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Dawne Peterson

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Dec 5, 2009, 10:47:25 PM12/5/09
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It is suddenly very cold here, and blowy. A person needs comfort food. So
I made one of mine--bread pudding. I just fished it out of the oven, and it
is golden and puffy. Warm table cream, beaten eggs, maple syrup, pinch of
salt, pour it all over the bread and bake. So simple really--although I did
go to the trouble of cutting the cinnamon raisin bread into nice triangle
quarters and lining them up in rows. Spoon some out, pour on a little
cream, or some ice cream, or some more syrup, or make a little whisky sauce
if you arevvery patient which I won't be. And the leftovers make
breakfast.

So what do you eat to cheer you up on a cold miserable day??

Dawne


Fran

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Dec 6, 2009, 12:20:43 AM12/6/09
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Brownies, followed later by a long hot soak in the bath.

joycem

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Dec 6, 2009, 1:05:45 AM12/6/09
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DH thinks cold rainy weather is pancake weather. He used to make the
pancakes, big plain ones, which we would eat with savoury mince, or
lemon or cinnamon and sugar.

We Brits don't usually make bread pudding the American way. It's a poor
man's pudding, made with bread and butter, milk and sugar. If you can
you put in sultanas and/or egg, but it isn't necessary.

I had an African maid once, to whom I gave some I'd made, and told her
how to make it. A couple of weeks later I asked her if she ever made it
at home. She said she made it every Sunday. I asked if she had shown
her friends how to make it, and she replied "Oh, no, I don't want them
all to make what I make!"

Joyce in RSA.

Bruce Fletcher

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Dec 6, 2009, 5:22:36 AM12/6/09
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Home-made steamed steak & kidney pudding (suet pastry) with mashed
potato (milk & butter) and lots of very thick gravy.
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney
(Remove dentures to reply)

Cheryl Isaak

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Dec 6, 2009, 8:47:24 AM12/6/09
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On 12/5/09 10:47 PM, in article
dqSdnSwPHoLStIbW...@posted.sasktel, "Dawne Peterson"
<valk...@sasktel.net> wrote:


If I weren't teetering on the edge of a sinus infection, I'd be thinking
hard about a large dish of baked mac and cheese - from scratch. Right now
some really good chicken soup or beef stew sounds really good.

Cheryl Isaak

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On 12/6/09 5:22 AM, in article MNSdnYBVJMZ3GIbW...@bt.com,
"Bruce Fletcher" <ricardi...@btinternet.com> wrote:

Yum!


Cheryl

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Lucille

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For me it's any of the above or in a pinch any kind of pasta.

Lucille
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needler

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On Dec 6, 11:03 am, "Lucille" <lzo...@comcast.net> wrote:
> "Cheryl Isaak" <cherylis...@comcast.net> wrote in message

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> news:C741201C.A1A7D%chery...@comcast.net...
>
>
>
> > On 12/5/09 10:47 PM, in article
> > dqSdnSwPHoLStIbWnZ2dnUVZ_s-dn...@posted.sasktel, "Dawne Peterson"

> > <valky...@sasktel.net> wrote:
>
> >> It is suddenly very cold here, and blowy. A person needs comfort food.
> >> So
> >> I made one of mine--bread pudding. I just fished it out of the oven, and
> >> it
> >> is golden and puffy. Warm table cream, beaten eggs, maple syrup, pinch of
> >> salt, pour it all over the bread and bake. So simple really--although I
> >> did
> >> go to the trouble of cutting the cinnamon raisin bread into nice triangle
> >> quarters and lining them up in rows. Spoon some out, pour on a little
> >> cream, or some ice cream, or some more syrup, or make a little whisky
> >> sauce
> >> if you arevvery patient which I won't be. And the leftovers make
> >> breakfast.
>
> >> So what do you eat to cheer you up on a cold miserable day??
>
> >> Dawne
>
> > If I weren't teetering on the edge of a sinus infection, I'd be thinking
> > hard about a large dish of baked mac and cheese - from scratch. Right now
> > some really good chicken soup or beef stew sounds really good.
>
> For me it's any of the above or in a pinch any kind of pasta.
>
> Lucille
>
>

Mine is grilled cheese and tomato soup.

Mavia Beaulieu

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Dec 6, 2009, 11:28:26 AM12/6/09
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From: <lucreti...@fl.it>
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Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: OT Perfect comfort food??


