From: Grendel Grettisson Area: Mundane To: Albertus Magnus 23 Apr 94 17:15:00 Subject: Kurt Cobain & Resh UpdReq > I was always partial to Soundgarden, myself. Actually, Soundgarden is just about my favorite band and, in my opinion, is the best Seattle band but I still like(d) Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Mudhoney. Wassail, Grendel Grettisson Internet:mimir@io.com 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Gwenny The Pooh Area: Mundane To: Ace Lightning 23 Apr 94 10:17:00 Subject: Kitchen Witch UpdReq While bumping down stairs, Gwenny the Pooh heard Ace Lightning say: AL> My basic cookbook is Fannie Farmer (since my ancestors all came from AL> the Boston area). I've worn out three copies in 21 years of marriage. Oh, my favorite, too. My second copy was "borrowed" by a neighbor four years ago....but someone just gave me a new one....sigh... AL> My son cooks Italian; last year he started a vegetable garden, and AL> wound up making (and I wound up canning!) homemade tomato sauce, with AL> tomatoes, carrots, onions, basil, and oregano from the garden. I can't AL> eat Italian food; I'm violently allergic to onions and garlic and all AL> their relatives. My specialty is Chinese...especially hot & spicy. Wild Hunter and I LOVE Chinese....our kids HATE it. Oh, no, not stirfry again..... AL> There's *GOT* to be a way to adapt yeast breads to "high altitude AL> cooking". I'll see if I can't find something. Using lard (melted) as AL> the shortening in yeast breads gives them a wonderful texture, too, but AL> butter tastes better. I'd love to hear it....some of my friends have pretty good luck with those bread makers...but they are four thousand feet lower than me. Sigh. AL> Unless you eat like a whole pie every day of your life, there isn't AL> going to be enough lard to kill you! And I agree; I eat what tastes AL> good, drink what I feel like drinking, avoid exercise, and generally AL> don't care. My father lives his life pretty much the same way, besides AL> having the occasional cigarette, and he's 76 and probably healthier AL> than I am (because he doesn't have the stress). I have a friend who is in his nineties. Until his horse died, he put in his fields (has a truck farm) with a horse and plow, harvested it by himself and delivered his veggies to most of the good restaurants in town. He smokes hand rolled cigarettes, eats pork jowl (kinda like bacon, but with more fat) for every meal, drinks a six pack a day and finishes off a fifth of whiskey every weekend. AL> I sew, too. I approach sewing as a techie skill; tell me that AL> following a pattern isn't like following a blueprint or a circuit AL> diagram! Anyway, it uses the same areas of *my* brain. I've got some AL> material for a ritual robe (not that we work robed all THAT much, but I AL> felt like it) that I'm going to sew Real Soon Now. It's a nice AL> violet-purple, with little gold metallic stars and the occasional AL> crescent Moon all over it. Definitely "me"! Oh, that sounds like the fabric I got for Wild Hunter's and my initiation robes. Only mine is teal and his is maroon. I actually cleared off my sewing table the other day and finished my hps skirt. I also have several orders in the offing for wedding dresses and capes. I make a mean cape. People drool over the hunter green cotton chamois one I made for Dragonfest last year. I'm thinking about going to the casinos and see if I can get a job making turn-of-the-century barmaids clothes. I LOVE to sew. Gwenny GTP>I cook good "down-home" stuff, but Wild Hunter was raised upper class. >Can you imagine living in Virginia for twenty years and never tasting >grits or collard greens (mmmmmmm, mmmmmm)?? So I'm trying to learn to >cook Cordon Bleu style. Ick....it's so expensive!! AL> Well, the high-tone equivalent to good ole cornbread is spoon bread, AL> and that's not only pretty tasty, it's not that hard to make (or even AL> expensive, unless chickens don't lay eggs at altitude...). I'm not AL> fond of grits...the first time I tasted them, I realized where they got AL> their name. Oh, yeah, baking powder biscuits, too...make 'em light and AL> flaky enough, and they're "upper class" too. I know there are altitude AL> adjustments for proportions of baking powder, temperature, time, etc. AL> And I don't know how well this would work, but there are also "angel AL> biscuits", which have both yeast AND baking powder...definitely not AL> "po' folks" food. AL> We sound like a couple of gossiping housewives! AL> SLMR 2.0 There just aren't enough days in the weekend! AL> -!- Renegade v1-2 Exp AL> ! Origin: Phoenix Modernz Systems (93:9305/143) ... 3O minutes of begging doesn't qualify as foreplay. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718