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October 31 Missing Your Bacon? Try ThisI don't know about you, but I remember waking up to the smell of bacon frying from the cast iron skillet back in the day when bacon was not only considered ok but a treasured Sunday morning delight. Well, it's been awhile since those days but the good feeling that comes with smelling that smell stays with me yet. This morning I happened accidentally upon creating a bit of the bacon smell and taste in an unexpected way, and I didn't have to break the bank during these tough financial times:
Slept in late on a Saturday morning
Nothing in the cupboards, opened the fridge
Mostly bare except for a carton of eggs and half a red onion
Heated up the skillet, poured in the olive oil
Chopped and added a half-cup of onion
Fried until crispy brown, hinging on blackened
Added a farm fresh egg, beaten
Stirred with onion until softly cooked, flipped once to finish
Toasted my favorite bread lightly (rye)
Enjoyed 'almost' flavored bacon and egg late morning sandwich with coffee and soy
For those of you in the Minneapolis - Saint Paul area you could always head over to The Egg and I to indulge, or to a latin breakfast favorite of mine, Victor's 1959 Cafe.
Yes
 pay day was yesterday, grocery shopping on the to do list today! Ciao February 26 Apple DiplomacyAny wonder folks up here like to head down Cuba way? Well if we're in the middle of winter...you get the point! But, lots of other reasons too. We could have a good thing going, Cuba and the Northern Plains states, tourism wise, but trade wise too. Older generation Cubans remember vividly, nostalgically, almost reverently -- what it was like to bite into a fresh, deep red, crisp apple coming from the U.S.A. Wow, the sighs they would give, wondering if ever that time would come again, open trade with the U.S. When I heard them talking about that, I thought hmmmm, we grow Apples in Minnesota...for over 24 years I could go out the farmhouse door, across the yard and pick apples by the bushel...never really thinking how special it was. If Nixon's Ping-Pong diplomacy could end in 1971 the information blockade against the People's Republic of China in place since the Communist takeover in 1949, why couldn't 'Apple Diplomacy' do the same for Cuba-U.S. relations? But just in case an improvement in diplomatic relations does not come any time soon, head to Victor's 1959 Cafe |
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