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Skriven 2013-09-14 17:28:38 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 4607 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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Hi Michael,

 RH> But then you have two working wrists/no carpal tunnel.
 ML> You do have a good portable appliance for such purposes, though.
 ML> Called a Steve.
 RH> When he's not busy with other things.

 ML> He's a busy fella, but 1 minute of eggplant peeling doesn't
 ML> seem like a major outlay.

It usually isn't but I didn't want to disturb him. He was on a roll with
his train of thought so I didn't want him to slip on the butter and get
derailed. I know better than to try. (G)


 ML> A good article about the badness of tomatoes by the not
 ML> invariably accurate but always interesting Gina Kolata at
 ML> the New York Times - tinyurl.com/cu62gm5 .
 RH> Badness as in lack of flavor or what? I understand they're trying to
 RH> isolate the flavor genes and put them back into mass market tomatoes
 RH> now. Still, nothing like a home grown one unless you know the farmer
 RH> that raised it.

 ML> Gist: the same gene that made for early wonderful red ripening
 ML> also made for bland flavorless flesh. A classic case of you
 ML> win some and you lose more.

I know. Got a couple of good looking ones at the farmer's market today.
Also picked up some red/purple bells, poblanos, banana peppers, a
cucumber, a small purple eggplant  and a couple of small yellow squash
in the produce line. From the Flour Patch I got a couple of swiss,
mushroom & spinach empanadas and a couple of whole wheat cinnamon rolls.

 RH> And, probably most of it in the last decade or so, especially since
 RH> you and Lilli started wandering the globe.

 ML> I did a lot in the '90s with Benita, but now it seems to be
 ML> happening with a vengeance, with Lilli approaching her use-by
 ML> date and me not all that far behind.

It's been interesting reading your travelogues. Do you save them into a
travels file so you can go back and re-read them?


 ML> You made a virtue of it; many who don't care for the
 ML> foreign experience have not done so - I've talked to
 ML> some of these, who thought that their overseas stint
 ML> courtesy of Uncle Sam was enough for a full lifetime.
 RH> They really missed out on so much! We knew families like that when we
 RH> were stationed in Germany.

 ML> It's kind of sad, but when life gives some people lemons they
 ML> can't resist rubbing them in their eyes.

Agreed, and years from now, they will probably probably regret that they
didn't take advantage of the opportunities they had. Some will, anyway;
others will be happy never to wander more than 10 miles from home.

 RH> FWIW, the perscription potassium pills are Klor-Con 20M tablets, don't
 RH> know anything more on them.
 ML> That's a 20 mEq dose, or 16 times the dose that Dirty Dave takes.
 ML> I would recommend 1/2 ts of salt substitute in a glass of water
 ML> as an equal dose at somewhat less cost.
 RH> I only took them for a week so the cost was minor. By taking the
 RH> perscription ones, it gave me the exact dosage the P.A. wanted for the
 RH> blood test.

 ML> The label indications for Klor-Con are for cases that cannot
 ML> tolerate the liquid supplement (such as I suggest) - the risk
 ML> is that the pills will damage the stomach lining. Another common

I always took the pills with food so I'd have a buffer.

 ML> potassium supplement is an effervescent orange-flavored drink,
 ML> which led a classmate in high school to kipe a dose or two under
 ML> the mistaken impression that the foil-encased medicine was in
 ML> fact elemental K. Poor silly soul tried to light the gas that
 ML> was emitted while I laughed at him. He was expecting 2 (K + HOH)
-> 2 KOH + H2 and instead got something with a large amount of
 ML> CO2, which persistently kept putting out his matches.

I've read of lighting gas.  It seems to be a guy thing.


 ML> Crab Norfolk
 ML> Categories: southern, living, shellfish, main
 ML> Yield: 4 servings

We thought about buying some crabmeat at the farmer's market today but
decided not to. Guess we might next time the seafood folks come, and try
this.


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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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