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Skriven 2008-01-30 12:36:46 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 1481 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: BlueWave                                                 [2]
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Hi Janis,

>> CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS MESSAGE <<

 JK> > I'd run some left over canned tomatoes thru the blender for it and
 JK> then > cooked them down. Since the sauce was hot, I decided to pre
 JK> bake the
 JK> > crust about 8 minutes before adding the toppings.  The bread machine

 JK> gently working > it; I did. (G) After pre baking, I added the sauce, a
 JK> small diced onion, > a (drained) can of portabella mushroom chunnks
 JK> and cheese, then baked it > for another 8 minutes. Yummy!  The crust
 JK> was crisper than usual; it even > stayed crisp for reheating the next

 JK> Heh.. my grandmother made pizza like that :)  Really.. she always
 JK> prebaked the crust and didn't put the topping on until later, like you
 JK> did above.  She said it was better since the cheese didn't brown.

I like the cheese a bit brown. I would have given it more time for the
second baking but the crust was already getting a bit too brown. I don't
usually pre bake but this time warrented it.  As far as I know, neither
of my grandmothers made pizza (One pased away before I was born, the
other one in 74, during my senior year in college.) and my mom always
used the boxed mixes so whatever I do, it's different. (G)  OTOH,
Steve's mom is Italian heritage so he grew up with a lot more home made
pizza than I did (as well as boxed; his mom kept it on hand for a quick
snack).


>> I just asked Ron how someone could not like anchovies, and he said, I
>> dunno, it's a mystery to me (I think NOT <g>).. he really hates them
>> :) To me, they are so normal :)

 JK> > Same as some vegetables are normal to me but not Steve and vice
 JK> versa. > He tried some of my okra curry the other day at the Indian
 JK> restaurant we > went to (he hates okra, I love it) and enjoyed it.  He
 JK> actually took
 JK> > several more forks full of it. (G) This was just after we'd seen a
 JK> "Good > Eats" episonde featuring okra.

 JK> hehe.. I think I've had okra once, and didn't like it either <grin>

Depends on how it's fixed makes a big difference in its likeability.

>> Italian and half-sicilian).. but maybe one day I'll contact some of
>> them :) Would be very neat :)

 JK> > You're close enough, you can do some family research. Even living in
 JK> > Berlin for almost 3 years, I couldn't do much research as the place
 JK> > where my dad's family came from is now part of Poland. I know my mom
 JK> has > a pretty good history of her dad's family from a different part
 JK> of
 JK> > Germany; I still keep in contact with one couple there.

 JK> My uncle on my mother's side, and one of my aunts on my father's side
 JK> have traced our family's histories and it was incredible to read both
 JK> accounts!  This one is funny.. my grandmother on my father's side was
 JK> the granddaughter of an illegitimate child of a Count in Southern
 JK> Italy <grin>.. So I have ROYAL BLOOD in me <laugh>  or something
 JK> <vbg>.  It's still very interesting to read how far back one's family
 JK> goes though (even withoug the "royal blood" tale <g>.. which none of
 JK> us believed until the information was found <g>).

It is interesting what can be found. My great grandfather on my dad's
side (the one who came to the States) was the youngest of something like
10 sons. The older brothers pooled thier money to send him but befoe he
went, in his younger days, he and Otto von Bismarck were fishing
buddies.  On my mom's side, I'm somehow related to Herbert Hoover but
don't know just how.


>> Ah .. I love a good risotto :)

 JK> > And his was good. I understand he made another one on Sunday but we
 JK> had > to take off to get back here for my pre op work and (first)
 JK> surgery.

 JK> Sounds like it was a great picnic.. matter of fact, I remember reading
 JK> about it when I first started perusing this echo :)

That's what brought Steve back into the echo, tho more of a lurker.
He'd been the one to get it originally, 14 years ago, on the suggestion
of a friend in AZ but when he got too involved with other computer stuff
(and work), he asked me to start reading and writing.  One of the first
recipes I printed off was from Michael Loo for pseudo Malinda's hot
sauce; that's one that still gets made regularly here--and a pint of it
went to Iraq when Deborah was deployed.  I was kidding with the postal
worker when I sent off that package about a thermo-nuclear device (the
hot sauce) in it; that was shortly after Saddam was captured. She got
varied (funny/interesting) reactions with the guys she shared it with in
her unit.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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