Subj : Plan Aheads
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sat Mar 29 2025 12:18:15
Hi Dave,
DD> I tend to be pedantic in my recipes. Capitalising all instances of
DD> Cheddar (which is a proper noun) And correcting the cheese variety
DD> that is meant by the generic "Swiss" cheese to it's proper name
DD> (Ementhal), etc.
RH> We tend to be more generic on a lot of things.
DD> Diff'rnt Strokes and all that.
RH> Very true, also depends on how you were raised.
DD> By the boot straps mostly. Bv)=
Same here--Dad had a white collar job but it didn't pay a lot. Mom did
the "Local & Personal" column for the town's weekly newspaper until
youngest sibling was in first grade, then went to work for the school.
Those first 15 years or so of their marriage they were pinching every
penny they could to make ends meet; they never did give up some of those
habits when the finances improved.
RH> OTOH, I very rarely cut myself when slicing/dicing. Guess I just
RH> learned to be extra careful around knives when I was working with less
RH> than ideal ones. My mom had a chef's knife she always kept on an upper
RH> shelf in the pantry, away from us kids. Once I got older and more knife
RH> savvy, I would pull it out and use it. I was using it one time when we
RH> were at my parent's house, mom was in the nursing home by then and dad
RH> didn't cook much for himself so I decided to make a beef stew. Started
RH> cutting up the beef with that knife and Steve asked to take over, so I
RH> let him, figuring I'd do other prep work. Warned him about the knife
RH> but a few minutes later, he cut himself--not seriously but enough to
RH> draw a bit of blood. I went back to cutting up the meat and later that
RH> night for supper, I think both of my brothers had seconds, then thirds
RH> of the stew.
DD> I've come close a couple of times tomdoing something "blue stupid".
DD> Like having a really sharp Santoku knife slip and head for the floor.
DD> And stopped my grab for it just this side of disaster.
RH> I've been good about letting things like that just drop. The instinct
RH> is to reach out to catch it but that's what lands you in the ER,
RH> needing stitches.
DD> Or prosthetics
I've not reached that point yet with my knife handling.
DD> Last kitchen cut I can remember is when I first got the mandoline and
DD> took a chunnk off the pad of my signalling finger. The cut didn't
DD> hurt. But the juice\ of the onion I was slocing sure did sting.
RH> I think the last kitchen cut I got was slicing something and didn't
RH> have a finger quite out of the way--cut just deep enough that I needed
RH> a couple of stitches to close it.
DD> I've only just wrapped/bandaged tightly. No stitches in/on my hands
DD> ever. I was amazed that when everything healed from the mandoline
DD> slice the my fingerprint wqs totallly restored.
Interesting, guess I never noticed it with my fingers but they are the
same way.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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