At 250 words, these newsletter intros should be easy.
But I don’t want to write about Bray (RIP). I’m not wasting anymore of my energy on Punk (I finally unfollowed him on IG and Twitter!). I don’t want to write about how I feel we have a bad winter coming to Morgantown because that barely sounds interesting to me and it’s just a hunch.
So, cooking?
Growing up, my dad didn’t cook often and my mom did sometimes. But normally it was my Uncle Herman and my other mom Bonnie in the kitchen. And once I moved to West Virginia, I was helping mom in the kitchen all the time.
Fried chicken, sausage and chicken gravy, bacon, sausage, bread, pies, cakes, waffles, French fries, meatloaf, casseroles, etc. I could go on. I’d give anything to taste her food again. There was nothing she couldn’t make.
But I never really tried to learn to cook from her while she was alive. I helped plenty but most of her recipes are lost other than what I can pull from memory.
Goulash, soups, tomato sandwiches (they were the best I’ve ever had) …
So, when I moved out, it was microwave and stovetop basics for the longest. I picked up some things from Steve. I tried different recipes with Angel, but nothing too fancy.
It was probably after mom passed that I started trying to recreate things she made, like her sweet potato casserole at Thanksgiving. And as I grew (no pun intended) to be more of food connoisseur, I started wanting to make the foods I would eat in restaurants. But really the pandemic is when I had nothing to do but cook those weeks I was in the house with the family.
To be continued?
I don’t know, I may come back to this topic for my column on my website. Let me know if you’d be interested in that.
It took me two weeks but here’s my latest It’s Not Gonna Write Itself about my fantasy football days.
And also, this week’s blog.
I pulled not one, but two songs from the vault and added them to my Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
I finally posted the video for Hyphen Nation 203 that I recorded back in January.
I started reading The Guncle and something triggered the fact that I’ve wanted to go to Burning Man for years. Here’s a piece from Rembert Browne about his first burn.
Marc Rob shared some thoughtful words about grief.
When I decided to re-release Summer Solstice, I went back to A Breezy’s last released work she did with E’s band Quie. I haven’t been able to get MSL out of my head since.
Here’s Josh Reynolds’ latest newsletter from The Royal Occultist Compendium. He’s a dope writer, trust me.
This week’s YouTube video.
From Hyphen Podcast Group
been cooking more myself