Debbie Guzzi's Blog
 Biography Deborah R. Guzzi was born in Maine, U.S.A. Currently living in Connecticut. Raised in an interfaith family with Christian and Jewish roots. She has spent many years examining the foundations of belief in higher power. Her insights come from study and travel in the U.S., the European Union and Asia. Her credentials range from B.F.A. in Fine Arts, with a Minor in Shakespear to Master’s Degrees in both Tae Kwon Do, and Usi Reiki. First published at the age of sixteen, now 64, she has been published in the 2000 & 2001 literary journals of Western Connecticut University’s Helix. In the early 2000's, she self published two book available at empathic-touch.com. The first book is titled “The Healing Heart” and is a sampler of three distinct styles of her writing. The second book “Heaven and Hell in a Nutshell” focuses on love, when it’s Heaven, when it’s Hell, and when it’s undeniably present as a gift of God. She owns and operates Empathic Touch an alternative healing site. Empathic-touch.com
http://empathic-touch.com
| |
Most Recent Blog Post
Thanksgiving in Maine
|
|
Blog Posted:11/19/2012 7:41:00 AM
|
I remember when I was a small child Thanksgiving at my Grandmother's in Maine. My gram and Gramps were very poor and pretty much all of what they ate came from the forest or their own garden. Gram 'put up' vegetables, and stored produce such as apples and potatoes in a root cellar. Gramp's hunted for deer, rabbit and did a good bit of fishing! Thanksgiving was full of good healthy food. Real home churned butter sat on your potatoes, greens of all sorts from fiddle heads to dandelions added to the richness of this meal. It's sad that as rich as we now are our food today doesn't taste at all the same! This was real food.
Grandma Myers' Homemade Mincemeat Recipe
[not my Gram but this is the real deal recipe!]Recipe Type:
Mincemeat, Wild Game, Beef, Apples
Yields: serves many
Prep time: 60 min
Bake time: 2 hr Ingredients:
4 pounds venison, elk, or beef
Water
2 1/2 cups suet, finely chopped or grated*
7 1/2 cups chopped tart apples
3 cups liquid (liquid from meat it was cooked in)
5 cups granulated sugar
3 cups apple cider
1 cup molasses
1/2 cup cider vinegar
3 cups raisins
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon ground cloves
2 tablespoons ground allspice
2 tablespoons ground nutmeg
Juice of 2 lemons
Juice of 2 oranges
1 cup brandy or sherry
*Suet is firm beef fat. You need to
ask your butcher for this. Preparation:
What are your best memories of Thanksgiving with the Grandparents? Trim fat from meat of your choice. In a large heavy pan over medium heat, place meat; cover with water and
simmer until the meat is tender. Remove from heat and refrigerate meat in the
cooking liquid overnight. Remove from refrigerator and remove meat from liquid. Remove all fat from top
of liquid; reserve liquid. Separate meat from bones, discard bones. Chop cooked
meat into small cubes. In a large pot, combine meat cubes, suet, apples, reserved liquid, sugar,
apple cider, molasses, cider vinegar, raisins, cinnamon, cloves, allspice,
nutmeg, lemon juice, and orange juice; simmer for 2 hours. remove from heat. Add
brandy or sherry and mix together. Refrigerate or pack in hot sterile jars and seal. May also be stored in the
freezer.
|
|
|
My Poems
|
| Date Posted | Poem Title | Form | Categories |
| 5/21/2013 | Fruitless Cycles | ABC | conflict,confusion,sad, |
| 5/15/2013 | Hot Mixtures | Senryu | love, |
| 5/9/2013 | Child Abuse | Verse | child, |
| 5/3/2013 | Bacchus The God Who Loved His Grapes | Haiku | nature, |
| 4/25/2013 | Typewriter | Prose Poetry | nostalgia,writing, |
| 4/23/2013 | Shield Mate | Free verse (vers libre) | courage,life,love,men, |
| 4/21/2013 | UFO's Believe It or Not | Acrostic | mythology, |
| 4/21/2013 | Ragnar Two Ax | Free verse (vers libre) | men, |
| 4/16/2013 | haiku 39 | Haiku | nature, |
| 4/13/2013 | haiku 38 | Haiku | nature, |
| 4/11/2013 | Sweet Dreams | Quintain (English) | adventure,fantasy,prayer, |
| 4/11/2013 | haiku 37 | Haiku | nature, |
| 4/11/2013 | Life Is Just a Bag of Onions | Free verse (vers libre) | life,woman, |
| 4/9/2013 | Hunger Reins | Rondeau | introspection, |
| 4/8/2013 | haiku 36 | Haiku | nature, |
| 4/7/2013 | Petals Fall | Rhyme royal | nature, |
| 4/4/2013 | Click, Click, Huh | Verse | loss, |
| 3/30/2013 | Spring Showers | Free verse (vers libre) | nature,rain,rain, |
| 3/28/2013 | Bubba's Club | Limerick | humorous, |
| 3/25/2013 | Tweedle's Dum and Dee | Rhyme | for kids, |
| 3/25/2013 | What Lurks Within - Cornered | Villanelle | dark,for her,for her,life |
| 3/25/2013 | Clap Trap | Grook | allegory, |
| 3/23/2013 | The Blowhard | Verse | write, |
| 3/22/2013 | Carrie On | Verse | caregiving, |
| 3/20/2013 | The Windmiller's Guest | Ballad | adventure,love, |
|
Fav Poems
|
| Poem Title | Form | Categories |
| God | Free verse (vers libre) | life,mystery, |
| Hard Times | Cowboy | cowboy-western,family,fun |
| For Things Once Counted | Rhyme | introspection,loss,uplift |
| Petal | Verse | love, |
| 3 Masks | List | people,sad,beauty,beauty, |
| Defender of the Wastes | Free verse (vers libre) | art,life,parody,world, |
| Birth | Imagism | childhood,life |
| this is why i woo words | Verse | art,inspirational,philoso |
| Forbear | Free verse (vers libre) | sad, |
| Belongings | Rhyme | loss,love,mother,peacewor |
| Gold Fever | Free verse (vers libre) | faithfaith,political, |
| Splattered | I do not know? | life |
| Echo | Quatrain | lost lovewords,love, |
| Bells (after Poe) | Lyric | passion |
| Respectfully, Emily Dickinson | Lyric | introspection |
| Give the End Back to the Beginning | Free verse (vers libre) | dedication,faithme, |
| The Bruised and Rotting Pear | Couplet | faith,hope |
| fly | Free verse (vers libre) | animals |
| ABC's for a Young Captain | ABC | life |
| Not Entirely About Living In New York | Free verse (vers libre) | lifeworld,light,light, |
| Woodcutter | I do not know? | warold,old, |
| Dreams | Free verse (vers libre) | faith,forgiveness |
| A Feed of Chips | Narrative | funny |
| Weep O Willows | Verse | death |
| Harlem Blues | Free verse (vers libre) | black-african amerchildre |
|
|
|