I'm doing the echo but am thinking of making pasta
this Sunday [edited to say "today," but I've decided not to
do this] - Stater Brothers had one of the weird sales
where you could buy one pack of eggs for 3.99 or two packs
for 1.99 each. What's the sense in that? So we got two
packs of eggs. We were looking for bacon, but it wasn't on
sale. H'm, maybe there's some method in their madness. So
we didn't get bacon. Maybe there's some method in ours, too.

Guess they wanted to see if anyone was paying attention.... did they at
least have bacon available...?

At full price.

Amortizing the cost in time and effort, you might be
paying dollars an hour just for some convenience. And of
course, that might mean you had time to cook on Sundays.

Only needed when things aren't working properly at home, or I'm on some
trip, so not likely to affect anything on a Sunday... ;)

Excuses, excuses!

Reminds me of my sartorial splendor, of which has been said
Absence of style is a style.

I can see that... similar to my style, perhaps... :)

I do have certain rules, as you seem to. I can't remember
what they are, though.

Generally has HFCS in it nowadays... at least the commercially available stuff....

Needn't, and anyway that much HFCS probably isn't that
dangerous - you probably get more unreported in the
ingredients lists anyway than you want to know.

Ah, but it's the perception, ya know... ;) The other part of healthier
was in the sort of flour they were using....

I'm guessing ugh.

... I need to start procrastinating, sometime soon.

That's worse than needing to stop procrastinating?

Only because it isn't recognized as such...?

In my case it's mostly the latter.

This week I did chamber music twice, e-mailing the others I'd
prefer to stick to pieces I more or less remembered, Haydn,
Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Brahms, maybe easier Beethoven.

And how nice it would have been, had they thought that your preferences
made any difference to what they wanted to do... ;0

As one of those guys said, I don't get any respect.

familiar but difficult Beethoven Op.95, but the cellist's
wife complained that we were behind schedule, so the second
(we switched back), Howard Goldstein, who had conducted the
university orchestras at Auburn and Johns Hopkins, took it upon
himself to rush the tempi, so we all ended up playing like pigs.

These are just get togethers to play through music, not performances, right...? Even still, you'd think there would be a bit more cooperation/consideration....

No, just hacking through stuff.

The second group, the trio involving the former pianist of the
Detroit Symphony, hewed more to my preferences but pulled out
the Mozart trios in C and G (easy keys, not easy pieces, K.548
and 564), plus the Kakadu variations, plus the slow movement only (relief) of a trio by Ibert that I'd never seen or even heard.

Do you suppose they'll think twice about having you play with them
now...?

Fontaine said to call any time. I guess the lack of
unmusicality made up for the lack of competency.

A taxing weekend, and I literally as well as figuratively
sweated the vision impairedness issue.

I can well imagine....

I was displeased.

Cook's choice as to which was baked...? ;)

Not my choice, as I've never been the baking fiend.

Was this historical or recent, the baking of buckles and pies...?

It's been a long time since I went mudlarking foraging
for blueberries.

Someone's got to put a stop to the planned obsolescence
juggernaut. Oh.

Some of us try. :)

What are we two against so many?

COULIS DE TOMATES
Categories: raw, Chicago, ingredient
Yueld: 2 1/4 c

1 lb ripe tomatoes
1/8 ts sugar
2 ts salt
2 dr hot-pepper sauce or tt
1 clove garlic, blanched, peeled and chopped
1/4 c extra-virgin olive oil
5 leaves basil, chiffonade

Plunge the tomatoes into boiling water briefly to loosen
the skins. Peel the tomatoes, cut them in half crosswise
and remove the seeds. Cut into chunks.

Place tomato chunks in the food processor along with all
remaining ingredients. Process as little as possible to
achieve a puree.

Chill until needed.

Jean Joho, Everest Club, Chicago via Chicago Tribune 7/5/87
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