Text 8327, 150 rader
Skriven 2008-06-03 13:49:29 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 8231 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: food, fast & poor
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Hi Janis,

 JK> oof.. working in the garden just now in the blazing heat and sun out
 JK> there was incredible today :) :) Feels like 90, but the temp only says
 JK> 69.. nice sunshine though for a change (bg).

We had a high humidity day (with thunderstorms) yesterday.  It was also
around 90--not the weather I like.


>> > I know the feeling. I can get wiped out in a few hours.
>> Yep..It was nice getting to visit though.
 JK> > As usual; any time you can see the grand kids and other family is
 JK> nice.

 JK> This was especially nice since Ron's aunt pulled out all the photo
 JK> albums she had of old photos of his family that she wanted to make
 JK> sure she gave to Ron. Some of them were incredible... people that Ron
 JK> had never met. Like Ron's grandfather who'd died when his father was

Fun! We visited one of my dad's cousins in Florida last year. She had an
old scrap book of family, including some pictures of when she visited
our family.  I was a baby or toddler in some, pre schooler in others.

 JK> weeks > ago we went to a Chinese buffet that we've been to before. OK
 JK> stuff, a > lot of battered and fried, lots of stuff made for American
 JK> tastes and it > looked like menuedo in the one pot.

 JK> We're picky about the buffet we go to, generally.. or at least try to
 JK> be.. but you're right, most of them are sad.  If you're careful, you
 JK> can find some good food there.  I really prefer the restaurants though

This one seems to cater to the American taste expectations. We've not
tried any Chinese sit down places yet but did get take out from a couple
of hole in the wall (mostly take out business) places.  One was so-so;
the other, was really good.  We watched them make everything; they even
did vegetarian fried rice and an egg roll for Steve as the standard for
meal combos was made with pork, no extra charge.


 JK> to the buffets to be honest.. we have a few good ones that serve
 JK> sushi, and also other japanese cusine.  There's a thai restaurant that
 JK> we haven't been able to get into yet.. everytime we go there, they are
 JK> packed.. just to busy to even think about parking..   Our favorite

Popular place.  Have you tried off hours?

 JK> though is the korean restaurant though.

We enjoyed the one here but miss the hole in the wall on every other
corner ones we went to in HI.  Got enough on a mini plate there for a
couple of meals.

 JK> > They should have somebody there that can look after the food needs.
 JK> Lots > of poeple that live in places like that have dietary
 JK> constraints that > need to be observed. I'm surpised they don't.

 JK> I know.. you'd think they would have someone on the staff who's got
 JK> the job of watching that people's dietary needs are met.. but they
 JK> don't. This is the Atria Assisted-living Retirement company or
 JK> whatever.. hard to imagine..

I'd start beefing about it to higher up than just the facility.

>> cook they've recently hired told her that he was trained in a cooking
>> school, and was looking forward to creating meals for people that were
>> interesting, etc. but Mom said so far it's been quite a
>> disappointment.. i.e., "out of a can". :(

 JK> > Sounds like he was trained all right--trained to use a can opener.

 JK> That's about what it sounds like to me, from what she's told me.

Sad; you need to start making some noise to the management above the
facility level.

>>> they creamed it so well haha :) and served it on toast (grin) but they
>>> didn't call it toast IIRC (bg).
>> > I know, my dad never talked about it.
>> Lol :)
 JK> > OTOH, you should have tasted what Dave S. made last summer.  That
 JK> was > really good!

 JK> You'll have to describe it for me :)  I will admit to being a little
 JK> "afraid"  (bg)

I really don't recall what he did except a sausage gravy (in thick white
sauce)--ask him for specifics--over a biscuit and a taste that was
definately not chow hall style.

>>> it's up in the mountains 'almost' though these aren't really
>>> mountains, and we aren't quite "in" them anyway (g). We're "around

>> > I know, I lived in the mountains the first 22 years of my life.
>> > Techincally, they aren't but I think most folks would rather call


 JK> Ah.. right, Mountain woman :) :)  I grew up in the Valley haha. I

At the time, yes. I still like to have them within my sight.  Right now,
we're living on the coastal "pancake" as Steve calls it--not a mountain
in sight--sigh.

 JK> guess that makes me a Valley Girl?? (laugh) Well, not quite that bad I
 JK> hope Lol.. I did hang out in the mountains since the drum corp I
 JK> belonged to played up there quite often (parades, etc.). Ron and I
 JK> knew so many of the same people when we first met, it was uncanny.

After I met Steve, I met one of his high school class mates and one who
had been a year ahead of him in high school.  Other than that, we didn't
know any of hte same group except the Bible study and our ASL
instructor.

 JK> Through meeting people in the drum corps, I'd stay up there in the
 JK> summers sometimes with friends I'd met.

Nice to get up where it's a bit cooler. (G)


 JK> I do love the view driving up to Binghamton.. even moreso the view
 JK> driving to Delaware County... incredible views of the catskills..

For sure on the latter! Especially in mid September thru mid October.
(G)

>> died. The farm was in Eureka before they flooded it for the resevoir
>> (that story always amazed me. Whole towns, just gone)

 JK> > I know; Arena & Shavertown are underneath the Pepactin. That was
 JK> > finished in 1955 so in the droughts of the early 60s, we could still
 JK> see > parts of the towns as the reservoir wasn't very full yet.


 JK> That must have been very very weird to see :)

Very much so; at the time, I was too young to really appreciate the
history of the area.  Now, older, and seeing what happened...........
NYC gave the upstate people the short end of the stick.  The "carrot" at
the end was rotten too.

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