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| Getting on with the food, cont [message #8417] |
Fri, 19 December 2008 19:55  |
 b_twin_1
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Isn't it about time we were Getting On With The Food, cont .....
(Although I *am* 5 cakes down ... 2 to go  )
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8421 is a reply to message #8417 ] |
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I am gaining pounds just reading at this. Your recipes should come with nutrition guides ahead of time, and an equation for figuring out how many calories we're getting just by reading it. 1/3 of what the cookies actually end up, do you think?
Smooshes!
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8432 is a reply to message #8417 ] |
Fri, 19 December 2008 23:45 |
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This thread would be dangerous for me if I ever cooked.
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8443 is a reply to message #8442 ] |
Sat, 20 December 2008 05:47 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 20 December 2008 04:26 |
| jmeadows wrote on Fri, 19 December 2008 19:13 |
I am gaining pounds just reading at this. Your recipes should come with nutrition guides ahead of time, and an equation for figuring out how many calories we're getting just by reading it. 1/3 of what the cookies actually end up, do you think?
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You break the cookies in half before you eat them to let the calories fall out . . .
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Another good idea is to leave them sitting on the plate a little longer.... they will have had time to "off-gas" calories as well then.
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8447 is a reply to message #8446 ] |
Sat, 20 December 2008 10:47 |
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| Black Bear wrote on Sat, 20 December 2008 09:15 |
Laphroiag in cookies?!? That's an intriguing thought. Usually I tend to assume that hooch used in baking should tend toward the sweet side--rum is the obvious choice, and liqueurs--drambuie is so sweet I can't even drink it. But would something without a sugary overtone radically change the overall impression of the cookie? It's hard for me to picture how this would taste...
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I've made hooch-raisins with single-malt, and (to my taste) they don't come out very well. Even the ones made with bourbon are just somehow not quite right. On the other hand, single-malts and other high-flavored whiskeys are (again, to my own taste) wonderful contributors to meat sauces.
One recent Christmastime, a pharmacist friend of mine made a batch of rum raisins and packed them in little canning jars with a professional-looking Rx pharmacy label that said: Raisins Infused With Medicinal Rum. Directions: Take One Raisin. Repeat As Needed. Turned out to be quite a popular Christmas present, but alas! didn't last long ...
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8455 is a reply to message #8417 ] |
Sat, 20 December 2008 13:36 |
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Try living dangerously, Shelley
You say this to me, of all people? The way it's going lately, anymore dangerous living and I'll be a goner. I'll burn myself, I will. If I try to cook. Well, I did cook dinner last night, but it was nothing special.
And I can't eat all these good cookies you guys are making. Wah.
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8462 is a reply to message #8417 ] |
Sat, 20 December 2008 14:10 |
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Oh my, some more nice low-calorie food to try. Don't you have any festive recipes for things with less than a million calories a mouthful, Robin? Broccoli florentines or something? We have nine of Ray's family coming over for lunch on the 28th and I'm sure they would prefer to be greeted by an active human woman rather than a blob!  Yes, I know, I don't have to make them...
When Ray was in the RN, many (many) years ago, they used still to get a daily rum ration, either neat (if the ship was one classified as being 'hard service' - ie, a small one that had less facilities on board) or diluted with water as 'grog'. Apparently it was more than anyone's life was worth to spill a drop of this, as it was being measured out. I'm frankly amazed they all survived the liver damage! I like rum too, but not in those quantities.
And I'm with you on the RHS gift shop, even if 98% of the items are in such obvious and restrained good taste that I occasionally yearn to go in there wearing a fake leopardskin catsuit accessorised with purple patent-leather boots (or something).
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8469 is a reply to message #8455 ] |
Sat, 20 December 2008 15:11 |
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| ssshunt wrote on Sat, 20 December 2008 13:36 |
Try living dangerously, Shelley
You say this to me, of all people? The way it's going lately, anymore dangerous living and I'll be a goner. I'll burn myself, I will. If I try to cook. Well, I did cook dinner last night, but it was nothing special.
And I can't eat all these good cookies you guys are making. Wah.
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There are lots of good gluten-free cookbooks and recipes around. There's this really good one for pecan florentines that I know.....
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8470 is a reply to message #8442 ] |
Sat, 20 December 2008 16:18 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 20 December 2008 04:26 |
You break the cookies in half before you eat them to let the calories fall out . . .
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You. Are. Brilliant.
Smooshes!
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8488 is a reply to message #8462 ] |
Sat, 20 December 2008 19:32 |
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| AJLR wrote on Sat, 20 December 2008 14:10 |
Oh my, some more nice low-calorie food to try. Don't you have any festive recipes for things with less than a million calories a mouthful, Robin? Broccoli florentines or something? We have nine of Ray's family coming over for lunch on the 28th and I'm sure they would prefer to be greeted by an active human woman rather than a blob! :) Yes, I know, I don't have to make them...
When Ray was in the RN, many (many) years ago, they used still to get a daily rum ration, either neat (if the ship was one classified as being 'hard service' - ie, a small one that had less facilities on board) or diluted with water as 'grog'. Apparently it was more than anyone's life was worth to spill a drop of this, as it was being measured out. I'm frankly amazed they all survived the liver damage! I like rum too, but not in those quantities.
