So...whats for dinner?
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Kaara - best wishes to your granddaughter. It does seems little kids do have a lot of seizures. My friend's son had 3 before they got him stable... but he's totally fine now and doesn't take any meds.
Michelle - I'll be travelling along with you in a little pouch in your purse.. invisible but watching the sites and scenes of Paris.. Enjoy.
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Happy Memorial Day!
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Hi Debbie
The weather on the coast this weekend is very wet. It's what us coasties are use to , lol, but still enjoying the relaxed time just hanging at home.
We had the most amazing taco salad at our friends house last night. She had ground turkey in it, with the taco seasoning, onions, olives, mushrooms, lettuce, chees, tomatoes, alvacados, kidney beans, cool ranch dorittos, and italian dressing.
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I'm taking my 94 year old mom to the cemetary in about an hour...to see my dad/her husband.... He's guarding the streets of heaven.
Dad retired a Major, USMC in 1964 after 30 years of service.0 -
so it's wild raspberry season.. I made my first batch of jam and will probably pick twice as many berries tomorrow and make it again. yum
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Apple, double yum on the wild rasberries. Strong envy from here that you have access to your own crop. Have a ball making jam!
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I've never made rasberry jam. That sounds most excellent! I'm jealous.
Do you have to add pectin to get it to jell?
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The closest I've ever come to homemade jam is the kind I buy at the fruit stands;) I'll be it's delicious!
eric95us: That's a very nice thing for you and your mom to do on Memorial Day. My BF's mom is 97 and every year when we go to visit her in Wisc. we take her to the cemetery to visit her DH and one of her DD's who passed several years ago. Then we go to lunch...it's a ritual.
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eric95 - I've used this recipe for 2 years now.. no pectic.. it's pretty delicious.. it dissappears so fast.
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Apple, that sounds really good. I LOVE raspberries. We had black currants in our garden as well when I was a kid, and they go really well with raspberries. My mother used to make a runny jam mixing them. Very good on yogurt.
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Apple, do you strain it or just enjoy the seeds?
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i might strain them next time.. i'll see what people say.. they are pretty crunchy... but don't bother me. they look quite beautiful.
i better go taste some.
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I'm eating some frozen yogurt right now...the "runny jam" on the yogurt sounds really good...better than the caramel....I think.....
Apple: My fiancee had great success making jelly without having to add pectin. I usually ended up with a pancake syrup.
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Apple, sorry
to add to the "pile up" on you. What's the general recipe? I remember being told the ripeness of the fruit was important. Is it?
I saw some rasberries in the store earlier.. I'm going to go back by and get a rose for mom to take to dad...and I could get rasberries. I'm always up for trying new things.
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Zumbagirl- Luckily its not raining here by us, and suppose to be around 60ish be a great day for fleet of the flowers we are going to in a little while.
Yumm on the jam recipe i have a pressure cooker i bought last year and have only used it twice i have to get it back out and start canning again i want to make the jam without the pectin.
Going to have a busy day today and i cant get moving!
Happy Memorial Day!
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ok.. it is waaaaasy toooo seeedy so i will strain it tomorrow... definitely. The raspberries might have been the early ones. They were big and juicy, but should be even better tomorrow. I don't remember it as being seedy last year. Maybe i boiled the seeds longer. it also has too much sugar. equal parts make it too sweet. I might try adding 1/2 a lemon. I have some pectic.... here is the recipe i used again.. Last year it was fantastic.
http://www.food.com/recipe/raspberry-jam-35192
off to look at other recipes
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Went to a local farm with some friends and bought "starter" big boy tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, zuccini and fed the goats. The big one kept "head butting" the little one out of the way when we tried to feed them greens, hence, we gave him a new name, Butthead, and tricked him into going to the far side of the fence so the little one could eat.
The organic garden is coming along.
I had a revelation this 3 day weekend. I thought, Waaaaait a minute! I haven't taken any vacation time this year, if I start in a month, I could take almost every Friday off and usually have a 3 day weekend!!! I might tell them in Jan that I'm going part time, as that will be my year mark.
Speaking of berries, whatever happened to Gooseberries? I remember picking them in Michigan when I was about 8 and my Gramma making Gooseberry pie??
I'm glad that things are turning around for a lot of people.
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Eric, raspberry tart is really good. Bake a nice, slightly sweetened pastry shell (made with butter), fill with good pastry creme, thinnish layer, then set nice raspberries gently into the creme. Simple, but really good.
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Mommine, that does sound good.
Right now it's hot dogs on the grill and a beer. Sharon managed to gather up enough energy to drink a margarita. It didn't help with her being tired or help with her hair, but it sure did improve her outlook! :-) Come to think of it, the ale I had didn't hurt my outlook any either.
