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Skriven 2008-10-16 04:36:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 NB> I liked the slightly milk-like taste of the Dr.Pepper/Mr.Pibb.

I never found it milk-like, not that that would bother me,
because my objection to milk isn't the taste. Of course, I
never found cream soda particularly creamy, either.

 ML> racked up my leg) might have had caff in it - why on earth
 ML> do they do this, put the stimulant in with the painkiller?
 NB> The caffeine helps with the pain relief.  I discovered that one
 NB> empirically, by accident, when I had to go off the caffeine for other
 NB> reasons...  My guess is that what you were given was like Excedrin,
 NB> which has had caffeine in it for ages, for that very reason.

As Clean Dave tells me, this has something to do with the
vasodilator effect; I guess it gets the stuff where it needs
to go quicker. Scant consolation for me, though.

 ML> Same question with lactose and breads, medicines, and other
 ML> things that would normally be considered nondairy.
 NB> There's a reason, no doubt, but not quite the same one... ;)  Those
 NB> might be for taste or similar...

I think it's largely to regulate the evaporation of moisture,
at least with the breads. Why it's a filler in medicine capsules
really foxes me: they could use a less toxic substance, such
as strychnine.

 like adding apple juice to chicken
 NB> soup (for sweetening), or saccherine to just about any liquid
 NB> medication (most of which really didn't need it anyway)...  The latter
 NB> two are my similar beefs to yours on the caff and lactose, as I'm
 NB> allergic to both apples and saccherine.

That's annoying - I bet you have to be mighty vigilant.

 -=> Nancy Backus said to Jim Weller <=-

 JW> Girls can be Peter pans too. Captain Hooks even. Like the song says:
 JW> "Girls can do anything that they want to do."
 NB> That's absolutely true...  :)   I might have been a Peter Pan... IF I
 NB> hadn't been the oldest of 8 kids (the first 6 arriving in 10 years),
 NB> and needed to "mother" my siblings, and on occasion, even my mother...
 NB> which is why I was referring to myself as a "wendy"...  I grew up
 NB> awfully quickly...  :)   Occasionally I wish I could* have been PP... 

For reasons I won't go into but some here know I was always the
fixer and arbiter in my household when I was a kid, and I went
the exact opposite direction, never wanting to grow up and never
wanting to go to school ...

 -=> Nancy Backus said to Hap Newsom <=-

 hn> I was in Peter Pan mode from my late teens until about my mid
 hn> thirties! (grin).
 NB> I think that's where my son (at 34) still is...  (G)

I'm 22 years older than he is, and look at me.

 hn> I'm pretty much for celebrating most anytime anything!
 hn> I tend to look on the bright side almost all the time.
 hn> For me it works, for others it seems as though they
 hn> enjoy the gloom as much as I enjoy the glass being half full!
 NB> I'm with you.  :)  I'd rather look for the comical in a bad situation
 NB> rather than moan over it... I have a sister that will look for the fly
 NB> in the ointment no matter how wonderful...  

No problem with a fly in the ointment, if you fish it out
and enjoy the ointment! And as far as glasses being half
full, put them in front of me and they'll soon be not very
full at all.

 NB> ... If the family skeleton must remain, make it dance.

My family skeleton, well, let's just say that the glass
is altogether too full.

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     Title: Katjaug Sauce
Categories: Indonesian, sauces, spices
  Servings: 2 cups

           Clarified butter
      1 md onion, finely sliced
      2    cloves garlic, finely
           chopped
      1 ts Kentjoer (Indonesian ground
           spices)
    1/2 ts shrimp sauce
      1 ts brown sugar
           Freshly ground salt and
           Sambal Oelek to taste
    1/2 c  peanut butter
    1/2 c  coconut milk
    1/2 c  water

Pour clarified butter into heated saucepan and add onion. Add garlic and
fry. To this, add ground spices, shrimp sauce and brown sugar. Season
with salt and chili pickle. Increase heat and add peanut butter. Stir
briskly. Reduce heat to low and add coconut milk and 1/2 cup water. Stir
thoroughly and remove from heat. Add pan juices collected from skewers
to sauce and serve in a sauce boat alongside meat.

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