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“Beauty Sick” – A Book Review
Book 3 of 12 Beauty Sick by Rene Engeln, PhD Never be too proud of your youth or your beauty. You did nothing to earn them, and you can do nothing to keep them. – Beauty Sick After several months of being told I needed to read Beauty Sick, I finally relented, and decided I would read it for my third book review of my Bucket List books. I do not even know where to begin with my review on this book! I can tell you, this book had a profound impact on me. You can see by the cover of the book that this book deals with “How the Cultural Obsession…
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“Char’s Corned Beef And Cabbage” – A St. Paddy’s Day Tradition Part 2
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb Happy St. Paddy’s Day!! I think the same can be said about a really good recipe sometimes, and Char’s Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe is definitely one of them! Today is the day! The brisket has been sitting in the fridge all week, brining nicely. Hopefully you have remembered to flip it every day so that it saturated nice and even. Today we are cooking up what, hopefully, will also become your favorite version of corned beef, just as it has mine! Like I said…
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“Mockingbird A Portrait Of Harper Lee” – A Book Review
Book 2 of 12 – Mockingbird A Portrait Of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields February’s book for my bucket list of books, took me a couple of weeks longer to finish than I expected. But I have finally finished it, and I am excited to share it with you! I came across this book in a bookstore in downtown Beaufort, SC. The bookstore, in itself, is a fantastic find! Nevermore Books is located in one of the buildings in the Historic District of downtown Beaufort, and is home to many hard to find and vintage books. I was just going to go in and browse. As I walked around looking at all…
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“Char’s Corned Beef And Cabbage” – A St. Paddy’s Day Tradition Part 1
“And shepherds we shall be, for thee, my Lord, for thee…In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti” – The Boondock Saints Traditions, we all have them for holidays, and St Paddy’s Day is no different! For me, one of those traditions is wearing something green (even though the original color of St. Patrick’s Day was blue). Green eventually took over as the traditional St. Paddy’s Day color (all the pinching we endured as kids, just enforced it), and, for me, that is still my color of choice for the day. They say that Catholics wear green, and Irish Protestants wear Orange. But just know, you are probably still getting pinched if…
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Shrimp And Grits With Cafe’ Brulot – Mardi Gras 2019!
Welcome to post Mardi Gras 2019! In all honesty, I had no idea yesterday was Mardi Gras! The fact that they had a Mardi Gras Celebration in Defuniak Springs, Florida last month, totally threw me off I guess! I found out early enough in the day at least, that I was still able to put together a meal for the occasion. Just as in NOLA, Shrimp and Grits seem to be a staple here in South Carolina. I first had the dish last summer when I was passing through Charleston, S.C. It was so good, that I had it again a few weeks ago at a local restaurant here in Beaufort,…