I can imagine. WHen we lived in AZ, we'd visit my sister in the

Phoenix > area--I'd come home with bronchitis from her cigarette
smoke. She smokes > like a chimney.
Just a puff or two did it for me.

I didn't even have to smoke--she put enough stuff into the air that one couldn't help but breathe it.

Everyone's sensitivity varies - my tolerance is
rather low, but yours is well below mine.

Yes, if you have the right tools to sculpt and decorate the

potatoes. > Mashed would work the best.
Most likely, and I may have seen an article
about such a crafts project, actually come to
think of it a meatloaf "cake" with mashed potato
"icing."

I think I've seen similar.

I recall a meatloaf in the guise of a cake,
but it should be equally easy to make a
cake in the shape of a meatloaf.

A friend of mine is a food stylist. Let's just
say that food photography has nothing to do with
food or cooking.

From what I understand, any resemblence is purely co-incidental. (G)

Or rather there's really none to speak of.

Sounds like it's too real not to be true.

Well, or too fake not to be true, or something.

I'm hoping our girls will appreciate the family heirlooms I've saved

for > them.
One does hope that, but there's no telling.

Hopefully will have the storage room for some of this also. Some may go
to the Chicago Public Library, to add to their collection of papers from
my great grandfather. Have to sort it all out but we're pretty sure we
have the manuscript to a 4th book he wrote but never published.

Who knows what the repositories will want,
and when they get them, whether they will
digitize and call it good or else maintain
ever-growing warehouses of historically
significant stuff. If the former, they will
eventually come to regret that decision; our
club made photocopies of its collected
correspondence including letters from Wagner,
Brahms, and Dvorak and one from Beethoven (but
not to us) and sold the entire collection for
several thousand dollars, posting the copies
in the staircase in their stead. Now, decades
later, some of the letters would fetch hundreds
of thousands individually and perhaps a million
and more as a collection. Oh, well. In the other
case, eventually there will be a fire or heist
or other disaster and people will say, why
didn't we just digitize?

With a frame of reference from prior tastes,
guessing shouldn't be difficult. If one adds
a lot of wine late in the cooking, there will be
difficulty getting the alcohol out.

I'd add in the beginning, and probably a much smaller amount at first
than the final dish would contain. Got to learn how much I can add
before it becomes inedible.

In any case, to avoid the objections that
some recent studies have raised, high heat
should be applied somewhere along the line.

It's not clear whether Confucius actually said
that, or anything at all for that matter.

Not surprising. He's probably the most often quoted non quoted (ie quotes attributed to, but not actually said by) person in history.

I think Ben Franklin and Mark Twain may come close.

Somewhat, but who was it that said "close only counts in horseshoes and
hand grenades?" (G)

I heard it in elementary school (1950s), but

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/388998/almost-only- counts-in-horseshoes-and-hand-grenades says
1914 Lincoln {NE} Daily News 15 Aug.: "Close does not {sic}
count only in horseshoes." 1921 Decatur {IL} Daily Review
3 Oct.: "Close counts in horseshoes only." 1932 Washington
Post 8 Jul.: "Close doesn't count except in horseshoe pitching."
1970 Guthrian {Guthrie County IA} 26 Jan.: "Close only counts in
horse shoes and grenades." DAP 102; YBQ Frank Robinson. The
proverb, with its various accretions, probably originated as
an anti-proverb based on "Close doesn't count."

Cucumber-melon salad
categories: Swiss, starter, vegan
servings: 4

1 lg cucumber
1/2 watermelon
- one presumes they make them smaller in Switzerland
4 mint sprigs
2 Tb olive oil
1 Tb lemon juice
4 Tb sliced almonds
vegetable seasoned salt
pepper

Quarter the melon and remobe the seeds. Make
melon balls with a melon baller.

Wash the cucumber, halve, and scoop out the
flesh with the melon baller.

Wash the mint sprigs and mince fine. Combine
with the cucumber and melon balls.

Season with salt and pepper.

Make a vinaigrette with the lemon juice and
the olive oil. Dress the salad with this.

Chill until serving time; then portion on
plates and strew almonds over..

M says to lose the cucumber

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Hi Michael,

I can imagine. WHen we lived in AZ, we'd visit my sister in

the > ML> Phoenix > area--I'd come home with bronchitis from her cigarette > ML> smoke. She smokes > like a chimney.

Just a puff or two did it for me.

