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December 6th, 2006, 10:47 PM
LOL I love cooking, always have. I only have a toaster oven, a hot plate and a crock pot. I do have a micro but I onl heat left overs in it. Im thinking of having a Yule party but I dont know many people. Ive never thrown a party here........I need to think on it a bit more.
LOL I love cooking, always have. I only have a toaster oven, a hot plate and a crock pot. I do have a micro but I onl heat left overs in it. Im thinking of having a Yule party but I dont know many people. Ive never thrown a party here........I need to think on it a bit more.
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Location: London, Ont. Canada
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December 7th, 2006, 06:44 PM
A party is 3 people or more. Good things about parties is that guest can bring things, either as a potluck dinner or just wine or dessert.
How about:
Appetizer
Spicy or Savoury Nuts
Assorted shelled nuts (almonds, cashews, peanuts, etc.)
For sweet and spicy nuts:
Peanut oil, for drizzling
Sugar, to taste
Kosher salt, to taste
Chinese five-spice powder, to taste
For savory nuts:
Peanut oil, for drizzling
Kosher salt, to taste
Chili powder, to taste
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
For a sweet and spicy nut, toss your choice of nuts with oil, sugar, salt and a few dashes of Chinese five-spice powder.
For a savory and spicy nut, toss your choice of nuts with oil, salt and a few dashes of chili powder.
Lay out the nuts in an even layer on a baking dish. Bake, redistributing the nuts every 7 minutes or so to make sure they cook evenly, until the nuts are lightly browned, about 15 to 20 minutes.
First course
Gazpacho
2 cucumbers, diced
3 large tomatoes, diced
1 red pepper, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
1 red onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
2 1/2 cups tomato juice
Salt
Pepper
1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped
Juice of 1 lime
Tabasco
In large glass bowl combine vegetables. Add remaining ingredients and mix well. Add half the mixture to a food processor and blend until smooth. Combine puree with original mixture. Chill for 4 hours and serve.
Second Course
A canned ham (warmed or cold)with pineapple slices
Scalloped potatoes (Shirrifs or other brand box mix)
Steamed cauliflower in nuker:
As much cauliflower as needed in microwave safe container and a 1/4" of water in bottom
Nuke on high for 3-4 minutes (maybe more, experiment first)
Serve with melted marg
Dessert Course
Baked Apples
Baked apples are so very good and can be served along with baked ham or roasted turkey as part of the meal. They may also be served as a dessert with caramel sauce.
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 cup sugar
3 or more same-size Granny Smith apples
3 dollops of marg or more
1 cup apple juice
3 or more sprigs fresh mint
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Combine cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar in a small bowl. Set aside.
Core apples, making sure not to puncture the bottom of the apples so that the juices will remain. Remove skin from 1/2-inch around top of apples at the opening. Fill each cavity with the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Top each apple with a teaspoon of butter. Place apples in casserole dish and pour apple juice around them. Cover pan with aluminum foil and bake for approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour. Remove from heat, garnish with fresh mint, and serve.
Have guest bring wine?
All could be done in nuker, toaster oven and on hotplate.
A party is 3 people or more. Good things about parties is that guest can bring things, either as a potluck dinner or just wine or dessert.
How about:
Appetizer
Spicy or Savoury Nuts
Assorted shelled nuts (almonds, cashews, peanuts, etc.)
For sweet and spicy nuts:
Peanut oil, for drizzling
Sugar, to taste
Kosher salt, to taste
Chinese five-spice powder, to taste
For savory nuts:
Peanut oil, for drizzling
Kosher salt, to taste
Chili powder, to taste
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
For a sweet and spicy nut, toss your choice of nuts with oil, sugar, salt and a few dashes of Chinese five-spice powder.
For a savory and spicy nut, toss your choice of nuts with oil, salt and a few dashes of chili powder.
Lay out the nuts in an even layer on a baking dish. Bake, redistributing the nuts every 7 minutes or so to make sure they cook evenly, until the nuts are lightly browned, about 15 to 20 minutes.
First course
Gazpacho
2 cucumbers, diced
3 large tomatoes, diced
1 red pepper, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
1 red onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
2 1/2 cups tomato juice
Salt
Pepper
1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped
Juice of 1 lime
Tabasco
In large glass bowl combine vegetables. Add remaining ingredients and mix well. Add half the mixture to a food processor and blend until smooth. Combine puree with original mixture. Chill for 4 hours and serve.
