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Life

The unpronounceable Greek Lemon Chicken Soup Recipe

Lately when I  cuddle up in bed with a good book, it’s been a cookbook. Perhaps it’s the extreme cold this winter that has me cooking up a storm. Maybe it’s because I was invited to join the Eat Something Sexy blogs by chef and cookbook author Amy Reiley. More likely it’s because I’ve discovered that when I cook an eery calm descends upon my usually frazzled psyche, and that is a good thing. When I feel centered, I can be creative and write, as well as handle whatever life has thrown at me. Anyway, last night’s culinary offering was Avgolemono Soup. Those local to my area may have enjoyed this hot, silky, satisfying soup at Lefteris (located in 2 locations: Mt. Kisco and Tarrytown). After purchasing this soup for years now, I was thrilled to discover the recipe in an old cookbook I had lying around. I’ll list the recipe exactly as it appears in the cookbook Larousse Treasury of Country Cooking. EGG AND LEMON SOUP (Avgolemono) Ingredients 2 Quarts strong chicken stock 1/3 cup rice 3 to 4 eggs Juice of 2 lemons In a saucepan, bring the stock to a boil. Add the rice, cover and cook […]

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My Kingdom for a fuel nozzle…

January 2, 2010 Day 2 without heat and I’m inspired to blog. So far 2010 is proving to be ‘character-building’, shall we say? After waking yesterday to a 50 degree house and outdoors in the twenties, the husband spent New Years Day battling the furnace at the end of which he emerged filthy and carrying a tiny brass fitting that he declared the culprit for our lack of heat. Being New Years Day, and the fact all the trades in NY, including plumbing supply houses, are union, no one was open so in a last ditch effort, said part is now soaking in my nailpolish remover, in hopes to rid it of a possible clog. Keep in mind we woke to the sound of snowplows this morning so no, it hasn’t gotten warmer here in the northern ‘burbs of NY State. So what did we do for heat?  This is the part where all you people who are building or renovating a home, or just interested in various home heating methods, should take note. Thankfully, when we installed a new tile floor in the kitchen a few years back, we put electric heat beneath the floor. Easiest thing ever. Buy the wired […]

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The Dawn of a New Year

New Years Eve. A time for reflection, goals and resolutions, change, introspection, and a chance to look toward the future. All of this has never been more true for me than this year because at the close of 2009, Linden Bay Romance will be shut down. No I don’t think someone will be waiting by the computer to disable the website at midnight tonight, but then again, I don’t know, perhaps these things can be set up in advance. What I do know is that as of 2010 I go from an author with over 2 dozen published full length novels, novellas and short stories, to one with just a handful. So what am I doing? For one, I have made my Facebook page, which had been private for a bit because of some issues, public again. I need a strong web presence to build my career and for better or worse, Facebook is part of that marketing plan. I am trying to focus on reworking my backlist to get them back out there. And to keep my sanity I began that cooking project I told you about in the last post. How is that going? Well there have been […]