I didn't even have to smoke--she put enough stuff into the air that

one > couldn't help but breathe it.

Everyone's sensitivity varies - my tolerance is
rather low, but yours is well below mine.

Better for my lungs if I'm not exposed to it. Neither of my parents
smoked, the college I went to strongly discouraged it and I married a
non smoker. If a smoker is near me, he (or she) doesn't have to light
up; I can smell the residuals. I'm very appreciative of the places that
are non smoking, especially restaurants. Food with a side of stale
tobacco smoke is not my idea of a good meal.

Yes, if you have the right tools to sculpt and decorate the

potatoes. > Mashed would work the best.
Most likely, and I may have seen an article
about such a crafts project, actually come to
think of it a meatloaf "cake" with mashed potato
"icing."

I think I've seen similar.

I recall a meatloaf in the guise of a cake,
but it should be equally easy to make a
cake in the shape of a meatloaf.

Simple--use a loaf pan for the basic shape, then sculpt and ice it. Make
the icing look like mashed potatoes, with a side of "ketchup".

A friend of mine is a food stylist. Let's just
say that food photography has nothing to do with
food or cooking.

From what I understand, any resemblence is purely

co-incidental. (G) > ML> Or rather there's really none to speak of.

Sounds like it's too real not to be true.

Well, or too fake not to be true, or something.

Whatever, I don't cook for style points most of the time. The few
wxceptions are usually cakes done for a special occaision.

I'm hoping our girls will appreciate the family heirlooms

I've saved > ML> for > them.

One does hope that, but there's no telling.

Hopefully will have the storage room for some of this also. Some may

go > to the Chicago Public Library, to add to their collection of
papers from > my great grandfather. Have to sort it all out but we're pretty sure we > have the manuscript to a 4th book he wrote but never published.

Who knows what the repositories will want,
and when they get them, whether they will
digitize and call it good or else maintain
ever-growing warehouses of historically
significant stuff. If the former, they will

The CPL has a collection of his papers/books already, so figure they
might be interested in adding to it. AFAIK, they, and the Library of
Congress are the only ones with a copy of one book that I also own.
There may be more, distant relatives with a copy, but none have shown up
in searches.

eventually come to regret that decision; our
club made photocopies of its collected
correspondence including letters from Wagner,
Brahms, and Dvorak and one from Beethoven (but
not to us) and sold the entire collection for
several thousand dollars, posting the copies
in the staircase in their stead. Now, decades
later, some of the letters would fetch hundreds
of thousands individually and perhaps a million
and more as a collection. Oh, well. In the other

OUCH! Did they need the money that badly?

case, eventually there will be a fire or heist
or other disaster and people will say, why
didn't we just digitize?

Digitise but keep the originals also for things of historic value.

With a frame of reference from prior tastes,
guessing shouldn't be difficult. If one adds
a lot of wine late in the cooking, there will be
difficulty getting the alcohol out.

I'd add in the beginning, and probably a much smaller amount at

first > than the final dish would contain. Got to learn how much I can
add

before it becomes inedible.

In any case, to avoid the objections that
some recent studies have raised, high heat
should be applied somewhere along the line.

The usual "bring to a boil, let simmer...." for a stew would probably be acceptable.

It's not clear whether Confucius actually said
that, or anything at all for that matter.

Not surprising. He's probably the most often quoted non

quoted (ie > ML> > quotes attributed to, but not actually said by)
person in history. > ML> I think Ben Franklin and Mark Twain may come close.

Somewhat, but who was it that said "close only counts in horseshoes

and > hand grenades?" (G)

I heard it in elementary school (1950s), but

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/388998/almost-only- counts-in-horseshoes-and-hand-grenades says
1914 Lincoln {NE} Daily News 15 Aug.: "Close does not {sic}
count only in horseshoes." 1921 Decatur {IL} Daily Review
3 Oct.: "Close counts in horseshoes only." 1932 Washington
Post 8 Jul.: "Close doesn't count except in horseshoe pitching."
1970 Guthrian {Guthrie County IA} 26 Jan.: "Close only counts in
horse shoes and grenades." DAP 102; YBQ Frank Robinson. The
proverb, with its various accretions, probably originated as
an anti-proverb based on "Close doesn't count."

Always interesting to delve into folk sayings--you never know what you
might come up with. Various forms of "....lots of bunk" supposedly have
their origins on a politician saying "that's one for Buncombe (County)"
when he won an election but who's to say that's accurate? (G)

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