Second Course
A canned ham (warmed or cold)with pineapple slices
Scalloped potatoes (Shirrifs or other brand box mix)
Steamed cauliflower in nuker:
As much cauliflower as needed in microwave safe container and a 1/4" of water in bottom
Nuke on high for 3-4 minutes (maybe more, experiment first)
Serve with melted marg
Dessert Course
Baked Apples
Baked apples are so very good and can be served along with baked ham or roasted turkey as part of the meal. They may also be served as a dessert with caramel sauce.
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 cup sugar
3 or more same-size Granny Smith apples
3 dollops of marg or more
1 cup apple juice
3 or more sprigs fresh mint
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Combine cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar in a small bowl. Set aside.
Core apples, making sure not to puncture the bottom of the apples so that the juices will remain. Remove skin from 1/2-inch around top of apples at the opening. Fill each cavity with the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Top each apple with a teaspoon of butter. Place apples in casserole dish and pour apple juice around them. Cover pan with aluminum foil and bake for approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour. Remove from heat, garnish with fresh mint, and serve.
Have guest bring wine?
All could be done in nuker, toaster oven and on hotplate.
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December 7th, 2006, 06:50 PM
Yanno I was having one of those "poor me" days. You know the type........cry in your coffee, let me off this ride type of days.
You just made me smile
I talked to Kim today (the girl next door) and I think its doable. Yule is the 22nd and a friday. My sis gave me a firepit for an early yule present. How great would that be?
Yanno I was having one of those "poor me" days. You know the type........cry in your coffee, let me off this ride type of days.
You just made me smile
I talked to Kim today (the girl next door) and I think its doable. Yule is the 22nd and a friday. My sis gave me a firepit for an early yule present. How great would that be? Time Out
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December 7th, 2006, 07:24 PM
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL Zack my cat just jumped off my lap!!! That is now my new background LOL
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL Zack my cat just jumped off my lap!!! That is now my new background LOL
Mighty Intellect
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December 7th, 2006, 07:30 PM
This one will shock you, I cooked it in Malawi, near Lake Malawi.... (hold on to your hats....and you sick buckets!!!)
Fly Burgers
Chaoborus edulis Malawian Lake Flies
Banana Leaves
Chopped Tomato and Onions
oh and some salt to add bit of flavour.
Method
Mix the flies, tomato, onion and salt together. Pat the mixture into a burger shaped patty between your hands. Wrap each burger in a banana leaf and cook in a smokey fire.
OR
Baba Ghannouche
I cooked this in Saudi with my friend Malik, it's quite nice actually.
Ingredients
4 Large aubergines
3 cloves of garlic
2 tablespoons tahini
4 tablespoons lemon juice
salt and pepper
olive oil
chopped parsley
Method
Bake the aubergine until it's well cooked and the skin is blackened. Douse with cold water, peel and chop into small pieces. Mash garlic and salt to paste. Add aubergine and mush into a smooth consistency with the tahini and lemon juice. Serve in a bowl with olive oil and pasley.
there you go Tam, I think those are probably some of my most exotic recipies.....actually, maybe not, but I dont wish you all to lose your appitite lol.
Daz
This one will shock you, I cooked it in Malawi, near Lake Malawi.... (hold on to your hats....and you sick buckets!!!)
Fly Burgers
Chaoborus edulis Malawian Lake Flies
Banana Leaves
Chopped Tomato and Onions
oh and some salt to add bit of flavour.
Method
Mix the flies, tomato, onion and salt together. Pat the mixture into a burger shaped patty between your hands. Wrap each burger in a banana leaf and cook in a smokey fire.
OR
Baba Ghannouche
I cooked this in Saudi with my friend Malik, it's quite nice actually.
Ingredients
4 Large aubergines
3 cloves of garlic
2 tablespoons tahini
4 tablespoons lemon juice
salt and pepper
olive oil
chopped parsley
Method
Bake the aubergine until it's well cooked and the skin is blackened. Douse with cold water, peel and chop into small pieces. Mash garlic and salt to paste. Add aubergine and mush into a smooth consistency with the tahini and lemon juice. Serve in a bowl with olive oil and pasley.
there you go Tam, I think those are probably some of my most exotic recipies.....actually, maybe not, but I dont wish you all to lose your appitite lol.
Daz
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December 7th, 2006, 07:40 PM
Now Ive cooked grubworms and had choc covered ants but FLIES????????? LOLLLLLLLL your nuttier than me!!!!
Now Ive cooked grubworms and had choc covered ants but FLIES????????? LOLLLLLLLL your nuttier than me!!!!
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December 7th, 2006, 07:42 PM
ABC, CBS, NBC.........dats it
Quoting RomSpaceKnight
I get 3 channells
History channel is going over all the Sharpe episodes again. They had a new 2006 one the other week. I got all the Sharpe books and have read Wellington's biography. Fascinating fellow. I never realized he was PM.
