| The Grandness of Life [message #8575] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 17:43  |
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 AJLR
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The Grandness of Life
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8581 is a reply to message #8575 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 18:13  |
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MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I want this! I must find someone with fresh eggs. There's no point in making eggnog if one can't use fresh eggs. (Store eggs are so bland.) I wonder how my in-laws feel about eggnog. I think, if I made this, I would be the only one drinking it until it was gone, and...well that's a lot of sugar. (Definitely not a complaint. I love sugar. It makes me happy.) I might be able to convince His Pickiness to drink some if there was rum (or something) involved. He's tried some store eggnog and liked it okay, but he doesn't understand my great and undying love for the stuff.
(And to my tastebuds, my store eggnog is pretty good. It's a localish farm. Well, it's in the Shenandoah Valley which is, admittedly, pretty large.)
Christmas Morning Coffeecake? I love coffee! I love cake! I also love Christmas! (And don't think that coffeecake should be limited to Christmas morning. Afternoon and evenings too.) I don't really love mornings.
Smooshes!
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8584 is a reply to message #8575 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 18:35 |
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The only good marzipan place closed here. How do you make it? Meet you in the recipe thread? My husband loves it for his birthday cake.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8586 is a reply to message #8585 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 18:46 |
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Mmm the boyfriend and I LOVE eggnog. With booze or without (usually rum here, too). AND! The downstairs neighbors have chickens. Which are now starting to lay. And they're going out of town for christmas and have said that we can have the eggs! I see eggnog in my future!
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8595 is a reply to message #8594 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 19:40 |
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| Melissa Mead wrote on Sun, 21 December 2008 19:38 |
The traditional Christmas breakfast in my family is eggnog and French toast. Our eggnog has vanilla ice cream and nutmeg in it.
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::Feels her resolve weakening::
Ice-cream you say? .....
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: The Grandness of Life [message #8600 is a reply to message #8575 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 19:55 |
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| AJLR wrote on Mon, 22 December 2008 11:43 |
or removing the cat from the Christmas tree (again).
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I can't remember if I have already posted this here but pursuant to the above, I give you
http://www.fluffytails.ca/christmas.asp
Tree Decorating 101 as presented by Fern and Iris, two cats with fluffy tails
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8601 is a reply to message #8590 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 20:02 |
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| Susan from Athens wrote on Mon, 22 December 2008 13:20 |
But the coffee cake (which I presume has no caffeine as an ingredient as I have been coffee-free for two years due to the demands of my homeopath
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Im allergic to coffee (not caffeine) - I think its one of the flavour alkaloids as I have a similar response to red wine and tea.
Coffee makes me nauseous within half an hour of drinking, and vomiting within a couple of hours. I inherited an allergy to coffee and a violent intolerance to cucumber from my father (I can smell someone eating cucumber from several meters away indoors)
I never got to actually enjoy coffee in the same way everyone else does as a result. I dont eat/drink anything with coffee in it, but I LOVE the smell of a good coffee.
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8603 is a reply to message #8575 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 20:04 |
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Robin, I guess from now on you might be pink. And I hope you feel better soon.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8606 is a reply to message #8596 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 20:19 |
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| Susan from Athens wrote on Sun, 21 December 2008 19:46 |
| b_twin_1 wrote on Mon, 22 December 2008 02:40 |
| Melissa Mead wrote on Sun, 21 December 2008 19:38 |
The traditional Christmas breakfast in my family is eggnog and French toast. Our eggnog has vanilla ice cream and nutmeg in it.
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::Feels her resolve weakening::
Ice-cream you say? .....
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If I say: with real vanilla beans in it, will you be further tempted? ***goes off whistling and looking innocent, while trying to hide evil grin***
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::whimpers::
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: The Grandness of Life [message #8610 is a reply to message #8595 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 21:08 |
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Melissa Mead
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| b_twin_1 wrote on Sun, 21 December 2008 19:40 |
| Melissa Mead wrote on Sun, 21 December 2008 19:38 |
The traditional Christmas breakfast in my family is eggnog and French toast. Our eggnog has vanilla ice cream and nutmeg in it.
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::Feels her resolve weakening::
Ice-cream you say? .....
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I don't know the proportions, but the ingredients are eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla, nutmeg, and vanilla ice cream.
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8620 is a reply to message #8575 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 22:29 |
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To everyone who can't have eggnog (eggs, cream, whatever), or won't (insanity, obviously):
Please send me your eggnog. I will take care of it for you. I hate to see good eggnog go to waste. Same thing with your coffee (in cake or otherwise). You don't need to suffer.
I haven't tried custard yet, but I'm pretty sure I'll like it, too. Send that as well.
Doing what I can for humanity,
Jodi
Smooshes!
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8621 is a reply to message #8620 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 22:32 |
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....haven't....tried....custard.... 0_0
You poor deprived person! *sends piles of flan and creme brulee and panacotta and other yummy egg custards*
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8623 is a reply to message #8615 ] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 23:25 |
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[quote title=Ithilien wrote on Mon, 22 December 2008 15:31]| AJLR wrote on Sun, 21 December 2008 17:48 |
there are people who are totally creeped out by the idea of ingesting raw egg
Ah, yes. That would be me. I only tolerate it in mousse because of the chocolate...
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I worked in a micro lab for far too long to be blase about salmonella so I am not a fan of raw egginess either. And while I am a fan of hot custard, I am totally squicked by cold custard (its the texture) so no trifle for me.
