August 26, 2011 at 1:17 am (Uncategorized)
By Peter H.R. Green, M.D. and Rory Jones.
Not a bad book, but I’ve already gone gluten-free and feel sooooo much better. So why read? I’ll just go on with my life. But if you feel like crap all of the time, what could it hurt? It’s just information and you can decide if it might help.
August 26, 2011 at 1:02 am (Books - Personal Finance, Uncategorized)
Although I should probably turn in the ones that are due soonest or have holds first!
Money secrets of the Amish – Lorilee Craker – 2011 – nothing revolutionary here, but not bad advice, either. You might feel like a better person after you read it
August 5, 2011 at 12:46 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: butts tramp stamps underpants
Let me get this off my chest: Unless I am in an intimate relationship with you, I don’t want to see your underpants. I don’t care if you have a nice butt; I don’t care if your butt looks like the love child of Beyonce’ and an 80-year-cowboy. Don’t wanna see it. Don’t wanna think about. Pull your stinkin’ pants up. And ladies – I don’t wanna see your tramp stamp, either. And if your butt is the size of the Lusitania, ya don’t need one in the first place.
Modesty. Get some.
The end.
January 29, 2011 at 3:54 pm (Uncategorized)
Okay. I’m not quite as pathetic as that title may sound. In fact, I’m kind of infatuated with lovely Fern from Resurrection Fern. She is intelligent and adventurous. And has a great sense of style.
Oh – and did I mention that her Aunt Margie makes beautiful crocheted covers for river stones? Swoon!
Take care.
Images courtesy Resurrection Fern.
June 5, 2010 at 12:17 am (Uncategorized)
I have to tell you – I used to rave about freecycle. I loved it! What a great concept. But right now, I am so irritated at the petty, small-minded jerks who moderate the freecyclegainesville group. Actually, they just put me on moderation. My crime?
Posting the following:
The reason many members use pending, promised, spoken for or PPU is to kindly notify other group members that the item is no longer up for grabs and to avoid either ignoring all further requests or answering them. It actually serves a good purpose.
Good reasonable rules do not require much policing.
My punishment:
[my name deleted]
it is usually the specific duty for the moderators to post admin notices, {rules/etiquete file}. Please refrain and use the moderators for this. furthermore if you have any ideas share them with us. To answer your post, Freecycle does not allow PPU, etc [read rules, terms of service]. Therefore your post goes against direct contradiction to the rules and your not even a moderator/owner! Please take this time to review Yahoo terms of service, Freecycle terms of service, international and local freecycle gainesville network group rules/etiquete and let us know if you can adhere to them. you will be placed on moderation until we have your confirmation. thanks.
This moron can’t spell or use proper grammar. And she has the nerve to write to me like I’m her toddler. What a presumptuous, arrogant twit!
January 9, 2010 at 8:43 pm (Cooking, Uncategorized)
The proper thing to do with new toys is to play with them. Which I will. And I am playing with an old toy and a new toy here. The biscuit cutter was probably my great aunt’s. Her name was Skeeter (well, really it was Gertrude, but only her sisters dared call her that) and she was soooo cool. She was widowed fairly early and I never knew her husband, but she was more fun than just about anybody I knew. She was uber-crafty and loved to play games and put jigsaw puzzles together. Anyway, to the toys!
The rolling pin is new, though.
And what did I make of this mess?
Chicken pot pie – like my Memaw used to make. My Mom pitched in with her biscuit recipe, one that she uses every time and that is in the Betty Crocker Cookbook. My version is a little different than hers, but they came out great.
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I kind of fudged on the filling, but here it is basically:
2 pounds of chicken thighs
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp poultry seasoning
chicken broth (from cooking the chicken)
Put the chicken, celery salt, and poultry seasoning in a large pan with a lid and cover with water. Cook on medium heat for about 45 minutes. Take the chicken out of the water (using tongs or a fork) and set on a plate to cool. Pour out about 75% of the broth and save it for something else.
Let your chicken cool until is comfortable enough to debone.
Now, before you debone the chicken, set your oven to 350 and let it preheat.
Remove the fat from the flesh, and the succulent flesh from the bones. Set chicken aside. Discard fat and bones.
Open the peas and carrots. Put them in a microwave safe bowl and cook on high for about 2 minutes. Then drain.
Mix up the peas and carrots and meat. Add your broth (the little bit you have left in the pan) and a little cream. I can’t tell you exactly how much, because mine was too runny (but still good). But that’s the thing about cooking – it is more an art than a science. And if it doesn’t work as well as you’d like, well, it’s probably still edible and/or can be combined with something else like eggs and/or tortilla chips and/or shredded cheddar to make something that is just as good. Make do! Have fun! Don’t get too uptight about it.
Okay. Lecture over.
Take your mixture of broth, chicken, cream, peas, and carrots and put it in a roasting pan. Mine is a 10 x 14 x 2 Thomas (Rosenthal Group?) nonstick model. Wish it had a lid, but still, I love the heck out of it. Anyway, then you want to cover it with the biscuits you made. Then, use a pastry brush to spread softened butter (real butter, not margarine!!!!) on top of the biscuits. Then sprinkle the top of the whole thing with sesame seeds (which get nicely toasted and add a wonderful nutty element to the dish). Okay. Pop that rascal into the oven for 45 minutes – an hour (depending on how hot your oven gets). Keep an eye on it. You will know it is done when the biscuits are fluffy and golden and it smells like heaven.
And, as Julia Child would say, “Bon appetit!”
January 3, 2010 at 9:31 pm (Uncategorized)
…er, tools.
Seriously – I had one soft spoon, and one soft slotted spoon, and not a whisk to my name. And the last few times I had taken food for large gatherings, I had to fix my food in more than one bowl. Plus, these bowls are so happy. And the curve on the handle is just perfect for nestling it close to your body for optimal ergonomics.
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