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Skriven 2011-07-21 16:06:54 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 13431 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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Hi Michael,

 RH> Every time I see my parent's phone number on the ID, I wonder what the
 RH> not so good news is.

 ML> That's anxiety-producing. Maybe you should gently suggest that
 ML> they should call you once in a while, either that or use Skype
 ML> for everything.

We try to call (or Skype) them on a somewhat regular basis, just to
check in. They are OK with Skype in but I don't think they've ever tried
making a call with it.  Since we are in fairly frequent contact, I'm not
concerned. OTOH, if we tried calling and got no answer (or not seein dad
on line), I'd be concerned.


 RH> them from time to time, check on how they're doing and one more time to
 RH> visit. As for losing contemporaries, I lost some even while in high
 RH> school and have lost several college classmates as well.

 ML> I started early on that as well - when the kid in kindergarten
 ML> whose heart went "squish squish" instead of beating didn't show
 ML> up for first grade, that was the first I remembered. Having grown
 ML> up with fairly affluent people, there have been relatively few
 ML> losses among classmates until recently, but we've been catching
 ML> up lately. I wonder what I will see if I go to my 40th college
 ML> reunion a couple years hence.

Grand total of 7 classmates (of 220+/-) showed up at my 35th college
reunion last year. Don't know if a high school one is planned for this
year or not and how many would show up. Not us, this time. Have yet to
make a high school one.


 RH> When we were in Germany, there seemed to be a movement toward serving
 RH> soft drinks cold in restaurants. You've been over there more recently;
 RH> has this trend continued?

 ML> I don't drink soft drinks in restaurants in Germany! But
 ML> I seem to recall cool (not cold) Coca-Cola with ice,
 ML> melting slowly in a bucket, available someplace.

Ice is probably there if you want it but I'm somewhat skeptical of it if
I don't know how pure the water is. We skip ice at a lot of places,
having read of water lines to the ice maker being contaminated in
different ones.

 RH> We drank more water than
 RH> anything else in Israel; the tour guide and bus driver kept a cooler
 RH> full for sale on the bus. That was cold but I don't recall it being icy
 RH> cold othr places. Cold yes, but not icy cold.

 ML> The ice not replenished, no doubt, so the water got less
 ML> cold as the day went on.

By late afternoon I had had enough anyway, most days.


 ML>       Title: Five Spice Powder
 ML>   M's note: this is only one of several recipes, others of
 ML>   which include white pepper, Szechwan pepper, and/or
 ML>   ginger powder.
 RH> I've seen different ones, some call themselves 7 spice. So which is
 RH> more authentic?

 ML> It's a big country. I'm afraid there's no single authenticity,
 ML> not unlike with some of the Indian mixtures, such as garam masala.


Same as bbq sauce in the US. (G) Subway is offering a bbq pulled pork
sub now but it has the red sauce, not the eastern NC vinegar based one.


 ML> Pizzelles
 ML> cat: Italian, cookies
 ML> yield: 1 lg batch

I've eaten plenty of these over the years since I met Steve. (G)


 ML> 6 eggs
 ML> 1 1/2 c sugar
 ML> 1 c oil
 ML> 4 ts b.powder
 ML> 1 ts vanilla
 ML> 1 orange, zest of (optional)
 ML> 1 ts anise OIL
 ML> 2 Tb to 1/4 c anise seeds
 ML> 4 c flour

Similar to my MIL's but she uses the juice of an orange as well as the
zest.


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

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