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Skriven 2010-09-14 10:22:20 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 1249 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Herbs and such                                           [1]
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Hi Ruth,

>> > stains, my name isn't in it hard back spiral bound but in time
>> should > resemble the other one. (G)

>> Yes, that's a sad one - Somewhere, someone must have a copy but
>> finding it would hardly be worth the effort I suppose :(

> No, but at least I can still get a copy of the book.  Some are harder to
> find than others so I can be thankful that it's still available.

That's true.  The cookbooks I lost were also still available, but not the same
editions - I'm sure I could find the exact one, but again, is it worth the time
:)  Doubt it :)

>> We're suddenly down in the 70's (g).. feels like brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

And now LUCKY if we hit 70F :(  I'm waiting for Indian Summer now :)  At least
it's something to look forward to.

> We had a couple of days in the 80s (nice!) but are back into the 90s.
> The temps are going to swing back & forth, then settle into the 80s and
> 70s, hopefully soon.

70's are nice if the sun is out.. over here, we seem to have more cloudy days
than sunny ones.. I think last year I saw a comment from a foreign exchange
student who was attending SUNY Binghamton.. his comment was the area was
friendly enough, but it was sickening that the area was either cloudy or rainy
every day (grin).

>> after all those days of 90's .. but it's supposed to get into the 80's
>> in a day or so.. bah..NY weather.. I guess I'll believe that forcast
>> when I see it :)

> That's the way we feel--it's the "if you don't like the weather, wait 5
> minutes" time of year. (G)

haha true... well the 90's came and immediately left.. :(

>> We haven't decided whether to renew or not just yet.. we grabbed a
>> pile of cd's from the house and it was great hearing a number of those
>> that we hadn't heard in a while ...We're investigating a number of

> We just renewed the Satellite radio for another year.  We've thought
> about buying a receiver so we could get it in the house but haven't yet.
> It would be nice to hear more of some of the discussions without having
> to stay in the car.

What we finally did was drop cable tv completely, and went back to the
satellite since we could get a better deal on Sattelite radio that way.  So for
now, it's back (g).  And boy it's so surprising how much cheaper Satellite TV
is that cable.. that's a good thing.

> We have the broadcast networks only but we're closer to a bigger city
> than you are.  Cable is only for internet.  But, we don't watch a lot of
> tv either, especially during the school year.

Ah.. we use DSL from the phone company for our internet .. we pay exhorbitant
prices for that connection since this phone company won't let you run servers
(for my FileGate site, and ron's work) unless you pay as a "business"
customer.. It's a rip off but has come down in price a small bit.. now we only
pay $200.00 a month .. argh.. Cable won't even let you run servers anymore for
any amount of money..  When we first moved back to NY there was no DSL in the
area.. the cable company charged me $500.00 a month for our connection.. that
was a ridiculous amount of $$ to pay for any type of service.  Then they just
decided one day they didn't want to run servers anymore.. We were disconnected
with no warning..That worked out ok for us since just at that time DSL was made
available in Windsor (g).

>> Bummer is my allergies are totally 'en guarde' right now since I've
>> been taking so many things that I'm allergic to. Antibiotics, the
>> Provigil, I forget what else - there was another one.. so I had to
>> stop the Provigil last week because I was so sensitized from bad

> No fun.  Steve takes Provigil to help him stay awake during the day.  He
> also takes Niaspan for cholesterol and found out the other night that
> you don't take it after eating a lot of salty stuff.  He had finished
> off a bag of pretzels, eating some of the salt from the bottom and had
> one of these 'crawling out of my skin" experiences.

That's a drag but at least now he knows..

>> reactions to antibiotics.  Allergies are funny that way, you can just
>> have "one hit" too much in the way of allergic reactions, and then
>> you're body just goes nuts. That's what mine did last week. I'm about
>> ready to toss all these pills and have tossed a number of them (g).

> If you're doing well without them, toss away.  But don't toss until you
> see how you're doing without them.

As it turns out, the antibiotics were the big factor in all that.  I think the
Provigil would have been ok if I hadn't had so many allergic reactions to the
antibiotics.. Anyway, I'm back on provigil now, and so far no problems.

>> I've gotten pretty good at getting them together pretty quickly when
>> they're needed.. throw some slices of home-made bread in the toaster..
>> grind them up.. season while still a little warm.. That cheese grater
>> I showed you when you were here does make great bread crumbs but it's
>> a bit of overkill :)

> Wouldn't be overkill for me. (G) I save crusts up until I've got
> probably about 15-20 of them, cube, dry and grind them.  IOW, it would
> save a bit of time for me. I save the crusts in a zip lock bag in the
> freezer until it's full.  Then they get dried in the oven and run thru a
> mini blend jar to grind them up.

Yes, it would be a good time saver for you, that's for sure.  I do use it all
it the time for grinding cheese though and occaisionally for breadcrumbs.. It's
incredible how hard it is for me to do grind cheese any other way it seems..

>> It would be interesting to see the listed ingredients.. perhaps just
>> olive oil and seasoning?

> It has grapeseed oil, canola oil, dried thyme, dried parsley & natural
> garlic flavor.  It's gluten free, lactose free and vegan, as well as
> kosher.

That sounds like a good mix.. I'll have to try making up a batch of that.

>> I've done dry beans that way as well, and it does seem easier to me
>> since you don't have to worry about 'overcooking'.. I just soak them
>> the night before and then cook them the next day.  I like the pressure
>> cooker for dry beans when I've forgotten to pre-soak them though (g).

> I'll do the "quick soak" usually but even that takes over an hour.
> Guess I should just buckle down and remember to soak them in advance.
> (G)

Well, they absolutely kill my guts if I don't soak them over night, or use the
pressure cooker.. Once in a while I'll just bite the bullet though and soak
them only for an hour :)

>> > I probably should but it's used most often for a stock pot or
>> cooking > pumpkin.

I found the neatest recipe for making stock for gravy.. never thought of this
before, but someone was talking about it on TV on one of the cooking shows
(Diners, Drivins and Dives, I think).. No real recipe was given but it wasn't
hard to figure out :) Essentially you roast chicken bones, add some tomatoes,
some water and roast again.  I tried it, and it was great :)


>> My daughter uses it for potatoes, something I've never thought of
>> doing.  But it makes sense for her because she's cooking so many at
>> once for her 'crowd' (g).

> And I imagine those boys can pack away a good bit of potatoes.  They

Yep, they can :)  When they come (or when it's just Alex) I make a lot of
them..

> were one thing we rarely had left over; my mom knew pretty much how many
> to cook for 5 growing kids and 2 adults.  We never went hungry but
> sometimes wished we had just a couple more bites.

hehe.. and it's one thing we rarely ate :) Dad insisted on some kind of
macaroni/spaghetti every night when he wasn't working double-shifts, etc.

Take care,
Janis

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