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Once I was entertaining a friend at a vacation home where all the glasses were quite small (about 6 to 8 ozs. I'd guess). We made drinks in the kitchen then walked over to the indoor pool. We'd barely sat down when our glasses were empty. I said, "Well, this isn't gonna work" and we left to go buy some way bigger glasses.

So sorry, not that awful flu, I hope. So many sick with it these days.

DH and I visited Maui, Kuai and Oahu many, many times and I remember the towering displays of Spam offered in the drug stores as well as Costco. The native Hawaiians clearly love the stuff.

Dinner tonight is a crockpot dish with chicken thighs, potatoes, carrots, onions, cream of chicken soup with garlic powder, salt and pepper. Love easy dishes like this that allow me to fully enjoy the cocktail hour. Still cooking away, but it smells very good.

I've never eaten Spam but I do faintly remember some Underwood deviled ham spread mixture in a can.

I remember my Mom having a fondness for Pennsylvania Dutch scrapple though I've never eaten it. Wouldn't Spam be quite similar to scrapple? The TV ads are running in this area as well.

Another reason to bless the dishwasher.

I've been messing with my own variation of a pomegranate monitor. (Spellcheck changed this from mojito!) Vodka, pomegranatejuice, cranberry juice, Cointreau and lime juice. I just eyeball the amounts based on previous testing. I like my version which I mix in a tall glass with ice, Again, not authentic but I like it.

Dinner time for me revolves around the cocktail hour which begins at 5PM. After a cocktail followed by a glass or two of wine, it's time for dinner. That's about 7:30 or so. The problem is that after the cocktails followed by food, I'm ready for sleep. I'm always in bed by 9PM. I've always been a morning person so it works for me.

Yes

I bought a set of atractive set of stainless picks from Amazon recently. They look nice but the olives aren't real secure on them. The plastic spears have the barbson the end that hold the fruit better.

Thanks, @Tropicalsenior, I will try your method for my own Corned Beef. BTW, as I mentioned last year, the nearby Catholic church does a big corned beef dinner for St. P. day. They cook the corned beef as you've stated and then they take the meat, smear it all over with a mixture of brown sugar and yellow mustard, wrap it in foil and oven bake for another hour at about 300º. It is, without question, the best corned beef in the world.

After a bit of consideration I finally decided to give up my Costco membership. It's just me here now (with the two dogs) so I can't really justify the big sizes. I will miss the wonderful Costco meat and seafood ...it's better than anywhere else around here. I'll miss a lot of their other items too...too many to mention. TJ's is nowhere in this state and may never be. I now buy the smaller quantities from nearby groceries and find that works better....no more hauling big loads of food home, re-packaging the meats and putting it all away. My freezers are full anyway. When we moved to this state I couldn't imagine living anywhere that wasn't reasonably close to a Costco but life changes.

Funny how the really stupid tings we do seem to be such a good idea...at the time.

Tuna salad sandwich made with Genova tuna, Best Foods mayo, minced celery and onion, Steinfeld's sweet pickle relish and white pepper served on honey whole wheat bread. And an iced mug of red beer. Yum.

But sizes are decreasing all the time on practically every product. It seems that canned foods are the worst. They started at 16 oz. and now some are 13.5. At this rate thety'll soon disappear.

Many of our kitchen accident stories have been posted in the thread, "Never again will I..." in this forum. My worst was when I was also using a mandoline; wearing a cut-proof glove, no less. Trying to slice a rutabaga my knuckle went into the blade, though the glove and I got a big cut and a very deep bruise that didn't heal for a very long time. So much for 'no-cut'. These days I handle that mandoline with great care.

Hey, I'll try that too. Thanks. I don't have any Grenadine but I can probably find some locally.

Sorry, yes., it was Ina. Grenadine...instead of???

Wow, that would be tough. To me, everything is better with onion and garlic.

I made a Pomegranate Cosmo tonight based on a drink Ina Garten made on a recent Food Network show. I'm enjoying it now and it's quite good.

Or a funnel.

Never mind...wrong show.

Yes! I love that about Amazon. I've been saved more than once. I also like that you can find out what you paid for an item previously.

But your IP is a crock pot.