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CHEF CHAZ FRENCH

Playing With My Food ~ An online journal about food, thought, travel, and life,
by chef & internet raconteur Chaz French.

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Playing With My Food ~
A journal about food, thought, travel, and life; by Chef & Raconteur Chaz
French.


AS MY MOTHER LIES DYING

July 1, 2021 by Chaz 0 Comments

For as long as I can remember
I’ve feared my mother would
die from dementia

Forget everything she’s done
Forget her children, her travels,
her perseverance

Leaving an abusive marriage
Raising children as a single mother
Making a new life of her own

Her boyfriend, her grandchildren
and great grandchildren
all forgotten and lost

To the fog of the brain
The crippling of the body
The slow descent to a miserable end

That time approaches quickly
she’s near the end of life
already gone mentally

Her body refusing to let go
as she lies there
unable to do anything

other than breathe and moan
It’s not the end she deserves
but it’s the hand dealt by the Universe

A sad end for a strong woman
who did her best for her family
through difficult and tragic times

Good-bye Mom, go into the light
Where you’ll remember again
that you were loved.




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LOSS

May 31, 2021 by Chaz 0 Comments

Grief is fluidand like the ocean it has waves some just wet your feetand some
are tsunamis  Worst are the sneaker wavesthat come out of nowhereand drag you
out to choke and drown in a sea of your own tears ---Dedicated to my friend Sean
Reinert … [Continue reading]

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CELEBRATION

May 26, 2021 by Chaz 0 Comments

Celebration I should be dead by nowbut I refuse.In 1998 I became ~ otherI became
~ positiveTold that I had twentymaybe twenty-five years to live, most of them
ill.I stand, I live, I am healthyand I remain defiant.I will live.I will outlive
you … [Continue reading]

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AFTER GERTRUDE

May 25, 2021 by Chaz 0 Comments

Is it? Was it?Could it be?Bliss,rapture,joy, toys, child, man,death cares not. I
just got,got good,got together,forever,eternity,love's prison cell,death
sentence, marriage vows,In the halls of just us ball and chainforced
labor,children,out of … [Continue reading]

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SAN FRANCISCO

May 25, 2021 by Chaz 0 Comments

Fog tumbles over the mountainan avalanche incascading sheets of white. The City
lays before me silent,in the late afternoon sun-setting time. Wind rushes by as
it plummets into the cityscape sprawled out below. Slowly it succumbs to …
[Continue reading]

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A QUIETING

July 28, 2012 by Chaz 0 Comments

Yeah, it's gone quiet. - Happens here and there. Cooking, not writing, but
taking notes.  Busy being busy, stay tuned, the search for balance continues....
… [Continue reading]

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BAKED SUNDAYS: EPIC BAKING FAIL!

June 17, 2012 by Chaz 0 Comments

This is an ancient draft post from way back before I started culinary school.  I
never got around to finishing it.  Here it is... Every now and then even the
most experienced cooks and bakers fail. This was one of those times. "What the …
[Continue reading]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: eww, FAIL, turd


ABSENTIA, MEMORIA, FLORIDA PART TWO

June 10, 2012 by Chaz 0 Comments

I kinda forgot I was supposed to post part two... Absentia, Memoria, Florida
Part Two: Memoria/Birthday I'm going to start by saying very few people knew it
was my birthday, and I kinda wanted it to stay that way, but word got out.  When
you … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Ramblings, Spirit, Stories, Travel Tagged With: Florida, Ma Jaya
Memorial, Sebastian Florida, Travel


BAKED SUNDAYS: SUNFLOWER BUTTER COOKIES WITH CRANBERRIES

June 3, 2012 by Chaz 0 Comments

As there are more and more nut allergies (or perceived to be) these days, I
decided to play with a classic peanut butter cookie recipe and swap the peanut
for sunflower, and then add a little something in the form of ground
cranberries.  They add a … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Baked Sundays, Baking, Cookies, Desserts, Food, Recipes Tagged
With: Baking, cookies, Cranberries, nut substitute, Sunflower Butter


IN ABSENTIA, MEMORIA, FLORIDA. PART ONE

May 29, 2012 by Chaz 0 Comments

Starting with silliness and at the end of the story, my flight home departs from
Orlando, thanks to my friend's elite status I got priority boarding which meant
having time to sit and watch everyone else board, and I've realized that there
is a whole … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Spirit, Stories, Thought, Travel
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