by Sherring D.
Family time aside, my requests for my Philly visits are to keep me well-fed, including a cheesesteak from a new spot, and to visit an indie bookstore, preferably one that’s Black-owned.
Categories: Fabulousness, Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Black Owned Business, Books, Bookstore, family, food, Goodreads, Independent Bookstore, Philadelphia, reading, trips
by Sherring D.
The next day, I received PCR results: negative. Within the next few days, while watching TV on my couch, I had hot flashes, chills, and sweats. My gums and eyeballs were throbbing. 20,000 Lilliputians were attacking me with jackhammers. No part of my body didn’t hurt. I had bouts with bubbleguts and yuckmouth aka cottonmouth no matter how much I used my tongue scraper. My throat felt like I swallowed tablespoons of sand. My period said, “Hold up! I wanna join the Misery Party.” Because of the false negative, I told myself I was being dramatic and it was all in my head, which felt like it was being squeezed and pulled apart. It couldn’t be covid. I wasn’t coughing…yet.
Categories: Fabulousness, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, food, Healing, Illness, Netflix, sick, single life, Singlehood, TV
by Sherring D.
I was oblivious to the Korean-American supermarket chain H Mart, nor did I have any idea who Michelle Zauner was when I selected Crying in H Mart. It’s one of those books that intrigued me. I saw the red-covered New York Times bestseller everywhere, and I wanted to check it out. Thanks, Bookstagram! I enjoyed reading about her life in Oregon, her vacations to Asian countries, her dinners and body scrubs with her mother, her courtship and marriage with Peter—who deserves an award for being a great and supportive partner. If you’re one of the lucky ones who hasn’t been touched or affected by cancer, reading Crying in H Mart gives a peak into what it’s like being the child of someone dying from terminal cancer. It also sheds a light on someone who straddles two cultures. While she struggles to hang on to bits of it, she shares more than enough with those of us who were completely ignorant.
Categories: Goodreads, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized • Tags: book review, Books, food, Goodreads, mother-daughter, motherless daughter, reading
by Sherring D.
King’s Hawaiian rolls can be enjoyed with or without butter. Straight out of the fridge or warmed slightly in the toaster. More often than not, I’m too greedy to wait for the toaster and eat it chilly. A bad habit I have is putting a smattering of butter, taking a bite, then adding more butter to take another bite. Unhealthy, I know, but we all have our vices. It could be drugs!
Categories: Back in the Day, Fabulousness, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: bread, Comfort Food, food, King's Hawaiian, Oprah, rolls
by Sherring D.
Once this pandemic hit, all that fiscally responsible shit went out the window. I’m sequestering alone. I’m anxious. I’m sad. I’m scared. I’m lonely. Cooking and eating comfort me.
Categories: Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: cooking, Coronavirus, food, Kitchen Appliances, loneliness, Therapy
by Sherring D.
I know I’m getting older not because of the gray hairs that sprinkle across my hairline. I know I’m getting older not because of the recently created, closed Facebook group for my 20th high school reunion. I know I’m getting older not because the goddaughter whose diapers I used to change is now a college sophomore. I know I’m getting older because of my plans for my “incentive payout” (not bonus) in this week’s paycheck. While I do have the […]
Categories: Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: food, getting older, money, Shopping
by Sherring D.
Pesto sauce. I made my own pesto sauce today. To some, this might not seem like a big deal, but for someone who’s had pesto sauce once, twice, maybe thrice in her life, this is very much a big deal. Also making it a big deal is that up until recently, I consumed my pasta in tomato based, or rich, creamy sauces. Sometime last year, I came across a Popsugar recipe to make an avocado sauce for pasta, so I […]
Categories: Fabulousness, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: cooking, eating, food, pasta, penne, pesto, pesto sauce
by Sherring D.
I don’t like plain oatmeal. It’s gross. I’d prefer not to eat it all, but in my lifetime, I’ve read dozens of articles about eating well, and oatmeal always makes the list. Its bountiful benefits include being a good source of energy with protein, helping to regulate cholesterol and blood pressure, being full of fiber, helping to curb your appetite, cancer fighting and is great for your skin. There are a few oatmeal skincare products in my bathroom. Preparing oatmeal […]
Categories: Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: breakfast, cookies, food, good health, oatmeal, Potbelly, smoothies
by Sherring D.
I have to laugh at the ignorance and naïveté of my youth. When you grow up a certain way, it’s hard to imagine things any other way, until you venture out into the great big world on your own. When I was growing up, the only nuts I knew about were peanuts. Shelled, unshelled, salted, unsalted, and of course, and in butter form. My mother used to fix me a big ol’ tablespoon of peanut butter for a midday snack, […]
Categories: Back in the Day, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: A to Z Challenge, almonds, cashews, food, Honey Nut Cheerios, nuts, peanuts, writing
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