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Skriven 2015-04-22 09:21:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: practicalities 506
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 04-13-15  22:02 <=-

 ML>> I went off and bought two pounds of mixed nuts at CVS on sale.
 ML>> This will last me for sustenance for the next two months of
 ML>> visits I hope. 
 NB>> Might work, since the visits are fairly short... I can make a pound
 NB>> last for about two, maybe three, weeks...  He's not going to get into
 NB>> them while you are away...?  And you have a secure container in case
 NB>> there are interested four-legs around...?
 ML> I figure 4 visits, 2 to 3 days each. 8 oz of nuts a day with
 ML> half a chocolate bar.

I saw the correction... half a pound for each visit does seem
reasonable, not a lot of sustenance, but better than nothing... ;)  And
that should last out the next two months.. :)  About how I was figuring
what how it should play out...  :)

 ML> Tomorrow something similar, but Rosemary has promised to
 ML> take me at least to the train station, so I've had only a
 ML> quarter of a chocolate bar 

Let you sleep a little better, perhaps...

 ML> - today, Cadbury Royal Dark, which
 ML> tastes sort of like Hershey's Special Dark, except there's an
 ML> undertone of peanut-like. Cadbury is now a Hershey phenomenon,
 ML> which I tolerate only because it was half the price of Lindt,
 ML> and I needed my chocolate fix.

I don't know as I've ever bought the Cadbury Royal Dark bars... but we
did grab some bags of the Cadbury Royal Dark Easter mini-eggs while they
were available.  I hadn't noticed the peanut-like undertone, but maybe
the candy shells mask that somewhat...
 
 ML>> My concern is for when I'm of impaired consciousness, what
 ML>> will happen. There is something to be said for marriage.
 NB>> That's for sure the point that one wishes to have someone trustworthy
 NB>> around to make sure things go as they should... And hopefully a spouse
 NB>> would be that one..  but when not available, a good friend works
 NB>> wonders... ;) 
 ML> I'm not likely to get a spouse, which is a good thing, because

Multiple layers of thought there... one being if one has a spouse,
another being if that spouse is still there, another whether even then a
spouse would be trustworthy...  Having been the good friend for a number
of my friends who didn't have such, I'd hope that if Richard wasn't able
to be there for me at that point that I'd have someone to do it instead.

 ML> the women I've chosen for myself have generally worked out
 ML> disastrously. The oddest thing is that my main criterion has
 ML> been character rather than looks.

Character being harder to truly judge than looks, that isn't all that
surprising... 
 
 ML>> Luckily I have a good brother-in-law, and my brother is
 ML>> beginning to sound half sensible half the time, and though
 ML>> I wouldn't trust him to handle anything, I would trust him
 ML>> at least not to be obstructive.
 NB>> That's progress, anyway... And it's good you have the brother-in-law
 NB>> to depend on...  :)
 ML> I thank my lucky stars.

Do you have him officially designated as health proxy?
 
 NB>> True...  one should acknowledge the evolution by adjusting the
 NB>> terminology... 
 ML>> Title: Muffaletta Pasta Salad
 NB>> Isn't a muffaletta a sort of sandwich...?
 ML> That's the point. A muffuletta (original spelling) is a
 ML> sandwich made with a certain kind of bread, which I don't
 ML> like, some cold cuts, provolone, which I don't like, and
 ML> olive salad, which I can do without. If you like all that
 ML> stuff but not the bread, I suppose you can make pasta
 ML> salad with the rest of the ingredients, but don't drag
 ML> that name into it.

I suppose someone thought that muffaletta was a shorthand for "cold cuts,
cheese and olive salad"...  ;)

 ML> Or else I could cause this to be made:
 ML> Michael's muffuletta salad
 ML> categories: mine, low-carb, main
 ML> servings: 1
 ML> 2 oz roast pork, sliced thin
 ML> 2 oz smoked tongue, sliced thin
 ML> 2 oz Genoa salami, sliced thin
 ML> 1 oz pepperoni, sliced thin
 ML> 1/2 oz oil-cured olives, chopped
 ML> 1/2 oz pickled peperoncini, chopped
 ML> olive oil

That looks quite tasty... I'd enjoy that mixture...

 ML> Arrange meats on a plate. Strew chopped olives over
 ML> Drizzle olive oil over. Serve.

Salad, yes, but, as you say, not muffuletta really...

 ML> This might go okay on the following, if you like bread.
 ML> Title: Muffuletta Bread

Which might make it validly a muffuletta, after all...  :)

 ML> 1 c  Warm water (110f, 45c)
 ML> 1 tb Sugar
 ML> 1/4 oz Active dry yeast
 ML> 3 c  Bread flour
 ML> 1 1/2 tb Vegetable shortening
 ML> 1 x  Sesame seeds

Just a basic bread, with sesame seeds atop...  :)

ttyl         neb

... I forgot all about the Amnesia Conference!!

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