Tomato season is just about over here in Phoenix...I set them out in early March and by mid June it's too hot for them to set fruit--even when I shade them. The only tasty ones that I can grow in that short amount of time are the Yellow Pear ones. I've been saving seeds from the ones that manage to put out a lot of fruit in a short amount of time, so I do OK.
Still, when I retire...Sharon wants a place with 4 seasons and I want a place that is out of the $**$($&#^ city... Finding a place that meets both requirements shouldn't be too hard.
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eric: The place where we spend the summers near Asheville NC has beautiful four seasons. In spring the dogwoods and azelas bloom, in summer the hydrangeas, and then you have the beautiful fall colors, plus the green mountains of the Blue Ridge. The only reason we don't live there year round is beause all of our kids and grands live in Fl.
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Hi everyone! I'm back! You have all been so busy. I'm glad everyone has been having a good weekend and relaxing a bit.
Thank you for the birthday wishes. We had a great weekend, the weather was amazing and we had a lot of laughs. The food was constant and we love the new griddle we bought at Christmas time. Breakfast was fun to cook and we had everything and anything. Pancakes, sausage , home fries, eggs grilled muffins and bagels, fruit yogurt....seriously breakfast was a 2 hour eating fest every day. The kids wake up early so we eat, go for a bike ride, eat, go down to the beach, eat....
I can honestly say I am exhausted. I plan to head to bed by 9. I am planning on getting the.modem tomorrow so I can get back on line.
Michelle love the blog posts, the pictures are amazing!!!0 -
Welcome back Laurie: Glad you all had a good time!
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Welcome back Laurie: Glad you all had a good time!
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Seaside: Do look into the sea-sick patch that Kaara recommended. They work really well and you won't have the drowziness you get with Dramamine or Bomine.
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The sourdough just came out of the oven....It's almost too hot to touch....just right for a slice to met butter onto and eat..... :-)
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Bedo- I cracked up at you nameing your goat "Butthead" Thats what hubby calls me lol! I have not seen gooseberries in ages they had them in california when i lived there though. Hope you get some vacation time you deserve it!
Laurie- Glad you had a good time, your food sounds amazing, i swear nothing tastes better than food that is prepared while camping! Hope you get your modem so we see you more, miss ya! How have you been feeling? Have the palpitations calmed down?
Eric- Bread sound yummy! We have all 4 seasons here in Oregon, When i lived in hawaii thats the only thing i missed so i understand your dw missing that.
The fleet of flowers was amazing. They had tons of boats that had huge reefs on them and once they got out of the harbor they put them in the water along with other single flowers people were throwing off the bridge, just georgous! Went to a friends new condo right on the beach and had wine and horderves then went to a restaurant that we had never been too called tidal raves. I had the coconut crusted Mahi-Mahi that had a pineapple salsa that was fantastic. A wonderful salad with there house made white balsamic dressing, im going to buy the white balsalmic from now on it is delicious.
Been a long fun day, actually think i will go to bed before 3am! lol!
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debbie: Sounds like you had a wonderful day, and your dinner sounded delicious!
We went to a movie yesterday "The Exotic Marigold Hotel" and it was wonderful. Made by the same group that did "Slumdog Millionaire" and it was equally well done. Beautiful photographic scenes of India...makes me want to go there to experience the culture. Great acting too! Don't miss it.
After that we came home and I made a pork loin with sweet potato and summer squash sauteed with olive oil and onions. That's about the end of the freezer meat, so I can leave for NC knowing my freezer contains no foods that could spoil in a power outage.
This week is a series of last minute doctor app'ts...one with my MO...he does this every three months, and one with my retina specialist for my eye injection..ugh! They will do another scan to find out if the injections have stopped the progression of my AMD in my left eye.
Have a good day everyone!
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I am back on line!!!!! Yayyy!!!
Kaara good luck with your dr appts this week. I finally go see the cardiologist on Friday. the PVC's have been almost completely gone now for two weeks. I however have dizzy spells quite frequently. I am on antibiotics to see if it is sinus related and so I far I have gotten some relief since I started with it. Thanks for the tip on the movie.
Have to run but I will be back on later. I am a little too excited to be back on the computer, using your phone gets old fast.
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Laurie: happy that your PVC's have calmed down. Keep taking those probiotics...I take one daily regardless...it helps keep the good bacteria established in your system.
My app't with MO went well...he is even checking Vit D levels which is extraordinary for a conventional doc. I'm liking him better and better, plus the office is so efficiently run...you are in and out in a jiffy! My last mammo was clear so after I get my eye injection tomorrow I'm good to go!
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Kaara- Your dinner sounds good, i have a pork loing in the freezer just may get that out to cook in the next couple of days. Good luck with your dr appointments hope all goes well.
Laurie- So glad to hear your feeling better.
Michelle- Hope you are having a fun exciting day!
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