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Caribbean Inspired Hot Breakfast Cereal Bowl

I used hot cereal here but you could use almost any grain or cereal : oats, millet, quinoa, barley, etc. Soy milk may replace the coconut milk, pecans may replace the almonds and honey may replace the maple sirup.

Dried apricots, sliced (I used about eight)

½ cup hot cereal (I used Red River’s mixture of cracked wheat, cracked rye and flax)

2 cups water

¼ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon (or more, to taste) ground cinnamon

1 sliced banana

Roasted chopped almonds

Coconut milk (a splash)

Maple sirup, to taste

Combine water, hot cereal, sliced dried apricots and cinnamon in a medium saucepan. Bring to a gentle boil. Simmer, uncovered for about 5 to 10 minutes, stirring frequently. Remove from heat, cover and let stand at least 5 minutes, to desired consistency.

Transfer to two bowls, top with chopped almonds, sliced banana and coconut milk. Drizzle with maple sirup.

*While cooking the hot cereal, roast chopped almonds in a 375F degree oven for about 7 or 8 minutes.

Serves 2

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2004, Somewhere between Mexico and Jamaica on the Atlantic Ocean: I’ve been on two cruises in my life.  Once to the Bahamas when I was very young and it was a family vacation and I don’t remember too much.  The other was with my then-boyfriend while we were on a trip Stateside.  We took a week-long cruise through the Carribbean.  It was nice and all, but I don’t think that I’ll be taking any more cruises in my lifetime.  Just not my style.

At the time I had a generic mp3 player that held a maximum of 20 songs (I know!  At the time I was amazed but now it’s like pffff.  ONLY 20 songs?)  Anyway I had chosen those 20 songs with great care, and I think maybe half of those songs were by Modest Mouse.

Now, I’m prone to motion sickness, so I had come on the cruise armed to the teeth with motion sickness medicine.  Not so much for the cruise ship itself, but more for the small boats that we would be taking when we went scuba diving at each port of call.

One afternoon I was laying on the deck in the sunshine, eyes closed, feeling one too many pina coladas and this song came on my mp3 player.  The laid back mellow sound of this song was particularly relaxing, and I was enjoying the feeling of floating on the deck as the large ship crested over the waves.  The sun, the sound of the ocean, the music in my ears- it was all just sooooooo nice.  I felt like it was just me alone, floating in the middle of the great big Atlantic, bobbing along to the sounds of Modest Mouse.

And then I realized the name of this song and had to laugh- “Dramamine“.  The very same motion sickness medicine that I had packed for this trip.

What a funny coincidence.

This is probably a meaningless post unless you know a little about San Francisco. But if you are somewhat familiar with the city, you may recall or have heard about the Jack Tar Hotel.

This relic of another era at the corner of Van Ness and Geary in San Francisco is going to be demolished and eventually replaced by a hospital.

Once upon a storied time, the hotel was one of many in a chain of Jack Tar Hotels. I’m working from memory here, but I believe there was also a Jack Tar in Dallas and several in the Caribbean. I don’t know what happened to any of the hotels in those locations, but the San Francisco Jack Tar somewhere along the line was sold and became the Cathedral Hills Hotel.

I mention all of this because the Jack Tar Hotel has occupied a central part of my life’s story. No, I didn’t attend any galas or other social events there. I didn’t hang out in the bar. I didn’t meet beautiful women in the hotel lobby who took my hand and whispered, “I love you so.” In my eyes, The Jack Tar was a 400-room monstrosity, a garish blot on San Francisco’s otherwise pristine landscape.

Why, then, and how has the hotel remained in my memory since I first became aware of its existence as a young, very young male, hovering in that twilight zone between adolescent stupidity and age-of-consent certainty?

I received a moving traffic violation in the hotel’s underground parking garage. It happened this way.

I was accustomed to driving in Oakland where a U-Turn was legal unless a sign specifically said “No U-Turn.”

One day, I had some business at the Jack Tar. As usual when I drove to San Francisco, I came off of the Bay Bridge and headed North on Van Ness. On this day, the traffic was heavy, and as I reached Geary, I had to wait in the left-turn lane for the light to change.

The traffic in the opposite direction was also heavy, and I knew if I didn’t make a quick U-Turn ahead of the oncoming traffic, I’d have a long delay. Since I saw no sign prohibiting a U-Turn, I decided to chance it.

So, the instant the light hit green, I immediately stepped on the gas and swung around, catching the right lane on Van Ness. From there, I immediately swung right again into the entrance to the outside parking area before the oncoming traffic had moved into the intersection. I had good reflexes in those days.

As I drove slowly into the parking area, I heard a deep-throated motor behind me. I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw an SFPD motorcycle officer. Thinking nothing of it (I was also oblivious then), I continued through the outside parking lot into the underground area looking for a spot to pull into.

The parking garage was virtually full but I finally found a lonesome spot as far into the bowels of the garage as I could drive without bumping the back wall. All of this time, the motorcycle officer hung right with me.

By the time I had parked and stepped out, the officer had already placed his bike directly behind me and dismounted. He said, “You made an illegal U-Turn.”  He asked for my driver’s license and car registration, inspected them, and began writing me a ticket.

Like every idiot who has ever been surprised by a ticket, I tried to explain my way out of it. “I live in Oakland and we can make a U-Turn unless a sign says we can’t.”

This is the old out-of-towner excuse that might work in a tourist area, but I was no tourist and the officer knew it. He merely continued to write the ticket, all the while saying nothing.

I don’t remember now whether or not I signed the ticket. I probably did. But one thing sticks in my mind. The officer never said a word beyond his introductory remarks. He merely wrote the ticket, handed it to me, re-mounted his bike and cut out.

I probably would have argued a little more, but a couple of things gave me second thoughts: the officer’s silence and the knowledge that my company would pay the ticket.

Oh, and one other hint of my absolute stupidity in those days. While I waited for the light to change, the officer who followed me into the Jack Tar parking garage had been sitting on his idling bike in plain sight on Van Ness. I remember he looked very professional.

Little known fact: Jack Tar is a British Navy slang term for a sailor.

MY WIFE AND I FOUGHT THE WHOLE TIME WE WERE IN JAMACIA BECAUSE OF HER

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DIVER BOB AND BUBBLE HEAD!

Recently a dead giant turtle was found at West Hynish beach. Mrs Nancy Brown sent this picture into An Tirisdeach.

John Bowler, the resident RSPB man advised that the tutle was a “Leatherback” from the Carribbean and that it’s common for turtles to come up the Gulf Stream, feed on jellyfish and return home. As it had no obvious wounds, it may have died naturally and is believed to have been 80 years old! It was unsuitable for postmortem as you can see by the white spots on its shell, it had already started to decay. Amazing creature to have travelled so far and older than most residents of Tiree!

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