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A SEGUE OF THE MOMENT...FROM COOKING & DINING ....TO AN ADMONITION ABOUT 'WHAT WE PUT INTO OUR MOUTHS...OTHER THAN THE FOODS WE DELIGHT IN."

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Microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) were detected in 84% of patients who had experienced a major heart attack , compared with 40% of people with chronic heart disease and 32% of those with normal coronary arteries.   OTHER THAN MAKING AN ALMOST FUTILE EFFORT TO AVOID FOODSTUFFS THAT ARE CONTAINERIZED IN PLASTIC AND CHEMICALS-LINED BAGS AND BOXES.....SOME EFFORT SHOULD BE EXERCISED TO DINE UPON PORCELAIN OR GLASS, WITH 'REAL' STERLING SILVERWARE.....AVOIDING, COMPLETELY, THE 'PLASTICWARE' KNIVES, FORKS SPOONS, CUPS AND PLATES......THUS, AS MUCH AS ONE CAN, AVOIDING BOTH THE ACCUMULATION OF POISONOUS, CANCER-PRODUCING MATERIALS...AND THE BILLIONS OF TONS OF PLASTIC THAT, ULTIMATELY....AND QUICKLY.....IS RETURNED 'TO ACTION'...LOGARITHMICALLY....TO BOTH POISON US AND PRODUCE TOXIC CHANGES EPIGENETIC  OUR DNA, LEADING TO BEHAVIOR DISORDERS AS WELL AS METABOLIC CONFICTS AND NORMAL CELL DEVELOPMENT.. "MICRO"PLASTICS ARE A 'BIG' THING IN THE ...

MY "COUNTRY" SUPPER @ 6pm..... atop an old Blue Willow plate.......

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      an extra-large, free-range brown hen's egg, scrambled in butter,  with small chunks of Prosciutto di Parma, smoked tumeric & paprika, hot-pepper sauce,  coarse-ground black pepper, grated extra-sharp cheddar cheese, baby spinach leaves, chopped scallions, cilantro, & parsley,  and yellow bell pepper slices, piled atop a slice of toasted 5-grains bread, generously spread with apple-cinnamon butter......  followed by another ''meatless"  variation....sans the ham, but 'plus' a generous dollop of lemony mayonaisse...... and a bit of leftover caviar, for the salt.......

an Hors d'oeuvres luncheon.....as I am far too laconic, today, to discuss Epicurian Delights....and, too much of a Lazy Boy, to go to the bother of cooking or washing and polishing any silverware.....just having some 'finger-licking' sequenced appetizers....

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HOW EASY CAN IT GET? IT COULDN'T GET ANY LESS COSTLY TO HAVE A NUTRITIOUS LUNCH, EITHER......

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                                       I snatched up a 5.5oz  prepared "Apple Walnut Salad Kit" of both green and red apple slices, grilled white meat chicken, dried cranberries,  blue cheese and candied walnuts....with a cup of sweet onion/dijon vinaigrette  at a local Kroger Store.....for $1.57!    A thrifty shopper can always eat well!                           

I'll have some Apple Pan Dowdy......today....and, perhaps, some Shoo Fly Pie, tomorrow......with a mug of Mexican hot java....

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EXCESS AND RESTRAINT (IN MODERATION)

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fried crab cakes for b'fast......light and fluffy on the inside, crunchy on the outside.......

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and spicy cole slaw...and....dribbles of horseradishy remoulade sauce with white anchovies..(no salt  in the cakes)....... wonderful with the added calories of a topping of guacamole.......easier than making hollandaise...I  obtain  pre-made remoulade sauce from the DeKalb Farmers' Market....or get it, in a jar, from Trader Joe's.       If Lunch is already on the horizon.....one can 'step up' this relatively simple b'fast to a bit-more-complex food reportoire....     Yum, Yum, eat em up! How about "doing" basmati rice.... cooked in chicken broth with saffron.... topped with the crab cakes, smothered in ginger, carrot, and garlic sauce; puffy puri with ginger/garlic paste, fried, then baked; hot curried and creamed purple dal peas; spanakopita; miniature artichoke/mushroom quiches on wild grilled 'n' chilled radicchio and endive; and butternut squash soup, cold, to be "washed down" by blackberry cassis flavored cabernet sauvignon.............