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Skriven 2008-02-12 09:54:54 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 2231 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: BlueWave                                                 [1]
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Hi Ruth!

>> like > my AC--helps me breath better too.

>> Me too... I'd never lived so close to a major river before Louisville,
>> KY... that was humid :) I've never had asthma or such bad bronchititis
>> that I needed repeated treatment. It's the heat I need it for most of
>> the time... but not til it hits really long streaks of like over 90
>> ... which is kind of rare.


> The humidity bothers me more and more as the heat increases. I can
> usually do well in the 70s; the 80s start to give me trouble (more as
> the temperature rises) and the 90s (no AC), I basically try not to do
> anything except breath.

That's rough.. my son's girlfriend has asthma the same way you do.. I keep
telling them they've got to keep up with their apartment (he should, not her
(g)) but they don't listen too well ... so I'm going to hire someone to come in
and take care of their apartment and mine.  I've known two close friends who
had bad asthma who have really serious problems in life, so I know it's
serious.

>>> We caught, cleaned and ate trout.. sun fish.. trying to remember what
>>> else we caught.. I think catfish.. it's been too long :) But I do
>>> remember cleaning and eating them :)

>> > Suckers? Perch?

>> Certainly perch.. I remember those guys :) I remember something else
>> with an "s".. but I thought they were sunnys or sunnies... haha..
>> maybe they were Suckers..

> Suckers are quite unmistakeable--they're ugly dudes!

haha.. these guys weren't especially ugly.. they were bright though.. maybe
sunnies was a local name for them or something :)

>>> Sounds like great memories there (smile).  My mom and dad's family are

>> > I'd say good but not great.

>> Ok, for me anything outside of Warwick was "exciting".. It seemed I
>> had relatives from all over ... even if they weren't blood relatives.
>> I remember my father's 2nd Cousin Ritchie coming to visit bringing the
>> most incredible Italian Pastries from South Jersey, and sometimes a
>> fresh Pizza :)  Anyway that's why I thought there would be some good
>> memories there.

> I only remember my grandmother, grandfather (while he was alive; he
> passed away when I was 4) and aunt visiting my family very often.  They
> usually brought a box of doughnuts (a treat for us kids) because they
> didn't like what my mom did (does) for breakfast.  We didn't like it
> either but had to eat it before we could have a doughnut.

Our house seemed like traffic central when I was a child.. (grin).. On the
weekends, when my aunts and uncles and cousins came from Scranton, one would
drive who had the biggest car, and all these people would pour out of the car
or sometimes cars .. I'd see them pull into my mom's driveway and I'd yell to
everyone else, Look who's here!! (g).  Then some weekends people from Jersey
would come who'd known my parents when we lived there.. It was really busy just
about every weekend.

>> It was funny though, our "Binhamton NY" relatives only came around for
>> really special occaisions... Guess when the roads were bad here, it
>> was really bad then.  Route 17 probably wasn't done yet (g).

> We were taking my mom out to summer school (and bringing her back) in
> the years 17 was being built. Each year we got to use a bit of the new
> road; I think it was finally finished shortly after I started college.

Yes, I remember it being finished and being really happy.. it used to take us 2
hours to get to Scranton from Warwick before 17 was built.. what a ride that
was with a crabby baby brother and 2 sisters in the car! :)

>> >  Sometimes on our way back from NJ, my parents
>> > would stop in Monticello to get hard rolls, pastrami (for them,
>> > occaisionally for the kids) and salami for supper sandwiches when we
>> got > home (about an hour later).  That was some good meat! The rolls

>> Oh haha.. you mean Kaplan's bakery :) :)  Did you ever get to go to

> I think that was the one but can't say 100%; it's been over 35 years for
> me.

Yes, that's the one in Monticello... :)  It's the only one that was there, I'm
pretty sure.  It was world famous at the time, too, as were so many of the
hotels there.

>> Charloo's? Did you ever have the toasted black date-nut bread and
>> cream cheese? or their french fries with chicken gravy? :) Boy was
>> they both good.. I finally got close to figuring the date nut bread

> No, my parents never went there; it was always the rolls and meat at the
> one place.  I guess that was the only one they knew about.

