Text 8595, 123 rader
Skriven 2008-06-09 10:42:18 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 8486 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: picnic cookware                                          [2]
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Hi Ruth,

Just so you know, I found Marc's problem with his mail.. things should be
better now we hope. To make a long story short, he'd changed how he was polling
my system and that caused some problems because his mail wasn't where he was
looking for it.. I expect you will or should have gotten quite a large dump of
mail however since my system kept it all for him here "waiting" for him to pick
it up (grin).

>> > No, not if you are brought up with them.  The only pasta my mom kept
>> >on  hand was spaghetti and elbows.

>> Sounds like Ron's mom - but for her, it was thin spaghetti - :)  Very
>> plain sauce (really reduced tomatoes was more what it was) and thin
>> spaghetti, so I understand what you mean.

> My mom did a meat sauce and used Mueller's pasta--or the store eqaul of
> it.  I can remember having to boil that pasta for a long time (15
> minutes or so) vs the 7-9 that the whole wheat pasta I buy genereally
> takes. It's not the 2-3 minutes fresh pasta takes but it's easier on my
> wrists.

Any semolina based pasta will take 7-9 minutes, true.. even the half-semolina
half whole wheat will take 9-11, depending on the firmness you like.. we eat
all of our pasta al dente, whether we eat whole wheat, half-wholewheat
(normal), or semolina or "ronzoni" haha..a class in itself (vbg).. I guess that
would be like Muellers as oppossed to Semolina.. there are some _good_ semolina
macaroni brands out there that are much better than others so that is why I
differentiate them from Muellers :)  And yes, fresh pasta cooks very very
fast.. 2-3 minutes generally..I love buying semolina flour and making fresh
ravioli with that!  what flavor!  I'm still hunting for a large ravioli
attachment for my macaroni machine, but I've only seen it in a catalog once
years ago, and then never again.. This made large 2 inch raviolis not the small
soup type raviolis, and you simply poured all the ingredients in the hopper and
cranked the raviolis out. I have the exact machine already for the soup size
ones.. as I said I saw the machine for the 2" one in a catalog ONCE! I swear :)
:)  And haven't been able to find it since :) Ah well.. one of these days :)

>> it's like a soup, but I think I mentioned it to you before... my kids
>> used to call it "suck up macaroni" because they used to suck the sauce
>> through the ziti macaroni as if the ziti were a straw? and of course
>> they'd leave the broccoli behind haha... which I never minded because
>> all the "healthiness" was in the soup at that point.. and they'd
>> unwittingly eat some of the broccoli anyway (g).

> You did mention it; I got a giggle out of the name then, and again now.
> Family names for foods can be quite unique, as well as descriptive. (G)

haha.. yes indeed.. Made me laugh then as well :)


>> > brand new set of stainless steel cookware for her use. (G)  Deborah
>> > contributed a couple of cast iron fry pans to the cause as well so
>> > Rachel now has a decent set of cookware.

>> Aw, that is really nice :)

> She had been using a make do, patch together set ever since she got
> married, 11 years ago. I figured it was about time she had a nice set;
> Steve and Deborah were willing to go along with my idea. I guess Deborah
> had been thinking along the same lines so was willing to get the fry
> pans to round it out.

Very neat :)   And yest good timing no doubt..

>> >  The Montessori set sounds like
>> > it would be a nice addition to Robert's set--did you order it on
>> line or > where?

>> Yes, I ordered it online... I have a catalog from them now, though (I
>> guess they figure I'm a serious buyer since I've bought a number of
>> things from them over the course of a few years for the kids.. I
>> usually purchase for the boys by the age I think they are "playing at"
>> pretty much, not so much their actual age.. My daughter is very
>> helpful with that of course.

> Moms usually are pretty good about making suggestions for their kids. I
> used to do it with my 2 and Rachel has with Robert.  A year ago last
> November, we sent money for a Big Wheel for his birthday.  She took him
> shopping and he fell in love with a tricycle. So, she got that instead
> but let us know.  We had no problem with that substitution.  I saw a
> Target flyer about the same time for a tent, sleeping bag and other
> "camping" gear-all for indoor use and sent her the money (and the ad) to
> pick it up.  It made a big hit with him.

Same here.. I'd much rather get a sense of what my daughter thinks the boys
want ... or go from a list from them .. though once in a while Ron and I will
see something that we figure the boys just have to have, but not really that
often (g).

>> Anyway,  I believe the page I went to was www.montesoriservices.com.
>> If you have trouble finding anything there, let me know and I'll look
>> further in my email file. That is the address that is listed on the
>> catalog they sent me, and it's sitting here in front of me.

> I copied it and will check it out in the next few days. If nothing else,
> I can look at the catalog when we come up. BTW, slight change in plans
> for the picnic week end.  We will be leaving on Sunday instead of
> Monday.  We're going a different way back to Savannah that takes us away
> form the Baltimore/DC traffic and thru Charlotte, NC.  When we found the
> routing, we called some friends in Charlotte so we will be spending some
> time with them before going the last bit to Savannah.

That should be nice for you - a nice break in the traveling :)
>> Sorry I lost this message in the "pile" for a bit :)


> No problem, something is wonky with the system. I've used the time nt
> reading Fido to cut out stuff for the new baby.  Still, would rather the
> system got working again; I miss the day to day chatter.

It sure was haha...  well, took me a while to find the problem, but after
examining my logs (and my system has 7 logs for one daemon and 2 logs for
another daemon) I was able to determine the problem.. just took some time.
Things should be back on track now.  And as I said, you should be inundated
with a large backlog of a week's mail (sadly enough :()  - but at least the
mail wasn't "lost".

Take care,
Janis

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