Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s Comments (group member since Sep 20, 2013)

Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s comments from the Net Work Book Club group.

A new recipe, and a good one!
Coconut Cream Pudding (2 servings)
2/3 cup (150 ml) coconut milk
1/3 cup (70 ml) cream
1/4 cup (60 ml) milk
1/3 cup (40 g) sugar
1.5 teaspoons (5 g) unflavoured gelatine powder softened in 2 Tablespoons water
Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and stir over low heat until it reaches a good simmer (not boiling). Divide between 2 ramekins (about 7 cm or 3 inches in diameter). Chill for about 3 hrs or until set. Garnish with fruit etc.

Variation: Add a good tablespoon of cocoa powder to the mixture and blend well before heating.

Don't kid yourself, you're one smart cookie! Just watch out for the crumbs!

"Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible, you know!"

I remember them too...it was fun to pick which characters would be on this school year's lunchbox! I had Snoopy and I think the Pink Panther. But then Mom got these ugly teal-coloured plastic boxes from Thermos because they were sturdier.

Groovy prefers to start the morning with a real smoothie.

You got a bone to pick with me, copper?

mrbooks wrote: "LOL my mother had 5 of us at school at one time and was single couldn't afford school lunches I was one of those kids who always had a brown bag lunch."

In my town, they offered free lunch to large families or those who couldn't afford the hot lunch...my parents qualified for free lunches for us but since they had been instrumental in the campaign to get hot lunches in the elementary schools, they didn't feel they could ask for the free tickets as fingers might have been pointed.

At my school you paid by the week on Mondays for school lunch. I guess you could pay by the day (45c it was then!) but I never saw anyone carry their lunch after about 2nd grade, until I started carrying my lunch in highschool. And then it was only me.

You be careful with that bacon, or you'll be toast!

That woman obviously misunderstood. When they offered her makeup, she thought they said "Fake up!" so she did.

This isn't a "hate" but just an oddness. I was remembering yesterday that in my little rural Midwestern town for some reason they used to post the school lunch menus for all the schools in the district in the local paper once a week. Why, I couldn't tell you, it's not like anyone would decide to come eat with us! But anyway. They would list all the food and then at the end, "half pint milk." Well, okay. It came in cartons, and later those plastic bags with sharpened straws. It was half a pint, yes, but half a pint is also one cup. Did "half pint" sound like more? Was it supposedly classier to say that than "8 oz milk" or "one cup milk" or whatever?

These be mysteries.

"True facts." Duh, people. If it's not true, it isn't a fact. It's fiction!

From my friend Elizabeth: "Faith isn't about blind acceptance. Faith is often stubbornly clinging to what we know of God in the face of opposition."

You don't wanna get their goat, though. You'd end up looking awfully sheepish.

Groovy wrote: "Give people an inch and they'll take a mile...

No truer words have ever been spoken!!!!!"

In Spanish they say of takers: If you give him a hand he'll take the arm too.

What's worse than raining cats and dogs?

Hailing taxis.

Anyone else hate the new Goodreads email format for books read by "friends?" Apparently we don't get the reviews anymore, which is what I wanted in the first place!

I have a nonstop highpitched whine. I feel your pain.

Or put him in a safe room, and set him on fire on purpose. See how he likes it.

Oops sorry. Depression's pit yawned unexpectedly at my feet the last few days and I am dealing with it without asking for meds. So it's Valerian, herbal tea, comfort movies and making cookies. Doesn't really cure anything but I manage.

Question: What does it mean when someone says, "I hear crickets"?