Text 32189, 88 rader
Skriven 2009-12-12 20:47:54 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 32117 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
Ärende: shopping excursions
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Hi Ruth,

-> work due this week; I basically let him work on that, letting him know
-> when meals are ready and giving "head's up, got to be out the door for
-> this in X number of minutes" type things.  Anyway, there's a couple more
-> meals of sauerbraten & red cabbage in the freezer for later.

 RH> At the end of finals, you're whomping up some latkes.

Probably not, just use up some of the other stuff on hand that won't
keep.  We've got a small bit of lamb in the freezer, decided to do that
for Christmas dinner as we don't want to have a lot of left over stuff
in the fridge.

->  RH> Let 'em stew.  We used to grow a lot of cigar wrappers here in CT
->  RH> although that's declined.

-> It's declined here too, but not as much as other areas.  We were
-> surprised when we visited the coast a couple of years ago--acerage that
-> had been tobacco growing (lots of it!) had been given over to other
-> things in the 20+ years we'd been gone.  Still too many acres of it but
-> a start has been made on cutting it out. Still lots of acres of soy
-> beans under cultivation too.

 RH> Soy beans are probably a more valuable crop at the moment.

They have been for years in NC.  When we were here before, they were
considered more of food for the farm animals, especially the pigs.  I
raised a few eyebrows and maybe made some converts when I brought a
crock pot full of "baked" beans to a fire department pot luck.  Nobody
knew they were soy beans until we "spilled the beans". (G)


ducks
->  RH> Definitely, which is why I don't pay full price for them.
 RH> ->
-> And we rarely go for one; I think we've only bought the one.

 RH> I only get one once every few years, when I've forgotten what a mess
 RH> they make.

We saw an Alton Brown "Good Eats" episode on ducks so Steve wanted to
try doing it his way.  Not bad, not great as I recall.  The bird came
with a packet of wild rice stuffing; I heated it just so we could try
it.  All but a couple of bites went down the garbage disposal.

->  RH> Chocolate pork fudge....OK.  I've been around Michael and Clean
 RH> Dave
->  RH> enough to at least try it.  Bacon fudge might be pretty good if
 RH> it's
->  RH> dark
->  RH> chocolate.
 RH> ->
-> Now that's an idea. (G)

 RH> I've had milk chocolate with bacon in it.  It almost worked, but the
 RH> chocolate wasn't dark enough.

Michael brought some to the picnic last year at Janis's.  As I recall,
it wasn't an overwhelming success--more of an "OK, this is interesting"
reaction.

-> -> Major ouches there.  That (hernia) is one thing I don't have to worry
-> -> about.  OTOH, I do have scar tissue in various places.

->  RH> Just not there... and I was right.

-> Bother! Puts a major crimp into your holiday cooking and baking, doesn't
-> it?

 RH> Puts a crimp in pretty well everything, actually.  I just hope I can't
 RH> make it any worse doing stuff like grocery shopping.

Now that could get interesting.  Take your niece for the lower shelves,
unloading the buggy, etc.  Upper shelves, forget about until you've
talked with the doctor.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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