Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 05-20-18 12:12 <=-

They're floppy, which drives me nuts, but
the finished goods pop right out, and they
are easy to clean.

I like the easy to clean part, don't like the floppy part.

Imagine trying to transport a silicone tray
full of batter from work table to oven. I
don't know how people manage.

I suppose one could have it on a cookie sheet for stability..

So two containers where one used to suffice:
ecological and practical unsoundness rolled
up into one.

The cookie sheet wouldn't (likely) get dirty, it's just for transport...

Finished goods popping out--enough other "grease" will do the
same thing.

But affluent America is still largely in
the trying to avoid grease stage.

How silly of them.... ;)

As above, how silly and how 21st century.

Indeed.

True, not hard to beat the commercial ones.

Most mass-produced cookies aren't that enjoyable.
My guilty exception is the waffley sandwich
cookies, sugar wafers I think they're called.

Likewise.... haven't given in lately, but every so often, the urge just takes me... ;) Particularly the chocolate or the vanilla sugar
wafers...

Oh, yes, I agree, not the pink ones.

The "strawberry" ones usually have an off taste...

They probably started off as one, and one
hopes they will coalesce at some point, with
more humane practices of the one intertwined
with the intellectual rigor of the other.

And not the other way around...

The story goes about some famous socialite of the
day accosting George Bernard Shaw, saying that they
should make a baby together, because such a one,
with his brains and her beauty, would be the pinnacle
of human accomplishments, but Shaw demurred: "What if
the child turned out to have my looks and your brains?"

I remember the story... quite apropos...

I saw him yesterday, and he hasn't made a
plan of any kind. He's moping around as in
a depression.

That doesn't sound good... Are there any fallback plans...?

Other than letting him crash and burn and
the state pick up the pieces? No. I tried
to reassure him by saying I'd not completely
abandon him, but I'm not eager to do so, and
if he does as he has threatened to do and
gives his assets to the poor and the Catholic
church, I don't see that I can do anything for
him financially.

While it's good to be charitable, one does have to also provide for
one's own self, by using one's assets wisely... And it really isn't the responsibility of others to bail one out when one doesn't do so...

The fall board meeting wouldn't have been in late August anyway...
it's lately been generally in October... but the most likely weekend
in October also happens to be Richard's 50th highschool reunion,
which we are planning to go to... I'd hope that the following weekend would work for the board meeting, actually....

As well, I've been asked to play at my college
reunion, which is October 11-14.

Hope that is enjoyable... :)

I'm supposed to be playing in the school talent
show along with the first flute of the Riverside
Orchestra and the director of the New York
Children's Orchestra. That part will be fun.
Other than that, shelling out several hundred
dollars for a few mediocre meals and a late 20th
century-style mixer, I'm not so sure.

You do make it sound so inviting... (G) I've only been to one college
reunion of mine... and we've not gone to anything there for Richard...
it was ok, but nothing spectacular...

a kind of sweet-and-savory meatball dish that no
doubt used the wings and trimmings.

You're sure that it was chicken scraps for the meatballs and not
something else...? ;) Butter chicken made with thigh meat sounds
pretty good... :)

It was a halal restaurant in a Boston suburb
of good reputation, so I don't much fear the
inclusion of *at or *og meat.

I was thinking more that it could have been beef or goat or some
such.... ;)

The Vietnamese really slice their bo thin. I think
they freeze it and then use a machine, at least over
here. No clue what they do in Vietnam.

Not sure how these people did it... :)

Had the boss standing in front of them,
no doubt.

It's a little family-owned hole-in-the-wall place... ;)

I kind of like spice cakes but have forgotten
them in favor of chocolate.

Spice cake with penuche icing continues to be probably the favorite
choice for birthday cake in my extended family... ;)

An interesting choice, but I say so whose
first choice would be no cake and no party.

Just the family made it a party, growing up... we didn't have the sort
of party where all sorts of people were invited, just the cake and ice
cream, usually for dessert for the birthday meal... :) Nowadays, we
don't even do that much, though we do at times get invited to family
birthday celebrations at Lydia's... ;)

Caramel & whisky sauce
Yield: 1 L (3 x 330 mL jars)
150 mL whisky

Now that looks interesting... :)

And boozy enough to give you a buzz if
you took a decent serving of it.

And that could also be interesting... (G)

As you wish. Keeps the kids quiet, too.

True... but no kids around any more to try it on....

ttyl neb

... You can't have your Kate, and Edith, too.

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