Are You Ready? Well Come And Get It!

It is almost February and we will all be going High Def Digital or go dark. Really... now what is with that?

Is this about the biggest hoax that is going to or has been played on unsuspected citizens of this planet or what?

We fuss and baulk at any talk or thought of a government run medical program. "Oh, I don't want to live in a country that has socialized medicine."

Okay, fair statement, but we all, like lemmings, seem to find it acceptble to live in a country, on a planet that will give us (at a price that is) socialized entertainment that we beg to have in nearly every room of our homes.

Every time I hear the phrase, "Are you ready?", I truly want to scream, "Hell No! And I never will be."

And if we are really honest here, can anyone of you really tell the difference in a High Def Digital Program as to a None-High Def Digital one.... Now be honest!

Hell No! And God only knows what the "signal" is picking up and sending back to "Big Brother." Remember George Orwell's', 1984?

It was P.T. Barnum who said, "You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

Bet he is doing the 360 in his grave right now....

Don't Faint! It Is Really Me!

Coffee and Ideas ... Maybe this will wake me up and get me motivated.... they say an Arctic Blast is heading this way. Ummm, maybe a pot of chili is in order.

Now this should take the chill off the bones and add some gusto to the day!

Happy

Happy

Michigan City Santa Parade 2008

Baby it was cold outside. But the brave of heart and spirit would not give in. Maybe we should try having Christmas in July...

Traditions and Memories

Most, if not all of our fondest memories relate in someway to food.Food, that is essential to life, is what life is built on and around.As many prepare for the Annual Thanksgiving Day food orgy we remember not only family and friends from past feasts but the dishes set before us.Aunt Bea's braised beans, Dad's Deviled Eggs, or even Busha's Lime Jell-O molded salad...

Recently my cousin Patty, reminded my of this holiday tradition and wondered if I had the recipe. Not wanting to seem ungrateful to our Grandmother and our shared memories I assured her I did... Well, I didn't but I hoped I could find one close to Busha's that it would pass.A search for Lime Jell-O recipes led me to a very unlikely source and to the exact recipe...

Google led me to www.ashtry.com I know the name almost turned me off as well and I am a smoker.To my surprise I found the exact recipe I was looking for and more. The site supposedly belongs to a Léon Brocard, aka Acme. But all of these links just seem to deepen the mystery of this site and the person or persons responsible for all the wonderful and delightful food and memories to be found here.How Léon managed not find and collect the links to all this wonderful food and then give us a way to search for our memories not only by name but by ingredient is amazing and awesome. Like me, so often we only know what was in a dish and then more often then not, just one or two items. You can not even do that at the Food Network. So if you are searching for that one dish that mean the entire holiday to you or your family but can not recall how to make it... check out the recipes at Léon's, who knows you may just find Aunt Bea's Braised Beans there as well.From where I sit, Just Off Senter, it is true what old Will Shakespeare said, "A rose by any other name will smell as sweet." Remember not to judge a site by it's first page.

Oh and while you at it....