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Skriven 2008-06-10 15:16:30 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 8595 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: picnic/pasta
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Hi Janis,

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


Thanks. We got a huge packet of about 400 messages. I read about half
yesterday (enough to put me at the 20 replies per day limit) and am
finishing today.  Hopefully things will settle down a bit so I can get
something else done around here. (G)

>> 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

 JK> > My mom did a meat sauce and used Mueller's pasta--or the store eqaul
 JK> of > it.  I can remember having to boil that pasta for a long time (15
 JK> > minutes or so) vs the 7-9 that the whole wheat pasta I buy

 JK> Any semolina based pasta will take 7-9 minutes, true.. even the
 JK> half-semolina half whole wheat will take 9-11, depending on the
 JK> firmness you like.. we eat all of our pasta al dente, whether we eat

A lot of the whole wheat pasta we get (dried) is in the 7-9 minute
cooking range. I generally give it the shorter time, sometimes a bit
more.

 JK> oppossed to Semolina.. there are some _good_ semolina macaroni brands
 JK> out there that are much better than others so that is why I
 JK> differentiate them from Muellers :)  And yes, fresh pasta cooks very

My mom has always gotten that or the store brand, depending on which was
on sale.  Since she gets the white stuff and boils it to death, it has
never been what I would call "good" pasta.  It's been pretty close to
mush sometimes. (G)


 JK> very fast.. 2-3 minutes generally..I love buying semolina flour and
 JK> making fresh ravioli with that! what flavor!  I'm still hunting for a
 JK> large ravioli attachment for my macaroni machine, but I've only seen
 JK> it in a catalog once years ago, and then never again.. This made large

Hmmmmmmmmm, web search time. That's how I found a part for my sewing
machine earlier this year.


 JK> 2 inch raviolis not the small soup type raviolis, and you simply

My MIL used to cut hers out with a tuna fish can.  They were huge but
Steve tells the story of a contest one of his brothers and an uncle had
once to see who could eat the most.  IIRC, the winner ate 23, the loser,
22.


 JK> poured all the ingredients in the hopper and cranked the raviolis out.
 JK> I have the exact machine already for the soup size ones.. as I said I
 JK> saw the machine for the 2" one in a catalog ONCE! I swear :) :)  And
 JK> haven't been able to find it since :) Ah well.. one of these days :)

Keep looking; it'll show up again.


>> 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

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

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

The fun of eating when parents don't mind such goings on.


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

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

It's been well appreciated.  Rachel pretty much junked everything else.
She kept a couple of things to use for camping.  Now I'll get to try it
when I go out there this fall.

>> 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.

 JK> > Moms usually are pretty good about making suggestions for their
 JK> kids. I > used to do it with my 2 and Rachel has with Robert.  A year
 JK> > Target flyer about the same time for a tent, sleeping bag and other
 JK> > "camping" gear-all for indoor use and sent her the money (and the

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

We've done both.  When we were in the local Bass Pro Shop last summer, I
spotted some things that would be neat for Robert.  We picked them up at
teh Las Vegas store when we went out.  Unfortunately one was defective
so we had to return it the day aftr Christmas.  He came with us (as did
Rachel); his reaction was so funny when he walked into the store.  If
you don't know, it's very outdoorsy with a fish pond/waterfall and all
kinds of real stuffed animals mixed with the boats, hunting & fishing
supplies, etc. Robert let loose with a big "WOOOOOOOOW"--couldn't hardly
get him out of the store when we had finished the exchange.


>> Anyway,  I believe the page I went to was www.montesoriservices.com.

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

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


 JK> > No problem, something is wonky with the system. I've used the time
 JK> nt


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Ruth
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... Mind... Mind... Let's see, I had one of those around here someplace.

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