Arey

The cornichons I buy are bottled in France and the label says to refridgerate after opening, and use within a month of opening. I can see the refridgerating but why use within a month?.

Randolph the Unripe Cranberry An animated film from Nausea Studios about a little cranberry that doesn't bounce in the sorting machine and gets shunted off to a bin filled with other cranberry asauscial misfits. He organizes them into a crack group of cranberry guerillas who take over the processing plant between Thanksgiving and Christmas and hold the entire cranberry industry hostage. Randolph demands $1.99 for each rebel or $3.00 for 2, and a fully fueled jet. The President ("New Jersey, is that near Australia?") advised by his Secretaries of Justice and Defense to invade New Jersey and bomb the plant ("The bomb may take out bits of Delaware and Pennsylvania, as collateral damage"), but since the plant is in the middle of an ecologically sensitive area with several endangered species, it will take at least a month to get the necessary bombing permits. Following an emotional appeal from ex-EPA director Christie Whitman the cranberry industry gives in to Randolph's demands. Randolph and his rebels fly off to Sweden where they all marry loganberries and live happily ever after. The theme song from the movie begins "Randolph the unripe Cranberry didn't have a bit of bounce ........." and soon becomes a holiday favorite,

I will never again buy a bottle of white wine which will not fit standing up on my refridgerator door shelves, or if I do , I will make sure the cork is back in tight before I put it back on the hydrater cover in the fridge. Does anybody have a recipe that calls for 5 lbs of bread flour, 5 lbs of all-purpose flour, 2lbs of rye blend flour, 5 lemons, 10 carrots, a head of green leaf lettuce, 2 lbs of potatoes, 3 lbs of onions, 2 red onions, and 1/2 lb of shallots, which have been marinated in 2 cups of Trimbach Gewurtztraminer? Oh well, I've really been meaning to clean the hydrators and the hydrator cover for the past 4 or 5 years. My housework philosophy is that there's no point in rushing around cleaning things because something's going to happen eventually that's going to make you clean it all over again anyway. Arey - my role model is Onslow from "Keeping up Appearences"

When the waitstaff goes down the street to eat when it's time for their lunch or dinner break. (This actually happened at a seaside restaurant in So. Jersey where I was the busboy/dishwasher one summer between college semesters)

I just bought one, too! It rocks. It was getting to be a pain to do the knife-smashing-olive trick which leaves you with olive pieces and not whole olives. I've been using an Italian olive pitter for years, after losing one too many fillings to olive pits, and discovering that those canned pitted olives are the pits. I wish they made a tiny pitter for Nicoise olives. It's fun to shoot them through the big pitter, but you end up with a pitiful looking olive.

Does Toe Jam qualify as Booty Food? Arey

May I ask what the name of the Korean movie was. I'm assuming it wasn't Chunhyang, or The Way Home. Arey

My kitchen is best described as "dinky".There isn't enough room to swing a cat, as my cat can attest from what happened the last time I caught him on the countertop. It must have been designed by an architect who had never seen a kitchen, far less tried to cook in one. The kitchen cabinets are tiny, unless you count the areas where you either have to get down on your hands and knees and crawl halfway into the cabinet and use a flashlight to see, or have to get out a stepladder and stand on the "This is not a step" step to see into. I really wish that back in "78 when I bought the house, and the builder asked what size refridgerator I had I'd said "18 cubic feet". What surprises me is that now that they are building $800,000 to $1,500, 000 homes in my neighborhood, although the kitchens come with "European style cabinets" and granite countertops, they're still dinky kitchens with inadequate cabinet space and counter space. At best, you could only swing a small cat in one. Arey

It was on a damp and foggy morning that I wandered into The Mocha Dippe, New Bedford's worse coffee bar, and had hardly sat down at my customary table and begun the connect the dots puzzle on my place mat when a fish eyed waiter I'd never seen before walked over, and said "I'm your server, call me Ishmael". Arey

Does anyone know how to rejuvenate a Rosemary plant? Originally I had two Rosemary plants in terracotta containers which I brought indoors each winter. Since I don't like indoor plants, eventually I gave one to my sister-in-law and planted one in the herb garden planted around my goldfish pond. I put it on the South side of the pond in a sheltered position. It did very well there, and usually suffered some frost damage to the tips of the branches but recovered well. Well, last year it had the drought followed by an above normal rainfall for the Fall and an above normal (and above the top of the plant for that matter) snowfall in January and February. It has only a couple of new growth branches now. Most of the branches still look dormant and the tops have only brown leaves. The branches are alive, and when you scrape one with a fingernail you can see the green wood, but they aren't doing anything. I also lost both my culinary Thyme plants , and most of the ornamental thyme plants in my backyard. My Greek oregano is thriving, and my Dill, Italian Parsley and Summer Savory are all coming up. It's too soon to plant Basil here (South Jersey, a few blocks from the Ocean). I would like to know if my Rosemary plant will recover, or should I rip it out and go buy a new one. Arey

I've only been to a party hosted by people using another person's house once. It was a dinner party at a friend's house, hosted by the friends sister, and the sister's boyfriend. After the dinner, the sister and her boyfriend tried to sell us the cookware.

A co-worker of mine gave her octogenarian mother a micro-wave oven, and her mother really liked it. However, she kept on trying to preheat it, which lead to problems. My own octogenarian mother wouldn't use the micro-wave because she had read it was dangerous for people with pace-makers to use one. When reminded that she didn't have a pace-maker, she would point out that a lot of people in their 80's did. Arey