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Skriven 2010-02-08 23:20:30 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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-> -> from Steve "Why didn't you call me & let me do it?" if he's home.  If
-> -> he's not there, I'd have to do it so if I don't need his help, I
won't
-> -> call.  But, I will call him for most of the heavy lifting.
-> 
->  RH> I have to figure out ways around the heavy stuff. Generally, for
->  RH> mixing that involves just grabbing a bowl and a spoon.
-> 
-> And it's not always a heavy weight bowl either, I presume.  The other
-> day I thought about mixing something up in a Tupperware bowl, then
-> thought again and used the KA.  Easier to get to and just as easy to
-> clean & it will mix whatever you feed it.

I'd have to use the stairs to get at my Tupperware bowl, so I generally use
a steel one that's already upstairs.  I don't have the counter space to
keep the KA out; it's under the TV stand.  That requires lifting, so it's
easier to just use a spoon.  I could use the hand mixer, but I don't like
the noise.

->  RH> He peeled a mean potato and quartered a mean apple, but that was
about
->  RH> all.
-> 
-> Beats doing nothing. (G)

He was really useful when Mom made applesauce in the fall.
 
->  RH> Oh well.  A friend of my mom's taught her husband to cook after
they
->  RH> both retired.  She said it was because she didn't want him to marry
->  RH> the first good cook he ran across if she predeceased him.  He got
to
->  RH> be pretty good, but died a year or so before she did.  The training
->  RH> wasn't for naught
->  RH> though; it never hurts to know how to cook!
-> 
-> 
-> No, it never does know how, for either men or women.  I understand my
-> younger brother is a decent cook; I think my older one knows how to push
-> buttons on a microwave.

A lot of people are like that; I've never understood the mindset.
 
->  RH> Not enough, in other words.  Then again they used to come with
almost
->  RH> all of the meals, so a soldier could save a few from the ones that
->  RH> didn't need it.
-> 
-> Trouble is, most all of them need help.  Or at least they did last time
-> I tasted any.
-> 
Too bad they don't put vindaloo in those MREs?  I can't imagine that stuff
needing a Tabasco boost.
 
-> -> It gets me in the eyes more--kind of hard to wear gloves there. (G)
-> 
->  RH> True - safety goggles?
-> 
-> I could, but just work thru it.

I don't have those any more, not since chem labs in college.  
 
->  RH> Dogs, birds, frogs, horses, sheep, goats...?  My dad was like that;
->  RH> animals had him figured for an easy mark.  They were right.
-> 
-> Some of us are like that.  On the same order as a "whisperer" I guess.
-> 
The animals don't always whisper though; they used to just sort of pounce.  
 
-> -> Tofu?  I've seen recipes for those but not tried making one.
-> 
->  RH> Tofu, orange juice, and a crust made of wheat bran.  UCK.  Mixing
->  RH> ricotta and finely mashed tofu works well enough.
-> 
-> I'd use something else for the crust but otherwise it doesn't sound that
-> bad.

It was worse.  No added sugar.  If it had been tasteless it would have been
better.  
 
->  RH> Me too.  Half the time all I need to do is look at the sodium
content.
->  RH> This she says after devouring some microwave popcorn....  Of
course,
->  RH> it's Superbowl Sunday so junk food is a requirement.  I even ate
->  RH> Doritos!
-> 
-> I didn't watch any of it; would have liked to have seen some of the
-> commercials tho.  I read about the Oprah, Leno & Letterman one today;
-> had heard & read about the Tim Tebow one before the game.

That was really funny, and the Tebow one was great.  ('nuff said in here,
methinks)  The Budweiser ad with the cow was fun too.  
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