January 26, 2000

I'm trying to write between answering messages from a friend in Melbourne. Yes, Australia! Isn't the Web a gas? Talk about multi-tasking...I'm also cooking supper and food for tomorrow. Sauteing chicken thighs and garlic-&-onion sausage in my old cast iron frying pan, and stewing green beans in spaghetti sauce {something I learned from a Lebanese lady}. It's the garlic and cheese spaghetti sauce, thinned with a little of the water that the green beans come canned in. Sure does wonderful things to plain old green beans!

The part of Maine that I live in has lots of different ethnic groups, so, for those of us who love to try different flavors of food, it's great. Hunan and regular Chinese, Thai, Korean, French-Canadian, Lebanese, and REAL Mexican eateries, are all within an easy drive. Actually, it's only a bit over a half-day drive to Quebec, one of the most European cities of North America.