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Skriven 2012-09-09 22:26:48 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 29316 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: Another Ithaca Farmer's Market                           [1]
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Hi Janis,

Typing one handed but the wrist is fixed. Now I have to let it heal so I
can get on with projects.

>> Exactly.. That's certainly happened to me in Louisville at a Korean
>> restaurant. It was wonderful that the cook insisted on fixing me
>> another dish with food that wasn't as hot as that initial one.  He
>> refused to accept any extra $$ for that as well.

 JK> > Nice of him but if you came back, it was worth it for him.

 JK> Certainly, especially given the size of that tiny restaurant. :)

Tiny places can put out great food. We call them "hole in the wall"
places; our favorite Korean one in Hawaii was one of that tpye.


 JK> >Most of the
 JK> > time a meal like that will start out OK but the heat builds as I
 JK> keep > eating it. Most times I'll make it thru, sometimes tho, I've
 JK> had to push > it away.

 JK> Same here ... so that's why I try not to order things extra hot (by my
 JK> standards at least).

I'll try to get an idea of the place's definitions of the heat levels.
But, as I found with salsas, one place's medium could be defined as hot
to some or mild to others.


>> Same here.. we avoid it in anything that lists it.  In 2010, the corn
>> industry tried to get the FDA to approve the name "corn sugar" for
>> HFCS, but the Corn industry was turned down.  If I see anything that
>> looks like, I don't buy it.

 JK> > The corn industry is getting too powerful, glad this idea got shot
 JK> down.

 JK> Oh they'll think of something.. they have to do something with all the
 JK> genetically modified corn they're growing :( :(  eek.  I keep thinking
 JK> in time you won't be able to find any corn that is "plain" corn.  Sad
 JK> because even though it's one of my allergies, I love it.

Steve gets migraine headaches if he has too much at a time. A few weeks
ago we bought 3 ears at the local farmer's market, a 4th was thrown in.
As Steve was helping with "tear down", he was given 4 more ears of corn.
We had one each that day & the next. Took a couple days off, then had an
ear each, the next 2 days and no migraines for Steve. But, we're done
with fresh corn for the season.

>>> Ever try it without sugar?  I haven't put up pickles in a long time so
>> > I don't recall off the top of my head what I used; the recipes came
>> from > the 2010 Ball Blue book.

>> Think I have that one here.. I'll have to see.  Might be from an
>> earlier year though.

 JK> > Should be the same basic recipies tho.

 JK> Yeah.. still digging and digging through boxes of books :)  That
 JK> doesn't help much hehe

Been there, done that too many times to count.


>> > Yes, and some things (like peaches) you can use light, medium or
>> heavy > syrup. I generally use light or extra light.

>> You mean say, purchased canned peaches?  I've seen some recipes to can
>> peaches using grape juice, haven't tried that though.

 JK> > No, home canned peaches. I put up 13 pints last year in extra light
 JK> > syrup before I knew I was diabetic. We're still eating them.

 JK> Sure, understand. Must have tasted great though .. :(

They do--fresh from an Amish market and last summer was a good one for
peaches.


>> Two mortgages:

 JK> Some windows we left as is (with storms).. helped keep the heat out.

 JK> > One of the first things my folks bought when Mom started working was
 JK> > aluminum combo screens/storm doors & windows. You just slide the
 JK> proper > panel into place; they're still on the house now some 45
 JK> years later. > Beat wrestling those heavy storm windows and screens.

 JK> Yeah, I can understand that one :)  This house is great.  He's got new
 JK> windows in every window.. easy to open, switch up screens/storms.  I
 JK> really love this place :)

We'll get up to see it some time, not sure when tho.


 JK> [fracking water lol]
>> But if it goes through in the Broome county area, the house in Windsor
>> could sold to a business (which is what I expect will happen).  Not a
>> fracking company per se.. but maybe as a rental for employees, that
>> kind of thing.

 JK> > That's one good use for it--either a big family or lots of singles
 JK> could > share it. It might get sub divided into apartments again; you
 JK> did have > the extra downstairs kitchen IIRC.

 JK> There were 4 kitchens in this house when we bought it, 2 upstairs and
 JK> 2 downstairs. One upstairs was a very small one, but all the
 JK> electrical and plumbing is still up there.  We took the appliances
 JK> out, and my daughter used that room for her dining room.. without the
 JK> appliances, it is quite a large room.  Monster house really.. 4
 JK> kitchens, 4 bathrooms.. the previous owner had used it as a bed and
 JK> breakfast for a while until she found out that the insurance would
 JK> have been very very high if she was doing the cooking as she'd
 JK> planned.

Still, it was a nice house. Makes the place we are in now look tiny
(we've got 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, about 1000 square feet), which it
is. (G)

>>  The house was only on the market a few weeks when we found
>> it.

 JK> > Making the previous owner surprised and happy that it sold as fast
 JK> as it > did.

 JK> No doubt :)  but property in Ithaca goes extremely fast.. it always
 JK> has. I'm sure that's because of Cornell University.

Probably, same as housing in Chapel Hill or Durham because of UNC-CH and
Duke.


 JK> > Got your kitchen up to steam yet?

 JK> Right now, we're so busy with work and 'stuff' ;)  We brought over the
 JK> pot rack from Windsor yesterday, and I'll get a smaller one for the
 JK> Windsor kitchen.  I always felt the one that was in Windsor was too
 JK> big for the Center Island there we built..so a smaller one will be
 JK> better.. maybe just a different shape, not necessarily smaller if you
 JK> know what I mean.  The rectangular shape of the stainless one we
 JK> brought over from Windsor will go well over the center island with
 JK> dishwasher/butcher block top Ron is building now in Slaterville
 JK> Springs.. will be nice when done :)


We found a pot rack at a thrift shop a couple of years ago. It's been
nice--lets us hang most of the pots, freeing up cabinet space for other
stuff. Only problem is, have to make sure we don't "clonk" our heads on
hanging pots. (G)

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