Subj : was: Apples was: Tourist [1]
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Mon Oct 21 2024 13:35:13
Hi Dave,
RH> Wish we got a packet of coupons, etc. They used to distribute one but
RH> Covid put an end to that.
DD> Someone should pull their coat and tell them the panmdemic is
DD> officially over. Bv)=
Doubt they'll ever go back to that because they're pushing so much
digital access now.
DD> I get, also, around the first of every month a packet put out by an
DD> outfit called "Mail South" with all manner of coupons and specials
DD> that you didn't know your couldn't live without. Bv)= When we had
DD> the satellite store we used to do a flyer every three months. And we
DD> got a fair amount of business from that.
We get a couple of booklets every month with coupons for mostly
home/auto repair/improvement but s few restaurants do advertise also.
Usually ones we're not interested in for one reason or other.
RH> We've been getting greeting cards from them the past few years.
DD> From the dollar store? Never had anything from them in the mail.
DD> Except the advertising flyers that are a part of the newspaper's
DD> mailing. But, certainly, nothing "personalized".
RH> No, we're buying the cards. (G)
DD> Oh. OK. It all becomes clear now.
Crazy language. (G)
DD> Or use a pot that's wide/deep enough to submerge the sticks in one go.
DD> I still do the "pan length" as it's easier to wind it onto my fork at
DD> table. But, That's me.
RH> At least you don't cut it into 1" or less pieces. (G)
DD> Only pasta I do in that size range is elbow macaroni, rosemarina, cous
DD> cous, etc.
RH> My MIL treated us (3 kids, 3 spouses) to dinner last night at an
RH> Italian place, only one person didn't leave with a "leftovers" box. I
RH> had veal and eggplant parm with a side of penne pasta & marinara sauce.
RH> The size of the piece of veal was almost the whole dinner plate, with 2
RH> roughly 6" rounds of eggplant on top of it. Penne pasta was good, maybe
RH> about a cup and a half (cooked) with a good amount of marinara. Starter
RH> was a salad so I only ate about 1/3 of my entree. Steve had Italian
RH> jambalya over liguini and a salad; I think he took about half of his
RH> entree home.
DD> Sound like they are philosophically on board with my recently closed
DD> Sweet Basil cafe. I always told people "If you're going there - go
DD> HUNGRY". One of the few places I ever had to get a "go box" to bring
DD> home my leftovers. Even if I showed up ravenous.
RH> I get a "to go" most every time I eat out now, and usually plan on
RH> eating only half (or less) of my entree, especially if I start with a
RH> salad.
DD> I'm mostly a member of the "clean plate club"
I just don't have the appetite I did when I was younger. Doesn't take as
much to fill me up and since I'm not running after little ones, don't
need as many calories to burn off.
DD> I was hesitant to serve a dish using cous cous to my brother since
DD> he's had this "thing" abou rice ever since his tour in Vietnam. But,
DD> he knows the difference and enjoyed it. I keep hoping he'll mellow out
DD> of it like Steve did with pork. But that hope is dwindling. Bv)=
RH> Don't hold your breath waiting. (G)
DD> I present this recipe as written - but with the question "How can a
DD> bird be both free range AND corn fed"?
RH> Free range during the warm parts of the year, corn fed in the colder
RH> parts. (G) More likely was supposed to be "free range OR corn fed".
DD> My personal opinion is that free range means just that. They'd have
DD> been better off using "cage free". When I kept chickens the girls were
DD> cage free and had a trough for "chicken feed" as well as scratching in
DD> the pen for bugs and seeds, etc. And the fence was more to keep the
DD> predators out than to keep the chooks in.
Sounds like they were thinking cage free but just didn't remember the
proper term.
RH> We never kept any, just raised cats & dogs. (G)
DD> We had cats and dogs. And a 3-legged raccoon. My grandfather trapped
DD> the raccoon in the sweet corn patch. It was strange, he had railed
DD> over "those 'coons stealiong his my corn" for so long then going to
DD> the corn to bring fresh sweet corn back for Cappy to munch on.
DD> I asked him about it and he said "That was stealing. This is giving."
DD> Bv)=
Now that's funny--to quote a former member of the echo.
DD> My friens Les' send-off (funeral) is today. I made this for the after
DD> funeral meal at Temple Israel. But then I realised that I had meat and
DD> dairy in the same dish do it wasn't kosher. Dennis and I will eat well
DD> for a couple of days.
