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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Soupy weather                                            [2]
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Ahoy Ruth!
-> 
-> ->  HN> at school and I don't have to be home to fix
-> ->  HN> an early dinner!
-> 
-> -> True.  We're eating a bit earlier than usual tonight by choice. We
want
-> -> to visit a friend of ours but can only do so until 8 pm.
-> 
->  HN> Our schedule is pretty "open" but we usually eat
->  HN> around 6pm every day. The morning is much more
->  HN> regimented with getting ready for work, breakfast and all.
-> 
-> We try for dinner around then too; sometimes it's a few minutes over.
-> Breakfast time, Steve fends for himself as he has to eat & get out the
-> door early.  Lunch varies but usually he comes home and either raids
-> the fridge or I've got something ready or other options are used.  Of
-> course week ends throws everything into a different game plan. (G)
-> 
->
I get up before Anne does, and get her 
breakfast ready while she showers, then 
I get her lunch ready while she's eating 
her breakfast....When she heads out to 
school, I can go back to bed if I want 
(maybe once every three months I'll do 
just that too!). But usually I clean up 
and plan dinner and get on with my daily 
errands and try to fit time in to go down 
to my workspace and paint a bit or get 
out and do some photography.
 
-> ->  HN> Let's just say when I got out of the navy
-> ->  HN> I was more used to eating steak and lobster
-> ->  HN> than I have been since!
-> 
-> -> Sure not like that in the Army. (G)
-> 
->  HN> Precisely! That's why I joined the Navy! (grin)
-> 
-> The Navy didn't even give Steve the time of day when he inquired with
-> them.  Of course he was pushing 30 and had a wife & 2 kids then.
-> Overall, the Army has been a good choice tho the food is not as gourmet
-> as the Navy.
-> 

When I joined was during the years when there 
was a draft...and there were people lining up 
trying to get into the navy ....mostly to avoid 
going into the army! 

-> 
-> -> -> Before or after Robert Irvine's tenure there? (G)
-> 
-> ->  HN> Dunno who he is, but our chief was there in the mid
-> ->  HN> 60's.
-> 
-> -> He's the "Dinner Impossible" guy; was teamed up with Tyler Florence
-> -> against Cat Cora and Paula Deen last night on "Iron Chef". The guys
-> -> lost, but by only 2 points; I was expecting a larger margin between,
but
-> -> still expected the guys to lose.
-> 
->  HN> (grin) Then it'd be LONG before Robert Irvine!
-> 
-> I don't know that much about him (age, years cooking where, etc) to say
-> one way or another.  He did do the wedding cake for Diana and Charles so
-> he's been around a while. He can be a bit tyrannical in the kitchen (but
-> not like Gordon Ramsey from what I read) but you also see his human side
-> in his show--as when he forgets the word "tomatoes" in describing what
-> one sous chef is cutting up.
-> 

Our chief was an E-8 in 1969 so he'd 
been in the navy for a goodly while already!

-> 
-> ->  HN> the admirals kept trying to woo
-> ->  HN> him away from us for shore duty..
-> ->  HN> but he LIKED cooking for a crew and
-> ->  HN> had had enough of the high life at
-> ->  HN> the white house....so he stayed
-> ->  HN> with us...and we were GLAD!!
-> 
-> -> Sounds like he was a keeper. (G)
-> 
->  HN> He was,  but he was a tough taskmaster as well, he's cooks
->  HN> knew to jump when he started yelling orders!
->  HN> But every one of them that worked under him became
->  HN> really good navy cooks themselves!
-> 
-> Easy enough to see why. They would do well in the civilian world too.
-> 
-> 
And in fact all that survived his training did do well! 
chat with you soon
ha
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