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  Comfort food recipes

  by mkr32208 in

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  i love to cook huge elaborate 10 course dinners and party foods but what about when your sick and just want something that is quick and easy and makes you feel good?

  what food do you guys like when your sick?

  sweet or salty sticky or soupy????.

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  When I'm in physical pain (from my tendinitis) and what I really need is a new drug ... oh, but that's another thread...

  Um, the saltier the better! Barbecue. Chinese. Olives. Pickle sandwiches. Bouillon, if I don't have anything else.

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  ********** Ain't nothing like a wing ding ***********

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  i didn't know we had wing dings.

  cool.

  this opens untold frontiers.

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  Stilla must be using Firefox - it shows up as nonsensical plain text there. Try Internet Explorer and you'll get FHN's cute little special effects.

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  The Society is Upset: R&F Not Following the Recommended Lodging List

  by SirNose586 in

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  an elder read a letter last night, and i practically giggled through the whole thing.

  his poorly manufactured gravitas was most amusing, given the ludicrous content of the letter.. it seems the society is pissed that the friends aren't choosing the "recommended lodging" when going to conventions.

  i remembered two important details about the letter.

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  What Quotes said:

  hotels makes lots of money on conference room services (you know: the huge conference rooms and the catered meals with the rubber salad and hockey puck Lasagne); but the Witchpower conventions are not actually at any of the approved hotels. So there is no economic reason for a hotel to give a cheap room rate to JWs, since they won't make back the discount in other higher-margin (i.e. $$$) items.

  Yeah, the only conventions I have attended since unjaydubbing have been in the hotels where I was staying. And the discount was not too bad -- about 20-25%. No wrestling crosstown traffic, no fighting for seats in the nosebleed section, and I didn't have to pack every damn meal my own self.

  Oh yeah, no cult propaganda, either!

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  A Murder in the Ministry

  by Oroborus21 in

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  guess whos back???!!!.

  well ok, not really, this is just sort of a random pop-in.

  anyways, i hope everyone is doing well.

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  Actually, in 1941 this would have made much more sense. Witnesses were the victims of mob violence at that time - war hysteria was high, and Booze Rutherford was a canny creator of martyrs. The jaydubs were a whole different breed back then, too, fiery and confrontational; not the prissy mushmouths we have today.

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  How important are looks to you?

  by Layla33 in

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  i am just curious how much looks and superficial things plays a part in your decisions in life.

  i work with a young lady, she could be my daughter, well if i was young and out there early, and she's fresh out of college, from a sorority and let's everyone know this.

  anyway, she will only talk with, be friendly with the very good looking people in the office.

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  Well, it depends.

  The reason celebrities have to be beautiful is that most of their public will never know them personally – will never see anything about them but the superficials. So, yeah, their livelihood depends on it.

  Writers, on the other hand ...

  I have dated "ugly" people. If I see you in person before I get to know you, beauty may attract my eye, but it might not get me to approach you. I'm not particularly good-looking myself, any more, so I'd be too indimidated.

  The person I most regret not being "with" any more was definitely not-handsome – spindly, pot-bellied, awkward – but brilliant in bed and in conversation, and a real sweetheart. Beautiful eyes, though. We met over the Internet.

  And beauty is in the eye of the beholder, anyway. I like a little extra meat on a woman. A set of laugh lines can be very attractive – I fondly remember one in particular, though I don't want that person back. (I also fondly remember the deep, resonant voice and faint Mexican accent.)

  So, yeah. Though I do have my "deal-breakers" when it comes to appearance, I have dated "ugly" people and would be glad to do so again.

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  You like India Food?

  by asilentone in

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  i am just tired of eating chinese and mexican food.

  i thought i might try something new.

  do you like india food?

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  Depends on what you like in other cuisines: shrimp, chicken, lamb? You won't be able to get beef except at Muslim-owned restaurants -- where you won't be able to get pork :) It isn't all about curry, even though that is an art form in itself.

  Eveyone expects Indian food to be hot, and it often is, but try:

  • Tandoori chicken
  • Garlic or onion naan, often available as a side dish or appetizer
  • Palak paneer
  • Samosas, which will likely be offered as an appetizer or lunch special
  • And if you're in the mood for something soothing and breakfasty, try idli. It might be offered as an appetizer.

  The Wikipedia article is short but comprehensive. Check out the section on Indian food outside of India.

