Text 4432, 102 rader
Skriven 2008-03-26 20:47:11 av Carol Shenkenberger (10450.cooks)
   Kommentar till text 4334 av JOAN MACDIARMID (1:123/140)
Ärende: Sweets and guilt
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 >  CS> Then again in this house, normally the second half of a pie gets
 >  CS> donated to the local trash dump because we dont eat it before it dries
 >  CS> out too much to eat.
 > 
 >  That's why I haven't made many pies for some years.
 >  I cannot eat one before much of it goes bad, being
 >  alone most of the time. Maybe that's why Mom made

Same here even with 3 of us.  I generally get one at thanksgiving and maybeone
once more a year?

The idea of making one intrigues me but the lack of eaters here makes it stay
there.

 >  days of my work situation, I had quite a few
 >  friends among the graduate students and staff of
 >  the department, and would make pies and bring them
 >  to work, along with paper plates and plastic forks,
 >  leave them on the table in our little lunch room,
 >  and walk around to tell people there were goodies
 >  and they were welcome to help themselves when they
 >  had time. That way I could have some and not worry

Hehe I've done stuff like that with non-sweets many a time!

 >  about wasting the rest. Can't do that any more, as
 >  a reorganization moved most of the research groups
 >  over to another building, leaving just a few of us
 >  behind, and most of the biggest group is now Egyptians
 >  who tend not to socialize with us non-Muslims, and
 >  rarely will eat with us. Oh, well.

Too bad, nice folks i am sure but not willing to eat with ones of the not
same tradition.

 >  >  I guess the relations between Moms and daughters are
 >  >  often problematic. I feel my Mom is a sort of
 > 
 >  CS> Some more so than others.  Often not intentional, just sorta like 'you
 >  CS> can never stop being a parent'.
 > 
 >  You have to let your baby birds out of the nest when
 >  they are ready to fly, though. I suspect you will have
 >  more success in liberating Charlotte when it's time,

Charlotte's apt to bust out on her own and her cage as such, is lightly tied
as it is.

 >  though. You have had ship duty on and off all her life,
 >  so you have gotten comfortable with the idea that she
 >  and Don can make their own decisions without disaster.

Charlotte will have more problems detaching from Don I suspect due to the
ages when I was away (sad smile).

 >  >  trying to maintain my independence. I think it was
 >  >  significant that Mom took the big recliner one often
 >  >  might think of as the "Daddy" chair,
 > 
 >  CS> Grin, she's an 'alpha'. Thats ok. Just takes time to work them down
 >  CS> to a more suitable 'sharing is good' pattern.
 > 
 >  Sometimes she "shares" too much. She often forces canned
 >  goods on me she bought during the year for when I came

Ah but we all (you too) know it's an 'I love you' statement, even if a bit
overdone in the size of the bag <g>.

 >  at Christmas. This year it was the Campbell's ready-to-eat
 >  soups, because I'd mentioned an interest in them, as an
 >  occasional "take-to-work" option when I had nothing else.

I get those too for work and have a few.

 >  So she got to shop sales and use coupons and saved up
 >  several sacks of them! I don't want my Mom choosing my

Wince, several sacks?  Ouch!  

 >  lunches for me any more! She acted all hurt when I said
 >  I didn't want them, so I took them, but told her gently
 >  to "Knock it off!" And now I have those sacks sitting on
 >  my tiny kitchen's floor, because I have no place to store
 >  them.

hehehe food kitchen donation.

 >  CS> Check the local asian place where you are.  If nothing else, should be
 >  CS> foodie  fun to look at all the wierd stuff!
 > 
 >  I am afraid I would buy stuff! I should make a tour

Thats ok, most of what you will 'buy' will be fresh green stuff i bet.  Nopt
much cost and do the trip when your larder is LOW then price check.  Figure
in a secondary trip on the way home to another place you are used to for the
stuff you do not find there (or can get cheaper at regular place).  Flour
for example isnt a good bet there.  Nor is cheap american rice types.

                xxcarol
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