Here's to the enjoyment and appreciation of food!

"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating."

~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story

Dreams...

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
~Jackie Collins, author

Quote to Note: Cooking vs. Eating

I love Julia Child. Great chef AND keeps you laughing.

"I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate."

Amen sister.

Boldness

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
~ Johann von Goethe

Artistry

If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful.
~Michelangelo

Rewards

The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.

~Bruce Barton, American advertising executive, U.S. Congressman

Our Next Topic...

And I had but one penny in the world. Thou should’st have it to buy gingerbread.

– William Shakespeare, Love’s Labours Lost

What are we learning more about? (drum roll please)

GINGERBREAD!

Stay tuned.....

Quote to Note

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

— Richard Bach, An American Writer

Quote to Note

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

-- Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

Quote to Note

The biggest tragedy in America is not the great waste of natural resources - though this is tragic; the biggest tragedy is the waste of human resources because the average person goes to his grave with his music still in him.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quote to Note

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.

- Denis Waitley

Quote to Note

Discipline is the habit of taking consistent action until one can perform with unconscious competence. Discipline weighs ounces but regret weighs tons.

- Jhoon Rhee

Quote to Note

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. ~ Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

Fire

The most powerful weapon on earth
is the human soul on fire.

~Ferdinand Foch

Struggles...

It's in the struggle itself that you define yourself.

~Pat Buchanan

Fear...

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

~Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States

Thought for the Day...

'Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.'
~Leonardo da Vinci, artist

Quote To Note

I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert.
~Jason Love

Competition!

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

~Vince Lombardi

The Foot

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
~Buddha