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Skriven 2009-12-15 22:31:14 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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-> -> It dates back to before Steve went into the Army.  He got it (at my
-> -> request) for me for my birthday one year.  All kinds of neat things
in
-> 
->  RH> No wonder.  Vintage cookbooks are sometimes the best source for the
->  RH> oddballs.
-> 
-> I guess you could call it vintage; it's almost 30 years old.  It's got
-> all kinds of recipes for things you could buy but can also make at home.
-> The home made has the advantages of being much fresher and you can
-> control what goes into it.  No ketchup with HFCS for example.

Early 80s counts as vintage, especially if it's clothing or jewelry.  I
don't think I've ever made ketchup, but it can't be too difficult.  

-> -> yogurt.  We've got a couple of cans of the milk on our shelf; he was
-> -> going to do something with it before we left GA.  Ran out of time so
it
-> -> came with us & I think he's forgotten what he was going to use it
for.
-> 
->  RH> Thai noodles?  They work well with coconut milk.
-> 
-> More likely, mochi.

Sounds good to me.  Or if you want to experiment, bread pudding.
 
-> -> Actually, when it died, Steve ripped it out.  Don't know how much of
the
-> -> root system he got--we'll see in spring.
-> 
->  RH> Awww - it's a useful plant.
-> 
-> For what?  We can plant something more useful in the area--another herb
-> maybe.

Ground cover.  It grows in full shade, unlike a lot of things.
 
-> -> But you'll still have the coffee tree you can't hardly move.
-> 
->  RH> True, and next year I'll have a Christmas tree again.
-> 
-> 
-> That's one way of saving money on trees.

Yep - $35 to $50 around here.  The artificials are higher, but you only
have to pay for them once.  I can't stand them though.
 
->  RH> Ah - a starving student special.
-> 
-> Sort of--and a seriously studying trip.  Steve has to read a book, do a
-> review on it before we go.  I just have to read the book.  He has to
-> read/review 3 more before Jan. 31, plus a 10 page journal & attend
-> lectures while on the trip.  I have to read/review one other book, do
-> the journal & lectures.  He's also got some work for his Hebrew class to
-> do over the semester break, another ten page paper so he will be extra
-> busy.

Yipe.  That's not a trip, it's work-study!
 
-> ->  RH> They weren't rubbery, just mush.  They would make great
wallpaper
-> ->  RH> paste.
-> 
-> -> The cat & dog enjoyed them.
-> 
->  RH> Salt content.
-> 
-> Probably.  That was before the days of nutritional labels so we had no
-> idea how bad the stuff was, that we were eating.  Probably just as well
-> or we wouldn't have eaten it, tho as kids, we didn't have the "luxury"
-> of refusal.

There is that.  Parents make kids eat some stuff that's good for them, and
then there's the nasty stuff.

-> We had the bins in Germany; in TX they had converted game units (units
-> like Pac-Man) into coupon printers.  You could go in, search categories
-> and then print what you were going to use.  Good idea but took extra
-> time to shop if you wanted to stop and see what they had.  I got some
-> from them but we went to Germany before I got to use them too much.  One
-> place had bins, forget where tho.  One woman in our church in Berlin had
-> her mom send over the fliers about once a month--and there would be
-> multiple copies of the fliers--that were passed around among a group of
-> us.

Two of the stores here have websites where you can "load" coupons onto your
courtesy card.  I don't think too many people take advantage of it - too
much of a pain.  I seem to remember those coupon dispensers, but I'm not
sure from where.

-> -> Squeak, squeak?
-> 
->  RH> Or whatever noise guinea pigs make.
-> 
-> That is the noise, no oinks to these pigs.
-> 
Squeakless pigs?  That sounds awfully strange.
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