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Love in the Lemonade

04/14/2016 by Sherring D.

This post is part of the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. I loved my mother’s fresh squeezed lemonade. She added canned evaporated milk, the one with the red and white label and flowers, and so much sugar and ice cubes that I could hear the sugar scraping at the bottom of the plastic pitcher and the ice clink as she stirred, or let me stir, with a giant wooden spoon. She never measured, but would check the taste by dropping […]

Categories: Back in the Day, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: A to Z Challenge, drink, food, lemonade, memoir, mother

Kale is a Superfood & Its Special Power is Tasting Bad*

04/13/2016 by Sherring D.

This post is part of the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. Ok, fine. I confess. I drank the Kool-Aid. Not literally. I haven’t had a sip of Kool-Aid in years. Ever since I started “adulting” years ago (years behind schedule), I make more of an effort to drink real juice. If I don’t see “100% Juice” under Nutrition Facts on the side label, I don’t buy it. The exception being Simply Lemonade—original or with raspberry. That stuff is delicious! My confession […]

Categories: Back in the Day, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: A to Z Challenge, diet, eating, food, kale, memoir

J-E-L-L-O!

04/12/2016 by Sherring D.

This post is part of the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. What’s a childhood without Jell-O? Incomplete. I’m glad I grew up in the 80s with gluten, artificial flavors, sugar, sugar and more sugar. So much so, that I barely like it now. wasn’t an Army brat as a kid, but I moved around quite a bit. I attended five different schools from grades 1-6. One would think that because I was shy and quiet and always the new girl, lunchtime […]

Categories: Back in the Day, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: A to Z Challenge, eating, food, Jell-O, memoir, school lunch

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter

04/11/2016 by Sherring D.

This post is part of the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. I feel like I’ve been deceived my whole life. All those times I thought I was enjoying butter, it was buttery spread. Recently while grocery shopping, as I reached for a small tub of Country Crock in the butter section of the dairy section, I noticed it said “buttery spread.” I know food labeling can be tricky and sneaky, like when juice may be grape-flavored, but contains very little grapes. I […]

Categories: Back in the Day, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: A to Z Challenge, butter, eating, food, memoir

Food is My Friend

04/10/2016 by Sherring D.

I am sick of dieting, cleansing, refraining and abstaining from certain foods. Food, like life, should be enjoyed. Sometimes I’m just not in the mood for baked skinless chicken breast sprinkled with juice from half a lemon, and side of steamed broccoli; I want fried chicken—leg, thigh and wing with the skin intact—with mac & cheese and/or mashed potatoes with gravy, if I so choose. Just to be “good,” I’ll add spinach or broccoli, sautéed with Italian dressing. It pains […]

Categories: Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: dieting, eating, food, memoir

Hot Dog? Hot Dog!

04/09/2016 by Sherring D.

This post is part of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. When I was in high school, I read Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle about the meat-packing industry. I stopped eating meat for about a month. More than once I’ve heard someone say that if I knew what went into hot dogs (and sausages), I would not want to eat them. As such, I’ve avoided learning. I don’t want to know, and I don’t want to give up eating them. […]

Categories: Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: A to Z Challenge, eating, food, hot dog, memoir, movies

Greek Yogurt: Not Your Mother’s Mayonnaise

04/08/2016 by Sherring D.

This post is part of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. On one side, I keep hearing about the obesity epidemic that’s sweeping across America. On the other side, it seems like I’m constantly being bombarded with “healthier version of” suggestions in the form of e-newsletters in my inbox, TV segments on some of my favorite talk shows, and of course in magazine pages. Some of them I take to heart and have adopted, with a slight adjustment period before getting […]

Categories: Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: A to Z Challenge, diet, eating, food, Greek yogurt, mayonnaise, memoir, sour cream

French Fries: A Rant

04/07/2016 by Sherring D.

This post is part of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. There’s nothing worse than limp French Fries. Well, yes, actually there are about a million and one things that are worse, but for the purposes of this rant there’s nothing worse than limp French Fries. I would rather have cold, stiff fries, than fresh-from-the-fryer, perfectly salted limp French fries. It just ruins the whole experience. This afternoon I friend and I went out for our usual mid-afternoon walk to […]

Categories: Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: A to Z Challenge, eating, fast food, food, French fries, memoir, rant

Eggs: Incredible, Edible and More

04/06/2016 by Sherring D.

This post is part of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. I once knew a co-worker who was allergic to eggs. I felt sorry for him. Every month we had a cake cutting for employees’ birthdays that month. He couldn’t partake, so they bought him his own small pint of ice cream. I can’t imagine being allergic to eggs, though I can relate to having a food allergy. Shellfish is my kryptonite. It sucks not being able to enjoy shrimp […]

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