If, like myself, you are a fan of the salty goodness of C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian, of Horatio Hornblower and Doctor Maturin and Captain Jack Aubrey, then you'll enjoy this story.
"18th-century warship found in Lake Ontario: British vessel carrying 130 sunk in 1780"
Eerie, moving, and yes, for a small set of history fanatics, fascinating.
You know what else is a happy thing? Cooking.
At all times of crisis in my life, I find myself cooking up a storm. Works pretty well as a mood lifter here at Hobson Street because Mom is the best chef fan ever. She's semi-secretly not a big fan of cooking for fun, but she loves trying new things and bragging to her gals about the fancy meals her daughter's cooking up!
Favorite things I've made this winter:
Pork ribs and pasta: Pork spare ribs in a tomato sauce with hot pepper and garlic, served over pasta. From: "How to Cook Everything." With: Smoking Loon cab.
Roast corn and red pepper chowder. From: "Whole Foods Cookbook." With: Stump Jump grenache/shiraz.
Toulouse sausage casserole: sweet sausage and white beans casseroled with white wine and mustard. From "The French Market." With: Kris Pinot Grigio.
Lobster Big Sur: lobster tails sauteed in white wine with garlic, onion and pepper. From "Eddy Lobster" website. With: hoo, a bunch of everything we opened Christmas Eve.
When you cook, you get to use your senses and your brain and your hands at once, and give something to other people that they enjoy. What is not to love?
