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Tryska: Get another tea ball, keep them in separate places. When I bring home loose tea, I put it into wire-bail top jars. I like the dark blue glass. Try some loose jasmine tea, and you'll like it, I think.

Lone Star, you definitely hit the nail on the head. I have been using IGA and Albertson's bags!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! It sure doesn't- oh, you didn't mean the sauce?

Going to somewhere nice,appropriate in every respect, and ending up with the evening from Hell. Perhaps it might not be anyone's specific fault, but you know what I mean. You get in your mode of transportation to go home, and the first thing someone says is "Well--wasn't that interesting."

Oh, no, no. That's a hot dog stand!

Now that there has got to be Authentic! And Suzanne, I know a few people usin' Wondra. I always heard chicken-fried steak's a Texas extension of the Germans settling the hill country, and that after the war of northern aggression there were so many cattle around. It was a combo of longhorn beef, little liquid assets, and German technique. And evolved. I feel the most important things are exactly like wesza told you.The blister has to be just right-and not overdone.

Lucky, fortunate girl. Wonderful article! The experience must've been heady, to say the least!

Torakris, they look gorgeous, sound delicious, and my vote would be clear broth. But I would not turn down the white, either.

I always went with lard because we are always wanting to replicate old-fashioned flavors, techniques, etc., and that's how my folks did it. But duck fat sounds so good, and that's why I was asking about schmaltz. Surely someone who would not use pork would use an equivalent? I mean in former times.

Many years ago Troy Aikman played in a football game and got the feathers knocked totally out of him. He screwed up his rotator cuff and they operated on it. I've had rotator cuff surgery and got two stainless steel screws put in. I could not fully use my arm for months. So here was Troy, missed two games, back in playing. Now I know how he did it; all these years I figured I was just a wuss. And yep-I set off metal detectors.

I had never taken steroids- I was prescribed this time because last year I had three pulmonary embolisms in October & came out of it with two nodules on that lung. So my doctors were getting hyper about my congestion. But miracle drug-yep- makes a person feel enormously well-SCARY-double yep-I can't even fathom taking them as long as you had to. I'm not sure what I'd have gotten up to, but I bet it would've started with holding a building up off the ground with one hand.

Thank you. The link was fascinating - those singers had to really be serious to eat a spoonful of asafoetida with butter. I shall indeed do the goldenseal.

No, I am finally getting over it, but the kicker is I got my flu shot on Monday, and by Thursday was flat out. But I'm assured that this is not the flu I was inoculated for. The steroids were indeed prednisone. 444,333,222,111. That's the dosage for the course I took. They are some scary chemicals, I tell you...but they work.

Thanks, Pan. Tryska, there must be a true therepeutic effect, because the pioneers were very familiar with asafoetida. They even wore asafoetida bags around their neck(eeuuhh), but my gram used to say that was just to keep people away from them! Bet it worked.

HOT ginger ale was the other thing my SO drank. I had a couple cups and it did have a nice effect. I'm so discouraged with this flu thing. We in Montana were finally put on the list of states with epidemic stages of it, yet our hospitals here have been in quarantine for over three weeks.

Tryska- will note about the asafoetida. It does indeed carry a whang to it. I shall make it up for the other uses, too. It sounds good of itself. Pan- it took the steroids to loosen up my lungs. They just keep on getting more congested.

You misunderstand; or I put it wrong. What I mean is to get it to someone who could manufacture a base or whatever precisely so it gets to more people. But I'm going to copy it off for my people at Good Earth Foods for the bulletin board.

Tryska, you seriously need to look into selling the 'patented' formula to a monster health food or medicine concern.

Pan, you've got my total sympathy. I had it for over three weeks,nearly went to the hospital, finally had to take a course of steroids. But I had absolutely no appitite. I drank that Yogi toxic tea a lot.

The one thing that absolutely cracked me up was the outtakes where Jennifer nailed the cameraman when the bike brakes were different from her scooter.

Makes sense for those tracking exact amounts of any particular component.

I've been wanting to try that eraser. I too have Harvest Gold and it can get scroungey in a hurry. But the fact it does grease kinda escaped me- I fixated on the crayons and stuff on the ads.

I didn't think it at all-actually I only knew about it because in high school all the guys went through a faze of calling each other that once they learned it! But who would be so dense as to name a fridge that?.To show how dense I can be, I'm watching Jamie Oliver,okay? In the wide shot there's an aqua fridge behind him, and I see Smeg on the upper door. So what does Sherlock's new replacement think? "Gee, that's a pretty weird word to make with fridge magnets!"