Text 32806, 94 rader
Skriven 2013-01-18 20:08:12 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 32775 av Nancy Backus (62962.cooking)
Ärende: anniversary
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Hi Nancy,


 RH> (Meals on Wheels)
 NB>  RH>> I looked on line, there is a program and it looks like my folks
 NB> would  RH>> qualify for it. Suggested donation of $3./per meal and a
 NB>  RH>> representative comes to the home to do an initial set up
 NB> (probably to  RH>> go over food preferences, etc) before the first
 NB> delivery. The thing is,  RH>> tho, do Mom & Dad want to participate? I
 NB> think Mom might be more
 NB>  RH>> amenable to it than Dad.
 NB>  NB>> He might see the wisdom in it now...  it might help if you
 NB> and/or your  NB>> brother were there for that initial set-up
 NB> interview...  And if the  NB>> rep can reassure him that the food can
 NB> be sufficiently bland and
 NB>  NB>> boring. [g]
 RH> Have to see, I'm going to e-mail my brother for an update when we get
 RH> back to NC.

 NB> A work in progress...  sometimes it just does take time...

Yes, and taking quite a long time. Did e-mail my brother, his response
was that he'd make more progress talking to his computer mouse than to
Mom & Dad about MoW.


 NB>  NB>> Happy birthday to your mom...  :)

 RH> She said it was good. Next one up is Dad's and he will get strawberry
 RH> shortcake for his "birthday cake", a tradition that I think his mom
 RH> started. How she got berries in January in the days before freezers
 RH> has always been a puzzlement--unless she had access to a greenhouse.

 NB> What I grew up with as strawberry shortcake didn't always have any
 NB> fresh berries in or on it... just the berries in sugar syrup...  that
 NB> could
 NB> have been done by canning as well as freezing...

OK, never thought about canning strawberries but don't see why not.


 NB>  RH>> I'll have to go thru my cook books, etc when we get home and
 NB> figure  RH>> out what can be adapted, what can be cooked without
 NB>  NB>> Another lovely creative project to occupy you...  ;)

 RH> As if I didn't have enough already, but one I can do in odds & ends of
 RH> time.

 NB> I hear you... but at least it doesn't require that much undivided
 NB> attention for long time periods..  ;)

In between other catch up projects. The laundry is caught up, other
things are coming slowly. Had lunch out the first couple of days we were
home but raided the freezer for suppers and are now pretty well cooking
everything again.


 NB>  NB>> Guess I'll have to try to keep my eyes and ears open for new
 NB> places up  NB>> here, then... :)  There used to be good seafood
 NB> places, but the ones I  NB>> knew about are long gone now...

 RH> Just like Friday night fish fries in that area are much less common
 RH> than when Steve was growing up. I understand some places still do them
 RH> but the number has gone down since the Catholics restriction on eating
 RH> meat on Fridays was eased.

 NB> Tastes have changed, too.... and probably most seafood has become more
 NB> of a big-ticket item, so it's probably more commonly found at the
 NB> fancy restaurants, which we've never been in the habit of

And we've lived in areas where seafood is served in small, Mom & Pop
places, good seafood too. It's often fancied up too much fo us at the
big ticket places and the big chain ones use imported seafood so we
don't frequent them as much as we do the smaller places.


 NB> frequenting...  Also we tend to go more to the ethnic restaurants
 NB> (especially buffets), so
 NB> have a different outlook on the restaurant scene...  ;)

We'll try a wide variety of places but we both like seafood so have to
get some every so often.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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