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Comments (6)Crawfish Ãtouffée. Yes, aamof I do know how to make it. OMG. It's the best thing on Earth. Otherwise, it's far too rich late in the evening--it makes me have vivid dreams. In the last such dream, the world was bright and shiny and full of light. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, the bluebird of happiness swooped down and landed on my shoulder. It was carrying an envelope in its bluebird beak. It then released the envelope, which fell to the ground. As it flew away it said "Consider yourself served." In astonishment, I opened the envelope and found that I was named as a defendant in a class action lawsuit. Apparently, my sin, my crime, my tort was merely owning an insurance policy. I remembering screaming in protest: "But I haven't done anything wrong!!! Immediately, the image of my spiritual advisor, Jodi Jo Imbroglio, came into the dream and whispered--it doesn't matter whether or not you've actually done anything wrong, that's the only "moral" criteria at work here--the fact that you own an insurance policy--why can't you understand that simple fact? Then she disappeared as quickly as she'd arrived. (Witnesses to my dream later recounted that I was flailing my arms as I slept and screaming Jodi Jo, Jodi Jo, Jodi Jo Imbroglio--please don't leave me...--but I digress.) As is wont to happen in dreams, I suddenly found myself sitting in a dark and dismal courtroom where a giant lobster was the presiding judge and the jury was composed of twelve giant crawfish. I was terrified. Suddenly, just as the class action lawyer rose to make the case the foreman of the empaneled jury of crawfish reached over in front of the bar with his claws and began picking off the heads of the class action lawyers; the spectators cheered. With that, the lobster judge declared in favor of the defendants and I awoke to a bright and beautiful sunny day--none the worse for the experience. MichaelAT (I think it must be the real butter that does it--along with the spices) :)...See MoreOT- amusing story- 'Christmas Dinner'
Comments (8)Our kids usually go with their biological dad to their grandmother's on Christmas Day. One year my wife and I, left with the decision about whether or not to fuss with a large Christmas dinner, decided to make the drive north to some acreage I have on Lake Huron that we use for hunting & recreation, some 70 miles away. We decided it would be fun to spend a few hours feeding the dozens of birds I'd tamed to the hand there, and then enjoy a nice Christmas dinner on the way home at one of our favorite restaurants on the shore of Lake Huron. Well, on the return trip we discovered that not only was the restaurant not open, but that neither were there any other eating establishments of any stripe open - not even a Subway; and The Lord knows we passed enough of those in our little jaunt. We ended up returning home & thawing a quart of frozen (but at least homemade) spaghetti sauce from the freezer and dining on that. Two good things came of that day, aside from the joy of feeding the birds. We ended up with a good story to tell that always offers a laugh, and it raised awareness of our situation to the level that we ALWAYS get invited to Christmas dinner at one of my sibling's homes. ;-) My teacup (sugar maple) tree, located on the property and another interesting (green ash) tree with a burl Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. Al...See MoreSimple five-word guide to financial freedom
Comments (4)Sue, Being retired ... ... I'm on vacation every day. Canada's best personal money management magazine recently carried an article by a guy, Derek Foster, who retired at 34. He has written a book titled, "Stop Working - Here's How You Can", which has some interesting ideas in it. I borrowed a book about borrowing at the library yesterday. Which says, among other things, that if you go into debt for consumer items now, you're giving yourself an automatic reduction in living standard in the future - for you'll have to pay interest next year on the stuff that you bought and ate this year. So - there'll be less money to live on, next year. Learning how money works - an interesting hobby. One of the few hobbies that *pays well*. And it does: learning how money works pays *really* well. Freezing rain over a wide area here Suday night and through part of Monday - 700 minor collisons (let's not call them "accidents"), and a semi blocked one of the major thoroughfares around Toronto - all Monday afternoon, and till about 2 a.m. Tuesday. My ice-coated car sat in the yard - all day. I thought last night that I should put it into the garage - but laziness has its price, quite frequently. Yard is all chewed up and mud everywhere, as landlord dug trench behind house to run power line to new shop, plus water line in another direction to the second well (the less polluted one). Hope you all have an interesting winter week. ole joyful...See MoreNeed Recipe for Amuse Bouche with Blue Cheese
Comments (5)Unfortunately I don't have copies on my computer and am too busy this week to search through the dis array of recipes here. But there are several I have made. My late husband was CEO or The Maytag Blue Cheese operation, and would receive many many recipes from customers....and he would bring some home and say "what do you thing of this?" It I thought it sounded interesting, I would make it we would try it and perhaps make it again and ask friends to try it and maybe file it to be included in a future mailing. So that partly explains why I have all there odd blue cheese recipes...(blue cheese peanut butter spread anyone?) There is one I recall that is equal parts blue cheese and butter, seasoned with garlic powder and some cayenne pepper, chilled and rolled into tiny balls, rolled in ground nuts or seasoned toasted bread crumbs and served as cocktail tidbits on tooth-picks. Another I am struggling with had pepperidge stuffing mixed in.....not remembering much more than that....seems as if butter and blue cheese were heated and melted together and stirred into the stuffing mix until all the cheesy, buttery fat was absorbed, them rolled into balls, chilled and served. I think the first one sounds better.....as I recall all the mix of stuffing and blue cheese flavors was not particularly good....See More- last year
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last yearWeek's theme: abandoned
Went looking in the bird's nest
Oops, not empty yet!
hobbitmom thanked Annie Deighnaugh
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