is skewed.I try for flexible. She gets a scan,while I … Continue reading →

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In Praise of a Good Avocado

Posted on June 5, 2021 by sputterpub

By transit home today, I’m feeling irked.It’s taking too much time and drags a moodalready low, a spirit overworked,to heavy slog and whine. My attitudeis tentative. I’m hungry. I need foodfor mouth and mind and anything but grief.Arriving with an … Continue reading →

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Low Carb Pizza

Posted on March 24, 2021 by sputterpub

A day off (self-rewarded) with light rainoutside, invites me to experimentwith cooking, as a way to entertainmyself, but also to produce the scentof pizza I’ve been craving. My intentto venture out was stymied by the cold.I have good cheese and … Continue reading →

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Avocado Tragicomedy

Posted on February 10, 2021 by sputterpub

A week ago, when buying groceries,the avocados were too hard and greento use, but still I purchased to appeasemy lust for luncheon salad. I machinethrough half a day since house arrest beganand, honestly, I haven’t tired yet.A heap with cheese … Continue reading →

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The Cookbook

Posted on January 28, 2021 by sputterpub

The gift I got comprised a treasure chestof goods that S and I can put to usefor recipes we dearly love to test –low-carb desserts of egg, erythritol(or allulose, which we think works the best),and flours milled from anything but … Continue reading →

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Grapefruit

Posted on January 27, 2021 by sputterpub

Adoring grapefruit when I was a kid,I ate them fresh or, older, drink their juicealone or mixed with vodka. Hormones ridme of my appetite for pamplemousse,amid and after my last pregnancy.And right about when thirst for it returned,I took in … Continue reading →

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Real Food Problem

Posted on October 28, 2020 by sputterpub

I have some gastronomic memoriesI won’t forget: the flavor of a peach,ripe yellow-gold with sour/sweet degreesof juice; the texture avocados reach –that fiber-hiding fatty satin feel.Fresh produce often carries flavor reallyfine, but there’s a risk beneath the peel:the bad of … Continue reading →

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Re-Intro

Posted on October 26, 2020 by sputterpub

I turned to body health at 35.I’d had a turn of hospital that spring:A bad cascade a challenge to survive,that taught me my mobility was king.I took up daily exercise, and learnedreturns so great I never retrogressed.Three decades passed, I … Continue reading →

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Pizza Night

Posted on September 28, 2020 by sputterpub

We’ve suffered half a year of quarantine(which comes from ‟40” days, so it’s extreme).But last night I boughta pizza, and broughtit home – then my meal was supreme.

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