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Skriven 2007-03-22 12:18:40 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HANSCHKA
Ärende: New Years gift!
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Hi Ruth,

-> measuring cups and spoons for the wedding shower when I spotted the
-> sewing machines.  Didn't even bother going over to see what brands they

 RH> Junk Chinese imports, no doubt.

Most likely.

->  RH> Ever use the "Google Cookbook"?  Plug in a set of ingredients, add
->  RH> recipe, and hit enter to see what turns up.  It can be rather

-> No, I've not tried it but I can imagine the results could be quite
-> interesting.

 RH> Occasionally.  Sometimes they're pretty darned funny.

As in English as written by a non speaker of the language?  Stop & read
the manuals for some of your stuff not made in the USA; the language can
be most confusticating. (G)

->  RH> Your husband is a neat freak.  He also doesn't eat pork.  Was he

-> The pork issue came about in summer of 98 when we went thru western NC
-> on our way to Charelston.  Had just gone thru a thunderstorm, the air
-> was very humid and we passed a major hog farm.  We could smell it with
-> the windows up and AC running; Steve said something about "remind me not

 RH> That would do it!  (For about half an hour for me, but....)

He should have though of a nice roast pork or ham instead of the meal on
the hoof.

-> since. He's beginning to relent a bit tho.  The neatness issue is more
-> in the cooking department; other areas aren't as pesnickity.  I think
-> part of it with the crumbs is wanting to make them in the easiest, least
-> messy manner where as I wanted to do them so as not to dirty up too many
-> things for either hand or dishwasher washing.

 RH> I'm the one who prefers to hand-chop a head of cabbage rather than
 RH> cleaning the food processor.  He sounds like he'd rather spend fifteen
 RH> minutes
 RH> washing and two minutes chopping to the other way 'round.

Something on that line. For me, a knife and cutting board will do as
good a job (or better) than some of the fancy gizmos. After all, every
bit of cabbage doesn't have to be exactly like its neighbors; a bit of
variety to the texture can be interesting.

-> quilt from the local quilt shop owner wer the only hand mades at the
-> wedding shower yesterday.  I think people in the church are getting an
-> idea of my creative genes. (G)

 RH> I wonder if the name Ruth attracts that sort of thing, or if creative
 RH> genes attract women to name their daughters Ruth.... (G)

Don't know; I got it from my dad's only sister.  We gave it to Deborah
as a middle name & she's always up to something.  The latest we found
out about in an e-mail to Steve's battalion commander from a friend of
his in AZ--Deborah really WOWed him with her military expertise.  Friend
wanted to know if she was Steve's daughter & let him/us know how well
she'd done.

-> No, just inferior chocolate.  AFAIK, poi doesn't come in chocolate

 RH> You never know, with fusion cuisine!

True, but it's mostly mixed with fruit for flavoring, at least that
which we saw.

-> -> simple separation tear) and chipped the bones holding them in place

->  RH> Ouch.  Good job.

-> Blame it on a Porsche.

 RH> Shoulda known - German sports cars are born to be trouble.

Actually it was the driver that caused the trouble.  The dr that put it
back together said that I'd be doing good to walk on it again. I've been
walking now for 35 years since........miracles do happen & I've had a
number of them healing really bad breaks.

-> Arrowhead Mills stuff. Found the yeast for whole grains baking at Fresh
-> Market on Saturday cheaper than Kroger--49 cents vs 99 so got several
-> packages.  It works well with the whole wheat flour I use.

 RH> I've used Hodgson's before, but not Bob's.  That I can't find.

Checked the net?  I was very disappointed in the Hodgson Mills whole
wheat flour out here.  King Arthur was a far sight better & milling our
own should be even better.


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Ruth
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