Tonight I adapted a recipe from one of my cookbooks with the ingredients on hand. It is good on a hot summer day. Mix together: 1 head green cabbage chopped fine 1 small onion chopped fine 4 grated carrots 1 small can drained pineapple tidbits in their own juice Mix together well. Mix in poppyseed [...]
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This is an easy “dump” salad that is sort of like 5-cup but a little bit sweeter. Mix together: 1 can undrained fruit cocktail 1 can undrained crushed pineapple 1 can drained mandarin oranges Add in: 1 package instant vanilla pudding mix 1/2 tub cool whip Stir and serve chilled. Very popular.
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From the Library of Congress, a great list of public film/moving image archives throughout the world.
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Somehow I stumbled upon The Human Clock. In my quest to try and add a little bit of art to my life most of the time, I decided to submit some photos. I picked some shrub roses from my yard, and now they are on the clock at 11:21 am and 11:21 pm.
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ISBN 0141017058, Penguin Books, 2005, $25.00 paperback This book calls itself “the most comprehensive and authoritative general factbok available.” While I’m not sure a 939 page book can actually answer everything for me, this book isn’t bad. Common questions I see at the reference desk: 1. Who is the leader of X country? This book [...]
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