And I'm with you on the RHS gift shop, even if 98% of the items are in such obvious and restrained good taste that I occasionally yearn to go in there wearing a fake leopardskin catsuit accessorised with purple patent-leather boots (or something).
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Oh: broccoli florentines! THAT's worth experimenting with! (Actually, I have a thought . . . I'll let you know. :)) You are absolutely right about the RHS gift shop. We could go in *together* . . . I used to have a fake *tiger* catsuit. I wore it to my Newbery Medal ALA: I think there are photos somewhere. But I fear it got weeded some decades back. And pink All Stars don't even make the RHS clerks blanch, which is disappointing.
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8514 is a reply to message #8469 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 01:01 |
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| b_twin_1 wrote on Sat, 20 December 2008 13:11 |
| ssshunt wrote on Sat, 20 December 2008 13:36 |
Try living dangerously, Shelley
You say this to me, of all people? The way it's going lately, anymore dangerous living and I'll be a goner. I'll burn myself, I will. If I try to cook. Well, I did cook dinner last night, but it was nothing special.
And I can't eat all these good cookies you guys are making. Wah.
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There are lots of good gluten-free cookbooks and recipes around. There's this really good one for pecan florentines that I know.....
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Yes, but--you're talking to the woman who set her oven on fire a few years ago--it was an accident, of course--but it involved a fire extinguisher and the fire department and a breathing treatment, because the stuff in the extinguisher was weaponized baking soda, and the house was covered in fine white silt, and I got to sit outside getting the breathing treatment while F cleaned up all the white silt. Then we had to have someone come in and make sure the oven and stove top were OK, that no wires were injured in the making of this fire, and after we got the all clear we had to take the thing apart and clean it like Judgement Day was upon us, and the stove was the last straw.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8527 is a reply to message #8514 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 05:55 |
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| ssshunt wrote on Sun, 21 December 2008 08:01 |
Yes, but--you're talking to the woman who set her oven on fire a few years ago--it was an accident, of course--but it involved a fire extinguisher and the fire department and a breathing treatment, because the stuff in the extinguisher was weaponized baking soda, and the house was covered in fine white silt, and I got to sit outside getting the breathing treatment while F cleaned up all the white silt. Then we had to have someone come in and make sure the oven and stove top were OK, that no wires were injured in the making of this fire, and after we got the all clear we had to take the thing apart and clean it like Judgement Day was upon us, and the stove was the last straw.
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Yes Shelley, I bow down low: you have proven it definitively: thou art THE klutzim. Not the queen of the Klutzim - most definitely Robin, having coined the phrase, but the quintessential idol for all klutzes. Nobody else out there can equal you. Respect.
“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8531 is a reply to message #8417 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 08:31 |
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what about the old saying that i'm on a sea food diet[ i see food and eat it]hehehe.[ducks]
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8563 is a reply to message #8417 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 16:49 |
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I am also losing weight, but I decided that for the holidays I could eat what I want. I figured out that "being on a diet" was just a deadly way for me to think--that meant that if I went off the diet then I had to start over, and it felt like a failure. So now I look at it as changing my lifestyle, and this time it's working. And also I can be bad for a few days and not suffer for it. But that's me. I know everyone has to find their own way.
I don't know about being the big klutzim, Susan. Have you read that thread? Scary. I think there's a story where one person fell or had an accident 4 times in one day. And it wasn't me. I am humbled.
So, um, how about that pecan cookie recipe?
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8574 is a reply to message #8511 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 17:38 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Sun, 21 December 2008 00:27 |
| jmeadows wrote on Sat, 20 December 2008 15:18 |
| Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 20 December 2008 04:26 |
You break the cookies in half before you eat them to let the calories fall out . . .
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You. Are. Brilliant.
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Well, I'd love to just say thank you and smile modestly ;) but I can't claim credit for that--it comes from a similarly fact-filled newspaper piece from too many years ago that contained other gems of diet wisdom, like "food eaten while standing over the sink has no calories." But I always thought the broken-cookie one was best, because it's so logical.
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OH, but this is my Diet Rules t shirt!! That doesn't seem to exist any more and the pic of the apron is too small, and when you zoom it the type breaks up!! I was going to post it a while back. . . .
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| Re: Getting on with the food, cont [message #8597 is a reply to message #8573 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 19:48 |
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| Robin wrote on Sun, 21 December 2008 17:36 |
Gosh, your tool usage includes baking pans, does it? We may want photos. But I'll put Tea Tea bread on the list. (Lapsang is NOT the ONE true tea. Just by the way.)
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Yes, baking pans and mixing bowls too. Yes, I can provide pictures (of Tea Bread, some day). I have outgrown the Typical Bloke phase of using the 3/8" variable-speed drill to mix batters, if you were planning to ask.
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The only time I like that combination is in Swiss Ricotta cheesecake with raisins soaked in rum. But Cointreau, or cognac or even tequila sound like nice combinations to me. (my mind is wandering off to tequila soaked raisin cookies with a dash of paprika... I shall have to experiment) Thanks Robin!
