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Skriven 2008-02-25 13:32:39 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 2887 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: jeopardy
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Hi Janis,

 JK> > We had try outs before the whole high school.  We had to tell the co
 JK> > ordinator that we wanted to try out; I had my name put in at nearly
 JK> the > last minute, just on a whim.  A few other girls did also but I
 JK> was the > only one that made the team.

 JK> Neat :) Sadly, our school didn't have such a team ..

Ours did, about every other year.  My sophomore year, my older brother
tried out and made the team. I thought about trying out but decided not
to compete against him.


 JK> HI, > I just had to do a written test.  One of these days I'll get
 JK> on--and
 JK> > beat Ken Jennings' record. (G)

 JK> That is some record to aim for :) :)  But it doesn't hurt to expect
 JK> the best! We used to love watching the show when he was on.  What a
 JK> great player he was.

He was fast on the trigger too.  The only down side to all that
money--all the taxes he had to pay at the California rate.  Still, he
won't be hurting for money.

>> My Mom's house had a gigantic fireplace, like the french bread
>> fireplaces, behind a wall in her kitchen, and a copy of that same huge
>> fireplace down in her basement... with a dumb-waiter to get food from

 JK> > That was when cooking was an all day chore. No air conditioning made
 JK> it > really bad; a lot of old southern homes had separate kitchen
 JK> buildings > so the main house would stay (a bit ) cooler.

 JK> No doubt.  Since this was in NYS, the concern wasn't as bad I
 JK> expect... though there was an "almost" identical house in design, but
 JK> not size down the street from my mother's house (about 6 houses away
 JK> a main house where my mom's house was, and servants quarters down the
 JK> street (that smaller house that looked so much like
 JK>  Mom's house (g))... the servants probably only slept there, going to
 JK> the main house to cook. Ron and I bought that smaller house when the
 JK> kids were small and it was neat to live down the street from "Grandma"

Interesting bit of information. The first place we lived in Frankfurt
was originally maid's quarters. It was on the top (attic) story of the
building--had a small kitchen, bath room, toilet room, living/dining
room and 8 bedrooms.  I guess the maids didn't do much cooking for
themselves judging by the size of the kitchen.


>> Still waiting for that farmer to call me back about the slaughter date
 JK> > He'll call--right when your freezer is the fullest.

 JK> Lol.. that's what I figure :)

It's the law of "go figure".


 JK> Forget the above "warming trend"... haha.. it's back to the 20's with
 JK> bitter cold winds :(

And we're supposed to have the 20s (at night) later this week.

>> > The stuffing looks good in its own right, subbing chicken or beef
>> stock > for the sherry.

>> Should work, but I've never done that :)

 JK> > We don't use alcohol so I have to come up with alternatives in
 JK> recipes. > Sometimes it's easy to see what else would work and give a

 JK> Sure, I can understand that :)  A lot of people don't use alcohol in
 JK> their cooking.  A lot of times I just don't have wine or whatever in
 JK> the house. Sometimes I'll use lemon juice instead.. sometimes, chicken
 JK> broth or beef broth.  Sometimes I'll dilute wine vinegar 1 part
 JK> vinegar to 3 parts water. Balsamic vinegar works really well in that
 JK> way :)

OK, I never thought about using it much you're the 2nd one to suggest
it.  Gues I'll give it a try.


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