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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: KK  was: houses
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 02-03-15  20:46 <=-

 NB>>> Growing up, the only milk in a box was the powdered sort, to be
 NB>>> mixed with a little whole milk after being reconstituted...
 RH>> We used the powdered after we stopped getting the fresh; it was more
 RH>> affordable. I still keep some on hand to mix up when either we're out
 RH>> of one of the alternative milks or I don't want to use one. I also use
 RH>> the dry in both the baking mix and white sauce mix.
 NB>> That was probably why they got it, too... since leaving home, I've
 NB>> only used the dry in baking or other cooking... and haven't at all
 NB>> now for years... :)

 RH> It's a staple in my kitchen, only in much smaller quantities than it
 RH> used to be. 

After the last package of dry went totally stale and out of date, I
never replaced it... but then I don't do the kind of baking et al that
I used to, either.  I had no inclination to use it for drinking, I'd
never really liked the taste, and was glad to leave it behind...

 RH> I used some yesterday in the bread I made--using the KA,
 RH> first time for bread made that way in the new house.

Another sign of progress... ;)  What kind did you make...?
 
 NB>> We went through a lot of milk, too, with 8 kids... Daddy drank a fair
 NB>> bit himself, although Mommy generally had to force herself to drink
 NB>> some every day... We still go through a lot of milk, just the two of
 NB>> us generally drink 2-3 gallons a week...  :)
 RH> My parents always had a glass of milk with lunch, us kids had it most
 RH> meals. In the summer, we could sub out kool-aide every other day or
 RH> so, for one meal. 

We had it mostly by choice at all meals (true, no other choice was
offered, but we all liked milk pretty well)... koolade or the equivalent
might be for an after school drink...

 RH> Since the girls have left home and we've discovered alternatives
 RH> to cow's milk, we don't use too much of it any more. I needed a
 RH> bit last week so just mixed up some powdered with water for the
 RH> cup or so I needed.
 
I drink the chocolate almond milk as a substitute (well, sorta as a
substitute, partly just because I like chocolate milk too, and it works
nicely), but not so much with meals... there we both have our usual
whole milk with the meal.  :)

 NB>>> have been cut with a biscuit cutter, or the top of a glass...
 NB>>> about 2-3 inches round, and 1-2 inches high... granulated sugar
 NB>>> sprinkled over them when they come out of the frier...
 RH>> Next time we hit up an Asian (other than Indian) buffet, I'll have
 RH>> to look.
 NB>> They generally show up on one of the hot tables, often with
 NB>> appetizers around...

 RH> OK, we've not been to a Chinese buffet in a good while. Used to go to
 RH> one in Savannah quite a bit but it wasn't too far from where we lived.
 RH> Here, the nearest one is in Raleigh.

That makes it a lot less convenient... ;)  

 NB>> Apparently others had issues there too, I'd guess... One of the local
 NB>> ones got shut down by the health department here... unsanitary kitchen
 NB>> conditions and rats in the place... we never cared much for their food
 NB>> anyway, so it wasn't any loss to us... They had taken over the space
 NB>> where our all-time favorite Chinese buffet had been... now there's a
 NB>> reasonably decent one there, but not as wonderful as the one that had
 NB>> been there before the bad one...

 RH> Win some, lose some. You've got other choices in the area so you're
 RH> not losing out by not going to one you don't care for as much.

Fewer good choices for Chinese than there used to be, but there's more
variety of all sorts of Asian to make up for it... and Fu has his own
place going now, so that gives us a very good place to go when we want
something really good..  ;)

ttyl        neb

... A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary meals.

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