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To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Wed Aug 20 2025 01:12 pm
Hi Dave,
DD> I have to take Dennis' eating schedule into account since it is
DD> different from mine. He sometimes does eaags, meat and taters after
DD> noon. And uses the whole stove top it seems. If I have a pot of sauce
DD> on one of the burners ..........
RH> Sigh! One good thing about starting the sauce earlier in the day is
RH> that you can turn it off for an hour or two part way thru cooking, then
RH> resume. If you have enough room, keep it on the stove top, moved to the
RH> back. Or, depending on the pot size, put it in the oven on a low
RH> setting and let it keep cooking.
DD> That would work except that's where he puts the potzen pans that
DD> usually arestored on the stove for lack of vupboard space.
Can't win! Do you have a grill with a side burner? We've cooked strong
smelling stuff (collards) or long cooking (canning, especially in the
summer) things on that.
DD> Classico and Bertolli's are both superior (IMO) to Prego.
RH> Sauce was one thing my mom never bought, even tho hers was more like a
RH> sort of chili, with Italian seasoning and no beans. Told Steve when we
RH> first got married, I'd make his mom's sauce, then my mom's and we'd
RH> decide which to go with. My mom's version is what we use for a
RH> beef-a-roni type meal. (G)
DD> My mother learned her sauce from ladies in the neighbourhood who
DD> either recent immigrants or second generation. We had a lot of various
DD> ethnic
DD> cuisines represented in the families of coal miners.
We're going to do tortillini tonight with a sage/butter sauce. One of
the farmers at the market gave us the basic recipe some years
ago...melt some butter in a fry pan, add several sage leaves and let
them brown. Remove leaves and pour butter over cooked tortillini.
Optional--add fresh grated parmesan cheese to taste. Easy to do as I'm
fighting bronchitis again.
DD> If you enjoy cops 'n' robbers books that are well written or just well
DD> written/plotted/presented stories I do recommend James Lee Burke
RH> My favorite genre is historic fiction, 3 of the 4 above named authors
RH> are (were) major writers of that, Wier and Gregory writing a lot about
RH> Henry VIII and relatives.
DD> Heinlein wrote "science fiction" and it's amazing how much ofthe stuff
DD> he "blue skyed" in his work had come to pass. Asimov wrote both
DD> science fiction and mysteries and won the top award in both
DD> categories. The top award for mysteries/detective stories (the EDGAR)
DD> in novel, serialized
DD> novel and short story categories. Louis Lamour won multiple SPUR
DD> awards as well as Oscars for his writings. And James Lee Burke has
DD> more than one EDGAR for his output.
RH> Not my cuppa tea, tried sci-fi around junior high school but never
RH> developed an interest in it. Might try Louis Lamour one of these days.
DD> Another good Westerns/Frontier author is Elmer Kelton - also a
DD> multiple "Spur award" winner from the Western Writers of America.
I met him when we were stationed in San Angelo in spring of 1984. Bought
one of his books and got it autographed right away.
DD> I enjoy sci-fi, mysteries, historical fiction (and fact),
DD> biographies, etc. And I much prefer reading a book to watching the
DD> boob tube or the movies.
RH> I enjoy a well written biography; David McCullugh (think I spelled the
RH> name wrong) wrote one on Harry Truman that I enjoyed. As for tv--news,
RH> Jeopardy and (in the summer) America's Got Talent is about all we
RH> watch.
DD> TV for me is just a "babble box". It does keep Dennis entertained
DD> though. He seems to have one or the other of the "Talking Head"
DD> channels pouring out their soporific drivel droning away formuch of
DD> the day. Or re-runs of "F Troop".
By not having cable and other Sunday committments, we avoid most of the
talking head shows and channels. We can get MeTV that shows a lot of the
oldies but we choose just to keep the tv off for the most part. Last
night was the first live performance night on AGT so tonight we'll see
who was voted off, who continues. One contestant is an
undertaker/comedian;--good, clean, funny!!!
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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