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Skriven 2014-05-31 17:30:48 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 13593 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Re: Mother's day dinner  was: Easter dinner
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 23 May 14  20:20:05 <=-

 NB>> At least he'll have less call to be dissatisfied with what others are
 NB>> doing, since he had the opportunity to contribute... His presence was
 NB>> probably a useful thing in itself.

 RH> His presence was basically just that. But, he got a chance to see what
 RH> was in the house and take some of his things that had been around for
 RH> years. That included a pair of drum sticks--he gave up on the drums
 RH> when he entered 7th grade. My folks thought that playing drums might
 RH> improve his hand/eye co-odination--never did that I could tell.
 
Not all "secondary" agendas work as hoped for... [g]   It sounds like
his being there did serve a purpose, if he cleared some of his "junk"
out of the house...  :)

 NB>  NB>>> prepared or if Eric made it up from scratch...  Had little
 NB>  NB>>> flecks of red on the outside of the chicken, anyway... ;)
 NB>  RH>> Possibly Italian dressing?
 NB>  NB>> Dunno... possibly...  He wasn't in church yesterday, so I
 NB>  NB>> couldn't ask him...
 RH>> YOu'll find out eventually. I'm still waiting for the cake recipe but
 RH>> not in any big rush for it either.
 NB>> Yup, eventually...  So, the new auntie is still tied up with the
 NB>> little one...?  :)

 RH> She was in church Sunday, as was the little one and her parents (got
 RH> to talk to mom for a couple of minutes but dad had already taken baby
 RH> out to the car). Maybe I'll see her this coming Sunday.
 
Probably.  :)
 
 NB>>>> I used to like putting apple into things, too... ;)  And eating
 NB>>>> it...  ;0
 RH>>> Sigh! Any chance you'll "outgrow" the allergy?
 NB>>> Your guess is as good as mine... but I suspect not...  unless it
 NB>>> was caused by some imbalance that is (or can be) righted someday...
 RH>> Well, at least you know what an apple tastes like.
 NB>> True...  in all its myriad visages...  ;)

 RH> Should I be like Bubba in Forrest Gump and list different ways to
 RH> serve an apple (shrimp)?

Nope.  ;)   I can do it just fine myself...  [g]
 
 NB>> Yeah, I know...  ;0   Often, but not always, there's some sort of list
 NB>> of ingredients set alongside the dishes on the table at our church
 NB>> dinners... especially to point out either known allergens or the
 NB>> specific lack of them...  (ie, contains seafood, or, non-gluten)...
 NB>> But things like apple and coffee, I'm usually on my own still..   :)

 RH> You would think people would list apple, especially knowing your
 RH> allergy problem. 

You'd think.  But, I've found that for whatever reason, apple isn't an
allergy that people can remember... "Oh, right" is the response I get
when I remind again... but that's ok... it's a pretty weird one all the
same...  I just found out that a friend is allergic to spinach... she
may have told me before, but that's not easy to remember about either,
since it's so out of the norm...  :)

 RH> We try to let people we know that have problems what's
 RH> in something that maybe should be avoided or cook to avoid allergies.
 RH> I'm using the stevia for baking to replace about half the sugar in
 RH> baked good, making them a bit more diabetic friendly but found that the
 RH> stevia gives one lady migraine type headaches.

Hmmm.  I tend to stay away from all artificial sweeteners because I
developed that sort of reaction to saccherine... so far saccherine is
the only one that gives me migraines, but I'm not too sure I want to do
the same with other sweeteners..   Hadn't really tried stevia myself,
although I was buying it for MJ... perhaps I'll keep giving it a wide
berth...  ;)
 
 RH>> Its one thing we've never discussed in our church. We do try to watch
 RH>> out in our Life Group for the kid with allergies. Some of the other
 RH>> cooks have packaging for ingredients handy for me to check carb counts
 RH>> on as well.
 NB>> People have (I think) become used to me coming out to the kitchen to
 NB>> check what is in the fruit punches...  :)

 RH> And in our Life Group, I check carb counts on a lot of things. I'm not
 RH> as obssesive as I was initially but still, helps to have an idea. 

It's useful to have the ingredients lists for foods (especially packaged
ones) handy... one never knows what someone else might be having to
avoid or be allergic to... 

 RH> If we have chips from a large bag, I'll weigh out what a portion is,
 RH> and set it aside for me rather than just reaching into the bag for a
 RH> couple of hands full.
 
That's simply smart thinking..  :)   Especially if you need/want to have
some sort of portion control....  :)

 RH>> Now will you reciprocate on Father's Day?
 NB>> Well...  That's a third Sunday... ;)   We'll have our regular church
 NB>> dinner the week before... dunno if it will be the standard potluck or
 NB>> some sort of planned dealie... that's up to the people in charge..  :)

 RH> In our church in AZ, the men did a breakfast on the grounds for
 RH> Mother's Day, ladies did the same for Father's Day. That's why I
 RH> was asking. 

Ah.  Don't think we've ever done anything specifically on Father's
Day... but some years, the June dinner had that sort of slant to it. 
June, however, is also graduation month...   I suspect that some would
argue that it is usually the ladies doing the work anyway... but that
isn't really the case at our church now, since there are a number of
guys that do some pretty good cooking for the dinners, not just the
women..  ;)

ttyl         neb

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