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Skriven 2011-05-26 18:50:46 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: pantry
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Hola Ruth!

-> ->  hn> Good plan, do you blanch them before
-> ->  hn> skinning? I do makes it easy peasy!
-> 
-> -> I just dump some boiling water over them, let them sit for a few minutes
-> -> and drain the water. Skins slip off really easy. Not technically
-> -> blanching but close enough. It's the way I learned to do tomatoes years
-> 
->  hn> That would work as well, I usually
->  hn> just cut an X in them tossed them
->  hn> in boiling water for a few seconds
->  hn> and then took them out and put them in
->  hn> a bowl of ice water. Skin comes off
->  hn> Sooo easy!
-> 
-> Same principle, different techniques.
->
Pretty much, yep!
 
-> -> -> and grocery shopping yesterday afternoon into early evening so hit 
up
-> -> -> Chik-Fil-A for supper.
-> 
-> ->  hn> We've been doing a little bit of
-> ->  hn> eating out this week too.
-> 
-> -> We will on Wed. night as I've got a 4 pm appointment in Chapel Hill.
-> 
-> Due to time/other committments, we got Taco Bell take out; I had a
-> salad, Steve a grilled, stuffed burrito.
->
I've been busy all day today so have not
had time to get anything out of the freezer
(should have done it this morning when I left
but I forgot), so it's likely we'll go out tonight
unless Anne will settle for soup and salad for
dinner. Depends mostly on how her day was.
 
-> -> Tonight's supper was partly recycles (grilled chicken and potato salad)
-> -> from Saturday, part new cooked (green beans with garlic--recipe Janis
-> -> posted last year). I spent most of the day working on cucumber relish
-> -> and canning dilled green beans. The relish will be finished tomorrow and
-> -> I'll start mango chutney to be finished Wednesday. That will probably
-> -> finish my putting up until tomatoes and peaches come into season.
-> 
->  hn> You're going to have a full pantry!
-> 
-> That's the plan! I postponed the chutney a couple of days as the
-> bronchitis came back with a vengance. Now on a stronger antibiotic and 6
-> day run of prednisone so I should start to regain my steam in a day or
-> so.
->
Yep, take a break...Allergies getting 
to you as well?
 
-> ->  hn> It being the end of the school year,
-> ->  hn> Anne has lots to do beyond her norm.
-> ->  hn> so that means she simply does not
-> ->  hn> have time to deal with dishes and
-> ->  hn> clean up...so paper plates work well
-> ->  hn> for those situations.
-> 
-> -> They also work when you've got a new born baby, a toddler, another 
kid
-> -> in grade school and a husband who is head master at a private school.
-> -> Even with my help, Rachel pulled out the paper several times and said
-> -> she would do it more so after I left. Can't blame her; the schedule that
-> -> they keep is jam packed.
-> 
->  hn> No wonder!
-> 
-> They're trying to give Robert (now, girls as they get older) a lot of
-> the lessons and such they didn't have while growing up military brats.
-> Robert is in Tae Kwon Do, swimming and private piano lessons in addition
-> to attending a private school where he works several grades ahead of
-> public school.
->
Busy kid!! 
 
-> ->  hn> 04...don't know about good big
-> ->  hn> latino markets tho.
-> 
-> -> Just have to keep looking. Saw a number of them in Savannah and got 
our
-> -> tortilla maker in Zebulon, a town smaller than WF but seems to have a
-> 
->  hn> Most of the "best" Latino
->  hn> markets are in the "worst" parts
->  hn> of town...where the rents are the
->  hn> lowest and the "questions" are seldom
->  hn> asked.
-> 
-> Yes, where the Latinos live because they can't afford the rents of other
-> parts of town.
->
You'd be surprised, some of those 
rents they pay are higher than in 
some of the "better" parts of 
town!
 
-> ->  hn> Not really yet, but I'm just starting
-> ->  hn> the testing and medication. My
-> ->  hn> system is just getting used to it
-> 
-> -> Yes, and you need to be consistent about the time of day you do it.
-> -> Most folks seem to like to check first thing in the morning, before
-> -> breakfast. I presume you're recording the numbers too.
-> 
->  hn> I do it twice a day, in the morning
->  hn> before eating (fasting blood sugar)
->  hn> and in the evening at least two hours
->  hn> after eating my evening meal. so
->  hn> far the timing for the evening poke
->  hn> has varied greatly! Sometimes we
->  hn> have eaten at 5:30...sometimes
->  hn> as late as 8 pm!
-> 
-> And therein lies the all over the map readings. My mom's is way up
-> again; she fell again (no major harm done) and the stress from that (&
-> other aging issues) is driving it up.  Looks like they may be going to
-> go ahead with the stairway lift, other modifications to the house will
-> be suggested for their consideration.
->
It could be, there's a lot of stress
here too at the moment so that's 
an added factor. 
Still I'm hoping that it will start
to show a pattern (and a decline in
blood sugar).
chat with you soon!
hap 
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