Shankara20
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I just wanted some of the cake
now - if only I could get an iced tea to go with it....
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I just wanted some of the cake
now - if only I could get an iced tea to go with it....
Angeline
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LeBroz
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*slurp .. smack* knife? Knife? KNIFE? I'm supposed to be using a knife? Now they tell me *wiping chocolate off chin, cheeks*
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Shankara20
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Ahem.
would your blueberry iced tea go well the the cake?
Angeline
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I think it would be awesome, just like the cake.
unpredictablebijou
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*bustling*
cake server, plates for those who actually want them
iced tea for Shankara... sweetener, dear? I've heard some rumors about how you take your tea...
*lays out a tarp for Leon, humps his leg on the sly, wanders back to see what Angeline and Chef are up to in the kitchen...
bj
cake server, plates for those who actually want them
iced tea for Shankara... sweetener, dear? I've heard some rumors about how you take your tea...
*lays out a tarp for Leon, humps his leg on the sly, wanders back to see what Angeline and Chef are up to in the kitchen...
bj
Shankara20
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my iced tea like my scotch - on the rocks, no sweetener (now my morning cup of hot tea is another story)
Angeline
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The blueberry iced tea really is good. I boiled a pint of blueberries with honey and water, lemon juice and rind and reduced it down to a syrup so I can add it to iced tea or seltzer (for homemade soda). I need copious amounts of hot weather drinkage in my home. Is it terribly hot where everyone else is? How are you Kansans faring with all this rain? So sad about Wisconsin and now Iowa threatened. I know Wisconsin Dells well as I went to grad school in Madison.
Anyway tonight is chicken piccata and a risotto made with arborio rice (of course), peas and dried porcini mushrooms (that I'll reconstitute with stock and some white wine). And I'm thinkin I'll roast some broccoli with garlic and red peppers. And make a cinnamon-peach cobbler for dessert. (I was gonna do this last night but it was too damned hot in the kitchen--still is but what the hell...)
Shankara20
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unpredictablebijou
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Kansas goes:
steamy, stormy, steamy, stormy, steamy.
I'm lovin' it, although it's a teency bit suspenseful, with the shop right next door to the river and all...
bj
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The only way I can visualize you with one of those things involves some kind of restraint system.
Makes my day.
Love blueberries, especially with heavy whipping cream. Never had them in iced tea though. I do like raspberry iced tea.... a lot! And it goes well with chocolate, too.
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unpredictablebijou
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I need to change the menu.
The Primordial Soup comes with oyster crackers and a small Primordial House Salad.
With blue cheese dressing, aged 2 million years.
bj
The Primordial Soup comes with oyster crackers and a small Primordial House Salad.
With blue cheese dressing, aged 2 million years.
bj
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If I tell you that I'm cooking in very short cutoffs and a bikini top and my hair is in pigtails and I'm barefoot, will you smile a little more? Drool?
I'm sort of a Joisey Daisy Mae today. Skeery, huh?
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It's good the way anything made with totally fresh ingredients and lotsa ice is good.
These are pretty early Maine blueberries. The main crops won't come in till late summer. I love to go along the coast and pick them. There are places near Winter Harbor where we love to ramble where they still grow wild. Harvesting them is awful though. E-dub's son tried blueberry raking for one of his high school summer jobs. He found something easier after a few days of it. It's back-breaking work, bending over in the sun and raking berries for the combines to pick up. Yikes.
Shankara20
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That would certainly do it for me.
... no... but onlly because I'm currently not at risk of reacting inappropriately...
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We could try wrestling in chocolate loser gets to lick first ... ?
Mmmmmm I have an idea I would like to run past you one day ..
Don't like tea of any sort very unEnglish of me but now Gaia is here and I am not the only English rose she can have my share
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opps
now where did I put that floor mop - I just made a mess
This is the sort of thread that needs a good happy mess in it here and there.
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I so love this forum.
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This is the sort of thread that needs a good happy mess in it here and there.
let the coasters and doilies nap?
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Hellooooooooooo how's the masterpainting going ??
unpredictablebijou
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O that would cheer me up considerably, indeed. *fanself*
Joisey Daisy Mae is kinda the best of both worlds, I suspect...
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Ohhh, you know. Up and down, side to side. Splotches and splats. Getting too bent out of shape over trivialities. Crawling out of the muck. See life anew. Start over. Feel good, feel bad, that's life. Feeling better today than yesterday. Up and down, side to side. Splotches and splats.
How's your trees? Did you ever get some satisfaction or at least an apology?
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Some facts about chocolate or - how not to feel guilty for eating copious quantities...
Chocolate has been used as a drink for nearly all of its history. The earliest record of using chocolate pre-dates the Maya. In November, 2007, archeologists reported finding evidence of the oldest known cultivation and use of cacao at a site in Puerto Escondido, Honduras, dating from about 1100 to 1400 BC...
Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat.
There is scientific evidence that suggests dark chocolate may lower blood pressure and improve the body's processing of blood sugar.
Pregnant women who eat chocolate at least five times a week are 40% less likely to develop pre-eclampsia than those who consume it less than once a week.
The same chemical responsible for the ecstatic highs of love and sexual attraction, phenylethylamine, is also found in chocolate.
Chocolate trees can’t be cultivated outside of a forest environment. So as more chocolate is consumed, more trees of all types have to be planted. The chocolate gods are very clever, aren’t they?
Chocolate has been used as a drink for nearly all of its history. The earliest record of using chocolate pre-dates the Maya. In November, 2007, archeologists reported finding evidence of the oldest known cultivation and use of cacao at a site in Puerto Escondido, Honduras, dating from about 1100 to 1400 BC...
Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat.
There is scientific evidence that suggests dark chocolate may lower blood pressure and improve the body's processing of blood sugar.
Pregnant women who eat chocolate at least five times a week are 40% less likely to develop pre-eclampsia than those who consume it less than once a week.
The same chemical responsible for the ecstatic highs of love and sexual attraction, phenylethylamine, is also found in chocolate.
Chocolate trees can’t be cultivated outside of a forest environment. So as more chocolate is consumed, more trees of all types have to be planted. The chocolate gods are very clever, aren’t they?
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Well, thats really good to know. 'Specially the blood sugar thing. I think I should catch up. I'm on my way to Publix for the $20.00 Chocolate Ganache I've been drooling over.
Thank you muchly, Gaia!
Thank you muchly, Gaia!
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