Five Seconds
January 16th. My birthday. I turned 33 years old eight hours earlier and I’m going to celebrate by winning a NORBA sanctioned mountain bike race at Manchester State Forest near Sumter, SC. Amy and I left the warm confines of our home at 6:00 am so she could watch me bang wheels with a bunch […]
Chicken Sausage Enchiladas
Every day, every shift, we make a meal for the staff. It’s usually made from scraps, leftovers and tidbits and it’s always delicious. It better be because in a busy restaurant where teamwork is paramount, everyone needs to know that they are important to success. One of the ways that’s done is through […]
A Guest Post on the 52 Weeks Blog
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The Inscrutable Mind of a 14 Year-Old Boy
We have a guest bathroom in our house. It’s on the first floor, just a small bathroom with a toilet, sink, a mirror and some decorative sconces filled with dried flowers on either side of the mirror. There’s no room in that bathroom for toiletries because it’s a guest bathroom, for guests, and you wouldn’t […]
Strawberry Mojito anyone?
Jason Scholz, the Chef/Owner of Stella’s Bistro is one of the hardest working chefs I have ever known. Yet he has also surrounded himself with a creative and enthusiastic staff such as Jay Powell, one of our bartenders. Now that it’s strawberry season, Jay decided to make a few infused spirits with the glut of […]
Pimento Cheese Yeast Rolls
Three or four times a week I make yeast rolls for the customers at Stella’s. I usually look around for some sort of leftovers to throw into the rolls such as left over mashed potatoes, fresh herbs, tomato juice etc. The other day we had two cups of chopped red peppers just sitting there calling […]
Bamboo Shoots
We have a walking/cycling trail in our neighborhood and in the middle of this trail is a healthy growth of wild Bamboo. Bamboo reproduces by sending out shoots from a network of rhizomes that grow rapidly in the spring. I checked on the bamboo last week and didn’t see any shoots then we went away for 4 […]
Can an Edible Stamp save the US Postal Service?
It’s no surprise that the US Postal Service is once again standing on the brink of a financial disaster; doesn’t the Post Office go through this crisis every five years or so? The problem is obvious; the Government Accounting Office has recently stated that the USPS can “no longer rely on growth in mail […]
Morel Mushrooms
Saturday afternoon we got a phone call from a gentleman that hunts mushrooms. He found a patch of yellow morels and he wanted to know if we would buy some. Jason, the Chef/Owner of Stella’s Bistro responded emphatically, “Damn right!” As he got off the phone he turned to me and relayed the good news and asked […]
Seven Books
I had my first book signing at a real bookstore last week. Fiction Addiction hosted me. Jill, the proprietor has been very helpful and has given me some good advice and even though I started life as a writer through Amazon, the all-powerful corporation that independent bookstores deplore, she agreed to host me at […]