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Skriven 2012-11-27 17:01:24 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 13431 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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Hi Michael,

Another blast from the past.

 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 call them all the time, both on the phone and Skype. Tried the latter
with my dad last night but had a poor connection--probably too many
shoppers on line.


 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.

My 40 year college reunion is still a bit away but not sure how many
will show up for it. There were a fair number at the 25th but only 7 at
the 35th.


 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.

 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.

IIRC, it was fairly cold all day. I think it was an electric cooler
built into the bus.


 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.

And no 2 alike but interesting to try.


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

 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

My MIL's recipe uses anise seeds but not oil. I think (but don't recall
without getting up to check) there's no extract in it either.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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