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Skriven 2011-05-29 21:58:30 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: pantry
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Hey Ruth!

-> 
-> -> -> 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
-> 
-> ->  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
-> 
-> -> Same principle, different techniques.
-> 
->  hn> Pretty much, yep!
-> 
-> I do the same basic thing for peaches as well. Really ripe ones have no
-> trouble shedding their skin; it's the ones you think are ripe but aren't
-> quite that give you grief. BTW, have a good number of tomatoes on the
-> Roma plants now, with more to come.
->
We did the same, with peaches as we
did for tomatoes..Peach time at my 
grandparent's farm was a time when
all the aunts got together with my 
Grandmother and put up peaches,
some jam, some canned. 
 
-> -> Due to time/other committments, we got Taco Bell take out; I had a
-> -> salad, Steve a grilled, stuffed burrito.
-> 
->  hn> I've been busy all day today so have not
->  hn> had time to get anything out of the freezer
->  hn> (should have done it this morning when I left
->  hn> but I forgot), so it's likely we'll go out tonight
->  hn> unless Anne will settle for soup and salad for
->  hn> dinner. Depends mostly on how her day was.
-> 
-> We've had days like that. Sometimes it's breakfast for supper. Tonight
-> Steve had to pick up a former professor from the airport at 5:15 and
-> take him up to WF. Because of some weather and traffic, he got home
-> about 6:45. We'd defrosted a small steak which he grilled to go with
-> swiss chard and a slight varient on a German tomato salad. Good eating
-> with little fuss. BTW, the tomato salad is one I posted years ago,
-> generally useing red wine vinegar in it. Tonight I used balsamic and it
-> was really good.
->
tonight when I got home from the ballpark
we had a cup of soup and a slice of quiche.
Both were real good and very welcome!!
 
-> -> -> 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> Yep, take a break...Allergies getting
->  hn> to you as well?
-> 
-> Probably a bit of allergies but hot and humid weather the last few days
-> hasn't helped. Had a good thunderstorm line blow thru earlier this
-> afternoon after I'd made bread and finished the chutney. I've got to do
-> some more baking tomorrow morning, weather guy is saying it should be
-> cool (low to mid 80s) instead of the low to mid 90s we've had most of
-> the week.
->
Still nice and cool here, temps barely getting
into the high 50's and rarely into the 60's.
Perfect weather!!
 
-> -> -> 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
-> 
-> Sorry, it's karate, not TKD.
-> 
-> -> to attending a private school where he works several grades ahead of
-> -> public school.
-> 
->  hn> Busy kid!!
-> 
-> Better busy than bored.
->
I never was bored, I always found
interesting things to do (grin).
 
-> ->  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> You'd be surprised, some of those
->  hn> rents they pay are higher than in
->  hn> some of the "better" parts of
->  hn> town!
-> 
-> In proportion to what they get, it wouldn't surprise me. In HI, when
-> military housing was privatised, we paid about twice the rent for about
-> half the square footage we had in GA. Better kitchen in HI, plus housing
-> that would withstand a strong hurricane better than the GA place. Here I
-> think our rent is on the low side for the area but we can easily pay it
-> in the months Steve does not get GI Bill housing allowance.
->
Here it's often a matter of landlords
taking advantage of the latinos. Some of
it it language based and some of it plays upon
their fears. 
 
-> ->  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.
-> 
->  hn> It could be, there's a lot of stress
->  hn> here too at the moment so that's
->  hn> an added factor.
-> 
-> Definately! Are things settling out in NY or is that partly the reason
-> for stress?
->
there are several other things as well
that are ongoing and unresolved at
this point.
-> 
->  hn> Still I'm hoping that it will start
->  hn> to show a pattern (and a decline in
->  hn> blood sugar).
-> 
-> Keep tsting, noting your settings, what you've had/not had to eat,
-> stress indicators and how the pain in your knee factors into everything.
-> At some point, a pattern should begin to emerge.
-> 
That's what I'm hoping!
I'll be up to the full dosage of
the med starting tomorrow, so after
a week of that I hope to see some
improvement.
chat with you soon!
hap 
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