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THE GREETINGS AND IDLE CHAT THREAD 2018
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Jun 07, 2018 06:40PM
They are!!! We were late to the party, so we order the show from the library. We've been waiting a year for season 2.
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Trouble with that Korean series is that the theme music has Velcro on it!! I find myself humming it during the day after watching an episode and DH teases me about it.
I'm a bit annoyed...for years I've played Shockwave's "hidden object" games on their website. Since the so-called data protection law came into force, I am blocked. Guess Shockwave only cares about their American public. I made a very good friend there, at least we are still in touch.Anyway, it'll save me some time every day. I won't be staring at the monitor so much!
I remember when I was glued to the monitor playing Mah Jong everyday. Now, it's Bejewel.
Groovy wrote: "I remember when I was glued to the monitor playing Mah Jong everyday. Now, it's Bejewel."You play Mah Jong and Bejewel, too. Me too. Hi, Groovy!
Hi, Angel!It's so good to hear from you. Yes, I play those. They're so addictive, right? I have to tear myself away from the computer at times--LOL!
Groovy wrote: "Hi, Angel!It's so good to hear from you. Yes, I play those. They're so addictive, right? I have to tear myself away from the computer at times--LOL!"
Good to hear from you, too! Yeah, Lol!
Hey, Angel!! Good to see you back!
Mah Jong is so addictive I have to force my self off of it to go to bed. I am also hooked on spider solitaire.
Bejewelled is awesome - I also spent ages looking for an online patch of Solero's 'wallpipe' which keeps freezing but I'm addicted!
If your wall pipes keep freezing use a hair dryer to thaw them out...
I'm so addicted to Bejewel, that I bought the game. That's right. It's not enough to play online, I have to have it ready to play:)I would look up some of these games mentioned here, but I know I'll just get addicted. I don't have the time:)
The newspapers have been full over here of young kids who refuse to eat anything that requires chewing!! They want fruit juice or compote, not fresh fruit. Burgers or meatballs, not steak. Nothing that requires chewing. I asked my friends with kids and they say it's true. Some kids even have to be spoon-fed by a teacher at school to get them to finish their lunch. And I'm talking kids seven and eight years old. How lazy have people become, that they don't even want to chew their food!
Wait for it in the future man will not walk they will live in hover chairs and be hooked up to everything. Hold on wasn't there a song similar to that description? in the year 2424 or something like that...
What cracks me up is these electric scooter things. Forget riding a bike, they zip along (on the sidewalk, of cuss) very fast, hotdogging around pedestrians. No helmets, no bell or horn to tell you they're coming, no nothing.
Because of people getting hurt on them, or by them, they just banned those in the city until they can come up with some rules that will work.I have a very curious question. It came to me while I was THINKING about mowing the yard: Over here, in the South, we call the tool that you knock down weeds with, weed-eaters or weed-whackers. What do y'all call them where you live?
Groovy wrote: "Because of people getting hurt on them, or by them, they just banned those in the city until they can come up with some rules that will work.I have a very curious question. It came to me while I ..."
I'm glad someone had the sense to ban them!! I find it ironic that the inventor of the Segway fell to his death over a cliff while riding one of those stupid things.
In Spanish a weed eater is a desmalezadora. I know that's not the word you wanted. ;) They hurt hedgehogs, drat them. More than one hedgehog has been blinded, killed or maimed by them.
Is a weed-whacker the same as a lawnmower, or is it a strimmer? (Not very up on the gardening implement lingo.) As for the whole scooter, Segway, not chewing thing, one day unfortunately someone won't be there to chew for them or spoon feed them, the electrics won't work in the scooter or whatever, and then it's a problem. Although, I'm being hypocritical because I do sometimes pretend my dog is pulling me like a sled-dog if we hit a really steep hill and my legs ache...
Emma wrote: "Is a weed-whacker the same as a lawnmower, or is it a strimmer? (Not very up on the gardening implement lingo.) ."
It's a strimmer.
Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "What cracks me up is these electric scooter things. Forget riding a bike, they zip along (on the sidewalk, of cuss) very fast, hotdogging around pedestrians. No helmets, no bell or horn to tell you..."The scooter's are an essential piece of equipment for those who are mobility limited. My daughter had one, it was registered for on the road use. the dam thing could go 25 to 30 miles on a charge, it's highest speed was 15 miles per hour. and had a slower setting to allow them to be driven within stores. Unfortunately there are those who don't need them but use them because they are to lazy to walk. Not because they can't because they won't.
