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Life Lessons: Humility and Hoppin’ John
Every New Years Day I cook the same meal. It’s not elaborate. It’s not expensive (in fact, it’s downright cheap). It has a stupid name and takes all day, but the reward one gets in the bowl late in the...
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Personal Hymnal
"The Lord is my strength and song, and He is become my salvation: He is God and I will prepare Him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt Him." -Exodus 15:2 I think God stops whatever He’s...
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Nothing is more beautiful than good harmony, with a little accordion and mandolin…
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Rodalena Recipes: Potato Soup
It’s been raining all. day. long. It smells like fall, and the days are getting shorter. Today, the weather said, “Potato soup!” and it was pretty emphatic about it. If this happens to you, you’d...
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Rodalena Recipes: Boudin Balls
“What the blazes is boudin?” my friend Jo asked me yesterday, in much the same way a southerner might ask, “What in tarnation is a baba ganoush?”, but with a completely different accent. Poor thing....
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Rodalena Recipes: Summer Songs and Afternoon Delight
Summer has its own sound track, headlined, of course by Ella’s “Summertime.” That’s The Summer Song, dang it, the American Anthem of Summer. “Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow,Kick...
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