Who sent the basket? It arrived a few days ago by messenger from a place in Milford. It’s a beauty. Glorious ripe fruit, strawberries and pineapple dipped in chocolate and several big pieces of chocolate including a huge chocolate lollipop… Read More ›
CFFC: Pear Green Colors Down by the Blackstone River at Riverbend Farm Park there is a pear tree. How a pear tree began growing. How it got there? I have not idea, but that park used to be farm, so maybe… Read More ›
CMMC – August 5th Week – Fruit This is a very fruitful post!
This time of year, I grow lustful for fresh fruit. We used to get pretty good fruit from Florida and California — sometimes even from Spain, Israel and other warm places. Especially citrus. In recent years, the quality fruit available… Read More ›
Hungry Eyes, by Rich Paschall My father knew all the best buffet restaurants and Swedish Smorgasbords. For a few years, it was a frequent weekend adventure to accompany my father and his wife to a buffet restaurant. There are not… Read More ›
A Photo a Week Challenge: Edible You said edible and I said … FRUIT! I’m not sure why, but fruit is my favorite food for shooting. Also eating. It’s neat and shiny. Maybe that’s why. You can pile it up,… Read More ›
Does it show how much I love my husband that I gave him my cold? Maybe he gave me his cold and he didn’t know it because he was incubating. Maybe we both picked it up in the grocery store… Read More ›
A Photo a Week Challenge: Fresh Fruit Fresh fruit. I’ve become phobic and afraid of it. So much of it has been genetically modified. It doesn’t look like it used to look. Oranges bigger than grapefruit, but the orange skin is… Read More ›
I while ago, I wrote about how oranges were now larger than grapefruit. The change has occurred rather abruptly. Although the oranges are huge, they aren’t sweeter or juicier. Most of the larger size is an enormously thick skin. And… Read More ›
It’s weird how something suddenly makes me realize how much the world has changed and not in a good way. Yesterday, I went to the kitchen to cut up an orange and a grapefruit. It’s a low-calorie healthy snack, right? I… Read More ›
I was 46 years old when my homemade strawberry preserves jelled properly. Probably what broke the barrier was overcoming a longstanding aversion to putting sufficient sugar in the mix. Alternatively, I could have solved the problem by adding tapioca starch… Read More ›
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