I took leftover ciabatta, cut on a bias and made sandwiches with pastrami, Swiss & provolone cheese, thinly sliced pepperoncinis and a garlic and olive tapenade for dinner tonight.
Guess what garlic and Kalamata olive tapenade smells like? Central Market’s Caesar salad dressing. Blend in egg and little more olive oil and I’ll bet [...]

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While driving home from work yesterday I was among traffic that was slowed down and funneled to one lane as we all slowly drove by a fatal accident.
I could see inside the driver’s side of the car. The airbag was clearly visable as was a body. The paramedics were working on the driver. [...]

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After that weird dream that I had last week, I decided to see if my elementary school had a website. I clicked around through the site and came across a name. Mrs. Chamness. That name rang a bell. I e-mailed Mrs. Chamness, she wrote back a few days later and sure [...]

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On Friday night we went all out. We had the party of all parties. We lived it up like there was going to be no Saturday morning.
We sat at the kitchen table, blanched and shelled fava beans.
We woke up Saturday morning and I tested for my third star for my black belt. [...]

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After a little inspiration from last week’s cooking class, I decided to cook duck. I didn’t want to reinvent the wheel, so came up with a new pizza recipe.
I made a smoked duck breast, mango and jalapeno pizza on ciabatta with a homemade garden fresh pizza sauce, Kalamata tapenade, smoked provolone and topped with [...]

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I had another weird dream this morning. Jessica Sanchez, a 4.5′, 90lb. girl I attended high school with stole my cell phone. I grabbed her by the hair, lifted her off her feet, swung her around and dragged her across the ground.
All of this is happening outside. The scene reminds me of [...]

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This is too funny. I wrote this five years ago for my multimedia class project, complete with a bad website.
It makes me wonder what I’ll be up to five years from now…

“Welcome to my online recipe archive (A.K.A. Famine Protection Program). I’d like to begin by telling you that I am by no means [...]

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I had a weird dream this morning. With pit crew speed someone pulled a trailer up to the driveway and stole our truck. I ran inside, grabbed my keys and hauled ass after my stolen truck. I was driving the truck that had just been stolen after the truck that had just [...]

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I volunteered Elise and myself to babysit Jack over the Memorial Day weekend while John and Christine travel to Mexico to smuggle black market DVD copies of Kevin Costner’s “Waterworld” and small children who sell Chicklets.
We thought nothing of it when we offered to babysit over the long weekend. Much to our surprise, John [...]

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