Rosabelle Houdin

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Salsa alla Marinara Mariner's Style Sauce If you have never tasted marinara sauce, prepare to be delighted. The sauce has little to do with mariners, no more than carbonara sauce has much to do with charcoal-burners or cacciatore with hunters. Sometimes, it is used with fish, but not out of necessity. The important thing about it is its freshness. It is not a sauce that is simmered for hours until it is thick and gloomy. Marinara is cooked in 15 - 20 minutes at most and tastes best when all ingredients have just been plucked from the garden. It goes well with linguine or spaghettini, and if the pasta is freshly handmade, the result is like the first day of spring. 1/4 cup olive oil 4 cloves garlic, minced 2 pounds plum tomatoes, blanched, skinned, and chopped (or 128-ounce can plum tomatoes) about 31 Jaunre Flammes handful fresh-picked basil salt and pepper to taste 1 pound of pasta Heat the oil in a saucepan and simmer the garlic. Throw in the tomatoes and raise the heat until they start to bubble. Add the basil and salt and pepper. Break the tomatoes up with a fork and stir the sauce occasionally. Cook about 15 - 20 minutes and then pour over hot pasta. Sprinkle with fresh-grated Romano cheese. You will not believe it. Serves 3 - 4. 108 THE SICILIAN GENTLEMAN'S COOKBOOK
Two cats on a bed curled up next to each other. One off orange and white, the other white with black tail and toupee.
A winter scene from the top of the university of Utah campus. Blue sky, some white streaks of clouds with smaller flutter grey ones. Bottom right quadrant is a parking garage in shadow. The snow covered ground slopes down to a boxy glass building in the distance on the left that is partially obscured by a tall lamppost in the foreground. A few small trees poke out of the snow. We’re at an elevation looking down and west out over the salt lake valley with the great salt lake barely visible in the furthest distance. The sky has a gradient from bright light blue at the horizon to deeper blue at top. The ground is in shadow since the sun is still behind the mountains behind us that we can’t see. It feels cold, everything is lit with cold blue light. But there is anticipation of a warming sun about to rise
Two cats laying on a blanket. An orange and white one named Ro is licking a white and black one named Cali
A post from Sassy Tea Lady @sassytealady.bsky.social I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy. Then there’s a photo of a toy Malibu Barbie dream house perched on chicken legs.
First page of the essay: Is It Ever Just a Joke? by Martina Volfova' and Mercedes Douglass (2012) Introduction Language plays a vital role in our social lives. We use language to greet people, to agree or disagree, Language to complain, to give compliments. We tell sad stories and funny ones. Through language, we are able to create and maintain meaningful social interactions, without which, our lives would be unrecognizably different. As Goodwin (1990) and Hanks (1996) assert, talk is "social action," and so is never simply about a subject. From a simple assertion like "the sky is blue" to a minister's proclamation, "I now pronounce you husband and wife," language does things (Austin 1962). Through language we accomplish goals, urge people to act, and propose certain definitions of reality. All of this is just as true for humor as it is for any other form of speech. Keating and Egbert (2004) remind us, the production of humorous 'moves' in conversation is far from trivial and has important implications and consequences in the work of building relationships and social life" (2004:171). The moment we craft a joke or pull one out of a joke book and say it aloud (or gesture it, or publish i), itakes on a social life. For example, Karp 1988) asserts that "humor and irony are subtle and powerful means of expression available to people whose communicative options are otherwise constrained by the social conditions in which they act" (36). Goldstein, in a similar vein, writes "humor is a vehicle for expressing sentiments that are difficult to communicate publicly or that point to areas of discontent in social life... humor is one of the fugitive forms of insubordination" (2003:9). As we will see in the remander of this chapter, humor serves a multitude of social functions of which making people laugh is just the beginning.
Chicago skyline at the Riverwalk at dusk
First two pages of sheet music to the song Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, by Tom Lehrer. Performance directions are to play it “Vernally”.
My copy of STAR TREK III STARSHIP COMBAT ROLE PLAYING GAME Second Edition Fasa
Monkey Island box, install floppies, manual, and dial-a-pirate. Laid out on a wooden table top
Fan art of D’Vana Tendi of Star Trek Lower decks. Art done by Adhora Pototry @orchiscribbles.bsky.social
Sharpie drawing by nigeldrawsstuff on Instagram of a werewolf in an argyle sweater and natty driving cap and chinos. Caption in big bold block letters says “SWEATER WEREWOLF” dialog line from sweater werewolf says “who loves ya?”
Two cats snuggling together on a zig-zag red, white, and blue crocheted blanket. Ro is an organge and white cat, Callie is mostly white with a black tail and black toupee.
Sculpture of Bob Newhart sitting on his psychiatrist’s couch from his tv show. You could join him for a session. Background is Lake Michigan at dusk with the Chicago skyline.
Chicago skyline at the Riverwalk at dusk
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a sharpie line drawing of a furry-like wolf. He is wearing a colorful argyle sweater of pink diamonds, purple background, and green horizzontal lines. He's also wearing a natty driving cap. He has a stern look on his face but a dialogue bubble says 'who loves ya?' His arms are outstretched as if to embrace you with his sharply clawed paws. There are action lines bursting out radially from the background and a bold 3d block title with drop shadow in all caps that says 'SWEATER WEREWOLF!' The drawing is by Instagram artist nigeldrawsstuff