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Fruit with spots gets chopped up and put in my freezer for later mead making adventures.

I use leftover fried foods to make migas instead of using tortillas.

Stale bread pretty much always becomes pomodoro.

Thank you! I was thinking 2 hours, so an hour and a half seems like a good time to check.

He did indeed have a good life. He was mean, but also loved. His main job was guarding Penny the chicken, who the other chickens like to pick on. He would often wake up the whole farm crowing his head off at 1:30 am. I personally felt his absence when I was down on the farm Sunday.

I will report back on my results.

Gazpacho is my hands down favorite thing to "cook" in Summer.

I get out my "juice-o-matic," squeeze as many lemons as needed, add sugar, water (depending on the tartness), sometimes ginger syrup, and always ice.

The mornings when my mom would make her terrible hockey puck-esque whole wheat biscuits and them top them with delicious buttery "maters" (tomato gravy) with canned tomatoes from our garden. The biscuits would turn from terrible to transcendent.

New Mexico red chile posole made with pork and piled up with onion and cilantro.

The look on my Jewish uncle's face when my redneck boyfriend asked for a ham and cheese sandwich in the first 10 minutes of being at his house (after being coached by me that there would be no ham).

Today I'm craving a country ham biscuit from Tudor's Biscuit World in Charleston, WV.

Everything bagel with lo0aded with smoked whitefish and veggies.

My friend Carlos' matanza during which we ate a whole pig that he had slaughtered the day before to celebrate receiving his PhD.

Mr. Powdrell's in Albuquerque, NM

Everything bagel topped with cream cheese, my uncle's whitefish salad, tomato, cucumber, a tiny bit of red onion, and pastrami lox, all washed down with black coffee and orange juice.

I can only eat apples as a snack if there is also cheese involved. I get so hungry I feel like puking other wise