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For Mother's Day I cooked a ham which was delicious along with potato salad and toss salad. So today I made a large pot of Split Pea Soup using the drippings I saved from cooking my ham...it's still not too warm for a nice bowl of hot soup and hot Cheese Corn Bread.



SPLIT PEA SOUP

Ham stock (I saved my juices and drippings from the ham I cooked a few days ago, added about 2 cups chopped left over ham, 6 or more cups of water and… Continue

There is an email circulating lately titled “SIGNS OF OVARIAN CANCER (even in the absence of Ovaries and no matter what age you are)”. At first I thought, “oh, great, another one for the trash along with all the others I had received warning me that if my under arm deodorant doesn’t kill me my under wire bra will.” But, after skimming through this one I decided that perhaps it deserved a second look.



If you haven’t received this email yet you either:

1. don’t have… Continue

This is first of a series of annual plugs—call them “Bum Plugs,” if you will—addressing the importance of colon cancer screening that I intend to post every April 29th as a birthday gift to my Mom who died November 28th, 1976.



Had she lived, my mother would have turned 80 today. She died at the young age of 47, leaving behind my Dad and eight children. Diagnosed with cancer in the spring of 1976, she underwent a vaginal hysterectomy which we were told “got it all.” So why was it that… Continue