Website Review: The Art of Manliness

Another monthly feature will be a website review.

This month the feature is The Art of Manliness. I have subscribed to the AoM newsletter for quite a few years, and have enjoyed the advice, tutorials, history lessons, reviews, and just general information about how to be a better, more complete, confident and stronger man.

The “about” page summarizes the scope of this excellent site better than anything I could write: “The mission of AoM is to get men not only reading and listening to our content, but ultimately implementing what they learn into their lives; through our articles, podcasts, books, and programs, AoM aims to help men, as Theodore Roosevelt put it, “Get action.” We seek to help men grow up well, reach their potential, become better friends, mentors, husbands, fathers, and citizens, and live a life of eudamonia — skill, flourishing, excellence, and virtue.”

Well worth your time to check it out. Don’t forget to subscribe to the newsletter!

Recipes, Cooking and Gardening

Once a month I will share a recipe, a post about cooking or one about gardening. On a previous blog I posted around 30 of our family’s favorite recipes, so they would be archived and available for use. I won’t repeat those recipes on this blog, so here is a link to them if you are interested.

For this month I want to share a cooking tip I learned a few years back about homemade soup. I imagine most of you already know this, but for the few that might not it can really make a difference. After your homemade soup is fully cooked choose a can of cream soup that most closely parallels the type or flavor of your soup. Add the cream soup to a blender, throw in some shredded or cubed cheese and then fill the remainder with ladles of the soup you have just cooked. Blend it and then pour the contents into your homemade soup to make a thicker, cheesy version. I have also added a leftover diced baked potato or a package of instant potatoes to the blender ingredients.

Bon Appétit!

Bela

Once a month I will highlight a piece of art I have created and posted on my Fine Art America site. This one is titled Bela, from the Faces and Beings Collection. It is chalk pastel, oil pastel and pencil on paper.