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  Thank god for cheese

  by greendawn in

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  one amazing thing is that out of just three kinds of milk the milk of cow, ewe and goat hundreds if not over a thousand different kinds of cheese are made around the world.

  yellow or white, hard or soft, mouldy or not mouldy, strong tasting or bland.

  cheddar, gruyere, gouda, maasdamer, parmesan, feta, roquefort, stilton, brie and scores more.

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  Unless you are an artisanal food yuppie, U.S. cheese is mostly about quantity rather than variety or quality. The biggest sellers are highly processed cheeses such as American (a fake cheddar, also available as a fake Monterey Jack). You can also get a low-quality cheddar spread with some sort of port wine in it.

  Still, there are some very respectable American cheeses. One of my favorites is Tillamook jack – not listed in the Wikipedia article – a very young, very soft jack cheese that just about melts in the mouth. It has a wonderful buttery flavor, similar to a young Havarti. Which we can also get here. Yum.

  US cheesemakers like to play with Jack cheese: pepper jack, Colby-jack, and I believe I've seen jack cheese with some kind of dried fruit in it.

  We did used to have a wonderful Limburger variant called Liederkranz, but various troubles took it off the market.

  A number of artisanal cheese makers are getting down with the chevre, but some are taking the gamy goat flavor out of it, because the American palate can't take it. Some kinds are almost indistinguishable from cream cheese – which, incidentally, is wonderful with thinly sliced lox on bagels – an American Jewish delicacy.

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  Bizarre Foods

  by Layla33 in

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  have any of you seen the show, "bizarre foods with andrew zimmern"?

  for some reason i have become a huge fan of this show and i am always interested in what kind of things people all over the world eat and how much of it i would actually even think of eating.. what is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?

  and what was your response when you ate it?.

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  • Cloud ears.
  • Escargot – I know, there are weirder things on this thread, but this was for a school lunch.
  • Grass jelly – bitter and nasty; never again.
  • Cake flavored with pandanus, which tastes like vanilla but turns things bright emerald green.
  • Golden needles, a dried lily flower which gives things a sort of vegetarian-chicken-soup flavor.
  • Imitation duck.
  • Oden – not at all weird in Asia, but this version contained some kind of fish cake which looked like a little drawstring bag and was filled with a particularly nasty stringy, clingy, flavorless cheese. But the rest of it was all right.
  • Black rice.
  • Red rice, which I really like.
  • Nori, aka dried algae or seaweed. Some kinds are fishy-nasty, but there's this black Korean variety which is delicious. Full of nutritious minerals.
  • Sweetbreads, which are not a pastry. A childhood favorite when we went to Eugene's, a sort of middlebrow posh restaurant in Reno, Nevada, circa 1965.
  • Melona bars. I only mention them because honeydew melon creamsicles are not that easy to find in the US. Incidentally, they don't actually contain any melon – but they are fabulous.
  • Honey-garlic snack crackers. I have only seen them once in my local Korean supermarket, and they were fabulous.
  • Boletus edulis – mentioned only because it is expensive enough to be a rarity – picked by my son and daughter-in-law from among the redwoods in Willits, CA. Buttery and kind of slippery. (On another occasion, my daughter had the same delicacy fried in pesto. She decided she wanted to move to Willits at some point.)
  • Horned melon, which looks weirder than it tastes; it's actually a species of cucumber, mostly juicy seeds and not so much of the crisp flesh of Western-style cucumbers. Also very tart.

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  Your Favorite Part of Thanksgiving Dinner ...

  by compound complex in

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  dear friends,.

  apart from being thankful for friends, family and all the higher-minded stuff, what of the meal itself do you like best?.

  i'm going to a restaurant with friends and hope to sneak into the kitchen for some crispy, crunchy turkey skin!.

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  STUFFING. My mother made hers with cornbread and lots of little link sausages, chopped into bits.

  And giblet GRAVY. Lots of it. I'm with Erma Bombeck, "I come from a family where gravy is a beverage."

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  C.S. Lewis and his "trilemma".

  by gaiagirl in

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  author c.s.

  lewis once wrote that one of three situations exist: .

  1) jesus was the son of god .

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  Zico notes,

  [C.S. Lewis] still a wonderful writer though, and his fictional works are timeless.

  Oh, yeah. Till We Have Faces is my favorite.

  gently feral