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  1. #juan

    Trying my hand at pickling

    This is something that we first heard about thirty years ago. Find a pickled beet recipe you like and rather than all the peeling and trimming, and purple fingers up to your elbows, use canned whole small beets from your grocery store and the pickle are just as good as if you had cooked fresh...
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    Mars is inhabited.

    Similarity?? Mars has a surface gravity of .38 of that of Earth. Mars has an atmosphere of only one percent of Earth's gravity. Mars has a mean temperature of -63 C while Earth has a mean temperature of something around 17C. It sounds to me like the two planets are very different.
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    Trying my hand at pickling

    Hi Karrie For the baby dill cukes we put the dill weed, the garlic, and the washed cukes into the sterilized jars and then we pour the boiling vinegar/water mixture over the dills just enough to cover. We then put the lids on just finger tight. We then process the jars of pickles in boiling...
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    Trying my hand at pickling

    We (my wife and I)just layed up a dozen pints of garlic baby dill cukes. We won't be able to open the first jar for about a month. Next is bread and butter pickles....We're just waiting for the stores to get in some good cucumbers. We also do ordinary sweet pickles and with them we throw in...
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    Mars is inhabited.

    What is rigid? Mars's atmospheric pressure is one percent of that of Earth. Mars's ice, water, or CO2, does not melt, it sublimates into the thin atmosphere and refreezes onto whatever colder surfaces are found. Mars' thin atmosphere probably reaches saturation fairly quickly and the water...
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    The earthquakes that follow the total solar eclipse.

    eanassir Didn't you tell us you were an educated man? A doctor of medicine perhaps? How can you possibly think that sunlight, or heat, has anything to do with gravity. That the Appollo astronauts had to blast out of the moon's gravity well to get back, and that benign objects can orbit the...
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    German Fried Potatoes, recipe

    Good luck L Gilbert. You shouldn't have a problem. During the three and a half years I was in Germany I put on about twenty pounds. I'm sure some of that was from fried potatoes. The good German beer likely helped as well.....:smile::smile:
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    Buying new appliances

    Buying new appliances.....What a pain. When we bought our house in Nanaimo almost four years ago, we thought ourselves lucky to find both a new fridge and an new dishwasher. The stove was in pretty good shape but it had a few miles on it. The dishwasher was a new Frigidaire, but it was...
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    Mars is inhabited.

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    U.S. relay team loses gold medal after eight years

    The U.S. men's 4x400-metre relay team, including, from left, Antonio Pettigrew, Calvin Harrison, Michael Johnson and Alvin Harrison, celebrates after winning the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Sydney. (Thomas Kienzle/Associated Press)The International Olympic Committee has retroactively...
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    Is anyone going to the Abbotsford Air Show ?

    I've attended this show since it started in 1962. I've seen Other Big air shows: Farnborough, Paris, Oshkosh, as well as the Payne Field show in Washington State. The Abbotsford show compares favourably with any of them. Abbotsford is a flying show from start to finish though there are a lot...
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    The Pale Blue Dot

    The Pale Blue Dot by the late Carl Sagan http://tinyurl.com/5bka84
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    German Fried Potatoes, recipe

    A visual presentation:
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    Mulroney's footprints?

    Cutting corporate taxes for his buddies. Harper must be learning from his friend Mulroney... Harper calls three byelections while posting $500M deficit Calgary Herald Published: Saturday, July 26, 2008 OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is sending voters in three ridings to the polls...
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    German Fried Potatoes, recipe

    So did I.(for the third time in a little over a week :lol:) I think that recipe is a winner. Last night we had the Schnitzels as well.
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    German Fried Potatoes, recipe

    Here is a recipe for Schweineschnitzel to go withe those German fried potatoes Yield: 4 servings 4 (6 ounce) pork cutlets Salt and ground pepper to taste Flour for dredging 1 Egg 1/2 cup. Water 1 cup Fresh bread crumbs 4 Tbsp. Butter or margarine 1 Tbsp. Capers Lemon wedges Using a meat...
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    German Fried Potatoes, recipe

    Be brave. Try it without the potatoes......:roll:
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    German Fried Potatoes, recipe

    To save time Zan, I could just troll them onto my middle regions.........:lol:
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    German Fried Potatoes, recipe

    I fell in love with these potatoes when I was in Germany in the late fifties and early sixties. While I was over there I somehow missed getting a recipe for them. Anyone who has ordered a schnitzel mit Bratkartoffeln und salad knows what I'm talking about. I stumbled on this recipe a few...
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    Pirate ship treehouse sunk by court order

    A tree house that has delighted children but dismayed Vancouver city hall must come down, a judge ruled Friday. The structure, shaped like a pirate ship and perched high in a cedar tree in the front yard of a Kerrisdale home, has been the focus of a two-year bylaw battle. It all began in 2006...