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Skriven 2014-07-16 23:36:16 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 05-11-14 19:46 <=-

 NB>> with what you see as historical as more of a perversion of
 NB>> what it should be...

 ML> Exactly. What it should be. There should be world peace,
 ML> sufficient foie gras for all, and no bullying or cruelty.
 ML> As opposed to what it is.

A little cynical, perhaps...?  Sometimes there's too much foie gras...
and a lack of cruelty and bullying...  ;)   Admittedly not often on the
first, but perhaps a little more frequently on the second...

 NB> The ability to laugh at oneself, and to find the good in
 NB> things is a good gift...  Using it to belittle others is a perversion.

 ML> According to our ethics, us who have ethics.

Point.

 NB>> Perhaps, given where we now stand...  But I think it still useful
 NB>> to be able to acknowledge and appreciate good humor... to say
 NB>> nothing of it being healthful...  :)

 ML> I don't think I said - certainly didn't mean even to imply -
 ML> that humor is a bad thing or that I don't appreciate/believe in/
 ML> practice it. There's no doubt a continuum, and I'm focusing on
 ML> the one end (why, I'm not sure, but perhaps some event triggered
 ML> this), and you all are focusing and trying to bring me to the
 ML> other end.

That sounds like a reasonable observation.  :)   I'll accept the
continuum... I know I try to keep myself at the end I'm focusing on,
having been the butt of the other...

 NB>>> Happy birthday...  :)
 ML>> It wasn't really my birthday but rather a substitute birthday.
 ML>> Thanks anyway.
 NB>> Ah... more an un-birthday...  ;)  or a celebration after/before the
 NB>> fact... :) 

 ML> It was reasonably close to the fact but not exact.

OK.

 NB>> I don't pretend to keep atop of when the real dates are... gave
 NB>> up on that for much of my own family, even, big as it is...

 ML> I sort of know that I'm a Taurus, but on the day Bob or Deb
 ML> said, we have to go out and celebrate, and I said, why, is
 ML> it your birthday? and was told, no, it's yours. And so it
 ML> was. I don't recall ever telling them, but they swore up and
 ML> down that it was in their phone.

Apparently they made note of it previously...  :)  Maybe someone else
told them...?

 ML> Pitn' Cuse
 ML> h - Dough 
 ML> 5 ts sugar
 ML> 6 eggs
 ML> 5 ts baking powder
 ML> 1/2 c cooking oil
 ML> 1/2 c red wine
 ML> 1/2 ts cinnamon
 ML> 1/2 ts ground cloves
 ML> 4 c flour (more as needed)
 ML> h - Filling
 ML> 1/4 c sugar
 ML> 2 lb raisins
 ML> 2 lb walnuts chopped
 ML> 1 ts cinnamon
 ML> 1 ts nutmeg
 ML> 1/4 c cooking oil
 ML> honey
 ML> Prepare dough ahead and refrigerate overnight.
 ML> Mix all ingredients except flour. Add flour a little
 ML> at a time until very soft but still sticky.
 ML> Refrigerate overnight.
 ML> Separate just enough dough to line bottom and sides
 ML> of deep dish pie pan (straight edge pan works best).
 ML> Roll out remaining dough very thin. Brush with oil.
 ML> Cut into 2" strips w/pizza cutter.
 ML> Drizzle honey lightly over entire dough (not too much).
 ML> [M is not sure whether this means the dough that is
 ML> lining the pie pan or the dough in 2" strips. Suspects
 ML> the former.]

Good question... I might suspect both, although drizzling the strips
would make things rather messy to work with... it might help hold the
filling in the rollups, though...   (like the peas with honey on the
knife limerick...)

 ML> Spread raisins and walnuts. Sprinkle with cinnamon,
 ML> nutmeg, sugar. Roll up each strip tightly to hold nuts
 ML> and raisins, but not too tight. Take largest roll and
 ML> place in middle of dough-lined pie dish, standing
 ML> upright, continue to place rolls around center roll
 ML> edge sides up.
 ML> Bake at 350F for 30 min.
 ML> Remove and drizzle with honey
 ML> Bake additional 30 min or until golden brown.
 ML> Let sit overnight in pie pan.

That could be tasty, and pretty to see...  :)  Sort of a sticky bun-ish
thing...  Any idea where the name for it came from..?

 ML> Cafe Caruso, 707 Bleecker St., Utica 315-735-9712,
 ML> Open Daily at 7am, Closed Tues.

No point in visiting them on Tuesdays, then... (G)

ttyl         neb

... Humor is an acronym for "HUman Management Of Reality"

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