Lola at the Coffee House

@FOUND SOUL,

Never been a fan of chips and gravy, salt vinegar and ketchup does me.

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@vonny,

I am pretty sure that boudin sausage from Louisiana is very similar to Hagis - the butcher will put what they want in it and of course the same is true with bologna.

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@FOUND SOUL,

CAT'S IN THE CRADLE
Albums : Verities & Balderdash, 1974; Greatest Stories Live, 1975;
Anthology of Harry Chapin, 1985; The Gold Medal Collection, 1988;
The Bottom Line Encore Series, 1998; Story of a Life, 1999.
(Sandra Chapin)

Harry Chapin

My child arrived just the other day,
He came to the world in the usual way.
But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay.
He learned to walk while I was away.
And he was talking 'fore I knew it, and as he grew,
He'd say, "I'm gonna be like you, dad.
You know I'm gonna be like you."

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little boy blue and the man in the moon.
"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when,
But we'll get together then.
You know we'll have a good time then."

My son turned ten just the other day.
He said, "Thanks for the ball, dad, come on let's play.
Can you teach me to throw?" I said, "Not today,
I got a lot to do." He said, "That's ok."
And he walked away, but his smile never dimmmed,
Said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah.
You know I'm gonna be like him."

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little boy blue and the man in the moon.
"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when,
But we'll get together then.
You know we'll have a good time then."

Well, he came from college just the other day,
So much like a man I just had to say,
"Son, I'm proud of you. Can you sit for a while?"
He shook his head, and he said with a smile,
"What I'd really like, dad, is to borrow the car keys.
See you later. Can I have them please?"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little boy blue and the man in the moon.
"When you coming home, son?" "I don't know when,
But we'll get together then, dad.
You know we'll have a good time then."

I've long since retired and my son's moved away.
I called him up just the other day.
I said, "I'd like to see you if you don't mind."
He said, "I'd love to, dad, if I could find the time.
You see, my new job's a hassle, and the kid's got the flu,
But it's sure nice talking to you, dad.
It's been sure nice talking to you."
And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me,
He'd grown up just like me.
My boy was just like me.

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little boy blue and the man in the moon.
"When you coming home, son?" "I don't know when,
But we'll get together then, dad.
You know we'll have a good time then."

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@FOUND SOUL,

Harry Chapin

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@BillW,

Nice, Bill... thanks for that Smile

Chapin's remains were interred in the Huntington Rural Cemetery, Huntington, New York. His epitaph is taken from his song "I Wonder What Would Happen to this World".

It is:

Oh if a man tried
To take his time on Earth
And prove before he died
What one man's life could be worth
I wonder what would happen
to this world

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@igm,

How many songs did this man write, very productive indeed. Jim Croce, Bob Dylan, John Denver - song writing crooners extrordinary.......

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@BillW,

I have a soft spot for Bob D... and those early lyrics.

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@spendius,

I heard a report on NPR the other day about how "imitation" fried calamari is actually (get ready for this) pig rectum. I haven't eaten calamari since.........and I may never again.

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Good lyrics are essential to success

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@Lola,

I love calamari but am so doubting it's ever fresh here, at least at my more local shops.

Meantime, I just read about a food item I know I'd like, in the Village Voice.

Cronuts!

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/cronut_crossection.jpg

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2013/05/cronut_fever.php

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@BillW,

BillW wrote:

How many songs did this man write, very productive indeed. Jim Croce, Bob Dylan, John Denver - song writing crooners extrordinary.......

I'm a huge Chapin fan. I was young when he died (12?), but I remember vividly hearing on the radio about his death as we drove on some family vacation. LOVE Chapin. He credits his wife, Sandy, with writing Cats In the Cradle.

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@Lola,

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I heard a report on NPR the other day about how "imitation" fried calamari is actually (get ready for this) pig rectum.

I'm glad I've never been particularly fond of calamari.

It's like eating rubber bands.

But that appears to be an urban legend, Lola.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2013/01/calamari_made_of_pig_rectum_the_this_american_life_rumor_isn_t_true_but.html

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@ossobuco,

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Meantime, I just read about a food item I know I'd like, in the Village Voice.

Sounds like a lot of NYer's feel the same way about them. I'd love to try them, and probably everything else that pastry chef turns out.

