Easy listening music and chat Saturday 23rd October 2021, this week its Crooners!
Got something to share? Whether it's writing or art, you'll fit right in. Come on, join us. This is like our own personal club to inspire, give feedback on your manuscript or work of art. Creativity is a process.
Saturday, October 23, 2021
Words & Brush Weekender : Easy listening music and chat, Saturday 23rd October 2021 this week its Crooners !
Monday, October 18, 2021
Words & Brush Recipe Corner: BEEF, CHICKPEAS AND PUMPKIN STEW
BEEF, CHICKPEAS AND PUMPKIN STEW
https://www.jpost.com/food-recipes/pascales-kitchen-unique-meals-for-post-holiday-routine-682036
Beef, chicken and pumpkin stew. (credit: PASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN)
Level of difficulty: Easy.
Time: 2 hours.
Status: Meat.
Makes 6-8 servings.
INGREDIENTS
4 Tbsp. canola oil
1 large onion, chopped
2 carrots, cut into small pieces
1 large tomato, cubed
5-6 Tbsp. tomato paste
5 cloves garlic, crushed
1 stick cinnamon
1 Tbsp. sweet paprika
½ tsp. spicy paprika
1 tsp. cumin
1 Tbsp. chicken soup powder
Salt and pepper, to taste
4 cups water
1 cup chickpeas, soaked in water overnight and then drained (or frozen)
300 gr. pumpkin, cubed
6 potatoes, cubed (or 8 small potatoes, whole)
DIRECTIONS
Weekly Open Thread, October 18, 2021
Sit down by the covered bridge where pressed coffee is served on the table under the maples shedding their golden foilage. Enjoy the moment with us as a new week begins.
Fall brings out the storyteller in me of a character like this one. A daughter of a captain in my story. She has the stamina and the wit and the bravery. Her uncle is a sharp archer. I wrote down her name somewhere.
There's no one like Mr. Bean and his Halloween skits.
And then there's that Halloween party up the street at the neighbors. No one ever visits them except for Halloween. Outside in their garage was their own haunted house with props and things to send warm shivers through you for their delight.
Friday, October 15, 2021
Words & Brush Weekender : Easy listening music and chat, Friday 15th October 2021 this week its Country & Western music !
Easy listening music and chat Friday 15th October 2021
This week its Country & Western music !
Roger Miller - "Trailers for Sale or Rent"
Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John [Live]
Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind
Dolly Parton - Jolene 1988
Kenny Rogers "You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me Lucille"
Doris Day - The Deadwood Stage from Calamity Jane (1953)
Marty Robbins... (Long Version) "El Paso" 1959 with Lyrics
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues - Live at San Quentin
John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Words & Brush Recipe Corner: How to make the perfect salsa at home
How to make the perfect salsa at home
No need for the store-bought version. This recipe is authentic, packed with flavor and easily customized.
By Sarah F. Berkowitz, From the Grapevine
https://www.fromthegrapevine.com/israeli-kitchen/recipes/how-make-perfect-salsa-home
- YIELD: 4 CUPS
- PREP TIME: 15 MINUTES
Culinarily speaking, we are a seriously blended family. Our level of tolerance for spicy foods and dips also ranges from mild to hot, making it a challenge to buy just the right salsa to please everyone. But when we make homemade salsa, we can split the recipe in two, and one half gets the spicy stuff while the other half is perfect for the crybaby (yours truly).
Although born in Israel, I have almost zero tolerance for what we traditionally call "charif" – spicy ingredients. I’ll have to prove my Sabra genes some other way!
INGREDIENTS
- 1 28-ounce can diced or whole tomatoes
- 1/2 cup packed curly parsley
- 1 small onion, quartered
- 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded (reserve seeds if you like it hot)
- 1-2 cloves garlic, sliced
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cumin
DIRECTIONS
Drain juice from tomato can into a cup, and reserve for later use.
Place all ingredients in a blender or food processor. Pulse a few times until ingredients are coarsely chopped.
Add back desired amount of tomato juices (mine was liquidy enough, so I didn’t add any).
Taste, and add more seasoning if needed. You can add corn and black beans for Southwest style salsa, or add a splash of your preferred hot sauce to up the heat factor.
Serve with pita wedges, tortilla chips, or as a topping for taco night.
Keep refrigerated in a tightly sealed container for up to one week.
| Enjoy! |
Monday, October 11, 2021
Weekly Open Thread October 6, 2021
A new week beacons. Ready to get the day started, but first coffee is the only luxury to a parent of two small children. At least the coffee grinder back up works. Just hammer the beans in a bag.
As we go through walks and drives to see fruity pebbles of fall on trees, their branches growing ever barren, it is a nice change to the hot summer here in the South. Sometimes we get snow, other winters it is just cold with rain. A great hush settles over the land as the forest animals take note and start their storage. They know more than we take notice.


Fall gets us around to the local fair that comes by. Seeing everyone have fun, children's laughter and seeing their sense of wonder brings on a nostalgia when we were kids. County fair food from funnel cakes, hot dogs, slushies to frozen fried icecream to accompany the fun with our sweethearts and families. Try out one of the many games to win that stuffed unicorn or bear. They look way too easy is deceiving.


Don't forget to walk through the forest in its change of colors to gaze at the splendor and hear the forest speak to us in its language with the wind.
Thank you for visiting and passing on the word to follow. Have a fantastic and safe week. Take a break. We're getting more coffee from the stockroom after this incident below.
Friday, October 8, 2021
Words & Brush Weekender : Easy listening music and chat, Friday 8th October 2021 this week its Romantic music !
Easy listening music and chat Friday 8th October 2021
This week its Romantic music !
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Quizas, Quizas, Quizas) Sarah Krauss, Jacob Fjeldheim - Piano, Georgia Webber - Bass, Josh Davis - Drums
'Some Enchanted Evening' from SOUTH PACIFIC (1958)
The Blues Brothers (1980) - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey get up close and personal while dancing to "Love is Strange" in this scene from "Dirty Dancing."







