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Rebecca263

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  1. I loved tube wringers, but they're very difficult to use when you have arthritis.
  2. El Rey makes fantastic batidos You could try the tamarindo too. It makes my mouth feel the astringency and sweetness just thinking about it! edited by me to add: Calle Ocho is a one way street, if you see someplace that looks good to you, just park and walk!
  3. Is dRock thinking of opening a new venue? Just wondering!
  4. Calories! Hahahaha! I couldn't care less about a calorie or a thousand. If I feel like being nutritionally focussed I count grams of fiber. Still, I always was under the impression that all sugars were similar in nutritional value. I am studying up on it this Sunday. We'll see! Back to the subject, butter! We have butter in the house, and I can eat solid food again! We're having artichokes, then cookies, then fresh bread, all with butter! ASAP!
  5. Wow, VERY interesting! I'm going to look up some statistics on this and show them to my daughter tonight. She LOVES to tell me that honey isn't any different than sugar in her tea! Thanks!
  6. OK, I can top you, I don't have Christmas, and I'LL put up a tree for one of those! Heck, I'll WEAR a tree! I think that communal living is the way to go. Then we can all pitch in and buy this amazing machine, and still pay a mortgage!
  7. Ah, here is a subject that I am grappling with at home. Food magazines! My little one is becoming interested in cooking, and she has been collecting old issues of Gourmet magazine. Recently I have subscribed her to Gourmet, Saveur and Bon Appetit (you wouldn't believe me if I told you how little these cost on eBay, around US$3 per annum). Now, comes the dilemma! She is acquiring many, many volumes of these magazines! I have invested in magazine file holders, and still, she is becoming inundated! And, she already has literally thousands of books in her room, and in our library/living room! I don't know what to do! She is not wont to get rid of any magazines, great for eBaying when she is in her 50's, I know, but right now, Mummy and kiddle need to have a clean home! I should mention, after I have found a few old Gourmet annuals in my boxes, she sold off her issues from those years. Still, a wash, spacewise. And, of course, she is a teenager, and she has her other magazines and comics and such! I just found a box of old comics in the master bath, under the sink! Did she really think I would not mind that storage solution? Now, she has discovered Delicious and wants THAT. Where will it end? We get over 40 magazines monthly as it is, with the music, science, fashion, politics, literary and etc.! I am beside myself thinking about this lately. I have been feeding her addiction to the written word and now I am feeling the sting of repercussion! Any suggestions on how to get her to trim the collections without feeling deprived?
  8. OOh, Shalmanese! I think we'll just leave out the salt, and see what uses we can arrive at for the aforementioned bottle of buttery butter. I'm going to try this! My microwave is usually only used for a teakettle, you know, so we're really not getting our money's worth out of the darned thing (39.99).
  9. Oh, dear, you know I'm a bit naughty, don't ask ME! However, it's the most fun to take those baths when the little ones are at school! And yet, having the kids in the tub with some of their toys, laughing and playing, how homey and charming is THAT? of course, being an eGulleteer, you'll also have something cooking to waft those lovely aromas throughout the house, as well. May as well cover all the bases!
  10. My refrigerator and pantry are havens for upside down jars of various items, always! Honey, maple syrup and ketchup right now. Then there are the pickle jars, especially any pickle with lotus root in it. I put some lemon juice or vinegar in those jars when there is just a tiny bit of pickle left and use the liquid in my salads. I'm pretty boring, I know. Well, I can top myself here. I purchased a wire cutting pair of scissors just so that I can... open up the tubes of wasabi paste, anchovy paste and tomato paste, when they're almost empty! I then soak the tubes in a flat glass bowl, with vinegar or wine or soy sauce... for seasoning things! I have a fixation with emptying out containers.
  11. Wow, a move, renovations, kids AND a blog. Color me very impressed! Your kids are gorgeous. Those smiles are beautiful! I always find that the buyers arrived at our homes just as I was doing piles of laundry. Well, at least the place smelled fresh! Once, the realtor just seemingly showed up, buyers in tow, one morning when we were in the bath, um, together! They had telephoned, but we were busy, and hadn't heard the ringing. Oops. And, since we didn't answer the telephone or the door, yep, you guessed it, they assumed that we must not be home, and they came right in to see the house! Those folks ended up buying the place, too. So, I might suggest having someone ready to get into the tub at all times, it was a real icebreaker for us!
