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Tonight I made chicken breasts, asparagus, and hash browns for dinner. Not a very complex meal, and it really wasn’t very noteworthy for anything other than it being my first time cooking asparagus, but the experience was really made by the honey mustard. I was paging through the Betty Crocker Cookbook that Alice’s younger sister Bean got me for Christmas, searching for something to tie the meal together, when I found a recipe for “Asparagus with Mustard and Honey”. I looked at the instructions for the sauce (equal proportions of Dijon mustard, honey, and olive oil), and had a sneaking suspicion that I was looking at how to make honey mustard, like you buy in jars at the supermarket or order on sandwiches at diners. So I whipped some up with dinner, tasted it, and bam! Success. To think, all these years, and it never occurred to me that honey mustard might just be mustard with some honey in it….

I’ve been a bad blogger lately, not posting. It’s been an interesting couple of weeks, what with my motorcycle accident, dinner with family friends, a couple of gaming nights with the old crew, learning of the death of a friend, riding Rosette again after five months…. There’s been word-fodder galore in there, and it’ll come over the next few days. Consider this part of my rehabilitation!