Text 3309, 76 rader
Skriven 2008-03-03 16:03:42 av Carol Shenkenberger (9301.cooks)
   Kommentar till text 3291 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
Ärende: Dads
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 > -> Wish me luck.  Don's shopping with Charlotte at the local Walmart.  I am
 > not
 > -> fond of Walmart's policies but this one is close enough to walk back
 > from and
 > -> he took a cab over.
 > ->
 > I'm not fond of Wal-Mart, period.  I shop there about once a year, if that
 > often.

Well proximity wins this time.  iT's on a safe path for walking or a bike
from here and not but 1.5 miles if that.

 
 > -> Me, I'm trying to figure out how to get a rice bag to stick to the
 > middle of
 > -> my back <g> and playing catchup with an astounding 1300 messages here
 > over
 > 
 > Oww. Owwch.  Hmmm - superglue?  A bathrobe sash?  Break down, buy a laptop,
 > and crash with it on top of the rice bag? (Gravity works nicely)

Snicker, no.  I went to bed and laid down on it.  Today, Don went back and
got me 'mineral ice' (a sort of ben-gay like thing).

 > -> made to home.  Had Charlotte for the first time, make up a breadmaker
 > batch
 > -> of regular white all on her own.  She had to even find a recipe out of
 > 
 > That could be scary.  At least she was using a breadmaker; I made bread
 > from scratch at that age too, but I had to use a bowl and an oven.  The
 > results were, well, let's just say I tried again.
 
Last night's bread made nice birdfood. Oh well! I know what I did.  I added to
o little flour.  I was using a 1/4 cup measure and miscounted.

 > -> Now us cooks know how to deal with that.  Charlotte does too but wasnt
 > -> thinking of it.  I told her to take a cup of water and add 1 TB dry milk
 > -> powder from the 'Sanalac' dry milk powder can and stir that up.  Whala!
 > Milk
 > 
 > Easier way - just toss the milk powder in with the flour like the rest of
 > us do.

Yes but the concept is clearer if you have her mix it.  Oh!  'Yeah Mom, got
it' stuff then.

 > -> that recipe out as it was a 1.5lb standard 'white' bake which is the
 > default
 > -> of the machine.  (Dear, plug it in and just press 'start').  The IT2
 > with the
 > -> spagetti was in gales of giggles.  Charlotte in the background was
 > trying to
 > -> tell Daddy just to hit start.
 > 
 > First, he had to find the start button!  I'll bet that took another minute.

Charlotte helped (snicker).


 > -> Dash.  Rolled the butter around and we had a coated flavor stick which
 > we
 > -> spread on the bread to eat with our spagetti <g>.
 > ->
 > -> 2 of the guys are considering getting a breadmaker now since they just
 > had
 > -> proof how very easy it is.
 > 
 > Even a guy can do it. [G]

Yup!  They were actually all suprised at the butter roll. I didnt realize it w
as that unique.  Just a stick of butter rilled about in spices and stuff. 
Looks a little like a cheese log when done except smaller and no nuts.
               xxcarol
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