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i actually saw gonkura at my local farmers market here in Atlanta. it looks like a small cucumber, but is not at all cucmbery, i don't think. it's a south indian thing - if you can't find it already made, the web should be an easy place to find recipes to make it yourself if you can source the vegetable.

i didn't read through this guys particular diet, but i when i was eatingf in a paleo style, my rule of thumb is essentially - if i can digest it raw, i'll eat it cooked. that pretty much cut out grains, legumes and potatoes. i also cut out most dairy, (i needed to do that anyways), and sugar. if i needed to sweeten it was either honey or maple syrup.

cornish pasties and devon cream teas?

love a paleo-style diet. it's the diet i've actually felt healthiest and least restricted on. it's also the diet i lost the most amount of fat on. of course right now i'm on a no-holds-barred eating fest, and i feel like crap, but i'm not motivated to get it together right now. *lol* that's my own issues tho. i will say tho, when i was on the ball, it was easy for me to eat in restaurants and at home.

are these shelled peanuts or unshelled? i've always wondered. the closest i get is a bag of boiled cajun peanuts washed down with a vanilla coke. i've made dinner of that quite a few times.

not so good. or rather, not as good as those on the other side of the globe. taste similar, but don't transport you to heaven.

What kind of potions? Sounds vaguely Harry Potter. haha - actually i've been nose-deep in the series for the past few months i guess it's been creeping into my daytime world. actually i like playing with medicinal herbs and use cheesecloth for my tinctures and teas i brew that have various herbs in them. i actually got the idea from bouqet garnis. also good for making herbal tub teas with juniper and lavendar and such for relaxing aromatherapy baths.

Which will also work on a concrete thread You might be thinking Nogales. yes. I was thinking of Nogales. *lol*

i'm not sure Knicke - i do have to tell you - i changed the recipe you gave somewhat, adding in a couple shots of whiskey, and a teabag of goldenseal. it tasted lovely -but i'm wondering if either the ginger was too harsh, or perhaps the cayenne. it felt good going down, but maybe 10 minutes later my throat felt raw, and i was worried about laryngitis. i tried it again the second night, and felt the rawness again, but not the laryngitis. it might even have been the whiskey.

wow lady t.....what a great story. and a great dad. heh..my first drunk was a doozy. i was 15, and 2 weeks into my freshman year of high school. we'd always had a fully stocked liquor cabinet, but neither my mom or dad were drinkers. my mom didn't drink at all...my dad had a nightcap maybe once every few months. so really i had nothing in the way of imprinting to go on. anyways, like i said, i was a grown up high-schooler, and decided since i was a grownup high-schooler and a latchkey kid with no one else due home for an hour and half or so, that i was going to figure out what this liquor stuff was all about. so i pulled out what looked good. i had some red wine....i had some gin. i had some gin mixed with orange juice. and some red wine mixed with orange juice. even some gin mixed with orange juice and red wine. i drank this whilst nibbling on some red-tinted pistachios. nice huh? well by the time my sister came home from grade school, i was pretty tipsy. i remember her saying to me.."gee you seem pretty happy today". and looking at me funny. well my mom came home an hour or so later, and said she was going to take me to the mall for some leftover school shopping. so i obliged her and we went to the mall. that was fun, until, whilst in a department store....the room started spinning...... i made a mad dash for outside of the mall, threw up in front of the plate glass window of a travel agency.....threw up before the main doors for the mall, and threw up in the bushes outside of the mall. My mother was absolutely mortified, and maybe slightly frighterned that i had caught some sort of heinour digestive disease. she blamed it on the pistachios. heh. i slept it off that night, with a nice mix of gatorade and sudafed (my mom's cure for everything). i didn't actually tell her til about 4 or 5 years ago, when my brother had his first out all night, puking in a bathtub, party extravaganza. She was so shocked that she never knew. Hell i was shocked that she never knew. it was gin ferchrissakes. which i have never touched again, btw.

you could try a double or triple layer cheesecloth sachet too, maybe? i've used it with success before when making potions.

isn't there a 'Nopales' somewhere in the southwest? that's the name for cactus leaves right?

i've always had it salted. gives a nice rounded finish, imo.

Peachtree City GA and..not really a food, but it does give you the munchies.... Hempstead, NY

Madras - masala dosa

i've been surviving with halls honey-lemon for the coughing. oh one other thing i found. ginger-honey-lemon-whiskey wasn't very nice to my throat. but it was temporary, and i didn't cough. my throat just felt raw.

*lol* that chicken salad is truly horrible. but looking through the rest of that lady's stash of recipes, there are some that look worthwhile. skip over the amish stuff tho - most of it involves canned soup. i didn't know the amish were into that sort of thing, but whatever.

well garlic is an anti-microbial, ginger is an expectorant, cayenne is a stimulant. so yeah, i would say spicy foods do help burn off germs, simply because of the healing properties the spices contain.

wow - varmint - your idea of going to armour takes the prize...check this one out....mmmm....banana treets!

how about something light from those scary weight-watchers cards?

how about one of those bizare congealed salads involving jello and miracle whip? maybe involving peas too. something like this...perhaps?

i do this for my lunch meals. i don't freeze mine tho, just keep them in the fridge, and eat them through the week, but i typically do chili, pot roast, stews, roast chicken and veggies, corned beef and boiled veggies - that type of stuff. pastas too - usually baked ziti or spaghetti. i've also gotten creative with mac and cheese with ground beef (from scratch) and tuna casserole (with campbells soup). Speaking of which....tuna casserole might be next weeks "it" meal.

*lol*! i'm sorry but y'all are some punny bastards! and jp i'm very jealous of you and your tandoor.

hey i've been nursing on malted milk balls this week too. i can't taste them, but i've been eating them.

i'm on the tailend of something similar. except mine started with severe congestion, the next day my ears plugged up, and the day after i developed this rattling cough. umm - i've pretty much been coping with drinking rasam and hot and sour soup for my meals, sometimes with a little rice mixed in, and double doses of nyquil before bed, and the best decongestant/expectorant i can find for the daytime. right now i'm partial to Tylenol Sinus Severe Congestion formula with the minty coolburst capsules. I also started taking goldenseal tea - 2 bags in 12oz water at night, and 1 bag in 6oz water in the morning. that helped my fever break night before last - and i'm coming around now. i felt really good when i woke up this morning. hungry even. i still can't taste, and my ears are still kind of plugged up, but no where near as bad as they were 2 days ago. i hope you feel better soon!