Food

We Are What We Eat
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ub Sat, 01/28/2023 - 00:00

I have been food-binging for months and it surely has been a non-stop meal feast but now it is time to return to a normal diet.

The gastrointestinal celebration started on Thanksgiving, then Christmas, followed by New Year and The Epiphany, then most recently my sweetheart’s birthday, and finally the Lunar New Year.

So, after celebrating with feasts from Thankssfovong to the Lunar New Year, may all of us be filled with health, and prosperity, as well as infused with determination, drive, compassion, and last but not least, let us take it easy on our digestive systems.

Birthday Breakfast
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ub Thu, 01/19/2023 - 11:22

As I enjoy breakfast with my bride on her birthday, we both consume the same thing. Oatmeal, some fruit, and a hard-boiled egg.

There is a wide variety of oatmeal, which is a preparation of oats that have been de-husked, steamed, and flattened, or a coarse flour of hulled oat grains that have either been milled or steel-cut. Ground oats are also called white oats. Steel-cut oats are known as coarse oatmeal, Irish oatmeal, or pinhead oats.

How Have You Bean? ub Mon, 01/16/2023 - 09:33

This is is a common question from native English speakers. It's asking what you have been up to and how life has been.

Perhaps you're being asked how you've been doing since the last time you saw each other. Or maybe since the last time you spoke on the phone. However, we're talking about beans

Please know that beans are good for the planet, for all of us, and for our meals. Here’s How to best cook and enjoy them.

Beans are versatile enough to play a starring or backup role in virtually every part of the meal, also.

Margarita Snack
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ub Sun, 09/18/2022 - 10:19

My late and great ‘Mi Mama, Margarita” made it her favorite snack. I would like to share it with all of you and say try it, you’ll like it.

During The roaring 1920s, a Cuban socialite named Elena Ruz Valdés-Fauli asked a chef to prepare a sandwich for her with turkey, strawberry preserves, and cream cheese tucked inside in a sweet Media Noche roll at a Habana restaurant named El Carmelo. This was my late mom’s favorite and It’s best enjoyed with plantain chips and a Cuban Materva, an Ironbeer, or a Margarita.

Apple Pie and Coffee

Submitted by ub on Mon, 12/20/2021 - 10:20
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On this first and coldest day of the season, I decided to enjoy the classic American breakfast combination of Apple Pie and Coffee.

There is a back story to this. When our family migrated from Cuba and I did not speak English, and neither did my parents. They taught me two phrases. ‘ I know nothing about politics’  and ‘ Apple Pie and Coffee’. Those were the first words I memorized learned how to say.

May The Fourth
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ub Mon, 05/04/2020 - 08:07

May the force be with you is a metaphysical and ubiquitous power in the Star Wars universe. It is wielded by "Force-sensitive" characters throughout the franchise: heroes like the Jedi who seek to become one with the Force, while the Sith and other villains exploit the Force and try to bend it toward their will.