Text 1029, 179 rader
Skriven 2008-01-20 17:50:44 av Carol Shenkenberger (6987.cooks)
Kommentar till text 627 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: echo picnics 547
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(on fireplaces)
> > CS> We kinda like it, but we have a good draft so it's not a big thing.
> > CS> More of a slight tang.
>
> > Still probably enough to bother me.
>
> CS> I'm guessing yes, but I'm guessing others would be fine with it.
> CS> There's a fine line on this.
>
> Yes, and some days I can take it better than others. Today would not be
> good; had an appointment scheduled few weeks ago with my PCM and
> bronchitis started flaring earlier in the week. So, got some anti
> biotics (again).
Feeling better by now? I'm a bit behind on mail and didnt reply to
everything so you may have some double replies <g>.
> > CS> True. Gonna need a wig or anything like that? Or is the level well
> > CS> below such like I'm hoping?
> CS> >
> > No, I don't anticipate losing any hair. That's more apt to happen with
> > chemo. It should be a concentrated dosage aimed right at the trouble
> > area. Found out today I'll start Friday morning.
>
> CS> Ok, sorry but us curious minds wanna know. Most were probably afraid
> CS> to ask (g). Figured I'd be the bold one and ask. THen again, folks
>
> No problem; I'm probably giving ya'll a good education. Not going into
> the medical details as deep as I could tho. (G)
Sure, but we all are concerned and a little education never hurt any of us.
Just like I picked up the tip on the chondritin from here and my spine Doc
was delighted to hear us both using it. He's been fighting to get it
presrcibable (sp?) as he says it really is a good thing in a multi-phase appro
ach for folks like me and Don's arthritis.
I am definately starting to have 'good days' now and he attributes a portion
of that to the osteo-biflex with MSM. We talked diet and he's happy overall
with my eating. Wants me to try to get used to FF milk or use more milk
powder in my baking for the calcium. Keep an eye on the cholestrol but not
to stint on the calcium.
Many Docs arent really much on dietician issues but this particular one is
fairly saavy and said he can make me a referral to one, but didnt think I
needed it. I tagged most of what they would want me to be doing already.
The good things in my diet: Lots of fresh dark green leafy things, making my
own stock with bones, occasional bone marrow soups (warned to not do that too
much due to cholestrol and happy with my monthly fix), sodium reduced due to
Don but not radical reduction (happy with our levels at 1500-2000mg a day),
seafood high shrimp tail eating habits (he laughed at that one and said good
on us, he wished more would do that).
Bad things in my diet: A little low on calcium (but a balancing act with
cholestrol leads to that and the FF sour cream in the bread recipe just
posted is a result of working more into my diet safely), a worry that my
seafood eating may be higher than safe on some things like mercury etc so
(love this) should try to shift *some* of it to freshwater farmed fish
(preference to USA farm raised or Canadian as they control that closely and
overseas isnt well known on it), and reduce my clam/mussels to half what
we've been doing (combination of issues, said that was the only one a
dietician might be able to explain better but he just knew there was a reason
to not want to eat 2 lbs a month or more of it and to taske it down to 1 lb
of the meats a month).
He added that I should be careful about 'wild ocean upper food chain' fish
because we eat much more seafood than most so probably exceed USDA
recommended levels on some heavy metals. (I think it was heavy metals he
mentioned). In short, good thing I dont go for shark and I can still have
tuna but need to watch how often we have it.
> CS> here are so wicked, we'd aim 'angel hair' recipes at you since we know
> CS> you'd take the joke in good spirit as intended.
>
> Yes, and fire devil's food ones right back. (BEG)
That you would!
(on Charlotte cooking)
> Time for you and Don to step aside, tolerate a few "interesting" dishes
> and let her have fun cooking. Deborah was our experimenter in the
> kitchen, still is; Rachel is more conservative. But she did a nice
> prime rib for Christmas dinner.
Yes, trying to! Charlotte loves the results and some things, she can make on
her own. Things she likes and are simple.
