That's a brilliant idea dcarch, and thank you for sharing it. I have a 3 quart ss pot that fits inside my 8 liter PC - it fits inside the handled stand that three smaller stacking Indian stainless steel PC inserts came in. I do occasionally use the smaller ones for rice steamed in the PC (mainly I use them for legumes) but we usually use our 10 cup rice cooker for rice. I agree that the PC cooked rice comes out perfectly. I have pressure steamed corned beef on a raised petal type of steamer plate but would not have thought of steaming meat in one of my solid inner pots. I love the idea of a small amount of concentrated stock made relatively quickly. Nancy, I'm sorry abut high jacking your thread and I will be coming back to see what you do with your odd sized pork pieces cut off the bone. My best suggestion for them, if you like chile, would be Ann T's Pork Chile Verde. I make it frequently and of course you can control the heat by the type of chiles you use. The recipe is on her blog. When I have made it, I've used a slow cooker. I've linked the recipe. Lee Here is a link that might be useful: Ann T's Pork Chile Verde

I think it is possible the SD does indeed keep caught in the middle of Mom and SM. I also don't think she 'lied' or told a half truth. At the time the discussion first took place, SD had not yet made plans for the summer break with Mom...after reading some of your previous threads, I can't help but notice there has been long standing feud over exact days/visits. The SD was wrong in that she committed and did not follow through on what she agreed to. The mother is wrong for pressuring her daughter to take 'a summer job committment' seriously and making a big ta-do over a day or day (something that this mother though has been known to repeatedly do). And you are wrong with withholding your relationship with the SD in a temper tossing hurt feeling mode. The girl really is stuck between the two 'moms'. One screaming 'be an adult' one minute while treating her as the 'child' the next. The other one still playing the same old games of rearranging schedules no matter who it affects in an all out path of having her daughter 'at home' as many days as possible (while still treating daughter as a yung child/early teen). In an attempt to keep somewhat harmony between the SD's 'moms' daughter ends up being indecisive, nonresponsibile and still kept very much the child while being told to act the adult. If I were the girl, I'd be tempted to remain where I attend school. Maybe visit for a a short spell with each side and work my summer at a job that would enable me to have something more than 'babysitting' for references. Because you are disappointed and your feelings are hurt you intend to punish the SD. You'll just after 15 yrs of being mommy #2 you'll just suddenly begin being 'her fathers wife'. And you'll label a 'test' to see if the relationship can withstand the 'test'. The first time SD expresed her newly found 'adult views' aka opinions (example, daughter's eating habits) you took a personal offense to it and again you're feelings are hurt and deny the SD who you say you want to start acting/thinking like an adult for her effort in doing so. The SD can't win here. Send LS to the daycare as now planned. Quite frankly you can read all the books you please on 'disengaging' and 'teaching assertiveness', but but until you start practicing actually raising the SD with the open mind that she is becoming an adult (even when her new found adult views annoy you), and continue to treat her as the child (both 'moms') it's just setting up more hurt feelings and keeping the girl a girl stuck in the middle. She's young, socializing with a whole new group of people, seeing different lifestyles and discovering who she is and what she believes. My niece as decided her new found 'thing' in life is to be a veggie,...she'd have a stroke to think you're LS eats skittles and poisons her body blah blah blah. LOL. Once 'kids' start expanding their social network, experiencing new groups and ideas, well they can be quite crazy in their new 'worldly views'. My 2 cents. Good luck to you. Sd has reached the age between childhood and adulthood and she's likely to say many more things that appear to be 'anti-you' (or mom or dad or the neighbor) while she opens those wings and begins to shape her own ideas.

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jeaninwa - no, the lights are rigged to always be green for the train. alisande - good thought remembering Christmas Tree Trains. Anyone who still does that should post.