Re: 🎶 Get in That Kitchen and Rattle Those Pot and Pans 🎶 2/19/2025

ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 3:55:11 +0000, songbird wrote:
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ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
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What will be gracing your table for dinner tonight?

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  chili from the freezer.
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That's always a good choice on cold winter days.
Beef stew or some sort of soup.

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It's cold and we have snow, and we've reached our predicted
high of 27°F and my wind chimes tell me it's been breezy all
day.  Thank goodness for a well stocked upright freezer.

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  yes.  :)
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  it was a rotten time to have the furnace need replacing
but we'd never use in the summer to know.
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UGH!  Been there and done that and like you said, never
know it needs replacing in the summer months as it's not
used in warm weather.

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  it turned out ok in the end and we got through it and
then the other night we lost water pressure so it took us
a few days to get that dealt with - luckily it was not as
bad as it could have been and we're back to somewhat normal
now (or as normal as it gets :) )...
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I've not lost water pressure but have had water heaters go
on permanent vacation necessitating a replacement.

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A baked potato
will accompany this meal along with a bag of frozen broccoli
cooked until tender crisp.  That will be topped with melted
cheese.

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  tender crisp?  intesting choice of words.  not sure i
would be able to apply that to frozen broc.
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  songbird
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Yes, it's cooked but not cooked to mush as many people do
when cooking broccoli.  It's not raw, but a bit of resistance
when picked up with a fork.  It has a bit of chew and not
the consistency of baby food.

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Also known as "al dente" by fashionable wops, dagos, and New Yorkers.
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Probably da hawayans also have a word for half-assed cooked vittles.
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Basically, it's at least half cooked, but no more than 3/4 cooked.