Text 15203, 122 rader
Skriven 2007-05-10 18:32:50 av Carol Shenkenberger (3:800/201)
  Kommentar till text 15148 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Re: The bastids!
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*** Quoting Ruth Haffly from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***


 CS> Ah.  Makes Hawaii sense there <g>. You never really grow old or die
 CS> there, you just become an ancestor.

RH> Yes, and you're always "aunty" or "uncle" to somebody.

True!  


 CS> Should be, and i bet you've seen this same thing but may not have
 CS> liked it as well as we did.  There was one also called 'portugese'
 CS> that I recall and I think it was a fattier variation than the one my
 CS> local store made.  Yes, home made was best.  Very close item though to

RH> I enjoyed whatever I had, whenever I had it.  Most of the time pot luc
RH> at the church had at least one dish with it in.  Steve had some once i
RH> a home made "egg mcmuffin" type thing he was given and tdidn't entirel
RH> disdain it. (G)

Cool.  Progress <g>.

RH> more; Alton brown is still our favorite.  He had a neat way to peel
RH> mangoes last night--slice a thin layer of peel from the top and botom,
RH> set it on a cutting board and push a corn on the cob holder into the

 CS> Humm!  Sounds interesting.  I've taken to the asian way, cut 2 thick
 CS> slices off along the 'bone' (center stone) and then crosscut that to
 CS> squares and eat off the rind.  The part along the 'bone' you just
 CS> knarf down as is.

RH> Alton was eating the what was left on the stone like a popsicle.  He
RH> said that the way he showed was best for slices; your way works good f
RH> cubes or a dice.

Yes, you get cubes that way and slices.  It's fairly easy to do with a sharp
knife. Non-serrated type sharp knife.

 CS> *sigh* 6 years and counting....  It's been lovely but I wanna go home
 CS> and see the things others do again. There's this series called 'Angel'
 CS> that we can only buy in DVD but have never seen.  I'm not sure if it's
 CS> still on.  Whole slew of things ike that which we've not seen.

RH> I'm pretty sure that one is gone; I don't watch that much tv to know f
RH> sure.  I understand about the "I wanna go home" mentality; our girls h
RH> it in Germany.  I would have preferred a short (6 months or so) stay,
RH> then gone back to Germany.

Same here.  What irks me is my family has had a real 6 years here but I've been
at sea 9 months a year or so, all of that.  You get these isolated times where
I'm in for a month or 2, but mostly I'm away.  More so this last 3 years than
the first 3.  I have a 2 month stint in port just before i leave which will be
nice. (sorry for whining, but sometimes ya just gotta.  Chief's who arent so
good at their job get left behind all the time for various things but never
me).

 CS> In fact, post 9/11 USA culture, we havent seen.  Yes, been out here
 CS> that long. I watched you move to Hawaii from Sasebo and have seen you

RH> No, we moved to HI in March of 01 and I got back on to Fido April 7.
RH> Got all caught up & broke my elbow later that day.

Ah yes, 'my bad'.  I was enroute.  Got here in May/June.  I watched you move
while I was in Virginia Beach, came back online to see you with the broken
elbow getting established again around it.


 CS> move back. When I left, we had Vans and fancy ones were SUV's.  What
 CS> the heck is a Hummer?  Fancy SUV it sounds like?

RH> Hummer is what the civilians are calling a big SUV, most commonly the
RH> put out by (I think) Chevy.  It's nothing like the military Hummer.
RH> There's a smalle, even uglier H3 out now too.  I was observing traffic
RH> the other day--I don't see nearly the number of mini Coopers and
RH> vehicles like that on the main land that I did in HI.

What's a 'Cooper'?  It sounds familiar someplace but am not placing it just
now.


 CS> As the ingredients in each dish are unique, so should be the dish it
 CS> is displayed in (or such is what I am taught here). Hence 'square
 CS> bowls' and such to contrast with the round ones and patterns will
 CS> complement in color or design but not be the 'same' even at a fast

RH> I can see that.  Still, the dish (plate, bowl, etc) might be the only
RH> unifier to a meal.

 CS> Naw, they arent intended to 'unify' but to complement a varigated
 CS> color table. It's sort of like having a wild flower garden that makes
 CS> a total picture but each is distinctly unique.  The flavors of the
 CS> foods though are made to complement.  I dont know the background
 CS> enough better than to say what i see.

RH> I sort of see what you mean (from my art studies).  There usually is
RH> some common thread that brings it all together, whether it's in the
RH> dishes, the food or whatever, sometimes so subtle you really have to
RH> look hard to find it.

I'm not sure if the common thread isnt just a wild-flower garden look.  Then
again, I never understood feng-shui (right spelling?) stuff.

RH> Sounds like fun. We've an assortment of mugs--my main tea one is one
RH> given to me by a friend in Germany after I'd had many a cuppa tea with
RH> her.

I have some interesting coffee mugs here.  I like unique ones and some are
shaped oddly as well as the 'picture' is different.

RH> Hmmmmm, sounds really pretty.  I was browsing thru an older Threads
RH> (sewing) magazine the other day; it had an article on the Oriental
RH> (Asian) influences in available in fabric and how to use it.  I picked
RH> up some Asian print fat quarters in HI; I want to do  color block jack
RH> (quilted) with them.

Darn, I never did get home to get you that jacket did I? I'll look about but
wrong season now.
                                       xxcarol

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