Groovy wrote: "Because of people getting hurt on them, or by them, they just banned those in the city until they can come up with some rules that will work.I have a very curious question. It came to me while I ..."
It depends on where you are they are weed whackers weed eaters, strimmer, trimmer edger, or that thing that gets rid of long grass. it depends on who you ask and what frame of mind they are in at the time you ask them.
That's right. I forgot edger, and trimmer. Good to know. Just so glad we don't have to call them by the Spanish one:)When they would show those scooter riders on the news riding around, they would be zipping in and out of traffic on the sidewalk and streets. It's fun to them.
Of course you can go way back and call them goats sheep and cows.
We can always count on you to come up with the good zingers, mrbooks.BTW, as you and Ori may remember, the 15th of June is Father's Day over here. So mrbooks:
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!! **Balloons and Confetti popping everywhere**
I know you deserve to be celebrated, my friend:)
Mr B, I'm not talking about mobility vehicles. I'm talking about the modern version of the child's push-along scooter, which now has an electric motor, and people stand up on it with both feet and zip along the sidewalks, glaring at pedestrians who dare to walk in the walking area that they want to race down.
One of my students is 14, and she and her friends are all crazy for a Korean boyband called BTS. Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of the group's start, so we were talking about boy bands and pop music etc. She asked me if I had had a favourite boy band when I was her age, so I searched on YT and pulled them up: the Bay City Rollers.Oh dear. I thought those guys were cute???? And the noise they made was rubbish as well. I spent two or three years wearing tartan stripes down my highwater pants.
No wonder I couldn't get a date to the prom.
Strewth.
Later, of course, much later, I was shocked to hear on Radio 4 news that the drummer had been arrested for having child porn on his computer...and the lead singer had committed suicide.
Life life.
I'm not surprised about anything I learn about my favorite groups from my teenage years or today. We live in a depraved society that will only get worst. I just concentrate on the music.
Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "Mr B, I'm not talking about mobility vehicles. I'm talking about the modern version of the child's push-along scooter, which now has an electric motor, and people stand up on it with both feet and ..."Sorry Ori my bad I miss understood. Like you Groovy I just follow them for the music. Thanks for the mention Groovy. do I get beer with the balloons and confetti ?
Buy as much as you want, mrbooks. It's on me!!:)
The bill wings its way to you as we speak groovy
LOL! Where's my credit card, darn it!!!
Just in passing: I am sick to death of the latest food fad being touted as a "centuries/millenia old natural remedy from ("exotic" culture of your choice)" -- and yet nobody's ever heard of it before it got buzzed in all the blogs and fad websites. Latest in line is "moon milk". A pretty little drinkie of milk and honey and "adaptogens"....ie herbs and spices and stuff. It might be good, okay--but spare me the hype.
Nothing but lies just to tout their wares...
Ori, do you still have that scone recipe with the lemon-lime drink added to it? Or a recipe for lemon scones?
Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "Just in passing: I am sick to death of the latest food fad being touted as a "centuries/millenia old natural remedy from ("exotic" culture of your choice)" -- and yet nobody's ever heard of it befo..."How do you milk the moon ?
Sorry Groovy they are now Martian rocks with a Venus sauce that is a hypo pathogen and a millennial recipe.
A rose by any other name...they're still good:)
Groovy wrote: "Ori, do you still have that scone recipe with the lemon-lime drink added to it? Or a recipe for lemon scones?"Yup! You can see it done on Youtube, but it's so simple.
4 cups of self-raising flour, or 4 cups of flour plus 2 tablespoons baking powder and about a teaspoon of salt, sift through before starting.
1 can of very cold lemon-lime soda
300 ml (1.25 cups) cream
Throw it all together in a bowl, mix quickly with a table knife. (According to my source, "don't ask why, just do it.") Slap your dough on a lightly floured surface and knead just enough to bring it all together. Cut out with a cutter, or a cup, or just whack triangles off and sling on a baking sheet, nearly touching.
Bake at 400ºF for 15 min, fan bake if you have it.
Best piping hot from the oven with lashings of butter and jam and a good cuppa tea.
