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Skriven 2013-08-14 09:43:38 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 3433 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
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Hi Nancy,

>>> I love peanut butter and often steal a swipe when passing by the
>>> container Lol

>> > So that's why you have to keep it as a standing item on the gorcery
>> > list! Your secret is out! (G)

>> hahaha :)  Nah, my swipes are a spoonful, that's about it (g).. I
>> think my son and Ron do enough of it in to make it a standing item on
>> the list though :)

> It's an every two-three months item for us, depends on how much cashew
> butter we have on hand in addition to the pb.

A 3/4 lb tub of peanut butter from Wegman's lasts us a week.. maybe.. (g) Ron
says "minimally" :)

>> Wraps are good generally.. I found a number of them that were
>> non-gluten and safe for me, but not my grandboys or daughter.. they
>> put corn flour in them so I use them just for me sometimes.

> They also use the higher carb tortillas a lot of the time so I try to
> steer clear of them.

I guess that's why I like the spoon Lol

>> I'm sure.  I think it was about 20 years ago that Ron and I stopped
>> putting any sugar in our coffee.. before that we used to drink coffee
>> "light and sweet".. the thought of that now feels ick :)  Certainly
>> the dairy would get to me now, and the extra sweetness.. Back then
>> though we were probably only buying coffee ground, like Chock Full
>> o'Nuts coffee which contained so much non-coffee I think, it's no
>> wonder we were killing it with milk and sugar (g).

> I've never been able to stomach coffee--black, sugar, milk, combo, etc.
> OTOH, I used to put both sugar & milk in my tea, then went with just
> sugar, now it's stevia.

That's interesting.. Tea we drink as is, nothing added.  When someone is ill
with a flu, then I'll add honey and lemon, but that's it. I expect it would be
very hard to get used to drinking tea that way, if you've never done it before
though.  We buy very flavorful teas as well, not the 'lipton' type.  Our
favorite in the morning is Numi Organic Chinese Breakfast Tea, the whole Numi
organic line is great though.  Also we buy a lot of Republic of Tea's fruit
teas, like bluberry, etc.  These are generally green teas though some are black
tea.


>> > Always a good amount to do to make a place yours once you move in.
>> We've > done it so many times in the past..................

>> Yes, same here.  It used to be the first place I'd be painting and
>> working on small additions, etc. would be the kitchen.  Just to make
>> it more ours :) We're getting there with this kitchen with the added
>> cupboards I mentioned.. I'm thinking of moving the kitchen table out
>> and just using the dining room table once Ron gets those butcher-block
>> counters finished up.  Maybe a few more along that wall would be
>> helpful, we'll see.

> We'll have to see it sometime.

Would be good :)  It's a large kitchen, but probably not as large as the one in
Windsor. The problem I have with the cuboards is with the majority of the lower
cabinets.  The  couple who owned the home before us installed the "new" kitchen
about 6 years ago which is great, but unfortuately the wife _really_ liked
those slide out drawers in just about every cabinet in the kitchen below the
counter level. :) They are impractible if you have a lot of oddly sized "toys"
that need a place to go. If all you bought were canned items and short
bottle/tin items, they could work well I suppose.

>>> back yard in bloom with incredible colors.. one section of the yard
>>> after the other :)  Luckily, the section along the side of the house
>>> were we fenced in the dogs did not include any of those beautiful
>>> flowering plants :)

>> > Nice! Did he plant a kitchen garden as well?

>> Just a small patch where he planted some Italian tomatoes.  I'll use
>> that patch for some herbs and tomatoes next year.

> I'd like to try tomatoes again but don't know where we'll be next year.
> We decided to not try any this year because we knew we'd be travelling
> this summer.

Understand that one.

>> > basically no heat so I've zinged it up, more to our tastes now. It's
>> > back in NC so I can't post it right now, sorry.

>> Understand :)  Well if you get a chance to post it that would be
>> great.

> Remind me in a couple of weeks.

Is that hot sauce the one you folks sent to a picnic perhaps last year or the
previous picnic over here?  That sauce had some heat :)  Steve or you did post
that recipe and I have it here somewhere ;)

>> That's neat.  Sugar content would be controllable just as your hot
>> chili sauce is if you grabbed some tomato paste and made your own.

>>> often made my own with little sugar, but generally we buy non-HFCS

> If I were that much into ketchup I'd consider it.

hehe.. We don't go through as much ketchup as we do peanut butter, thank
goodness (g).

Take care,
Janis

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