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Saturday, January 07, 2006
Recycled spaghetti relationship
By Leticia Suarez-Orendain
Every year, the day after the party, you face the same recycled relic and you read the same recycled feature.
I’ve written on relics so many times, I have nightmares of noodles lassooing and legs of ham thwacking me.
In the past, I pumped blood, sweat and tears into the lifeless topic and prayed it would stand. It has become such a tradition that maybe I should write a manual on 102 Different Ways to Write on Recycled Food. One different way is to apply recycling on relationships.
When you live or work with someone who is euphemistically labeled as “difficult,” or there’s been a strain in your alliance with someone, recycle the relationship pronto.
Serve refried beans of forgiveness, and offer reheated vows of love and care, if there is a thread of hope, the alliance can be retied.
Brew Samaritan tea (it can stand recycling 70 times over) to someone who may have been emotionally damaged, like the Grinch as a child. In How the Grinch Stole Christmas, it took a kind little girl to restore the Grinch’s shriveled heart.
People may interchange kindness with the giving of gifts. True kindness is a quality of being warmhearted, considerate, humane and sympathetic, and forgiving. Forgive me. It’s time.
Recycled food is a fact of life, as sure as taxes and death, but as my friend Rose said, “Don’t fret. Recycle spaghetti by plopping it into a piecrust. Top with meat sauce, cheese, and bake until the cheese melts.”
On a lark, I surfed for a “spaghetti pie” photo and found a real recipe by “Nana” (www.welton.net/ nana): Set spaghetti in ovenproof dish; pour egg and butter. Mix and fan out to form a “crust”; add grated cheese; spread with cream cheese; add meat sauce; and bake in 350 degree oven for 20 minutes.
This is history I can devour, like the proverbial cake. Bon appetit.
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