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I am happy to be serving Helium as Steward of the Memoirs sub channel of the Creative Writing Channel. I look forward to meeting many of you in the days to come.

I am a 76 year old retired Chaplain, happily married, with two grown sons. Although I was a minister

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Food & Drink > Soup & Stew Recipes Recipes: Vegetable soup: 3 of 25
Recipes: Italian vegetable soup with dumplings If you are like me you like soup all year around, home made soup! And when the weather begins to get cool in October, I begin to keep home made soup in the refrigerator non stop. When we are down to enough for one more lunch, I put the pot on the stove to make more. We enjoy v... More..
Food & Drink > Dessert Recipes Recipes: Cakes for the Christmas holiday: 3 of 25
Christmas Fruit Cake This is a rather unique fruit cake because every ingredient is a pound in weight. Even the eggs and flour have been figured to the equivalance of 1 pound in weight. Some folks would think that would make the cake too heavy, but my wife has been making this recipe every Christmas for at least six years and... More..
Food & Drink > Soup & Stew Recipes Recipes: The best soups that keep you warm in winter: 17 of 43
"Raid the refrigerator soup" This very hearty and nutritious soup has eleven different vegetables and is especially wonderful on chilly days! I am the soup maker at our house and we love soup for lunch. When I make the soup (which is just before we run out of whatever I made last,) I begin looking in the refrigerator for what... More..
Food & Drink > Poultry Recipes Recipes: Leftover chicken or turkey: 6 of 10
Turkey Hot Browns Well, now that Thanksgiving is past and Christmas is on the horizon, there is lots of left over turkey, right? What are some interesting ways to dress it up? Here is one way. Hot Browns! Hot Brown is a wonderful and simple turkey dish that originated at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky in 1923 and i... More..
Food & Drink > Soup & Stew Recipes Recipes: Quick and easy soup: 48 of 61
SQUASH PLUS SOUP RECIPE I love to cook and at my house I am the breakfast cook (always) and dinner cook (sometimes). I am not an expert on recipes but I recently saw this one somewhere and have loved the way that you can make variations with the basic recipe. INGREDIENTS; 2 Pounds of yellow and/or zuchini squash. Include some... More..
Food & Drink > Cooking Eggs & Dairy Products The art of cracking an egg: 4 of 4
HOW TO BREAK AN EGG WITH ONE HANDWhen I went to college, I worked in the dining hall for my meals. In the process I learned one of the greatest skills I ever achieved. That is, how to break an egg open with one hand. You see, before that, every time I tried to break an egg with two hands I would make a mess, with at least two... More..
Food & Drink > Soup & Stew Recipes Recipes: Asparagus soup: 3 of 3
Peanut lover's asparagus soup My wife said, "I bought too much asparagus. We will never eat this much normally. Could you use some in some soup?" Since I am the soup maker at our house, I took it as a compliment and a challenge. I had never used asparagus before. And the "peanut" part was an after thought but it turned out we... More..