The Miserable Childhood Leads to Royalties ~ Frank McCourt
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Frank McCourt
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The article's title directly quotes McCourt's famous six-word memoir about his impoverished Irish childhood. Readers would benefit from learning about the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'Angela's Ashes' and how his miserable Limerick childhood indeed led to literary royalties and acclaim.
Hello, writers!
Today is a busy day for many of us. I will be spending the day cooking and baking. We don’t celebrate this day in the way its origins imply—but we do gather as a family to express gratitude for each other while enjoying a beautiful meal.
Our menu this year:
Vegetarian turkey (we love Quorn roast) with a bourbon maple glaze from a Foxes Love Lemons recipe, with my goal being to make it plated this prettily:
Old-fashioned oven-baked bread stuffing (we make this version using Against the Grain GF baguettes because they work great and never disintegrate into mush like most GF breads)
NYT mushroom Wellington (for Christmas last year, we made the NYT butternut squash Wellington and really loved it, so, now, I guess we are Wellington people)
Garlic mashed potatoes and NYT make-ahead umami gravy (yeah, we do make a lot of NYT recipes …)
Citrus salad with arugula
And for the sweet things:
Pecan pie (Jon makes the pies, and is really good at it and can make them super pretty—but a few years ago I found a recipe that is no looker, but tastes INCREDIBLE)
Pumpkin pie
Apple cream pie (haha also NYT, a new one for us this year)
Caramel rolls, which I learned to make GF for the first time last year
Oh, yeah, and something with cranberries even though I wrote in my TG notes from a couple of years ago NO CRANBERRIES not because I don’t like them but because we too often end up throwing them away a week and a half later because everyone takes a teaspoon full and we’re left with the rest. Nonetheless, despite my emphatic note, we’ll make some small quantity of cranberry something.
Feel free to share your menus in the comments if you’re cooking today and tomorrow. As I said Monday, I am a chaotic cook, but it’s also fun and I’d love to hear your plans.
And now for today’s micro flash! Since it’s a busy week for most of us, I decided to go realllllly small today, with six-word memoirs.
Most of you have probably heard about six-word memoirs, and have maybe even tried your hand at them before.
The Six-Word Memoir project has an interesting back story. It was launched in 2006 by
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