ABC, CBS, NBC.........dats it Mighty Intellect
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December 7th, 2006, 07:49 PM
I ate cow dung once Tam, so those recipies are quite nice actually.
Quoting RomSpaceKnight
Such a great series, it's at it's best when he's fighting the French......well, anywhere, India, the Iberian coast...shame he was too young to fight in the Americas, I'd like to have seen him gallantly defending British citizens against those rotten turncoats!!! lol.
History channel is going over all the Sharpe episodes again. They had a new 2006 one the other week. I got all the Sharpe books and have read Wellington's biography. Fascinating fellow. I never realized he was PM.
I ate cow dung once Tam, so those recipies are quite nice actually.
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December 7th, 2006, 08:00 PM
My bro in law spent time in Handuas (sp) Special ops. Im quite sure you posted the nicer ones
My bro in law spent time in Handuas (sp) Special ops. Im quite sure you posted the nicer ones
Super Genius
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Location: London, Ont. Canada
Location: London, Ont. Canada
December 7th, 2006, 09:32 PM
Quoting Daz_Hockey
Wasn't he offered a battalion in Upper Canada. His buddy "Smiling William"(?) went to the colonies after losing the french lass to Sharpe. He could have fought in the War of 1812. He's a Yorkshireman like me. I got a cap badge of the East Yorkshire Regiment which I think was the original unit he enlisted with.
Such a great series, it's at it's best when he's fighting the French......well, anywhere, India, the Iberian coast...shame he was too young to fight in the Americas, I'd like to have seen him gallantly defending British citizens against those rotten turncoats!!! lol.
I ate cow dung once Tam, so those recipies are quite nice actually.
I ate cow dung once Tam, so those recipies are quite nice actually.
Super Genius
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Location: London, Ont. Canada
Location: London, Ont. Canada
December 7th, 2006, 09:41 PM
Quoting selfactivated
I watch 3 channels The Food Network, History Channel and Showcase. The Food Network online is a good site for recipes. http://www.foodnetwork.com/ Cable TV is mostly trash. I grew up on 3 channels CBC, TVO and the local channel 9. Later we got Global. We would go a friends house on Sat. morn. They had a tall tower antenna. If weather was cloudy, signals from Detroit channel 2 would get reflected off clouds and we could watch Japanese monster movies, admittedly with bad reception but we were only 8 yrs old. I did not see cable till I was 20yrs old. We did not get a clour TV till I was 17. I much prefer a good book on history or a biography.
I get 3 channells ABC, CBS, NBC.........dats it
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December 7th, 2006, 09:54 PM
I was brought up on a farm. We did chores, chores and more chores. My absolutely favorite thing to do was wrap up in a blanket , sit in my rocking chair and read. Im quite the romantic, I read EVERYTHING on King Arthor and Merlin I could get my hands on. I ADORED Shakespear. Now adays Ive read everything I can on Wicca and Shamanism. Ive always been a Solatary wishing I was in the "inner circle" But that never happened. I couldnt be cruel so I was always the loner and Im still the solatary.
I was brought up on a farm. We did chores, chores and more chores. My absolutely favorite thing to do was wrap up in a blanket , sit in my rocking chair and read. Im quite the romantic, I read EVERYTHING on King Arthor and Merlin I could get my hands on. I ADORED Shakespear. Now adays Ive read everything I can on Wicca and Shamanism. Ive always been a Solatary wishing I was in the "inner circle" But that never happened. I couldnt be cruel so I was always the loner and Im still the solatary.
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Location: London, Ont. Canada
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December 8th, 2006, 03:13 PM
Have you read Bernard Cornwell's Excalibur series. The Winter King, Enemy of God and Excalibur. Lots of romance. May not seem like it at first but love does conquer all in the books. Even if it starts a lot of things though. Local library or used book store should have it.
As a kid I liked to go out toboganning during winter and come home, change and lie in the huge sunny area created by our picture window in living room. It was only time us kids were allowed in living room was to sit quietly and read a book. Parents didn't want us jumping all over good furniture. That's what the basement family room was for.
Most of the activities I engage in are solitary. I can be a team player but really like time alone. I ride bicycles and motorcycles because of the isolation of them. Just me my bike and the road. Same with a book. You can watch TV with friends. You can't read a book with friends. Maybe discuss one.
Had a bowl of heart smart clam chowder last night for supper. Kinda thin compared to real clam chowder but eating the real thing will quickly undo all the good docs work. Finished off with an ice cream bar made of 98% fat free ice cream. My only source of trans fats (.1 gram) these days except for maybe beef, which does not carry food labelling and is only eaten once a week by me. My old eating habits would have supplied me with a month or two worth of transfats in one day. Rumour has it outlawing trans fats in food here in Ontario may be in the works.
