Text 4914, 73 rader
Skriven 2013-09-20 16:39:55 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 4839 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: nightshades/cucurbits176
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Hi Michael,

 ML> Every time is a different situation; there will be times,
 ML> though, when your eggplant must be peeled.
 RH> Yes, and usually I peel it if the recipe specifies doing so. If it
 RH> doesn't, then usually I leave the peel on.

 ML> As you probably don't have the same depth of hatred for
 ML> zucchini as I do, you could substitute unpeeled squash
 ML> for peeled eggplant in many recipes.

No, I like both zucchini and yellow squash. Steve likes succhini better
than yellow squash, especially in cooked form. I usually cut them up
into a tossed salad or stir fry. Last year I found a tomato and yellow
squash salad recipe he likes, have to hunt it down to make with the last
of this season's squash and tomatoes.

It was always amusing to me that such unrelated plants can be used for
the same purposes.

Strange, but true. (G)

 RH> It's been interesting reading your travelogues. Do you save them into
 RH> a travels file so you can go back and re-read them?
 ML> Not really, but with some regrettable exceptions they get
 ML> saved in some form or other.
 RH> Blame it on the great cloud of electronic memory that's floating above
 RH> us now.

 ML> I have relatively little to fear from that, I hope. So
 ML> blame it or credit it, depending ... .

I pretty much ignore it for the most part.

 ML> That's a good idea, and I think it's in the instructions as well.
 RH> I think so, but the pills are big enough that even if it weren't in
 RH> the instructions, I'd want a buffer with them.

 ML> I inherited a big bottle of them from Billy so haven't been
 ML> using quite so much KCl at the table. Today my bag got flagged
 ML> by TSA, but as I have PreCheck (coming soon to an airport near
 ML> you and being made available to the multitudes for $17 a year)
 ML> the inspection was quick and polite. The agent looked quizzically
 ML> at my KCl shaker and swabbed it down. It tested negative for
 ML> explosives.

Good that the KCl checked out, you could have missed your flight. After
my stress test, the cardiologist insisted I take some nitroglycerin
tablets with me on our trip out west, just in case I needed them. He
warned me they could set off warnings at the screening so I had them
easily visible in my carry on. Not a second glance, either in Raleigh or
Las Vegas! As late as we were running, we might have missed our flight
in Raleigh had I been pulled over.

 ML> He is now extraordinarily wealthy and extraordinarily
 ML> conservative. Sic transit and all that.
 RH> And would probably deny ever doing such a thing.

 ML> Nope, that's one good thing about him: he doesn't lie
 ML> (except to clients, I guess).

What does he do for a living?

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Ruth
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