Text 5900, 177 rader
Skriven 2008-04-23 01:28:14 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Kommentar till text 5868 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: picnic
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Hi Ruth!
> deployment in 2004, she was asked to stay on active duty with them.
> She's been active ever since, plus the 18 months or so before.
Must be in her blood :) Kinda makes sense? :)
> We're proud of her; she's done well with the National Guard. She has a
I can understand that.. :)
> school in Rochester next month but will only be able to see Steve's
> family one night for supper, no time before or after school for an
> extended leave.
That is some schedule.. must be hard sometimes I would guess... but I'm sure
she's used to it. I can almost imagine how my daughter would have done it if
her allergies hadn't caused her such horrid problems.. oh well, what can you
do..;)
> I think I solved the weeping problem with my pasta sauce. I made a
> veggie one (mushrooms, yellow bells,garlic, onions and [mostly] fresh
> tomatoes) today. I seeded the fresh tomatoes and cooked them a bit
> before adding them to the onions and peppers. I added 6oz of tomato
> paste about an hour into the cooking. The fresh tomaotes, aftr cooking,
[...]
You seeded and skinned the tomatoes when you used fresh before, right? it was
probably the paste and the cooking beforehand that did it... that's usually
what I do with fresh tomatoes... Making sauce with fresh tomatoes is a
completely different operation than canned (grin).
> Steve is after me also, now to do bracciole with
> the lasagne for the picnic. That is definaterly a "do over several days
> before we leave" project with the meat balls, sauce, (possibly) some
[...]
Ooof.. want my opinion? No? you're getting it anyway LOL... :) :)
Normally, a pot of sauce is made in the morning for the day's meal... so
there's no reason the same can't be true here :) The meatballs will not take
that long.. you should buy the hamburger here or wait til you get here and just
use the grassfed-stuff I've got (oh I can spare a couple pounds of hamburger,
you know ... How many meatballs are you planning on making? I get lazy and
usually make nice fat guys like my Dad's step-mom, Grandma Roamey used to make
(now I know why haha .. but we loved those big meatballs :)
).
The frying will take maybe 5-10 minutes to just brown them.... the sauce you
can simmer to your hearts content before you come... but if I were you, I'd do
it all Saturday morning... I can help.. it's not a big job.. :) The simmering
can just go on and on for as long as we like (grin). The bracciole will take
20 minutes in the sauce to cook.. that's it :) it's nothing :) You really
wouldn't want the bacciole to cook all day... it would reduce to nothing...
like stew meat slivers :( But you HAVE to make sure you get the right cut of
meat for it... I've bought it in Binghamton before but around the holidays.. It
won't work otherwise :) Also, if you freeze meatballs.. well... they will
be Ok.. but they will never be the same as when you first made them.. they
lose something when you freeze them, defrost them and reheat them. Much better
to make them the day you are going to eat them or the day after... or that
week, etc.. it's the freezing that is the killer for them :( Once the sauce is
done you can just shut the stove off and refrigerate it and not worry about
it.. :)
> BTW, if they
> were interested, would it be OK for my parents to attend the picnic on
> Saturday?
Really you should check with Dale, Ruth. I've pretty much told people who were
interested in coming to picnic to post in the echo if they wanted to come....
in other words, be a part of the "whole thing".
> Do I hear an
> offer for garlic bread, salad, & cannoli to go with it? (G)
Well the garlic bread is easy enough and we'll sure wolf that down (smile)...
it's great stuff on homemade italian bread.. if I can do it (make the bread..
should be no trouble), it would be neat.. or I'll just grab a loaf of Italian
bread from the local market and make garlic bread.. Ron says I make deadly
garlic bread (grin). The problem with cannoli is the time of year.. I guess I
could do it at night when it's cooler..Well, I'll think about it. No promises.
I may make a cake to knock your socks off instead.. depends on my mood
(grin).... I may make some home made ravioli and sauce as well, haven't decided
yet.. Squid sauce was also on my mind, but I was trying to think of something
very Italian that even would be interesting and possibly very different to me
to make (grin)..
Then I thought, geez, maybe I'll do something korean.. I love that cuisine as
well :) Or sushi... hard to find sushi quality fish around here though :(...
shrimp is ok though for sushi.. inside-out sushi is one of my favorites (grin)
>> "old-timers" still there.. the original people who've been there for
>> ages...(and I mean ages (grin).. I guess they will always be there :)
> Same with Margaretville. (G) Some old characters.
Yup :) At the drugstore in Warwick, it was a trip... I had this brownie
leader.. (geez, brownies are 8??) She later worked in worked in Warwick's drug
store.. her son went to my high school.. she worked later at the drug store..
her daughter who looked exactly like her, then worked at the drug store, and
still does today (grin). Too funny :) Then you have the "really OLD families..
you know, the royalty (grin)... families who were in the state since when???
Hmm.. Ron's family was here in the 1700's but they're not of that type ..
wonder what's what's wrong with that picture (grin) guess it's the $$ (grin)
>> but I can understand how you feel to be honest.. the new people in
>> Warwick are of a different "type" somehow it seems sometimes.. The
> Margaretville gets quite a few from Westchester County and south, still
> within the state, if you know what I mean. Not always a good thing.
haha.. the only thing "south" of Westchester is NYC (grin) I know.. I grew up
45 minutes from Manhatten :) Warwick is right there just north of westchester..
Ron used to take the PATH train through the Twin Towers to work.. That was well
before they got blown all to h... :(
>> candidates for that kind of trouble (supremely over-priced housing!!!
>> Homes that had been priced at 130,000 going for 400-600,000
>> dollars..).
> It's bad everywhere, and more so where land is dear. A few weeks after
> we moved to HI in March of 2001, some friends did, but bought a house
> for under $200,000. They sold it 3 years later for about $350,000 and
> prices were still going up. Simple 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom in a newish
> development.
wow.. insane.. and I thought my sister's house in Los Angles, California was
insane.. talk about gold rush (grin)... she showed me the pictures of this
smallish nicely kept house.. 2 bedrooms, maybe if you stretched it a third,
kitchen, dining area, living room, deck, ...350,000 dollars.. a bargain she
said.. she had just sold her house for 450,000... geez... And here we are in
Broome county.. :) Things are normal here I think :)
>> It should be a great place.. I spoke with that owner as well and she
>> sounded very nice :) She knows my daughter, since my daughter worked
>> at the bank here in the village so we had a chuckle over that.. :)
>> She also knows our house, since this house had also been a B&B at one
>> time which I'd known.. The previous owner had told us about that and
>> shown us the sign they'd used (we still have it stored away (g)).. we
>> may do that someday.. :) Not real soon though ..
> Nice to know people in the area. We feel like we've become a member of
> a community when someone we know from church or elsewhere in the
> community recognises us while we're out. It happened about 5 months
> after we got to Savannah.
It's always nice to live in a small town where someone runs into your kids or
your family :)
>> great plus :)
> Very true; we dealt with them in NC with one of our cats.
The trick is to get the monsters to hold still while you apply the flea stuff
:) ;) Though these days it's easier than it's been :)
> BTW, send me an e-mail so I can get your address. I've got a non cooking
> related question I want to ask you. My address is in the bottom of the
> message.
Will do :)
Take care,
janis
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> Catch you later,
> Ruth
> rchaffly@earthlink.net FIDO 1:396/45.28
> ... Gone crazy, be back later. leave a message at the Beep!
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