Sweet and Sour Salad Dressing

In Dianes Kitchen

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So many wonderful flavors all in one bottle. Not only does it have a sweet and sour flavor but onion and celery seed too! This freshly made Sweet and Sour Salad Dressing takes no time at all to make and it’s cheap! Why pay $3.00 for store bought salad dressing when you can whip this up in a flash!

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Ingredients

Dice onion, place it in the blender and blend until no chunks remain.

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Add all of the rest of the ingredients to the blender.

Blend until totally combined, about 1 minute.

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Pour into a bottle and refrigerate until ready to use.

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Eye Witness Account – Iwo Jima & Guam

Pacific Paratrooper

Seaman Sal Marino Seaman Sal Murino

The pages, unearthed 70 years after their origin, are stark in simplicity and detail: One young man, one typewriter, together aboard the U.S.S. Doyen.

“Hello everyone!” reads a handwritten greeting on the top of page one, followed by a single-spaced report complete with wisecracks and World War II talk direct from young Sal Murino to his family.

The long, yellowing letter from the U.S. Navy man offers a first-person recitation of the fighting from Dec. 1944-March 1945 as the devastating war finally enters its final year..

Click on images to read the letter.

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“We stayed at Iwo Jima for about 15 days,” wrote Murino, a round-faced young man in his 20s, whose sometimes fractured syntax still paints a vivid picture of the carnage in the Pacific Theater.

“To hear one combat fatigue(d) Marine put it who was smoking an endless chain of cigarettes…

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A Moonlight Quote

Shayan's Sphere

What comes to your mind when you behold the moon? Her beauty, her elegance, her tranquility? Does she arouse you with her unfathomable charm, or takes you to uncharted lands where you lie composedly amidst your certainty and hallucinations? Whatever it maybe, but the bitter reality is that whatever the moon possesses are all borrowed from some one else, who in turn is rough, harsh and dazzling. But does it cause any deviance? Don’t you love her? Or does she not bring you the memories of your past romance? Those golden kisses, passionate embraces and blossoming faces? In life, try to consume the roughness of others and try to spread the art of smoothness through your moves. For in the long run, it’s not what you receive but what you give makes all the difference.

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Alphabet soup for the soul – “P”

Words from Walden

P is for Physiology

Lets play a game.

Imagine if you will in your mind’s eye that you are holding a bright shiny lemon. First feel the softness of the lemon that gives a little when you squeeze it tight (not too tight).

Next, notice the waxy skin on the outer layer and the unmistakable scent of the uncut lemon.

Now place it down on a cutting board and grab a big sharp knife.

First cut the lemon in half and then into smaller wedges like you when added to a glass of water.

Finally, pick up one of the wedges and bite into it.

What does it taste like? Did your mouth water or maybe your eyes squinted at the taste?

You just changed the physiology of your body by thought. What you think literally affects your body.

If your body can produce that kind of a change just…

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Masala Tea

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

As the clock struck four in the twilight hours every morning, as the slumbering postcolonial Indian city of Kolkata slowly woke up to face another day, Shibnath Sammadar or SS would get busy opening his 150-year-old tea-shanty.

Located diagonally opposite the main gate of Scottish Church College, on the north-eastern wall corner of the Hedua Talab lake, at the intersection of Urquhart Square (today’s Shashi Bhusan Sarkar lane) and Beadon Street (renamed now as Abhedananda Road), the tea stall was opened by SS’s grandpappy in the year 1870.

Business success was, however, never the Sammadar family’s cup of tea. Even after three generations of running the stall, they were unable to make a concrete structure, and the shop always remained an illegal roadside tin and bamboo tea-shanty.

Though in plain sight, the shop was a rickety and ramshackle suit-stained street-stall like a million more in the city, however, in reality…

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Is Cooling the Sun a good idea? — FunWritings

Spreading the word about the need for environmental care is great thing to do We need do things in a new way if we really plan to make it through

Is Cooling the Sun a good idea? — FunWritings