Chicken Simmered in White Wine Butter Sauce

Tonight’s menu: Chicken simmered in white wine butter sauce over steamed rice and broccoli with mashed potatoes aligot stuffed with garlic and mozzarella cheese.  It was really good.

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Back to Business …

Seriously, I am not running a food blog but those of you who know me keep calling and asking why I haven’t posted each day’s food selection because you want to know what we are having so you can try it yourself. I know we eat, and live, extremely well but I really don’t like [...]

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Beef and Onions Braised in Beer by Julia Child

Tonight, we decided to try the recipe immediately following the Julia Child Beef Bourguignon recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking (I wrote about our experience with that recipe a few months ago).  The entree is called Carbonnades a la Flamande, which translates into Beef and Onions Braised in Beer.  This followed the Chicken [...]

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What The Rich Really Collect

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Misconceptions About Wealth

How The Marketing Industry Continues to Convince Average Americans They Know What a Millionaire Looks Like A few days ago, I quoted something from one of Dr. Thomas J. Stanley’s books: “In the United States, there are three times more millionaires living in homes that have a market value of under $300,000 than there are [...]

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Gourmet Chili with Red Wine

Aaron said he wanted to make chili.  I said fine (this went on for a few weeks – he really wanted to try to customize his own gourmet chili recipe).  It ended up costing $65 to $70 for the ingredients alone, making me wonder why everything we do tends to be in excess.  Now, this [...]

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Rainbow Pancakes

I happened to be sitting at the dining room table, a cup of coffee in one hand, writing out plans for potentially launching a mutual fund this year (this time around, it’s a Parker Duofold rollerball in an amber check pattern from the recent shipment of fine writing instruments we received at Kennon Home Accessories [...]

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