Free for St. Patrick’s Day

To celebrate St.Cover of "Favorites from Amelia's Kitchen" Patrick’s Day, my cookbook, Favorites from Amelia’s Kitchen, will be free for the day. It’s DRM-free, so feel free to convert it to whatever format is most convenient for you to read it on.

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Like to cook?

I’ve been saying for the past few months that I’ve really got to get my blog started again and revamp it. I finally found myself motivated enough to begin doing that last night. Part of my motivation: I just put a recipe book up on Amazon.com this week. The other part of my motivation: Spring is on its way! The weather is getting milder, and even with changing the clocks this past weekend, the sun is rising earlier and shining brighter. I always feel invigorated in March and April after the long, cold, damp, and very short winter days.

The little cookbook I have put on Amazon is called Favorites from Amelia’s Kitchen. Perhaps not terribly imaginative, but accurate. 🙂 There are over 35 recipes, mostly vegetarian, some with meat alternatives, and some that are vegan or vegan-adaptable.

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Recommended reading . . .

I read an article several days ago that has stuck with me, the final lines in particular, so I thought I would share it with you: In Mullingar, people talk because there is no sea, by Michael Harding in the Irish Times.

The article begins with a reference to Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Ireland, but it quickly becomes more than a story about the Queen, drifting easily to memory of another time and place, with a kind of bitter-sweet nostalgia rooted in a present moment, in the twitter of birds in an attic and an image of a monarch on the television . . .

somegreybloke talks about the Rapture

If you don’t know, a guy named Camping has said that the Rapture’s taking place at 6:00 p.m. on 21 May 2011. He hasn’t specified a time zone. 😛

Anyway, I thought this was funny.

Edgar, the Tether-Ball Champion

Here’s fourteen-year-old Edgar, my gray and fluffy buddy, playing some tether-ball.