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Skriven 2014-08-31 21:09:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: a toast!
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 08-27-14  21:59 <=-

 NB>> My sister has one that was a family-only recipe in her husband's
 NB>> family. At my niece's baby shower, her sister-in-law was telling the
 NB>> tale of asking for that recipe before she had actually become part of
 NB>> the family (perhaps it was the first visit, before any serious
 NB>> intentions had been declared)... and the dead silence that followed
 NB>> that request.. (G)  As I remember the story, Lydia's MIL tacitly
 NB>> accepted Kim into the family by actually giving her the recipe... ;)
 NB>> That was for her rhubarb cream pie...  which by the way is also VERY
 NB>> tasty...  :)

 RH> Sounds like someone jumped the gun but someone else was gracious
 RH> enough to overlook it. 

Kim didn't actually know that it was supposed to be a secret recipe for
family only, until she got that dead-silence response.  I think her
beaux explained later to her what an honor she'd just been given... :)

 RH> The one we keep "secret" has been published
 RH> several times in organisational cook books; we just hold it secret.
 
Ah... that's a little different, then...  :)

 NB>>> waiting for the news, too)... And then I was there again for
 NB>>> lunch with my friend, getting the bento box lunch specials I
 NB>>> told you about yesterday... :)
 RH>> Sounds like you were ready when he opened up. (G)
 NB>> We've been waiting for this for months!!!  (G)  I'm heading back
 NB>> there for lunch with another friend on Thursday... ;)

 RH> Do you have a chair with your name on it? (G)

Not yet...  (G)   Besides, I'd probably have to share it with the other
regulars... ;)

 NB>> That can be devastating... There was a restaurant that burned down
 NB>> (also an electrical fire IIRC) near where we used to camp as a
 NB>> family... we'd gone there the very first year to have a special family
 NB>> celebration of our parents' 40th wedding anniversary, also that
 NB>> year... and then it was a regular go-to place each year, at least
 NB>> for some of us...  Sad when it burnt, but apparently it was
 NB>> sufficiently missed by the whole community that it was rebuilt totally
 NB>> a couple years later...

 RH> Still doing a good business? The Houghton Inn wasn't that great but
 RH> provided a spot for a date without going too far.
 
Last we were there, it was...  It provided a nice place to go that
wasn't too expensive, and that was still reasonably local... it was
basically out in the middle of nowhere, along with a few small
hamlets along Rt 6...  ;)  The closest "big" town was about 20 minutes
or so down the raod...  :)
 
 NB>> Mostly they've added more places that one can eat, in more areas of
 NB>> the (expanding) campus...  Probably as much a response to more people
 NB>> to feed as anything else.  But there are some changes in offerings,
 NB>> too.. For one thing, beer used to be freely available, now not so
 NB>> much so. And they have more choices available like sushi and other
 NB>> ethnic foods.

 RH> Houghton is adding a field house for athletcs but doubt the food will
 RH> be anything too exptic. Not enough diversity in the student population
 RH> to warrant it, I suspect.
 
You never know...  Sometimes it's less diversity in the population
itself and more just people being more willing to try new things... It's
not all that far from the "big city" (Rochester), and more kids probably
have transportation now than when you were there... If they perceive a
call for some less common things, they might actually provide it on (or
near) campus...  :)
 
ttyl           neb

... Are cranberries healthy?  I've never heard one complain.

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