Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
One of my Pirogi’s broke out with a little cheese oozing out onto the plate along with the olives, onions and sausages! I put this particular picture in because two of my daughters ( Karen and Kristin) will… let’s be frank… enjoy reading about this.
For the women in my family, ‘cheese’ is a major food group! Besides, the seasoned crust in this recipe makes all the difference!
Here’s the history and my recipe!
Bon Appetite!
Roger
There were so many heroes… so many Trojans that deserve recognition. However, my heart goes out to two who did a wonderful job setting the tone of the game… Ray Maualuga running back his interception for a touchdown is a highlight ( I played linebacker as a youth… loved that feeling!) and our quarterback… what can I say but “Viva Sanchez!”
The running backs fit the Trojan mold perfectly… who will shine the greatest the season is still unfolding!
Congrats to all!
Roger
Happy 36th Wedding Anniversary! I am not so impressed that we are still married as I am that 36 years have transpired. It can’t be because I’ve gotten older when you still look the same?
We had the most unlikely of weddings. The wedding at Los Angles Superior Court in front of Judge Xenophon P. Lang ( yes, I remember) along with many other young people married during his lunch hour. We had a single ring ceremony… as I admit… left my ring at my folks house being only 20 and a bit excited.
Thank you for everything.
Love,
Roger
Onetime speech writer for Ronald Reagan and syndicated columnist Peggy Noonan had an interesting quote in today’s column that seems to encapsulate the media’s frustration with their irrelevance:
“The mainstream media, which has been holding endless symposia here on the future of media in the 21st century, is in danger of missing a central fact of that future: If they appear, once again, as they have in the past, to be people not reporting the battle but engaged in the battle, if they allow themselves to be tagged by that old tag, which so tarnished them in the past, they will do more to imperil their own future than the Internet has.”
Once again the clerics of the media like to snipe at a candidate for Vice President that offends their senses. I was asked once by someone in the media if I thought they were ‘biased’? I simply said, “How would you know you were not?” FDR, knowing that he lived in a world unconnected with the rest of America, would travel up to northern New York to meet an old friend who would give it to him straight. I suspect that Governor Palin’s appeal is certainly broader than the media’s worst fears… but time will tell.
Governor Sarah Palin represents the emergence of a once forgotten woman: mother, professional, married and holding many conservative values. I say ‘holding conservative values’ because although not all mothers are conservative, they all share certain common desires, wishes and dreams for their lives and for the lives of their children…. which almost by definition put them on the side with so-called ‘conservatives’ on issues described as ‘family values.’ Nothing makes a woman think about the future and experience a personal change in her perspectives than becoming an involved mother. Motherhood seems to make all the difference.
Gloria Steinem ( not to be confused with being a ‘mutha’) recently was quoted as saying that all Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Hillary Clinton shared was an ‘X Chromosome.” The truth is that Sarah and Hillary just represent different point of view, one perpetuates the battle of the sexes, the other will work with anyone…. even men.
Yes, as a man, I prefer to ‘hang with’ women like Sarah Palin. They just seem more ‘real’ to me. Ask any man if they prefer a professional woman who likes sports, technology, real friendship, commitment and children… and few thinking men would walk away from that. Sarah Palin is real.
So, again, congratulations to Governor Sarah Palin and especially to Senator John McCain for the willingness to protect what is good about our country and yet have the courage to make those decisions for positive change and inclusion.
Roger Freberg
‘nothin finer than a fine lady with a gun!’ — adapted from the Bruce Willis movie “The Whole 9 yards”
Peanut butter and Chocolate is such a natural combination that folks have tried to incorporate the pair into almost every imaginable creation. However, one of my favorites is cheesecake.
Now, after some experimentation, I have found a few shortcuts to making a great PB and C Cheesecake. Obviously, in this age when we can buy store prepared chocolate (known commonly as chocolate bars) , peanut butter and ‘Oreos’…. we become less ‘baker’ and more ‘assembler’. Be that as it may, this does not distract too much from this exquisite dessert. Tomorrow is my wife’s birthday… and she deserves nothing less… especially since she had the fun in making it!
This cheesecake is especially decadent given the chocolate cap with the glazed pecans. The ‘marbled’ cheesecake is accomplished by splitting the batter into two parts: one with peanut butter and white chocolate and the other with milk chocolate… and then rippling them together!
Aaaaah… bake it for someone you love.
Roger