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5122. arkymalarky - 11/21/2014 1:12:53 AM I love Lewis Black. 5124. judithathome - 1/1/2015 10:33:48 PM As if I weren't depressed enough...my neighbor died yesterday...a woman I have known and admired since I was 12 years old. She was an independent woman, a role model...she had children when I was a child...a beautiful and BOLD woman who made her way in the world with no help from anyone and a woman of CLASS....RIP: MaryJo Smith.
A part of my life is gone. 5125. judithathome - 2/10/2015 10:36:08 PM This is a post from my forum today...we were talking about "Coffee Culture" and Krummm said this:
It isn't only coffee, however. Anything that is something will eventually become designer and someone will find a way to get people to spend more money.
Liquor and beer have both transformed into a bigger deal than they used to be. All sorts of ethnic foods have experienced a surge in popularity, then later again when someone fuses them with a different type of food. Growing up, I never heard about the thread count in sheets. We made popcorn in a cast iron pan with an ill fitting lid on the stove. Hot sauce was red, and not all that famous. Salsa? WTF is that? My mother used to marinate steak in a teriyaki sauce, but I never saw it in a restaurant. Now, in Seattle at least, you can't huck a rock at a cat that wont get snatched up by an Oriental cook as it tries to run away. Racist? I can never tell. Seriously, we have a teriyaki joint on every damn corner. Pho is being sold everywhere, and I hadn't heard of Pho until a few years ago. Chicken Wings were the throw away piece of the chicken that my mother would eat because she didn't want a full big piece. Now there are restaurants that are known for serving nothing but the wing.
Smoking culture hasn't shrunk as much as you think. Cigars are as popular as ever. With the new vapor cigs, smoking is on the increase again.
Remember when a grilled cheese sandwich was a Kraft Single between two slices of bread? Yesterday for lunch I had a Grilled Cheese that was three kinds of cheese, a tomato slice and pesto on sourdough.
Life goes on...it is the free market! And they say innovation is dead...
5126. judithathome - 2/10/2015 10:51:06 PM Okay...here's his follow-up:
BTW, the Pesto Grilled Cheese was delicious, as was the house salad with Parmesan Ranch Dressing. I don't remember Ranch Dressing being an option in my house or ant restaurant until maybe 73 or 74. Certainly not Ranch with delicious Parmesan Cheese. I used to think Parmesan Cheese was a coarse powder that came out of a green container with a yellow lid. I certainly had no idea you could go to an artisan shop, buy a hunk of it, and grate it yourself.
It goes on and on...
We have a Food Truck here that Specializes in the Grilled Cheese, of all things. The simple, quick meal mom would make us when we were at home ill.(Grilled cheese and chicken noodle soup) or when my parents were going out and she needed something quick and easy to feed us before the baby sitter arrived. Grilled cheese and potato chips.
Grilled Cheese Seattle 5127. arkymalarky - 2/10/2015 10:58:18 PM Fayetteville has a gourmet grilled cheese restaurant. 5128. judithathome - 2/10/2015 11:02:38 PM Swoon...!!! 5129. arkymalarky - 2/11/2015 12:59:32 AM Hammontree's:
hammontreesgourmet.com 5130. robertjayb - 2/11/2015 1:32:08 AM Grilled cheese (sharp), tomato bisque soup, and a piece of fruit. You've had a meal. Via yankee spouse. 5131. bhelpuri - 2/11/2015 6:19:26 AM Now, in Seattle at least, you can't huck a rock at a cat that wont get snatched up by an Oriental cook as it tries to run away. Racist? I can never tell.
Really? 5132. bhelpuri - 2/11/2015 6:29:45 AM Over here on the Konkan coast of the Indian subcontinent, cheese has also become quite a big deal.
It's not just cheese, of course. The past 5-7 years, it seems an increasing number of Europeans and some Americans are opting for the Plan B in their life's trajectories, and for a surprising many of them that has involved reaching out for a place in the sun here, at the very far end of what was once the hippie trail. These new arrivals often try to make a go in the world of artisanal foods. So a proliferation of pastry cooks and restauranteurs, and dudes obsessed with smoking fish or stuffing sausages.
Perhaps least anticipated was the fromageurs. There is a Georgian assiduously making real mozzarella di bufala, a pair of Italians churning out delicious young pecorino, studded with green peppercorns and mild Kashmiri chilies. And now a breakthrough that I never expected in my life, a real, deeply satisfying camembert that is made under coconut palms. My boys and I whack a wheel in a sitting... 5133. judithathome - 2/11/2015 7:46:20 PM Bhelpuri, I hope you realize I was posting the words of someone else...I thought MOST of the post was humorous. 5134. arkymalarky - 2/17/2015 2:27:18 AM People around here raise a lot of goats, so there's plenty of goat cheese, but I love the goat's milk soap one of Mose's student's family made. She gave me two lavender bars and they're so wonderful. Stan's former principal made it as well, but this is nicer. 5135. arkymalarky - 2/23/2015 4:20:56 AM Made a tagine this evening. So yummy. Wish I could post a picture of it. 5136. judithathome - 10/15/2015 10:43:34 PM So, is this just an unusual fall? Is anyone else experiencing Hallowe'en being almost here and the tress are still full of GREEN LEAVES??? 5137. arkymalarky - 10/16/2015 12:33:04 AM ours are turning brown and ugly for lack of rain. And it got up to 95 today.
My new projects, before:
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After:
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Bought the before this week, and planning for the after to be accomplished by the time I retire a year from June.
5138. judithathome - 10/24/2015 9:24:06 PM I came here to say something about how modern times have completely ruined Hallowe'en...and yes, I have reached THAT age...where I harken back to how much better things were "back then"...so skip this part if you're tired of hearing from your granny and your parents about how much BETTER the good ole days were.
Because when it comes to Hallowe'en...they WERE better and more fun and not fraught with fear....we left the house at dusk and roamed the streets collecting candy...and EATING it along the way...and the only grownups we'd see would be the people at their doors handing out goodies...we even saw SOME of them twice if the treats were candied apples or popcorn balls or brownies...and there was one other grown-up we'd see...the cool dad who just couldn't let go of such a neat holiday and who would dress up like a zombie and scare us shitless when he'd jump out of the dark as we passed his porch.
We didn't worry about pedophiles or disgruntled neighbors shooting us out of fear were trying to break in...we didn't have to worry about razor blades hidden in innocent looking apples or ExLax-laced brownies given out to make us sick as dogs...we just worried about having enough candy and treats so that our pillowcases or grocery sacks didn't have that "forlorn empty" look as we whizzed past our pals...spazzed on sugar and deliriously happy! 5139. arkymalarky - 10/24/2015 10:21:52 PM We've never had a trick or treater in 32 years. Mose's in laws might bring their kids, but not sure yet. Around here if you do live in neighborhoods, it's still pretty traditional. Of course everyone knows everyone. we'd have to put up hobo. He hates kids. 5140. arkymalarky - 10/24/2015 10:22:49 PM Your description is perfect. I remember that so fondly. Had to watch the Charlie Brown Halloween special the other day. 5141. arkymalarky - 10/25/2015 8:16:44 PM I find the couple on HGTV fixer upper creepy. I watched the man eat a cockroach one time, & I haven't watched it since, but they advertise it all the time. 5142. judithathome - 10/25/2015 8:36:15 PM I gave up on HGTV long ago...used to watch it religiously.
I can't remember what turned me off it...but someone eating a roach (an insect one, anyhow) would do it!
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