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“I’ve heard people say, “It’s just me, so I don’t cook”.. Are Ya Nutz??   Cooking for One is Fantastic!! – and no one IS more worth it than YOU!  Most homecooked meals are 10-15 minutes to make.  If it’s longer.. open the bottle of Wine!  :) ” — Nunya

 

Collard Greens – Healthy Food!! (don’t look at the bacon grease).. LOW Calorie, High in Fiber, and Vitamins C, A, B1, B2, B6, E and K. High in Iron, Calcium, copper, manganese, selenium and zinc.  Fights cancer, benefits Alzheimer patients, and promotes bone density.  Not only that – but it tastes Great!! The peppers are high in capsicum which helps with inflammation ALL kinds of arthritis and other crap that gives you muscular pain.  Cooking instructions below:

Here ya go: I grabbed 3 BIG bundles of collard greens, used 2 or so Tblsp of bacon grease, along with a small smoked ham hock – and added 2 cups of chicken broth. It is key to wash the greens thoroughly to get all the garden grit off them, and I tore off the stems – chopped the big leaves up a bit – and put the pot on boil – then simmer. They do NOT take long to cook (20 min?), they wilt down like spinach pretty quick. Pull out the ham hock to cool enough to chop, and add back to the pot. Salt to your preference, and don’t forget the small yellow peppers in vinegar! Fabulous! –Nunya

 

 

Halloween 2011

Come my little trick or treaters, I await thee….

I was possessed with a heavy dose of the Halloween spirit this year!  I decorated my porch and decorated myself.  Lots of little ghosts and gobblins and Princesses and fairies and monsters, etc. stopped by for candy.  Kids are cool.  I had a lot of fun.

Me as a drumming zombie bellydancer

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Sometimes you meet the coolest people in the most unlikely places when you least expect it.  My sister Tanya and I were driving along the other day when I spotted a man painting out in the middle of a field.  Needless to say, I turned the car around and went back to check it out.

After wading through the weeds in a ditch, then climbing a slight embankment, all done in flip flops, while visions of poisonous snakes danced in my head, (poor Sis, but she was a trooper!), we made our way across the field and met the artist.  Small world because he knows my friends, Brian and Michelle, owners of Whole:Mind Body Art.  We also met a cute cable guy, who also stopped and made his way across the field to join us and check out the scene…  :-)   He said he was checking out the flowers in the field because they reminded him of the flowers back home (somewhere up North), but Sis and I were looking kinda hot that day so if he wants to refer to us as flowers….. I’m just saying. ;-)  

The moral of the story is:  You never know who you might meet in the middle of a field if you decide to take a time out and be adventurous!  Robert Clements work is featured at Aurum Studios, 125 E Clayton St., Athen,Ga. through May 31.

There is technically proficient “good” art, and then there is ART that sizzles and makes me wanna dance and go “Oh yeeeeeah!”  

 And I  found it Sunday afternoon when I attended a combo art and music show/animal benefit that was hosted by a really unusual and personable artist and his lovely wife.  He is known as Cap Man.  When I say he is unusual, I mean unusual in a good way.  He is not your run of the mill artist who is good with the paint brush and does up a nice and “pretty” painting that looks similar to most other paintings hanging behind sofas in paint by numbers art filled homes.  This dude is an original who oozes creativity.  Let me repeat that:  he has originality with a giant “O”.   Yes, I mean orgasmic creativity.  He also had other really creative artists at the show, so be sure to check out the pics at the end of the blog post.

The location of the show was at Mr. and Mrs. Cap Man’s home and studio over in Winterville, Ga., or more specifically in their lush backyard.  There was a band playing on the back deck, several artist displaying their works, an edible landscaping display (and I loved that so much that I will post pics of it later in a separate post!), dogs and kids and coffee…. And from reading Facebook posts, I know at least one dog found a new home via the show, and if my memory serves me correctly her name was Daisy.  As far as I know the new home is not in the rv that Cap Man decorated with bottle caps, although I have to admit the RV was cute (and not a heckuva lot larger than a doghouse). As I am typing this, I am sitting here thinking that between the truck decorated in bottle caps and the RV decorated in bottle caps, that the Cap Man has a very tolerant Mrs. Cap Man.  :-)   All Artist should be so fortunate!  Check out his work at:  WWW.Capman.us 

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