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Skriven 2015-03-07 23:06:27 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 24606 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
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Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>> varieties... He also did a fair bit of regular cooking, and
 NB> Sunday  NB>> night suppers after church were his domain... he'd put
 NB> various
 NB>  NB>> things on saltine crackers and heat/grill them in the toaster
 NB>  NB>> oven... such as sardines, cheese and pickles (usually
 NB>  NB>> bread/butter), and/or marshmallows... ;)

 RH> Sounds like he enjoyed putting together interesting taste
 RH> combinations. (G)

 NB> Just as a clarification, if needed, those were three different sets of
 NB> crackers... not all on the one...  ;)   He'd also do the cheese and
 NB> pickles on top of bread or toast, and grill till the cheese melted...
 NB> that was more often for lunch, though... :)

OK, I had momentary visions of a sardine, cheese and pickle open faced
sandwich or cracker. (G)

 NB>  RH>> My dad had made cheeseburgers a couple of the times he cooked
 NB> when  RH>> Mom couldn't. We thought that was special as Mom always did
 NB> just
 NB>  RH>> plain hamburgers.
 NB>  NB>> That would make a nice break from the normal routine.. :)

 RH> Those were the rare exception to Mom's cooking--she had pnuemonia and
 RH> was in the hospital the couple of times I remember Dad doing that. I
 RH> don't remember what else he cooked;

 NB> You don't remember because your dad didn't cook much... I don't
 NB> remember all that Daddy cooked, because it was a regular occurrence..
 NB> :)

That's about right. When my mom went to summer school for classes for
her Master's degree, I did 95% of the cooking. Dad and I did the grocery
shopping, sort of planning the main meals as we saw what was on special.
Turkey legs were on special one week so we we bought some; Dad came up
with the idea of wrapping them in bacon and baking them. It worked sort
of ok, but they had so many tendons and such like, there was very little
meat on them, a bit disappointing. IIRC, we did it one other time, then
decided it wasn't worth a third go round.

 RH> he asked a neighbor to do a ham one time. She put pineapple on it,
 RH> something new to us, but Mom never did it afterwards.

 NB> Obviously made an impression on you.. ;)  We had pineapple on ham at
 NB> least some of the time... scored, with cloves at the intersections,
 NB> brown sugar over that, and then sometimes the pineapple slices or
 NB> crushed pineapple..  :)

I've had ham with pineapple since, and done it that way myself. The 2
flavors work well together. Mom put the cloves on ham; I think she also
did a brown sugar and mustard glaze sometimes.


 NB>  NB>> For a while, he was managing an art gallery in Manhattan... but
 NB>  NB>> that only was viable for a while... :)  I think with the
 NB> recession,  NB>> people weren't buying enough to keep things afloat...

 RH> That kind of art is a luxury to most people and in a recession, the
 RH> luxuries are the first to suffer.

 NB> Leaving fewer people to patronize the arts...

Only those that had deeper pockets and could afford it after paying for
the neccessities of life.


 RH> It may look crazy now, but wait until you see the finished item before
 RH> making up your mind on it. I'll have to show you pictures of the 9
 RH> Patch top I did--82 different fabrics, 81 9 patch blocks laid out on a
 RH> 9 by 9 grid.

 NB> Exactly.  My friend Donna likes to take me along when she's shopping
 NB> for fabrics for quilts because I see the potential and the color match
 NB> or
 NB> color complementation... she says better than her, but probably not...
 NB> but I do have that eye for it..  :)  I did help train her eye, way
 NB> back, when I was helping her pick out yarns for a needlepoint project
 NB> she was planning out..  :)


Sometimes too, it helps to have a second opinion. I was pulling fabrics
for the quilt I'm working on now and had them laid out on the cutting
table at the store. The sales lady agreed with my choices and measured
out the first one. Just before she cut it, I had 2nd thoughts and asked
her to wait a minute. I'm glad I did; that fabric did not go as well
with the others as I'd initially thought. She saw it too, when I told
her why I stopped her. Other than that, the rest of the fabrics worked
well with each other.

 NB>  NB>>> Did you notice that next month will be PI day... when the first
 NB> 10  NB>>> digits will show up twice that day...?   3/14/15 at 9:26:53
 NB> am and  NB>>> pm... ;)  Happens once every hundred years...  :)
 NB>  RH>> I'd not thought about that; I knew of the 3.14 but not the extra
 NB>  RH>> sequencing of numbers.
 NB>  NB>> Now, to remember it on the day, at the exact right time...  (G)
 NB> And  NB>> plan to have pies to eat, to celebrate it...  :)  Pot pies,
 NB> dessert  NB>> pies... ;)

 RH> The newest Penzey's catalog had a pie/pi theme to it. They didn't
 RH> carry it out to the 10 digits tho.

 NB> How did they handle it...?

Different pie recipies, both sweet and savory. I made the chicken pot
pie (they called it Undercover Chicken) for today's Life Group meal and
had no leftovers.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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... I am positive that a definite maybe is probably in order.

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