Have you read Bernard Cornwell's Excalibur series. The Winter King, Enemy of God and Excalibur. Lots of romance. May not seem like it at first but love does conquer all in the books. Even if it starts a lot of things though. Local library or used book store should have it.
As a kid I liked to go out toboganning during winter and come home, change and lie in the huge sunny area created by our picture window in living room. It was only time us kids were allowed in living room was to sit quietly and read a book. Parents didn't want us jumping all over good furniture. That's what the basement family room was for.
Most of the activities I engage in are solitary. I can be a team player but really like time alone. I ride bicycles and motorcycles because of the isolation of them. Just me my bike and the road. Same with a book. You can watch TV with friends. You can't read a book with friends. Maybe discuss one.
Had a bowl of heart smart clam chowder last night for supper. Kinda thin compared to real clam chowder but eating the real thing will quickly undo all the good docs work. Finished off with an ice cream bar made of 98% fat free ice cream. My only source of trans fats (.1 gram) these days except for maybe beef, which does not carry food labelling and is only eaten once a week by me. My old eating habits would have supplied me with a month or two worth of transfats in one day. Rumour has it outlawing trans fats in food here in Ontario may be in the works.
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December 8th, 2006, 04:16 PM
They're talking about that here in the states too(trans fat). I have arthritis have ever since I was real little. Step dad would kick me out side (literally) and Id cry so hard on the steps my tears would freeze. Wasnt a very good childhood. All the things I did alone helped me smile. I'll check out the books, im due for something a bit more light hearted.
Im still working on my venus demilo soup lol It may be a whoops but it still tastes good
They're talking about that here in the states too(trans fat). I have arthritis have ever since I was real little. Step dad would kick me out side (literally) and Id cry so hard on the steps my tears would freeze. Wasnt a very good childhood. All the things I did alone helped me smile. I'll check out the books, im due for something a bit more light hearted.
Im still working on my venus demilo soup lol It may be a whoops but it still tastes good
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December 8th, 2006, 04:37 PM
Now that's heart breaking. A little girl crying on the steps and her tears freezing. Is the lousy bastard still alive? It's amazing how hard it is to shake off childhood influences, wether good or bad. My childhood at home was great. School was another story. I get a lot of satisfaction from the fact most of my tormenters are losers today. The bullies are drunken, pot bellied, wife beaters and the popular girls are divorced, overweight, and lost their looks. Not to put a bad light on all divorced, overweight women but on some they got their come uppance. As for the guys, I got the pleasure of beating the hell out of one of my worst tormenters when he was really really drunk. His height of maturity and pinnacle of success was getting to sit in the back seats of the school bus. The public school bus too. The 4 years of high school was obviously a total waste on him.
Now that's heart breaking. A little girl crying on the steps and her tears freezing. Is the lousy bastard still alive? It's amazing how hard it is to shake off childhood influences, wether good or bad. My childhood at home was great. School was another story. I get a lot of satisfaction from the fact most of my tormenters are losers today. The bullies are drunken, pot bellied, wife beaters and the popular girls are divorced, overweight, and lost their looks. Not to put a bad light on all divorced, overweight women but on some they got their come uppance. As for the guys, I got the pleasure of beating the hell out of one of my worst tormenters when he was really really drunk. His height of maturity and pinnacle of success was getting to sit in the back seats of the school bus. The public school bus too. The 4 years of high school was obviously a total waste on him.
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December 8th, 2006, 04:58 PM
yes he's still alive but I dont speak to him. I had a love /hate relationship with high school. I weighed 333 and people were very cruel. At the end of sophmore year I was beaten to a pulp on the last day of school (my 16th bday) I was in a body cast and Im loosing my eyesight to a tumor they caused........LOL I need to stay away from stories lol Next year I had enough and beat the crap outta one girl in gym, principle was extatic and noone bothered me again
Thing is now adays Im trying to move on. People have and do hurt me a great deal.......I have to move on.
yes he's still alive but I dont speak to him. I had a love /hate relationship with high school. I weighed 333 and people were very cruel. At the end of sophmore year I was beaten to a pulp on the last day of school (my 16th bday) I was in a body cast and Im loosing my eyesight to a tumor they caused........LOL I need to stay away from stories lol Next year I had enough and beat the crap outta one girl in gym, principle was extatic and noone bothered me again
Thing is now adays Im trying to move on. People have and do hurt me a great deal.......I have to move on.
