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Cranberry Sauce, Port-Sweetened

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Cranberry Sauce Finished

Take my word for it, this is the best Cranberry Sauce I’ve ever eaten. I’ve made it for years during the holidays, and even not during the holidays, because it’s that good and adds to many dishes. Plus, your kitchen will smell Divine!!!! Of course, a nip of the port doesn’t hurt either. The Recipe […]

How to Select Sweet Watermelons

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Vintage Phebe holding blushed watermelon slice

Usually when we enter the bleak grey month of January, I begin counting the months until watermelon season. As a kid I could eat a whole watermelon in one day…pure watermelon joy! At family gatherings nothing was better than ice cold watermelon and seed spitting competitions with my cousins, of course Greg almost always won. […]

How to Begin Meditation and My Home Meditation Space

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Kwan Yin

I found meditation about nine years ago in a yoga class. I hated it…really hated it, but loved the exercise of the class. A few years later, the teacher quit, and the class ended. I found that what I missed most was meditation. Soon, I began my own 20 minute-a-day meditation time at home. It’s […]

How to Make Perfect Brown Rice

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Brown Rice

The first thing you have to do to Make Perfect Brown Rice is think pasta, not rice. Fill a soup pot (not sauce pan) with water, add rinsed rice, boil, boil, boil for 30 minutes uncovered, then drain and let steam in the pot, covered with a tight fitting lid, on a cold burner for […]

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Phebe Phillips, 2021, Podcaster, Cat Lover, Poet, Storyteller

Phebe Phillips is best known for whimsical plush toys that filled the shelves of Neiman Marcus, FAO, and many fine retailers for 25-years. Today, she creates The Literary Catcast Podcast—dedicated to the preservation of vintage books and writings with cats as main characters, bringing them into the modern awareness of a podcast. She has books in the works, and is a felt artist. She and her husband left the city of Dallas in 2023 to live deep in the woods of North East Texas. They have seven cats, many raccoons, opossums, and deer.

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Phebe’s podcast—dedicated to the preservation of vintage books and writings with cats as main characters, bringing their awareness into the modern form of a podcast. Available on all podcast platforms.

The Literary CatCast Podcast

Phebe’s book: Why Me? Positive Verse for Loss & Sadness

Phebe's book: Why Me? Positive Verse for Loss & Sadness.

Phebe’s book, in Spanish / English combo language.

Phebe's book: Why Me?Positive Verse for Loss & Sadness, in Spanish.

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