Strip away all the hoohah, the pink and the blue, the booties and the pacifiers, and what you’ve got is a world in which women are valued for what their ovaries do and their wombs produce.

Julia Child doesn’t give a recipe for Puff Pastry in her almost-encyclopedic Mastering the Art of French Cooking.  Or rather, the recipe she gives is for the simple little piped (or flung from a spoon) …

Okay, gather ’round while I give you The Secret…

by Mark of Going Like Sixty
Somebody and/or something is changing.  My wife, Nancy, left Thursday on a knitting/fiber jaunt.  She’ll return soon, but in the meantime, she made up a crockpot full of chili for …

Christmas Eve 05 005 Originally uploaded by byjane73.
And this is the rear view. I call it the CSI goose as it looked frighteningly similar to …

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And this is what the goose looked like when I took it out of the oven

Christmas Eve 05 006 Originally uploaded by byjane73.
I decided to cook a goose this Christmas Eve. I had never done it before. Here is …