Can't wait to see.

Nice gift! Any idea who it's from?

Linda

Wooooo! We love Scrabble, and Scrabble pertaining to food would be interesting!

Hmmmm do you know who the mysterious admirer is?

While I was in and out, up and down getting things done. I took a quick look at this thread on my Blackberry, I thought it was a pretty interesting gift package, Scrapple, olive oil and Balsamic vinegar. I thought, that could be a very interesting taste combination.

Now I just realized that it is Scrabble, and not scrapple. LOL.

Nice gift. I think I know what that was for.

Last year Teresa was sending out wild rice like crazy to many people, and it was around her birthday.

Happy Birthday, Teresa!!!!

dcarch

This is Teresa's Birthday???????????

WELL! I hope you're having a wonderfully terrific day, Teresa!!!!!

(thanks for the heads-up dcarch)

Happy Birthday, Teresa.

And what a nice surprise to find waiting for you! The peach balsamic vinegar sounds very interesting, as in Yum!

Happy Belated Birthday, Teresa! I hope your weather is as nice as ours is this fall. A little chilly today, but nice! At any rate, enjoy your weekend.

jude

Jude - our weather is perfect this weekend. Absolutely perfect for the Twin Cities Marathon and activities.

My surprise package came from my friend of 50 years. I wrote in to Catholic Youth magazine when I was in the 2nd grade. My mother convinced me that I just had to have a pen pal. I was matched up with a girl named Jodi who lived on Newport Beach, CA. And I mean - right on the beach near the Newport Pier. My dad worked for Northwest Airlines and every summer I flew out to visit my cousins in Tustin and Jodi at the beach.

Yesterday I called Jodi to thank her. She and her husband were fishing and caught a 200+ lb tuna. Gees I could go for some grilled tuna right this second! I'll have to settle for a grilled pork chop at the Farmer's Market.

The Scrabble game brought back memories of days on the beach. We would put out a blanket and the Scrabble game. We pretended to play Scrabble but we were really checking out the guys skateboarding past us.

Cheers!

Happy Birthday, Teresa! What a neat story about your friendship.

I'm trying to imagine how there could be a cooking edition of Scrabble. Letters are letters, aren't they? Do you have to spell names of foods and such? Of course, I could look it up on the internet. Silly me.

Have a great day, Teresa!

Sally

"----Yesterday I called Jodi to thank her. She and her husband were fishing and caught a 200+ lb tuna. ----"

Sometime ago, a friend went out and caught a tuna. I don't remember the size. A bidding war immediately started over shortwave radio. In a couple of hours, it was sold to a Japanese boat for $50,000.

Check the link out, if you think $50,000 is a lot of money.

dcarch

Here is a link that might be useful: Chicken Of The Sea?

Teresa, Happy Birthday! Fun story about your friend. In my younger days, I spent a lot of time on the sand & in the surf of Newport Beach. I lived in Laguna. Very different place than here on the CT shore. :)

We play Scrabble several times/week but I'd never heard of The Cooking Edition so I had to Google. Looks like fun!

Regarding tuna, a friend of ours has a fully rigged fishing boat. We have a Nordic Tug. Several years ago, we made a pact with our friends...once a year DH & Dave take off for a week's tuna fishing off Montauk and Dave foots the bill for the gas. Then, in return, we take them on a cruise often to either St. Johns or the Keys & the gas is on us. It's been a fun arrangement & we've become good cruising partners. But, back during the boom years there were always Japanese boats waiting to purchase any tuna they caught. Offered good money. For the past 5 seasons...no Japanese boats in sight. Partly due to new (than goodness!) regulations & better enforcement of our sovereign waters & partly because prices are down (or, so I understand). Dave & DH split their catch, have some canned locally to keep & give as gifts & the rest goes in our freezers. We eat a lot of tuna...very expensive tuna! LOL It is soooo NOT cheaper to catch your own. This year, we lost August's catch to Irene. :) Usually, somebody will donate their catch to our annual pig roast feast at the marina. The tuna's cooked in a pit surrounded with seaweed, a 10-lb. bag of onions, many heads of garlic, & herbs similar to how we roast the pig. Very good!

Enjoy the goodies, Teresa.

/tricia

Tricia - cooking a tuna that way sounds delish. I had to settle for a pork chop amidst dreams of freshly caught tuna.

My friend Jennifer from the Farmer's Market gave me the funniest bumper sticker for my birthday. It says:
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?

Teresa

Teresa, Christy thinks a nice pork chop is the perfect meat for a birthday. Happy Birthday. The forum is richer for your presence. I'd love a Cooking Edition of Scrabble. LOL. One of my friends just got me started playing scrabble on facebook. Hadn't played in ages. That bumper sticker is funny... and a little scary... heh.

I'm trying not to think of that lovely big tuna, or I'll be stopping in the kitchen for a 3am snack!

"The forum is richer for your presence."

Amen to that ! !
Hope your birthday was a good one,
And you have many MANY more ! !

Rusty

Food and Scrabble all in one? My idea of heaven!

Teresa:
I did not think it was your Birthday,
because you never ackowledged it.

But I sent you something anyway !!!

I-ll never tell.

Happy Birthday, LOU XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Teresa:
I didn-t go back and read the last couple Posts,
before I sent mine.

Sorry about that.
LOU

Not to worry Lou! Many people scoll through posts without really reading them before posting their comment.

Teresa

Dear Lou! Thank you for the birthday package!

I think Lou is trying to fatten me up! :-) The box contained Anise Biscotti along with both Anise and Almond Pizzelles.

Lou - your heavenly smelling gift even beat out the TV I won earlier this week. I went to a wine tasting at a nearby wine shop the day before my birthday last weekend. They had been having a month long wine sale. Their distributors had donated many prizes. I signed up for the drawing. They called on Monday and said I had won the 28" Samsung flat-screen TV.

I just want to stand next to my counter and smell the bags of goodies!

Thanks Lou - you are the best!

Teresa

Hi Teresa:

Thank You !
Sorry for not responding sooner, I was running all day for tests. ( Echocardiogram ) was one.

That was great, winning the TV. You will like it.

I just bought a 32" Samsung for the Bedroom.
Has a great Picture.

Wish you luck.

LOU

Lou! Lou! Lou! you something else Lou.

That would make an amazing birthday, watching a free gift TV, while playing Food Scrable, enjoying Anise Biscotti along with both Anise and Almond Pizzelles.

Did the TV work when you push the "ON" button on the remote?

dcarch

I took the TV to my niece's new house today. She is in the midst of a divorce and the soon to be XH would not let her take one of their 3 TV's. My intent when I won the TV was to return the Samsung I bought a few weeks ago because it's still in the box. But I decided to keep the one I bought and give the Samsung I won to Kris so she would have one less thing to fight about in a rather ugly divorce. She has two boys - ages 6 and 4. And I think we all know kids that age cannot be without a TV and their DVDs.

The cookies and biscotti are all mine. I need to add a few pounds - thanks for the help Lou!

Soon to be plumper Teresa

Teresa:
Thank you !!! That is all the less I will have to eat.
I am up to 215.
The Dr. sort of got on my case, until I mentioned,
" if you would have caught the low Thyroid earlier,
I might not have gained all this weight "?

DC: What else am I ??? LOL !!!