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20451. alistairConnor - 10/29/2006 9:44:59 AM You are not alone, Ulgine!
Eek, it's quarter to eleven (daylight saving ended last night) and I'm finishing breakfast. The girlfriend's three year old twin boys are stampeding around the house, and I need to find a steak-and-kidney pie recipe, that's why I'm on the internet now, because her parents and sister are coming for lunch. 20452. Ulgine Barrows - 10/29/2006 10:25:50 AM alistairConnor
ditch the steak-and-kidney pie recipe, go with what you have on hand.
I recommend eggs, they cook quickly. Add whatever is on hand. 20453. alistairConnor - 10/29/2006 12:05:25 PM Actually we got the direction of the daylight saving wrong (temporal dyslexia?) A friend dropped in and informed us it was a quarter to ten, not a quarter to twelve... so it's now eleven o'clock and we're just about on time. The meat is stewing slowly, the short crust pastry is chilling in the fridge, the pottimarron gratin is ready to go in the oven, and a leisurely aperitif in the sun on the terrace is ready to roll whenever the outlaws show up. 20454. Magoseph - 10/29/2006 12:51:16 PM Okay---now, don't forget to tell us how the lunch went, Ali, please. 20455. alistairConnor - 10/29/2006 7:11:46 PM Very nicely! I wasn't worried about the stew, if you cook it long enough you can't go wrong. I worried about getting the pastry right. To my taste, it was perfect. Most of the guests didn't finish their pie crust. I was amused but not offended. It's a cultural thing. These folks were not brought up on pies from the corner shop.
I used this recipe from the BBC, and it worked a treat. 20456. judithathome - 10/29/2006 7:45:16 PM I always finish pie crusts because I feel if people went to the trouble to make them from scratch, it's the least I can do to show my appreciation for their efforts. 20457. alistairConnor - 10/29/2006 9:17:22 PM A neighbour just turned up to borrow some roofing material, and wanted to show me where his son is now (at university in Ashland, Oregon), then one thing led to another and we spent an hour overflying Tierra del Fuego on Google Earth, retracing his adventure there at the beginning of the year. Time well spent.
But I was supposed to be preparing next week's little trip to Italy. 20458. poipual - 10/29/2006 10:25:37 PM My son and I once had a pie crust making contest once. It was years ago. I should have soled my shoes with it. Neither of us won. I think he still has his. Uses it as a frisby. I prefer cats. 20459. poipual - 10/29/2006 10:28:21 PM alistair
You keep roofing material on hand? Just in case a friend should drop by? 20460. poipual - 10/29/2006 10:30:06 PM I'll be in Astoria next week. 20461. poipual - 10/29/2006 10:31:01 PM I wish it were Ashland. 20462. alistairConnor - 10/29/2006 11:19:19 PM I prefer cats
To frisbees? For throwing, you mean? 20463. poipual - 10/29/2006 11:39:37 PM I refuse to answer on the grounds it may incriminate me. 20464. jexster - 10/30/2006 12:41:14 AM 
20465. Magoseph - 10/30/2006 4:31:47 PM Hey, Cap'n, say thank you for the gorgeous weather on its way to you! 20466. judithathome - 10/30/2006 11:44:36 PM My mother invented the Fribee but around here, we just called it her pie crust. 20467. judithathome - 10/30/2006 11:46:26 PM Crap...FriSbee.
My colonoscopy went well this morning; they found one polyp and removed it and I am on a liquid diet for two days and bland food for 5 more.
So hello mashed potatoes, tapioca pudding, cottage cheese, and plain pasta. 20468. alistairConnor - 10/30/2006 11:48:57 PM (Insert tactful and encouraging greeting to Judith here! Damn, can't think of one.)
(Damn. Should perhaps avoid the word "insert".) 20469. judithathome - 10/30/2006 11:50:08 PM I'm still drugged...so that "pun" was funny. 20470. Magoseph - 10/31/2006 8:11:41 PM Hello, Moties--what's new with you this beautiful morning?
I just voted, straight ticket this time. There were two questions, one about marriage and the other about death.
Then, I went to get a Latte and here I am reading W.M. Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
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