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Post by sandrainsydney on Dec 17, 2016 0:39:38 GMT
Rags, I look forward to your batch of cheese shortbread (name I used when offering the fragments & crumbs around)
cheese not chesse!
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Post by ragdall on Dec 18, 2016 6:29:03 GMT
Sandra, next time I go grocery shopping I will try to remember to look for cheese and onion crisps. I have never noticed those here. Perhaps I could use Sour Cream and Onion crisps? I have those. Here are a couple of pictures that show how cold it gets in our house by the windows (and doors) www.flickr.com/gp/diffuse/y9413a I put a towel along the sliding door to block cold air that comes in. Yesterday I made dough for a "shortbread" that uses corn starch instead of rice flour. I also made dough for sugar cookies, chocolate chip cookies and tart/pie pastry. That was more than enough standing for me. I put each dough into a plastic bag and into the fridge. When my back and knees are feeling happier, (or arrival of guests is imminent), I will bake some. Hopefully all will be finished this week to have for snacks on Christmas Day. My son and his family will be here to relax and enjoy the holiday. The day that seemed so far away is zooming closer faster than I can keep up.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Dec 18, 2016 8:36:06 GMT
I live in a 4-roomed apartment where the windows are permanently locked open about a hand's width. When I visit friends in colder climates, I usually get a headache in sealed rooms. Friends visited Calgary in winter & sent me a pic - snow covered road, snow covered trees, snow covered cars, snow on his beard ...
Sealed air conditioned offices also annoyed me, I spent most of my career with a fan on my desk, I really need air moving around me.
sandra
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Post by ragdall on Dec 18, 2016 9:39:26 GMT
Your description of Calgary matches well with a description of the place where I live. We are much farther north.
It's snowing now. I'll get lots of fresh air and exercise tomorrow, clearing the deck, stairways, walkways and driveway again.
We never run out of fresh air in the house. The furnace brings some air in from outside and warms it. The air is circulated through the house by the furnace fan. I bring some fresh air in whenever I feed the birds or hang out the bathroom window to photograph them. When it's not so cold, I'll leave the bedroom window open a little at night.
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Post by maeve on Dec 18, 2016 14:24:38 GMT
Hi, rags- The current Poor Toe belongs to Megan, who is apparently going around kicking doors when her hands are full. My broken-three-times toe is fine as long as I go barefoot.
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Post by meganl on Dec 18, 2016 16:30:11 GMT
The Current poor toe has decided to behave today the swelling has gone down it still aches a wee bit but is coming along fine. Mind you my doctor tried to read the riot act when she met me in town today and spotted the limp she takes the fact I don't like doctors quite personally she just shook her head when I telt her there wis nothing she could do if it wis broken so I wisny gonny waste her time ahm no wan o them modern lassies that head to the surgery if someone looks at them the wrang wey.
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Post by ragdall on Dec 20, 2016 12:09:36 GMT
Hi, rags- The current Poor Toe belongs to Megan, who is apparently going around kicking doors when her hands are full. My broken-three-times toe is fine as long as I go barefoot. OOPs, sorry, Megan, I get confused easily. I'm glad to hear that the swelling has gone down. You're right about them doing nothing for a broken toe. Maeve, going barefoot must be a challenge this time of the year with all the snow?
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Post by maeve on Dec 20, 2016 21:38:51 GMT
"Maeve, going barefoot must be a challenge this time of the year with all the snow? "
Yes...so I go barefoot inside, then wear my holey (as opposed to holy) leaky boots outside and hobble around doing chores. It takes a few hours for the toe to stop yelling afterwards. C'รจ le vie. When the temperature is above freezing I am comfortable going barefoot outside.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Dec 20, 2016 23:49:40 GMT
just like those Australians & others in hot climates who walk barefoot on hot summer days ... but I'm not one of them!
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Post by meganl on Mar 19, 2017 6:40:56 GMT
OK on this chilly morning I am dreaming of summer and salads. I like beetroot but find most pickles just to harsh. This is the way my mother in law taught me its delicious.
Jellied Beetroot
Cook the beetroot and dice, leave to go cold. Boil 1/4 pint vinegar with 1/2 pint water and ad to a raspberry jelly(Jello) When the jelly is cooled but not set pour over the beetroot and leave to set.
She never did say how much beetroot but I figured out there had to be enough jelly to cover the beetroot or it would discolour.
Back in the days when we did dinner parties I would often for a summer on make this in the small coffee cups and turn out onto the plates. For picnics I would just make it in a bowl for folk to help themselves.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Mar 19, 2017 7:21:18 GMT
some of my brain cells think they remember it as a childhood recipe so I went looking. Margaret Fulton was THE cook of earlier generations from the 50s onward & provided this recipe - tho it is a savoury jelly, it doesn't use a dessert jelly I've just been wandering around Aeroplane & Davis jelly books - how nostalgic! Very 50s & 60s!! look at this one - a whole book of dessert & salad jellies on a website devoted to tinned pineapple
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Post by sandrainsydney on Mar 19, 2017 7:53:25 GMT
now look what you've had me doing - toothpick food! Someone has to take the blame for me wandering off around the www. did you have similar Hors D'Oeuvres Servers? Stick a toothpick in coloured cocktail onions & cheese etc & put in the holes so they are easy to eat ... I bought these 2 animals years ago, dunno what happened to the family holders ... I've wasted a lot of time trying to find pics of holders decorated with these yummy & very chic nibblies. This is the nearest pic I can find Attachments:
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Post by meganl on Mar 19, 2017 10:27:20 GMT
Jings lass you would have had to have a lot of time on your hands or pretensions to grandeur to make some of those jellys. I feel it is just revenge for all the time I spend chasing after things folk mention. We weren't so posh as to have little holders it was usually a big tattie covered in tinfoil or if mum was feeling richer half a grapefruit. Margaret Fulton's beetroot jelly sounds complicated .
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Post by sandrainsydney on Mar 19, 2017 22:48:35 GMT
gotta keep those housewives busy or they might want to leave their kitchens!
I found at least 1 pic of toothpicks stuck into some greenish vegetable & another that might have been a foil covered veg.
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Post by ragdall on Mar 22, 2017 10:17:17 GMT
Nice to see that you have found ways to keep busy. I prefer my beets cooked, served warm with a little butter and salt.
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