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It's a 'good thing' that I'm not addicted to having foods prepared 'just one way' or by unvaryingly specific Recipes....

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This afternoon, I awakened from a brief nap...and a dream...in which a crew of gardeners was clearing the Wilderness that I call "my yard" to plant a fig tree.....  I was feeling a bit disoriented, but hungry, nonetheless.....and lumbered to the kitchen to 'make something to eat'.    I must have been 'cooking in my sleep', because I awakened, again , in the middle of this cook to discover that I had placed the powdered tumeric into a coffee mug, awaiting the stream of fresh java from the expresso machine,  and had dumped the old, used coffee grounds from their 'pod' into the egg mixture.....I spooned most of the coffee grounds from the eggs and most of the tumeric from the mug into the eggs.....The resulting coffee was drinkable..... if not Turkish Street Coffeehouseworthy....and the Omelet, amended by a squiggle of ketchup, was better than the omelets served at The Pit Stop Gas Station , up the street...... .

Nah!.....edible, if not the best alliance of flavors......Tuna Salad and Avocado on Multi-grain Toast......A 'one time (only) event'.....

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SUBSTITUTION COOKING......'HOW IT LOOKS' IS ALMOST AS IMPORTANT AS "WHAT IT IS"......

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Other than feeling the 'heat prostration' from a trip to The Carter Center Famer's Mkt., The DeKalb Farmer's Mkt. and the Patel Indian Grocery..........I'm 'stocked' up for a week of relative seclusion and quiet.........Alas, after lugging all these new foodstuffs around, I'm too exhausted to cook anything.........Since I'd never cooked Alosinae, I got a pound of shad roe, but left it at the Market, because it had been mislabeled, and was being 'scanned' as filet mignon......another week perhaps......So,,,,polenta/coriander cakes, it is! And that's all right with me....

Only ONE from each roll, now!......This box of Baklava packs over 20,000 calories!.....

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                                  This box of calorie-laden Mediterranean  pastries.... Baklava , loaded with honey...                                     Best enjoyed with the strongest cup of Turkish expresso you can make......                                          Or, to save a few bucks and, perhaps, live longer without an insulin pump....go                                                 for the Dubai 'Snack Pack'.....  with a decaf expresso.                                     ...

REMEMBERING WHAT WAS, ONCE, MY FAVORITE BUFFET LUNCHEON SPOT........RAINBOW NATURAL FOOD'S BUFFET.....

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LOCATED AT 2118 NORTH DECATUR RD. FOR OVER 40 YEARS.....RAINBOW WAS EDGED OUT OF THE COMPETITIVE FOOD MARKET BY NEARBY MEGA-GROCERS.  

3:30 AM, THUR., 29 MAY.......

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                  I'M IN MY KITCHEN, ROLLING SOME SPONGE CAKE,  DRIZZLED WITH CONTREAU, THEN LOADED WITH WHIPPED HEAVY CREAM AND JUICY STRAWBERRIES, MARINATED IN A SWEET 'GOO' OF REDUCED LIQUORS....SO MUCH FOR HITTING THE SACK LAST NIGHT, WITHOUT HAVING AN AFTER-DINNER DESSERT!  

QUICK....BEFORE IT MELTS!

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both the unsweetened cocoa powder and the walnuts hasten the chocolate iced cream's melt, so...grab a spoon, before it's a lumpy bowl of chocolate milk......give it a stir to blend in the cocoa, first.....after having added a jigger of Cointreau or Creme de Cacoa, or both....if you 'like it sweeter'.....