Isn't it amazing that word of mouth travels so quickly that, after a batch of 20 cronuts debuted on Friday, by Saturday, several dozen people were already lining up for them at 7:30 am, and got quite snarly when they sold out.

Think Wassau might be able to get some for us?

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The Powerball jackpot is now $600 million! WOW! Shocked

That's a lot of moolah.

Bought 2 tickets yesterday--hope springs eternal.

I have a habit of not checking my tickets after the drawing. So did this man--he put them in his cookie jar.

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Facing eviction, Geneva man finds winning lottery ticket in cookie jar
Ricardo Cerezo says he'll use $4.85 million in winnings to pay off home
Tribune report
May 17, 2013

Maybe you've heard this story before. Or dreamed it.

A man cleans out old lottery tickets from a cookie jar, and instead of throwing them away takes them to the 7-Eleven to check them out. And finds one of them is worth millions.

It gets better for Ricardo Cerezo of Geneva. He says his family was facing eviction, and he'll use part of the winnings — $4.85 million — to pay off the home.

"It couldn't have happened at a better time," said Cerezo, a management consultant. "I just thought, this is how God works."

Cerezo said his wife was cleaning out the kitchen and mentioned the lottery tickets that had accumulated over the past month in a glass cookie jar.

"It was either take them, get them checked, or she was going to trash them that night," he said.

Cerezo said he took the tickets to a 7-Eleven in Aurora and scanned them. The first eight or nine tickets weren't winners, he said.

"The following one was $3, so I was excited. I get to pay for my Pepsi. And then the last one said file a claim," he said, which meant it was worth at least $600.

Cerezo went online and found that the numbers matched the Feb. 2 Lotto drawing.

"As each number kept matching, the smile kept going higher and higher. And when I realized we had all six numbers, it was that shocking moment of , 'Whoa, can this really be?'" he said at a news conference Wednesday. "Fast forward to the next day, Monday: Called in sick from work, went down into Chicago. It's one of those feelings where it's OK if they fire me."

After he waited about half an hour, Cerezo said, lottery officials brought him into a room and said his ticket was worth $4.85 million.

Just three months earlier, Cerezo appeared at a foreclosure hearing where a judge gave him a few more months to find a new home before they would be evicted.

"That was on Feb. 12, so we were sitting on $4 million at that time in this jar," he said. "We will have our home paid off."

Cerezo said February holds special significance for him and his family because his daughter Savannah was born in that month. She died from a sudden illness last year at 14.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-lottery-winner-foreclosure-0517-20130517,0,1105997,print.story

When I finally bother to check my tickets, I'm lucky if I've even found I won $1 or$2.
I'm glad that man won--he needed something good to come into his life.

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@ossobuco,

I wonder how a cronut differs from a proper eclair. hmmmmmm definitely different looking layers.

Wassau, have you got any eclairs? or maybe a French cruller?

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@BillW,

Oh wow, so the song was really about his son from the sounds of it, which Sandy helped or worded to him, so he wrote ... Thanks very much Bill Wink

I'll have to bump maybe I already sing it in my head a few times a day, if I keep reading that, I'll be singing more of it.. One of my favourite songs...

Little Boy Blue....

What I don't type that from time to time at least you will know what I am on about Wink

Oh yeah Lola, and Imitation chicken nuggets, seafood extenders...

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@firefly,

I think it's pigs guts FF, but it definitely ain't calamari or nuggets or seafood

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That was on Feb. 12, so we were sitting on $4 million at that time in this jar," he said. "We will have our home paid off."

Cerezo said February holds special significance for him and his family because his daughter Savannah was born in that month. She died from a sudden illness last year at 14.

Aweee..... Lovely ending.

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@firefly,

That would be great. I am guessing they are serious work to make well. I agree that I think the rest of his pastries would be excellent too.

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@FOUND SOUL,

You are right. I heard the same NPR bit. Id call it "calamerdi"

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As long as I'm lolling about here at the coffee house, Wassau, may I have a pizza and a carafe of sauvignon blanc? Make the pizza like that one in Rome, please - thin crust, fresh mozzarella di bufala, with gorgonzola and walnut halves, so good, so good.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/ossobuco/IMG_zpse988820a.jpg

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