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Skriven 2007-10-30 16:29:14 av Carol Shenkenberger (1:261/1466.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: Dulles Thought 71029
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 -=> Quoting Glen Jamieson to Carol Shenkenberger <=-

 CS> (snips) Yes, it has worked well.  Saw in another echo a query
 CS> wondering what would happen if OZ kagaroos got loose in the USA in a
 CS> suitable spot.  Lots of fun with the idea.

 GJ> What a wonderful thought!  Highly unlikely, because of the lack of
 GJ> Australian grasses for them to feed on, but they could enliven up the

I wonder if they could eat American ones?  Many are pretty close.  With the 
huge variety of lands here stateside, some of it is like OZ grasslands.

 GJ> "badlands" of Arizona.  In the Australian outback they are often a
 GJ> road hazard, so cars and trucks which travel in those areas are fitted
 GJ> with "roo-bars", designed to prevent damage to the vehicles.  Warning
 GJ> signs are also erected at intervals.  One I saw, years ago near Woomera
 GJ> read, "Warning  Kangaroos abound here".

We get that in deer country too.  It's not a joke that you can get killed by
a deer if they crash in the window.

 CS> Lord knows what I'd look like if my passport actually reflected all
 CS> the places I've been.  But no, when you travel by ship, your passport
 
 CS> Ah yes, commerical and military transports.  Cruise types though,
 CS> you'd get  stamped I'm sure.

 GJ> And when small yachts come into port after cruising the Pacific in a
 GJ> random manner Customs people like to look down below for "stuff"!

;-)  Sure nuff!
 
 CS> Charlotte is tending it while I BBS in the back room.
 GJ> Good for her!  It is getting towards the time where she will be able
 GJ> to cook the complete family meal one or more days a week.
 CS> Yes, but not all that much interest in actual cooking there.  She can
 CS> do enough
 CS> though that when she moves out, she won't be limited to TV dinners

 GJ> Possibly you could gradually ease her into developing her cooking
 GJ> skills by getting her to occasionally plan and cook a complete meal as
 GJ> a challenge.

Have to do that on weekends though.  She's in the age area where homework is 
pretty long.  She has about 4 hours worth tonight (Standards of Learning
practice, called SOL for short).

As it is, she helped taste test Don's experimental marinade tonight and added a
pinch more fenugreek after smelling the jar.  She also said a little pinch of
my seeds for breadmaking would be good (dont have them yet, pretty sure she was
meaning comino (cumin seed). 
 
 CS> It's about time to start a pot of rice.  I'd forgtten how much harder
 CS> that is on the gas range in a stove pot. Cant just turn the heat off
 CS> after boiling for example yet the lowest setting is a little 'high'. 
 
 GJ> Sorry for you!  Once you are used to using an automatic rice cooker it
 GJ> is a pain having to return to the saucepan method.  Perhaps you can
 GJ> get a metal mat to put under the pot until your rice cooker comes.
 
 CS> Yes, we've been looking about for a diffuser but havent stumbled
 CS> across one yet.

 GJ> When I was young and played with mercury and gunpowder and other
 GJ> dangerous substances, and before people became terrified of asbestos,
 GJ> we had asbestos mats to put over the gas flame when simmering. A
 GJ> couple of years ago, when I needed something like that to use on a gas
 GJ> stove where I was living at the time, I found stainless steel diffusers
 GJ> with multiple layers of steel sheet and mesh.  They worked well.

Same type we had.  Metal with layers.  Works well over any open flame type of
cooking.
             xxcarol

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