PUFF PASTRY PIZZA
 by Irene Baron 

Serves 2-4   Preheat oven to 415 degrees Fahrenheit.
Cooks in 15 minutes. 
Add left over condiments to lettuce for a side salad if you wish. 

TEENAGERS LOVE TO MAKE THIS.
My daughter, Dominique, taught me how to make this simple recipe.  It was so delicious, I have made it often since. The easiest puff pastry is NOT frozen.  I buy mine in Walmart in the same section where you buy crescent rolls, pizza dough, etc. Keep a few packages in the fridge to use often. Puff pastry…

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COFFEE PREPARATION
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Yum! Time for my first cup of coffee today. 

To make a cup of coffee requires mental calculations using both sides of my brain. Some people don't believe this to be true. According to resources, the two different hemispheres of the brain are "in charge of" different types of specialties. Let's analyze those specialties. Assume I make coffee every morning and have full capacity of both hemispheres of my brain. 

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Indonesia had something important happen concerning influenza. During a killing influenza, not one of the almost 300 cinnamon factory workers contracted the disease. That opened my eyes.  I am reposting as it is important during COVID-19.
 

WHAT IS CINNAMON? 

Cinnamon, from the bark of plants in the Laurel family, has been used for thousands of years and was once a gift for kings. The highest quality of the spice is Ceylon cinnamon.  Cinnamomum zeylanicum   …

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     By Irene Baron     www.irenebaron.com 

My father always said a sharp knife was a safer knife.  He took great care with our cooking knives. At least once a year he would moisten a large whetstone and sharpen his favorite knives.  He did it methodically and with care. Good knives were hard to come by. 

During my last year at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, I took a cooking class. The class had an Organic Chemistry prerequisite. Only students who had passed Organic…