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Skriven 2011-05-25 22:00:28 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 11239 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
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Hi Hap,

->  hn> Good plan, do you blanch them before
->  hn> skinning? I do makes it easy peasy!

-> I just dump some boiling water over them, let them sit for a few minutes
-> and drain the water. Skins slip off really easy. Not technically
-> blanching but close enough. It's the way I learned to do tomatoes years

 hn> That would work as well, I usually
 hn> just cut an X in them tossed them
 hn> in boiling water for a few seconds
 hn> and then took them out and put them in
 hn> a bowl of ice water. Skin comes off
 hn> Sooo easy!

Same principle, different techniques.

-> -> and grocery shopping yesterday afternoon into early evening so hit up
-> -> Chik-Fil-A for supper.

->  hn> We've been doing a little bit of
->  hn> eating out this week too.

-> We will on Wed. night as I've got a 4 pm appointment in Chapel Hill.

Due to time/other committments, we got Taco Bell take out; I had a
salad, Steve a grilled, stuffed burrito.

-> Tonight's supper was partly recycles (grilled chicken and potato salad)
-> from Saturday, part new cooked (green beans with garlic--recipe Janis
-> posted last year). I spent most of the day working on cucumber relish
-> and canning dilled green beans. The relish will be finished tomorrow and
-> I'll start mango chutney to be finished Wednesday. That will probably
-> finish my putting up until tomatoes and peaches come into season.

 hn> You're going to have a full pantry!

That's the plan! I postponed the chutney a couple of days as the
bronchitis came back with a vengance. Now on a stronger antibiotic and 6
day run of prednisone so I should start to regain my steam in a day or
so.

->  hn> It being the end of the school year,
->  hn> Anne has lots to do beyond her norm.
->  hn> so that means she simply does not
->  hn> have time to deal with dishes and
->  hn> clean up...so paper plates work well
->  hn> for those situations.

-> They also work when you've got a new born baby, a toddler, another kid
-> in grade school and a husband who is head master at a private school.
-> Even with my help, Rachel pulled out the paper several times and said
-> she would do it more so after I left. Can't blame her; the schedule that
-> they keep is jam packed.

 hn> No wonder!

They're trying to give Robert (now, girls as they get older) a lot of
the lessons and such they didn't have while growing up military brats.
Robert is in Tae Kwon Do, swimming and private piano lessons in addition
to attending a private school where he works several grades ahead of
public school.

->  hn> 04...don't know about good big
->  hn> latino markets tho.

-> Just have to keep looking. Saw a number of them in Savannah and got our
-> tortilla maker in Zebulon, a town smaller than WF but seems to have a

 hn> Most of the "best" Latino
 hn> markets are in the "worst" parts
 hn> of town...where the rents are the
 hn> lowest and the "questions" are seldom
 hn> asked.

Yes, where the Latinos live because they can't afford the rents of other
parts of town.

->  hn> Not really yet, but I'm just starting
->  hn> the testing and medication. My
->  hn> system is just getting used to it

-> Yes, and you need to be consistent about the time of day you do it.
-> Most folks seem to like to check first thing in the morning, before
-> breakfast. I presume you're recording the numbers too.

 hn> I do it twice a day, in the morning
 hn> before eating (fasting blood sugar)
 hn> and in the evening at least two hours
 hn> after eating my evening meal. so
 hn> far the timing for the evening poke
 hn> has varied greatly! Sometimes we
 hn> have eaten at 5:30...sometimes
 hn> as late as 8 pm!

And therein lies the all over the map readings. My mom's is way up
again; she fell again (no major harm done) and the stress from that (&
other aging issues) is driving it up.  Looks like they may be going to
go ahead with the stairway lift, other modifications to the house will
be suggested for their consideration.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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