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Apr 17, 2009 06:36AM
With running 3 kids all over I like the quick 15-30 minute meals. Granted i love to cook and wish i had more time. Sunday i usually make a big yummy meal that takes a few hours to cook. But very excited that it is getting warmer out because I can BBQ. Summer is much easier.
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We love BBQ too. We grill almost everything!
I love to grill almost everything too!
I have great news I just gotta share.....yesterday we found out that my best friend's mom's breast cancer DIDN'T come back!!!!She had something on an x-ray and we were all super worried after being in remission for 9 years!
That's great news, KrIsTiE fAyE. Im happy for you and your friend's mom.
Kristie Faye: That is so wonderful!!!!! I am so happy for you, your mom & your mom's friend!!!
Yesterday i got the coolest bag at Walmart. Only $3.00. I read a ton of books at a time, they all fit in the bag. I so love it!!!
Ken you should do up a cookbook!
I like it Richard. Very creative and breaktrhough! You should start a thread in the poetry section to share your poems.
Oh I should really go make dinner. We are doing mac & cheese as it is just me & my son. His favorite. We are celebrating not having the teen sisters in the house tonight! Yeah I get a break!
Good Morning! April is a beautiful month here. Our flowering trees are either in bloom or starting, the spring bulbs are still blooming and the new spring green leaves on trees not far from showing color. We are learning to call dandelions golden pennies so we don't have to use chemicals on our lawns. Right now we have a great riches in dandelions. Cheerful bits of yellow.
I love spring. All the flowers blooming the trees blossoming. My Daffils & iris are up the tulips aren't up all the way but I'm sure they will be over the weekend.
I just wanted to say how much I enjoy this group. I still have quite a bit growing to do with my book selection, but with this group I am for surely expanding my genre. Don't get me wrong I still love the YA books, I'm just addicted and I can finish them so fast. But since being here I have learned so much more about what's good out there. So thank you for having me. :-) Hope you are all doing well and enjoying the wonderful week. Tomorrow is Friday! I can't wait to sleep in, finish my bookshelf and READ! Oh oh, and it's my niece's 5th b-day! I can't wait!!
Tell your Niece Happy B-Day!
I am so glad that you enjoy this group. I am glad that you joined.
I am so glad that you enjoy this group. I am glad that you joined.
Happy B/day to you niece hon. Its my b/day Sunday and weather wise its meant to rain (boooo).
Happy B-day Fiona! Hey we are having a slip and slide and a water jumper. We live in AZ so it's HOTTT!
If I ever had to go to one of those I would try to pattern myself after Diana on Waiting for God. Liven the place up a bit.
Fi - HAPPY BIRTHDAY hon xxxHoep you have a great day and get good pressies (more books lol)
Richard wrote: "i have subsisted for years on the easiest and quickest meal-brown rice steamed vegetables and beans or lentils-the rice takes 45 minutes-while it is cooking under a low flame i wash and cut up the ..."My favourite meal is brown rice, mung beans, lentils, Brussels sprouts and chestnuts seasoned with soy sauce, some garlic and a little very fierce Scotch bonnet pepper sauce. Sometimes I cook the brown rice in coconut milk and add pumpkin.
I'm not a vegetarian. I just like veg food a lot.
Happy Birthday Fiona Q. I hope this is your best year yet but not the best to be.
Happy birthday, Fiona! Hope this is the start of your very best year so far. Have a wonderful day filled with love, friends and all that you hold most dear.
Fiona wrote: "Yay thank you! Have you anything planned for tomorrow?"Well, might go to local Theme Park depending on weather. BUT I am gonna sit on grass and read lol.
What have you been doing today?
Oh we have a Theme Park called Wicksteed Park in Kettering, Northants. We had beautiful sunshine today. Went to library and got a few books and a couple of audios out, 2 mooched books came today.We are gettin a 4GB MP3 player soon. Will have to think what music I would like on it lol.
Just a FYI, I am uuberly exhausted and I have to coach field hockey for 4 hours tonight! I played 2 field hockey games myself this morning!!!!!!
I want sleep!
Thanks Fi. Had a great day and got 7 books and 14 b/day cards lol. Oh and a wristband for local Theme Park.
Oh thanks Fi. I was totally spoiled. I had 7 books for my b.day, 14 birthday cards and best of all the kids and hubby bought me a year wristband for the local Theme Park to go on every weekend when its nice. We have been to Wicksteed Park (local Theme Park) since 11am. Went on go-karts (about 6 times lol), carousel (twice), Umbrella (twice). Can't wait for nxt weekend as its Bank Holiday (weather permitting). Now gonna sit down for a nice glass of wine and some fresh cream b/day cake.
Richard wrote: "Petra x-after reading about your brown rice in coconut milk-i found in supermarket Iberia leche de coco-let kokoye (what language is kokoye?)but 99 cents a can-so i bought 2-and tried it out-it was..."I used to make my own coconut milk as I have loads of fallen coconuts in the garden, but I either buy it in a can or make it from dessicated coconut. All the grating of the fresh coconut was too much effort. http://www.coconut-connections.com/co... tells you how to make it. Only takes a couple of minutes.
