You had trouble mastering a Cuininart Food Processor. Don't know how I survived without mine. Before used my Braun salad maker. Chops onions and celery in seconds without tears. Grates carrots and cheese equally fast. Clean up after….
Still working on the Kitchen Aid but it makes good ice cream. It's simple to use. But a pastry blender at $80? I have a slow cooker, rice cooker from Wal-Mart, waffle iron, and mini-broiler/grill. Cuinart Broiler/Grill. A good blender works wonders. Food processor makes good biscuits. Also perfect for Tuna Salad. My kitchen could equip a small restaurant. I do not deep fry. I blacken fish and would use pork scraps could I find good salt pork. Schruncheons in NFLD.
I prefer to read directions to watching videos that have become popular with the less than literate.
Microwaves are perfect for thawing or reheating frozen foods like peas and corn. A potato in 4 minutes vs an hour at 425 in the oven.
Bought living parsley and planted it at home using it all summer and freezing with a bit still left as I write this. It was cheaper than the garden centre.
Yes Bulk Barn will sell you whatever you dip from their bins but with ½t you risk the packaging weighing more than the product.
I'll read anything that is well written. Remember the librarian who heard that a book had too many characters, to her fellow she related, someone walked off with the phone book again.
BA Tortuga I have encountered. Alas her plots are simply excuses to get to the sex scenes. I'm quizzical about women writing about gay men getting it on and even more questioning of the attraction for female readers. Remember the cyncial operation: attachadictome. In my naughty moments I refer to female bishops as having a bishopric without a prick. A female Archbishop of Canterbury? I would like to think I'm not mysogonistic but the Me-Too movement has become a form of McCarthyism. A female head of a YMCA. Girls invading boy scouts and private boys schools. Men only clubs are under attack. And there's no quid pro quo, boys aren't allowed in Girl Scouts or private girl schools. On the other hand having attended a Mosque the treatment of women in Islam…. And in Utah woman belong barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen in the Mormon tradition and gays are sent to torture camps. I was greatly amused to see a 2 mile long Gay Pride parade 6 blocks from Temple Square.
Discipline and self-discipline are now dirty words. The Old Woman who lived in the Shoe was a child molester.
Mailman is the bastardization performed by Cornwallis when he brought George III's German citizens to Halifax and Lunenburg. George spoke no English and spent over half his time in Hanover, and it was he that lost the colonies. Those Rebels in Boston don't you know. I'd rather be a mailman from Lunenburg than an Outhouse from Yarmouth.
The irony is that the working men who gave their lives for American Independence were taxed even higher by 13 Colony elites who conscripted them into Washington's army. It was that expoitation that fueled the mass migration westward of settlers seeking to escape the abuse. The Ingalls/Wilders, (Little House on the Prairies) moved 40-50 times whenever civilization and its rules caught up with them leaving behind all those homesteads. It's Laura's 5 birthplaces that have me scratching my head.
Had to look that one up.
As to the name, common in Lunenburg County. Joining the PO was a fluke. I was always Garth to my customers, easier that way.
It was the school admin to whom I delivered mail who told me kids from a slum neighbourhood changed their names depending on whom their mum was sleeping with that week. Eric Elkenswilder used his biological father's name Titterson because he was an employee.
With woman no longer automatically adopting their husband's name who knows who's married. It was the couple who divorced, sold their home and moved while their two children were at summer camp….
You think you've heard everything until you hear the next one.
I made both these pies. The custard is impossible pie that forms its own crust.
Do you have one of these:
My mother's bread bowl. Raisin Bread covered with a wool bed,(comforter if you like), and set on the rocking chair beside the wood stove to rise overnight.
Large families had mom making 12 loaves at once. A woman who could knead that dough was not to be trifled with. Farm families were large to ensure in house labour. Laws regarding child labour do not apply to the family farm. Farm boys got their muscles forking hay and manure, not in the gym. A sixty pound bag of feed or firtilizer is 60 lbs. Boys drove farm machinery as soon as their feet reached the peddles. After ploughing straight furrows in a forty acre field driving a car was child's play.
