All Posts for October 2009

Feedback with Recipe from a Reader

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

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This is an email from Batya Olson, who sent me her daughter’s recipe for Brussels sprouts. Simple and sounds delicious! May try it for Thanksgiving.  Thanx, Batya!


Found your website by chance, here’s my (and my daughter’s) favorite recipe for brussel sprouts:

Beige’s Brussels Sprouts with Walnuts and Onion

Remove the dark green leaves from the sprout until you reveal the soft light green one.s
Cut off excess tuber on bottom.
Cut in half (larger ones can be cut into quarters so that they are roughly the same size as the small halved sprouts).
Score sprout as if you were going to cut the sprout into quarters but only cut half way through (or just cut into quarters).
Boil for 3-4 minutes then drain.
Soak in warm salt bath 1 minute.
Slice up an onion from top to bottom to make long strips ¼ in wide.
Cover the bottom of a fry pan in a thin layer of garlic oil.
Combine the onion, sprouts, and about a cup of walnut pieces (not whole) in fry pan.
Fry for 4-5 minutes stirring occasionally until onions are translucent.

Enjoy and be healthy!

The Other "F" Word

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Note: I have been divorced about half as long as I was married. Yet I still struggle with forgiveness.  I am reading The Disappearance of the Universe, which I plan to review when I am finished digesting it.  In the meantime, this poem is a start. Forgiveness does not erase all the pain and anger in a flash, but it’s a good place to start healing yourself.

“Forgiveness is to relinquish your grievance and so to let go of grief.” Source: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

The Other “F” Word

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A tiny piece of my heart still thinks I once loved him well
But that thought is only fleeting….
Thirty years of marriage —in a flash before my eyes;
I nod and give this one moment’s greeting.

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“Are you over your divorce?” someone once asked me.
How do “get over” thirty years of living?
You pick up the pieces, one by one,
And one of them can be the piece called “forgiving.”

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Forgiving yourself for the mistakes you made,
Hurting others along the way.
Then forgiving your Ex for being a jerk,
With tiny steps every, single day.

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For forgiving is the key to really living
The joyful life you desperately crave.
Learn to forgive so your heart will mend.
Take the first steps: Be brave! Be brave!

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