Makes sense really, like I said, it was well known all over. Charloo's is a
place they might have stopped for coffee at.. or a quick doughnut or
something.. a little restaurant right on main street.

>> out ... I've searched for any kind of recipe that they might have used
>> and the closet I came to with experimentation was this:

>> ==Datenut bread with Creamcheese==

> Looks interesting; I'll have to post the olive loaf I made the other
> day.  It's good by itself warm but really good warm with turkey breast
> on it.

That would be great :)  I have one recipe that's pretty bland, but I like this
one, I think I found it in some arabian cookbook I have:

======Olive loaf=======
3 cups bread flour
2 teaspoons yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
1 cup water, lukewarm
1 large onion, chopped
2 Tablespoons olive oil
1 cup large black olives, pitted, and sliced in half

Put the yeast, the sugar, oil and lukewarm water in a large bowl, and add 1 cup
of the flour. Mix well. Allow to rise to a sponge. Punch the sponge down and
add the other two cups of flour. Knead for 10 minutes. Let rise until doubled.
Flatten the dough out with your hands or a rolling pin to make a long
rectangle, about 12" long. Saute the onion in the other Tablespoon of olive oil
and add the olive slices. Let cool a bit and spread on the dough leaving the
edges empty. Roll the dough up, pinching and pressing it a bit to hold the
dough as you roll. Use the heal of your hand to seal the two edges. Let rise
again about an hour. Bake in a preheated 400° oven on an oiled sheet for about
a half hour or until the loaf makes a hollow sound when you tap on it.
=========cut here========

I'm not sure how this would change with whole wheat flour... do you normally
use vital gluten when you make bread with only whole wheat flour?  I noticed
that my breadmaker either uses that, _or_ the recipe calls for an amount of
unbleached bread flour with whole wheat flour loaves.

>> very uncooperative (g). That's why I want to do the picnic in
>> July/August.. but not toooooooo late in august :) I know the temp here
>> can drop.. they close down the swimming pool at the park like July
>> 15th :( Unheard of in Warwick.. it was warm in the Valley until Sept
>> (g)... or it seemed :)

> I think the pools in Andes and Delhi sty open until Labor Day.
> Margaretville never did get one thanks to the stubbornness of the town
> council.

That sounds like Warwick :)  They fought ANY kind of modernization for years
there..  Not that it was such a great thing, but it took them 20-30 years to
agree to have a fast-food restaurant in the village :)

>>> When my daughter was a baby, the first time I noticed there was a
>>> problem with her breathing she actually started turning gray .. I was

>> > Scary to think about "what if".

>> Yes, it was ... horribly.. my sister had had asthmatic kids before
>> that who were rushed to the ER.. scared the crap out of me then ...
>> but really Lauren was controllable if I watched what she ate and made
>> her keep her room up so to speak.. She never had a really vicious
>> "rush her to the ER asthmatic attack" but she sure could have some
>> scarey wheezes...

> I've had a few of those "rush to the ER" episodes before getting a
> change in medications and a really good pulmonologist.  In AZ, one time

THAT must have scarey :(

> I was in the ER and a friend from church who was an EMT came in on a
> run.  After he finished what he had to do with his patient, he came over
> and asked why I was there. Steve filled him in; he hadn't known I was
> asthmatic. From then until the time we left, just about every time he
> saw me he'd do a visual assesment to see how I was breathing.

That's neat.. some people are really sharp that way.

>> > once and asked if I had asthma. I told her not that > I knew of so
>> she >suggested I get checked out the next time I went to the > doctor.
>> Sure enough, > I did (I'm glad I finally found out why I was > always
>> so short of breath.)

>> Glad you did as well :(

> So am I; it answered a lot of questions.

And you didn't have a lot of allergies?  or was it just not a lot of allergies
to foods, but you did to other things?  Just curious.  I know asthma can be
caused by lots of things :(  For Lauren it was food.. for my mom it was "the
world around her" .. air outside, leaves, mold, dust, you name it..

Take care,
Janis

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