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Skriven 2008-01-11 15:53:48 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
    Kommentar till text 558 av Carol Shenkenberger (6539.cooks)
Ärende: echo picnics 547
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Hi Carol,


 >  CS> We kinda like it, but we have a good draft so it's not a big thing.
 >  CS> More of a slight tang.

 > Still probably enough to bother me.

 CS> I'm guessing yes, but I'm guessing others would be fine with it.
 CS> There's a fine line on this.

Yes, and some days I can take it better than others.  Today would not be
good; had an appointment scheduled few weeks ago with my PCM and
bronchitis started flaring earlier in the week.  So, got some anti
biotics (again).


 >  CS> True.  Gonna need a wig or anything like that?  Or is the level well
 >  CS> below such like I'm hoping?
 CS>  >
 > No, I don't anticipate losing any hair.  That's more apt to happen with
 > chemo.  It should be a concentrated dosage aimed right at the trouble
 > area.  Found out today I'll start Friday morning.

 CS> Ok, sorry but us curious minds wanna know.  Most were probably afraid
 CS> to ask (g).  Figured I'd be the bold one and ask.  THen again, folks

No problem; I'm probably giving ya'll a good education.  Not going into
the medical details as deep as I could tho. (G)


 CS> here are so wicked, we'd aim 'angel hair' recipes at you since we know
 CS> you'd take the joke in good spirit as intended.

Yes, and fire devil's food ones right back. (BEG)

 > I know she can handle some things. Under supervision, she can probably
 > do an excellent job of her main stays and possibly one or two new,
 > uncomplicated dishes.

 CS> It's time for her to learn more but as Don and i like to cook, I think
 CS> we have actually intimidated her a bit.  It's all innocent, but she
 CS> has her own style not experimented with much and not sure of herself.

Time for you and Don to step aside, tolerate a few "interesting" dishes
and let her have fun cooking.  Deborah was our experimenter in the
kitchen, still is; Rachel is more conservative.  But she did a nice
prime rib for Christmas dinner.


 CS> She signed up for 'home ec' for next year because she wants to try it
 CS> along with other stuff, and we think this is a very good thing for her
 CS> soul as she grows to the lady she will be, before our eyes.

Will she learn to sew as well as cook? That will be a useful skill as
well as she grows up and moves away from home (all too soon).


 CS> Charlotte has seen me and Don experiment so knows failures happen, but
 CS> she's battling the 'gee, once in a blue moon failure' vice, oops mom,
 CS> feeling. Thats one I didnt have as a kid. Mom, (lovely woman in all
 CS> ways but not a cook) could eat even my worst disasters.  Grin, it
 CS> wasnt kindness.  It was better than what she made.  (Again, did a
 CS> really good job of raising 3 kids on her own, and her *only* 'failing'
 CS> was to be a very very plain cook.  I'm th e least successful of us 3
 CS> kids).

My mom rarely ate my cooking as she was gone (summer school or night
school) when I did most of it.  She was a very plain cook also, because
my dad is such a plain eater.  Once I got married and moved out of the
house, I got away from the plain cooking; made most of my kitchen
mistakes before Steve and I got married. I probably cook the most varied
way of us 5 kids. Some would say that since I don't work outside the
home I'm not a success but I've done enough otherwise that I'd beg to
differ with them.

 CS> I can wax poetic on my Mom, but she's plain simple good people with
 CS> the best of heart and good ethics she taught us all.  Grin, only here
 CS> do I rag a bit on her only failing.  Bert is a better cook though Mom
 CS> has improved once she wasnt trying to stretch the budget to cover 3
 CS> famished kids.

My mom had to cook for 5 kids on a tight budget.  Dad cooked from time
to time (mainly the grill or if mom was sick) when I was a kid but I
understand he does a bit more of it now. Still, neither of them are
anything other than plain cooks/eats.

 CS> Grin, I just had a little image of her at a cooking picnic with us.
 CS> She'd chop veggies and watch in facination but not be sure of eating
 CS> anything too strange like durian.

I think she'd fit in fine. We had a few "off the wall" things at the
last picnic but most of it was down home cooking. (Aside to Michael:
Rachel offered us some jelly beans in a way we were a bit suspicious so
we questioned her before taking any. Yes, they were some of the Harry
Potter ones. [G]).  That was related to the last picnic, one of the not
so common items brought for tasting.


 CS> Wow, did I stray or what?

So, who cares?  A nice little side trip.

 > I've got a sorting basket that we had in our 10 cubic foot freezer.
 > It's too big for the one here.  It's not really worth a lot of money so

 CS> If you have room to hang onto'em, I could use them if we get to a
 CS> picnic at the same time? I had some old milk crates that helped but
 CS> they seem to have gone away now. Not worth cost to mail me what you
 CS> have, but if you can tuck themn to a side area with no trouble, we'll

I think it's just one; hanging out in the garage for now.  We'll be
vacating this place in April, 09 so will have to get together before
then.


 CS> Meantime, the very bottom of the freezer is whwere Don stacks his
 CS> stuff.  I ca nt reach that low comfortably.

Dive! Dive! Dive!  Sorry, you're not the submariner, Hap was. (G)


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