Ohh, she's decided suddenly she doesnt like bok choy... It's a age thing
(grin).
> CS> She signed up for 'home ec' for next year because she wants to try it
> CS> along with other stuff, and we think this is a very good thing for her
> CS> soul as she grows to the lady she will be, before our eyes.
>
> Will she learn to sew as well as cook? That will be a useful skill as
> well as she grows up and moves away from home (all too soon).
I hope so, but do not know. Since I have few real skills there, she's not
able to learn that from me. I'd happily get her plenty of patterns and
fabric etc. I have a mini (toy) sewing machine and a full simple unit.
Every now and again, I try to make something simple and sometimes succeed.
> CS> Charlotte has seen me and Don experiment so knows failures happen, but
> CS> she's battling the 'gee, once in a blue moon failure' vice, oops mom,
> CS> feeling. Thats one I didnt have as a kid. Mom, (lovely woman in all
> CS> ways but not a cook) could eat even my worst disasters. Grin, it
> CS> wasnt kindness. It was better than what she made. (Again, did a
> CS> really good job of raising 3 kids on her own, and her *only* 'failing'
> CS> was to be a very very plain cook. I'm th e least successful of us 3
> CS> kids).
>
> My mom rarely ate my cooking as she was gone (summer school or night
> school) when I did most of it. She was a very plain cook also, because
> my dad is such a plain eater. Once I got married and moved out of the
> house, I got away from the plain cooking; made most of my kitchen
> mistakes before Steve and I got married. I probably cook the most varied
> way of us 5 kids. Some would say that since I don't work outside the
> home I'm not a success but I've done enough otherwise that I'd beg to
> differ with them.
My sister doesnt cook at all. Her husband is the chef there and a good one.
She's a total 'eat' who can barely boil water <grin>. My brother is quite a
good cook and does most of the cooking between him and his SO for the past 25
years.
> CS> I can wax poetic on my Mom, but she's plain simple good people with
> CS> the best of heart and good ethics she taught us all. Grin, only here
> CS> do I rag a bit on her only failing. Bert is a better cook though Mom
> CS> has improved once she wasnt trying to stretch the budget to cover 3
> CS> famished kids.
>
> My mom had to cook for 5 kids on a tight budget. Dad cooked from time
> to time (mainly the grill or if mom was sick) when I was a kid but I
> understand he does a bit more of it now. Still, neither of them are
> anything other than plain cooks/eats.
No harm in that, if well prepared. I *still* can't beat Mom's beef stew and
i've been trying for 30 years. It wasnt so good just because it was her one
good dish, it really was GREAT. I can come close, but it always lacks
something. My brother has the same problem as well as my sister's husband
cant make one as good as Charlotte Ann (my sister is also a Charlotte) had as
a kid.
I'm thinking the secret is we tweak too much and she just threw it in a pot
and let it do it's thing.
> CS> Grin, I just had a little image of her at a cooking picnic with us.
> CS> She'd chop veggies and watch in facination but not be sure of eating
> CS> anything too strange like durian.
>
> I think she'd fit in fine. We had a few "off the wall" things at the
> last picnic but most of it was down home cooking. (Aside to Michael:
> Rachel offered us some jelly beans in a way we were a bit suspicious so
> we questioned her before taking any. Yes, they were some of the Harry
> Potter ones. [G]). That was related to the last picnic, one of the not
> so common items brought for tasting.
Hehe Harry lives!
> CS> Wow, did I stray or what?
>
> So, who cares? A nice little side trip.
Yeah. We do that here.
(on the chest freezer)
> CS> Meantime, the very bottom of the freezer is whwere Don stacks his
> CS> stuff. I ca nt reach that low comfortably.
>
> Dive! Dive! Dive! Sorry, you're not the submariner, Hap was. (G)
Well, just set Charlotte to investigating and she found some hot pockets so
that and some hot-slaw with a mustard base is dinner.
xxcarol
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