And I dont understand the need to put it in chocolate mousse - all you need is good chocolate and firmly whipped cream. Anything else is just being poncy IMHO !
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8634 is a reply to message #8575 ] |
Mon, 22 December 2008 01:44 |
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I am not a raw-egg-eating person--I'm on the same page as BlueRose when it comes to salmonella--but there's nothing wrong with the other ingredients in eggnog  . There is a variant made in Puerto Rico called coquito that includes rum and cream of coconut and is extremely nice; a Puerto Rican friend of mine says that she makes hers without eggs, so I guess there's no reason why one couldn't make eggless nog.
Robin, I hope you are mistaken about the flu and are just overtired. Drink several healthful glasses of champagne (bubbles for stomach, alcohol for germs) and have a lovely sleep. I will send good thoughts your way as I clear out the guest room--it is my office; the bed is a major locus of flat-surface filing--for the arrival tomorrow of my brother. He might not notice that the kitchen floor needs washing (but it will get washed anyway, probably tonight while everyone is asleep), but binders and piles of paper on the bed couldn't be missed. (And I have to move my computer. Aarrgh aarrgh aarrgh.)
Happy Hanukkah, Black Bear and any other celebrants! And happy solstice, everyone--hurrah for longer days to come.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8642 is a reply to message #8639 ] |
Mon, 22 December 2008 04:30 |
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| Susan from Athens wrote on Mon, 22 December 2008 04:13 |
And Jodi, poor girl, have some baked egg custard tart from me and some yummy trembling custard too. There, there, how did you miss out?
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Clearly my mother neglected some important parts of my upbringing. No wonder I turned out like this.
Smooshes!
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8647 is a reply to message #8575 ] |
Mon, 22 December 2008 06:55 |
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Melissa Mead
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The recipe, such as it is:
My sister's comment: Throw some eggs, nutmeg, vanilla ice cream, vanilla and some milk in a blender mix, add more of any of those until it tastes right
My Dad, the Eggnog Authority: That is the recipe I use. I usually put 4 extra large eggs in each blender full of egg nog. The nutmeg settles out so it is good to reblend if there is enough left to sit around. Most people do not put the ice cream in, but I learned long ago that it is better that way. The only caution I would give some one is this recipe results in your eating raw eggs. Some people do not want to do that because of salmonella. For those people, (buy pasteurized eggs.)
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8659 is a reply to message #8575 ] |
Mon, 22 December 2008 14:27 |
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I know I've also seen recipes that cook the eggs. Not a lot, but enough to kill anything in there. I'll see if I can't dig up a cooked-egg nog recipe. I know I have one somewhere....
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8662 is a reply to message #8620 ] |
Mon, 22 December 2008 15:05 |
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| jmeadows wrote on Sun, 21 December 2008 22:29 |
To everyone who can't have eggnog (eggs, cream, whatever), or won't (insanity, obviously):
Please send me your eggnog. I will take care of it for you. I hate to see good eggnog go to waste. Same thing with your coffee (in cake or otherwise). You don't need to suffer.
I haven't tried custard yet, but I'm pretty sure I'll like it, too. Send that as well.
Doing what I can for humanity,
Jodi
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Jodi: I will send you my share of the world's coffee if you'd like. My share is apparently fairly large, since I live in the Seattle area. I know, I know. I live near Seattle and I DON'T DRINK COFFEE: sacrilege!! But I don't (except, as I mentioned, on very rare occasions when my digestive system is VERY happy with the world). So maybe I'll just mail you mine, in careful slow increments. Alternatively, you could just move HERE. You'd love it!
"Oh good! My dog found the chainsaw!"
-- Lilo ("Lilo and Stitch")
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8685 is a reply to message #8590 ] |
Mon, 22 December 2008 19:29 |
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Robin
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Hmm. I hope your homeopath was specifically telling you the specific client for specific reasons to give up coffee, and not that your homeopath was doing the usual 'mustn't have coffee-tea-peppermint-blah because will antidote remedies' schtick which is, I'm sorry, nonsense in most cases. [Puts arms over head to defend against furious homeopath for homeopathic college drop out interference]
True story: Rajan Sankaran, you have probably heard of him?, he is perhaps the most famous homeopath in the world at the moment, was at the beginning of his career treating his grandmother. He told her that she *had* to give up her coffee, which was her favourite thing. HAD to give it up to get well. Then he gave her her remedy. She got better. Then he said, with the smugness of the young and successful, there, wasn't it worth giving up coffee to get better? I didn't give it up, she said.
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| Re: The Grandness of Life [message #8688 is a reply to message #8686 ] |
Mon, 22 December 2008 20:00 |
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| Robin wrote on Mon, 22 December 2008 19:36 |
Piffle. You live in the country. You just need to know your hens. I have TERRIBLE digestion--and I admit I've had food poisoning more often than I want to remember--but never from raw egg. (Squicking is another thing.)
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Well, we're considering a hen or two. But I think I'd rather keep our limited space for growing things. Maybe the hens could roost in the fruit tree.
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Although adrenaline rockets like the printer don't help.
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Oh yes. This morning's adrenaline was from the irritating carpet cleaners, who claim that the soiling (just dirt, not any interesting stains) is permanent. So there. Plus they charged me twice as much as the neighbour's lot, who furthermore did a much better job.
I'm glad some of the symptoms have gone away. Exhaustion is still irritating though. It's been bed at 8 for me for a week and I'm tired of it (sic).
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