A spice blend that I liked to put on the hash browns at Burger King:

• Curry Powder
• S&P
• Garlic Powder
• Oregano
• Marjoram
• Celery Seeds
• Red Pepper Flakes

I carried a sandwich bag with the spice blend in it and would put the hash browns in it, seal it and shake it up. That would coat the hash browns in my spice mixture and then I would dip them in either honey mustard or ketchup, alternating as I liked.

The funny thing so far about the images (at least most of them) shown below is that there is some element of the actual, combined with fantasy characters. The wedding gown was taken from an actual gown shown online. The blue glass coffee cup was like one I had that formed a crack and was thrown away. The ring was in an issue of Our State Magazine and the bracelet was on display in the Blue Bicycle Antiques Store in Fayetteville.

Anne is looking into a pool of water, which is an actual water feature in

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Bill and Anne are enjoying making Frogmore Stew in their Instant Pot at home. It turned out so good that as they were sitting at their table eating Bill suggested that Anne pay a visit to her older sister, Nanny. “That sounds like a good idea. I haven’t seen her in a while and I don’t think she has ever fixed Frogmore Stew in her Instant Pot. Cooking and eating will give us some time to catch up. I can tell her about our trip to the North Carolina Coast, and ballooning, but I’m not going to mention spaceships or hippies. “Good idea, about not mentioning the doobie inspired hallucinations,” said Bill with a wry smile.

So about a month later, during her visit with Nanny, they decided to fix some Frogmore Stew, but Nanny doesn’t like okra, and to boil a sweet potato and mash it for a side dish.

Nanny had a mid sized sweet potato and they checked with their AI about the cooking time. Only about 16 minutes and now it’s done. Take it out, peel the skin off, add a little butter and begin mashing it. Add a little cinnamon and some sweetener. And then just a dollop of sour cream and we’re ready for the table.

Now to the Frogmore Stew. They already had the ingredients cut up. Just a simple cleaning out the Instant Pot steel pot, add the ingredients into the steamer basket and then in with 1 and a third cups of water and a generous amount of Reduced Sodium “Old Bay” Seasoning. Put the lid on and set for 3 minutes at High Pressure. And as soon as the cooking stopped, they pressed the Instant Release button.

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How about helping Nanny & Anne fix some Wakame Seaweed Salad.

Here is the joke about this series. We are flying in a balloon over the Intracoastal Waterway and we see a spaceship. The next image is the spaceship but with a lit Doobie (marijuana). That is the explanation I’m going with for why this couple would see a spaceship… but also it is the reason why we go on a trip and find our Hippie version of our couple. Transported back to about 1968 with our young Hippie family. They celebrate the 4th of July and Christmas in just a few images.

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“boy-boy” is based upon a loosely drawn mother character from a cartoon. The AI interpreted the woman as a man/boy but I liked his hair and he became “boy-boy” and I put him on a dock and had him crabbing. Later I put him in this outfit as one of the cover models for my re-imagining my Golden Book Encyclopedia covers.

I was playing with modernizing the actress Anne Francis and when I cartooned her I realized I wanted these two characters together. And here are the early stages. Him pointing something out to her. Then AI suggested a ballooning scene and her I had her starting to climb into the gondola. But, there is where the AI started to have problems with the placement of her arms, so I went to her bent over, and then her bent over into the gondola.

Now, the AI had the gondola off the ground and in real life she should have had a worried look because she was still hanging outside of the gondola, but I didn’t want to pursue that. I guess I do need at least one more image of them both inside the gondola.

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“Everything is on the way to somewhere else.”

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INSTANT Sweet POTato

This is a simple dish to prepare. Cook the sweet potato in the IP and then cut a large or medium potato in half and save half for later. I peel the skin off, but may eventually keep the skin and mash it into the rest of the potato. Add butter, cinnamon, sweetener, and sour cream. Simple and delicious. — Goes good with a fried pork chop or a steak.

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For your 3-quart Instant Pot Mini

1. Pour 1 cup of water into the pot.
2. Place the trivet inside.
3. Set the sweet potato on the trivet.
4. Pressure Cook on High for the time above.
5. Let the pressure release naturally for 10 minutes, then quick-release any remaining pressure.

If you want them very soft (for mashing)

Add about 2–3 extra minutes to the cooking time.

To check doneness

A knife should slide into the center with almost no resistance. If it’s still firm, reseal the pot and cook for 2–3 more minutes on High.

Since I know you’ve been using your Instant Pot Mini frequently, if you tell me about how much your sweet potato weighs (or whether it’s small, medium, or large), I can give you the exact cooking time.

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