I don't have one favorite. If it's creamy with a lot of whipped topping, I absolutely love it! Chocolate Cream, Lemon Cream, Strawberry, on and on and on...which is why I'm purchasing a treadmill:)Which reminds me, my absolutely most favorite cooking show ever has started its new season: Britain's Best Bakers on PBS!
Coconut cream pie!!!I just made an Italian nut-cake. When I get I minute I'll post the recipe here. Trouble is, I was given the recipe in French!
Then you bes' gets to translating. (southern slang)This sounds like a cake recipe I may have, Coconut Italian Cream cake, and it has nuts in it, but I need to compare.
Not peach Pie Groovy, I love a little peach pie and Dutch Apple pie, blue berry pies and strawberry. Also mince beef and onion pie steak and ale pie and one that is a favorite which everyone I know likes, Chicken and Bacon pie. Well I hope they aren't having me on as they keep asking me to make it.
That's why I ended my last comment with 'on and on and on' because I just can't name them all. It would take all week:)Although, I've never heard of Chicken and Bacon pie before.
Me either, and I want that recipe!!
Okay, I made the full recipe for this, and it came out uber-dense and heavy. Granted, it's meant to be dunked in coffee or vin santo (sweet wine). You're supposed to be able to shape it into loaves, but I had to pour mine into a cake pan. So maybe I need a different flour?Tozetti (Nut bread thing)
500g flour
250g sugar
100 g butter
3 medium eggs
200 ml milk
Salt (I'd go with about half a teaspoon-ish)
20g baking powder (Royal or Calumet, not bicarbonate of soda!)
Flavours, to taste any and/or all of the following:
Zest of one lemon or orange (or indeed both)
Aniseed, cinnamon, clove etc.
50 g raisins or craisins or other dried fruit, plumped up in a hot cuppa tea
250g peeled almonds or other nuts
(You can drink the tea after removing the fruit. Cook's perks and no sugar needed).
Preheat oven to 180C/350F
Cream butter with sugar until smooth, add eggs and milk. Put flour, baking powder, salt and spices in a sifter and sift into the bowl, mixing well. Mix in any dried fruit/nuts you intend to use. Form into two equal sized loaves (or pour into two loaf pans.)
Bake for 25 min.
If you like, you can slice when cool, put slices on a baking sheet and toast in the oven for 5 min at 180C/300F.
Dip in sweet wine, or coffee, or what have you. I'm thinking drizzle melted white chocolate over it.
So, this is really a nut bread, not a cake--right?
OK here is the Recipe I have tweaked it for my family's taste so it is different from the original.Chicken an Bacon Pie.
2 cups cooked and diced chicken
the recipe I have says use 6 slices of Canadian bacon or lean
bacon, I use a pack of thick cut bacon, Oscar Myer.
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup flour
2/3 cup heavy cream
2/3 cup milk
1 1/3 cups chicken broth
2 crust pie dough for a 9" pie pan.
I have doubled the measurements as we like a lot more sauce with our pie.
The recipe calls for 3/4 to 1 cup mushrooms as I am allergic I don't use them.
I use two chicken breasts I cut them up before I cook them in a little olive oil, two table spoons. I use a low heat and make sure the chicken is cooked through but not browned. Once the are cooked remove from the pan. Take your pack of Bacon and cut it up into 1/2 to 1 in pieces put them in the hot pan and cook them until they are just browning up but not crispy. Remove the bacon from the pan.
While the bacon is cooking finely chop your onion, about 1/2 an onion. I use a red onion as the add a little bit of color and they are a bit sweeter. Slice your mushrooms and place both the onions and the mushrooms in 2 to 3 tablespoons of Bacon fat until your onions and mushrooms are soft.
In a separate pan melt your butter with a pinch of salt and pepper add the flour and stir until the mixture is bubbling Won't take long. Add the chicken broth slowly and stir constantly on a med heat to prevent lumps. Add the milk and heave cream in the same fashion when it is bubbling and thick add the bacon chicken mushrooms and onion stir in and remove from heat.
Pour in your pastry lined pie pan and place your pastry on top and brush with milk. Bake in the oven at 400 F or gas mark 6 or 205 C for 30 min. enjoy.
I hope this works out as well for you as it does me. If you have problems let me know I am not the best at translating from a recipe.
The sauce for the pie is doubled, we don't like a dry pie and if I did it as the recipe suggests it would be a dry pie indeed.
Steve
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