  12. That reminds me of my childhood ← I can NOT imagine you in makeup, dear Sir!
  13. I'm off to the library to attempt to secure a copy tomorrow! I was in agreement with Carrot Top (as usual!) until I saw those lovely French undies all in a bunch over this thread!
  14. ...it's ALWAYS twat behaviour. the thing is when you're drunk you think it's the funniest thing in the world. I've been guilty of this myself... ← As you believe that your opinion is qualified as an arbiter, so shall I of my own opine, and as I have reveled at many a table with non inebriated or UI folk who engage in such vivacious conversations, (and some of those folk were over 84, come to think of it) I'll respectfully disagree with your own limited experiences, especially as yours seem to only include drunken memories!
  15. Please, tell us why?
  16. That is SO true! I only eat white sugar in foods I eat outside of my house, at home we use Splenda (for cold tea), raw sugar, maple syrup and honey for everything. Mind you raw sugar, maple syrup and honey are THE SAME, nutritionally, as white sugar, so I'm always wondering WHY I do that, but then I buy a bag of the white stuff and I remember, instantly. No flavor other than sweet. Although, it is pretty good when you get the big crystals baked on top of strudel. Or when you get Cuban coffee... ooh, sugar rush!
  17. My daughter just told me that she had Olivio spread on popcorn at a friend's house, and that it was pretty good. I dunno, I'll stick to spraying the popcorn with olive oil and salting it, here at home. I just can't get the application right with butter, and I end up using sticks and sticks of the stuff!
  18. Oops, Sorry! Hey, wait a minute, what were you doing peeking under our table cloth?!
  19. We had similar lavender bowls from PB clearance, but 2 got broken and we eBayed the remaining 2! Sometimes I'm a little too quick with the eBay, it's true! Megan, Megan (NY, NY) I'm thanking you twice, your sunny disposition is a joy to be around!
  20. Um, how does this make them 'ghastly'? Their behavior sounds unfortunate given your proximity, but I'm thinking that there are times when boisterous and, yes, even sexually provocative conversations, with your drunken buddies in a gastropub are NOT 'twat' behavior, but one part of human nature exhibiting itself upon the lubricating qualities of alcohol. I'm thinking that this unhappy incident is entirely the fault of management for seating your 2 parties together, a staid and serene group and a reveling and drunken one, and in an otherwise empty dining room; now, THAT's ghastly! I completely agree with Luckylies.
  21. I see you reading the blog, Megan! <I always get the urge to wave at the folks visiting a thread at the same time as me!> Well, Megan, you know that I'm a big fan of yours, and everyone else has expressed so well how glad we are to have had a visit with you in the UES of NYC this week, so I'll keep it as short as my typing-as-fast-than-I-can-think fingers will allow... Thank you! Brava! And, WOW, you've got the market on high energy and happy attitude covered! Kiddle and I are shopping for pasta bowls shaped like yours this week... UM, I didn't need an excuse to shop, you know.
  22. Aww! Everyone who knows me knows that ANYONE is always welcome at ANY of my tables, dreamy or otherwise. Heck, I've fed strangers at a 'do not walk' sign! Just last week I fed the postal woman and the census taker! See my quote from Mr. Kolpas below? Resonates deeply within me. And I want to comfort and pamper everyone. So, come on over.
  23. Megan, I think that it would be great if we could just give you a head cam and mike set up for whenever you leave your apartment for an outing, or go into the kitchen to make a meal! We could all just watch, every day, as you go about your various food related activities... it would be great fun, and once in awhile you could look down, and we could compare shoes for the day, too!
  24. Gilmore Girls breakfast tribute: Pancakes with sausage AND bacon AND potatoes, toast AND a danish, with lots of butter and lots of coffee, of course. *sigh* I miss me some Gilmore Girls.
  25. Well, Pam, I don't want the contents myself, just the bags! Drink up, I say! Maybe Katie can give you some recipes for the contents.
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