Text 27862, 89 rader
Skriven 2015-06-05 21:48:21 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 27801 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: flying dreams 772
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Hi Michael,

 ML> Turns out the autistic kid incident was a setup, with
 RH> OK, that part of the story didn't come out in the news.

 ML> One thing about being traditionally the biggest and meanest
 ML> is that you're low-hanging fruit, and every opportunist and
 ML> her parent is going to get something out of you.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The local cop found that out
with Starbucks a few weeks ago.

 ML> As long as the money and my ticker hold out. Maybe 5 years,
 ML> 10 tops. Enough to get me my 3-million-miler badge but not
 ML> enough to get me to lifetime UGS (the only fancier status
 ML> on United than I already have).
 RH> And I doubt I've flown even a tenth of 3 million.

 ML> As such, you're probably in the top 10 percent of people
 ML> who have taken the plane (if you're close to 300000). A
 ML> goodly proportion of the citizenry has not ever been in
 ML> an aircraft, and a goodly proportion of those never will.

True, I don't know if my youngest sister has flown since she came down
to visit Steve and me in NC in 1977. I think the furthest west she's
been is Peoria, IL; the furthest south she's been is Florida (was NC
until last September). She's been northeast as far as Bar Harbor, ME and
only been out of the country to Canada (and not since she was a kid).
Very provincial outlook on life to go with it.


 RH> mid 70s but my first flight was a long one, JFK to Dusseldorf by way of
 RH> Heathrow.

 ML> If you could take that without flinching, you were
 ML> prepared for just about anything.

I had no problems with it. On the return, when we stopped in Heathrow,
cleaners came aboard for a quick dust up. One young man saw a bar code
on a magazine he was putting up, didn't know what it was so I explained
it to him. IIRC, one of the supermarkets near my grandmother's place in
NJ was one of the first to impliment use of them.


 ML> My perfect Tar Heel pound cake
 RH> That's about right for a southern pound cake. Main ingredients are
 RH> supposed to be a pound each, but I suspect that's not always so.

 ML> The pound each formula, easy for people to remember in the
 ML> days when gramma couldn't read and write, has been refined
 ML> quite a bit over the years - you'll note that the one I
 ML> posted has a fair amount of milk in it, a refinement that
 ML> I don't particularly endorse. They lost me with the cream

I don't use milk (as such) in the lemon one I make, just lemon Greek
yogurt.


 ML> and mushrooms in this one -

 ML> Linguine with clam sauce
 ML> cat: airline, Hawaii
 ML> yield: 6 to 8 servings

 ML> 1/4 lb butter
 ML> 4 cloves garlic, chopped fine
 ML> 2 (6 oz) cn minced clams with water
 ML> 1 cn stems and pieces mushrooms
 ML> 1/2 sm cn cream (optional)
 ML> salt and sugar to taste
 ML> chives (optional)
 ML> 1 Tb cornstarch or flour (to thicken)
 ML> 1 lb linguine

Mushrooms to extend out the clams so it will serve 6-8, sour cream
probably to add a different taste. It's optional; I'd probably skip it.
I'd also use fresh mushrooms, or skip them and have it serve fewer
people.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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... Always butter up the SYSOP, they taste better that way.

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