Hi everyone.  My little brother Tim is here with me for the weekend.  He is still processing our convoluted childhood...and we have a brilliant time together.  He made these little bites and I was so taken with them that I asked him to do a post on what I think are perfect accompaniments to high octane...

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I'm going to suggest a nice Autumn Soup and an idea for serving it that circumvents the clumsy problems presented by serving soup to a crowd at a Thanksgiving gathering. The inspiration for what I'm about to share comes from my tenure as a grad student in the Anthropology department at the UC Santa...

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I once lived in a beautiful beach condo in Laguna.  It had 32 feet of windows that looked onto the Pacific and every night I would watch the sun set and then would fall asleep listening to the waves crashing on the sandy beach with the smell of sea air filling my room.  It would have been a perfect...

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I only eat watermelon in the summer and I didn't want to bore my readers with musings on my limited summer palate so I just quit writing for a bit; instead I made necklaces--1 of which I am particularly proud: Kyanite, Onyx and Tibetan Silver...I was immediately drawn to that Kyanite... I can practically...

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So today we have something new – your usual hostess, to compensate me for the spoon she stole from me so many years ago, has allowed me to jump onto her blog and share a meal with her readers. ...The truth is I begged this dear friend--who is lucky I didn't steal another spoon from him on my last...

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