The best pumpkin rice is white rice cooked in coconut milk with chunks of orange pumpkin added about 15 mins before its cooked, or less if you like it firm. Add some nutmeg and brown sugar....
Or miss out the nutmeg and brown sugar and cook it with fried onions and hot pepper sauce, you can add pigeon peas or even petit pois, or anything else for that matter.
For my b/day I received the following books:10 Reasons Not to Fall in Love - Linda Green.
Whiskey Sour - J. A Konarth
Sepulchre - Kate Mosse
Sundays At Tiffanys - James Patterson
The Vows of Silence - Susan Hill
Whispers of the Dead - Simon Beckett
Keeping the Dead - Tess Gerritsen
Fi: oh ginger cake sounds yummy! Have a slice for me.
Kristie Faye: Hope you got some sleep!
Has anyone read, The Red Tent?I just got it from a friend. Just curious on your thoughts.
I have read the Red Tent a long time ago. It's good historical fiction. I don't know how accurate she is and how much she made up but I still enjoyed it
Kipahni wrote: "I have read the Red Tent a long time ago. It's good historical fiction. I don't know how accurate she is and how much she made up but I still enjoyed it "Thanks Kipahni! I'm always open for new reads. This on eis on my list, among others.
Terra that's what I thought about "The Red Tent": Diamant has created a wonderful story about the women of biblical times, our fore-mothers Rebecca, Sarah, Rachel, and Leah, from Dinah's point of view. Although I was eager to read this book, I didn't expect it to have such an impact on me, nor did I expect to love it as much as I did. Highly recommended. It is especially gratifying to find a sympathetic, detailed, and believable account of an Old Testament woman's life set in this era and part of the world. The book was a pleasure for even this non-religious feminist to read. The images are riveting. The characters are memorable. I wish I were a screenwriter because the Red Tent would make a wonderful movie.
It sounds really good. I bought it and just need to read it.
A long time ago it was read by our in person book discussion group and thoroughly enjoyed by all of various faiths as well as those not of any faith.Vivid, Amazing way of bonding in those days. Almost felt envious.
I am going to have to read it. Have thought to several times but kept being unsure. It sounds like a good one though from what you all say.I am reading bios of presidents right now. Reading Truman by David McCullough and it is a huge one but great reading! I am kind of on a non fiction thing right now as over the years I have bought so many and not read them going with fiction instead. I am also going to read TS Eliot's poems I think....Sharon
Just starting Nim Chimpsky by Elizabeth Hess. I like animal behaviour books.
If I hear anymore about the Swine Flu I put on a set of ear muffs. Dang it's the flu. Deal with it!
I know what you mean, Emilee. People need to put this in perspective. The experts are saying that 30,000 Americans die from the seasonal flu every year, and do you hear about that every five minutes on TV? People are going on about this like it's the black plague!
Beth: your totally right. They don't ever advertise that the death rate from seasonal flu. Apparently some countries currently are recommending that people have food and other supplies at hand if the outbreak gets really bad! It's not like the black plague! Chill!
Someone told me that those vaccines actually killed some people. I also think that those masks people are wearing aren't very effective and give people a false sense of "security."
From what I heard last night on the news the warmer weather is about to cause the end of already dwindling epidemic. And that in the US cases were mild with one or two exceptions. Apparently the seeming rise in cases is in the delayed reporting of same. Als0 let's leave the pigs alone; they have no part in causing this disease outbreak. At my age I see these scares come and go. Healthy well nourished people have a tremendous resistance to illness. I found this out living in Brazil during which time 50 a day were dying of meningitis. This was not much of a threat to the well-nourished healthy. I rode public transit every day. It hit the poor and those living in unhygenic conditions. Take the doctors and the nurses, how is it they manage to treat ill patients all day long and stay remarkably well as a rule?
I think the media are realizing that they were the primary cause of the "epidemic" by their riduculous coverage of an insignificant outbreak in the grand scheme of global illnesses. That's why we now see very little coverage of the actual "epidemic" and a ridculous number of articles about not blaming the poor pigs for the disease.
Dan wrote: "I think the media are realizing that they were the primary cause of the "epidemic" by their riduculous coverage of an insignificant outbreak in the grand scheme of global illnesses. That's why we ..."Maybe the media blew this out of proportion - but that seems to be their job these days. But if all the hype gets more people to take basic precautions, then the media chatter has been worth it. The best advice is the simplest. Wash your hands - often. Some of the books that are being listed on plagues are really good, from Camus's The Plague to Love in the Time of Cholera and the non-fiction accounts of the black death (the 3-year plague from 1347-1350 is perhaps the single most important event in European history) or the 1918 influenza, which killed more people than were killed on the battlefields of WWI. While there are good books on AIDS, there are also some great books on the succesful efforts to eradicate small pox and polio. Another good science book for lay people is the Microbe Hunters.