> On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 21:47:25 -0600, "Dawne Peterson"


> <valk...@sasktel.net> wrote:
>
>>It is suddenly very cold here, and blowy. A person needs comfort food. So
>>I made one of mine--bread pudding. I just fished it out of the oven, and
>>it
>>is golden and puffy. Warm table cream, beaten eggs, maple syrup, pinch of
>>salt, pour it all over the bread and bake. So simple really--although I
>>did
>>go to the trouble of cutting the cinnamon raisin bread into nice triangle
>>quarters and lining them up in rows. Spoon some out, pour on a little
>>cream, or some ice cream, or some more syrup, or make a little whisky
>>sauce
>>if you arevvery patient which I won't be. And the leftovers make
>>breakfast.
>>
>>So what do you eat to cheer you up on a cold miserable day??
>>
>>Dawne
>>

> It's only just started here - the power went about 7:30ish and
> returned three hours later. I had those snow tires put on last
> Tuesday so I figure I shall try them out today and go and attend the
> bridge club Xmas party. There will be all sorts of treats there, I
> am taking some Onion Tart, made in the French method, it was from
> Alsace Lorraine and was the forerunner to Quiche Lorraine.
>
> I soak raisins for bread pudding in rum overnight lol

The roads look clear now, Sheena, so driving shouldn't be a problem.

That Onion Tart sounds interesting! When you have time could you share the
recipe? I must remember the rum soaked raisins when I next make bread
pudding! :)

Mavia


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Karen C - Calif

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Dec 6, 2009, 12:00:50 PM12/6/09
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They're threatening us with the first measurable snow in 50+ years:
http://www.kcra.com/weather/severe.html

This is NOT why I moved to California!

I actually just finished the last of a batch of comfort food: goulasch
with spaetzle. Simple enough to make: toss a pound of 1" cubes of beef
in the crockpot with a can of diced tomatoes, a 15-ounce can of tomato
sauce, copious amounts of paprika and onion powder, a little allspice,
and as much water as necessary to raise the level of liquid to cover the
beef.

I do have a recipe for spaetzle, but it's a PITA to make them in
single-person quantities, so I cheat and use the pre-made ones from the
German butcher store.

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Dawne Peterson

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Dec 6, 2009, 1:51:26 PM12/6/09
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"needler" wrote>>

>
> Mine is grilled cheese and tomato soup.

I saw a nice presentation recently where the grilled cheese sandwich was cut
up into many little squares and used as croutons floating on the tomato
soup. Struck me as really indulgent and lazy and something I want someone
to do for me next time I have a cold.

Dawne


Dawne Peterson

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Dec 6, 2009, 1:58:10 PM12/6/09
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"joycem" wrote .

> Dawne Peterson wrote:
>> It is suddenly very cold here, and blowy. A person needs comfort food.
>> So I made one of mine--bread pudding. I just fished it out of the oven,
>> and it is golden and puffy. Warm table cream, beaten eggs, maple syrup,
>> pinch of salt, pour it all over the bread and bake. So simple
>> really--although I did go to the trouble of cutting the cinnamon raisin
>> bread into nice triangle quarters and lining them up in rows. Spoon some
>> out, pour on a little cream, or some ice cream, or some more syrup, or
>> make a little whisky sauce if you arevvery patient which I won't be.
>> And the leftovers make breakfast.
>>
>> So what do you eat to cheer you up on a cold miserable day??
>>
>> Dawne
> DH thinks cold rainy weather is pancake weather. He used to make the
> pancakes, big plain ones, which we would eat with savoury mince, or lemon
> or cinnamon and sugar.
>
> We Brits don't usually make bread pudding the American way. It's a poor
> man's pudding, made with bread and butter, milk and sugar. If you can you
> put in sultanas and/or egg, but it isn't necessary.
>
well, I don't make mine the American way either--note the very Canadian
maple syrup (VBG). Actually, the basic recipe here is much as you
say--bread and butter, milk and sugar, usually an egg--all to use up bread
going stale. But I like to use this nice cinnamon raisin bread I pick up at
half price sometimes. I was going to say day old, but who knows how long
bread sits in the store before it is marked down!! And I happened to have
picked up some table cream, also half price--so indulged. I have made it
with plain bread made into jam or marmalade sandwiches, then cut up. And
once I made a really decadent one which had cubes of almond paste , stale
croissants and frozen raspberries, which I am told was a Danish recipe.

Funny how much we have fancified some of the old reliables (e.g. macaroni
baked with 5 cheeses, instead of the last part of the block of Cheddar that
was starting to get hard), and how good the old reliables are all by
themselves.

Dawne


MelissaD

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Dec 6, 2009, 3:02:19 PM12/6/09
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It's cold and blowy here today, fire in the wood burning stove is going,
and it's starting to snow in the mountains.....so, I made some tomato
soup with rice - one of my faves :)

MelissaD

joycem

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Dec 7, 2009, 12:32:05 AM12/7/09
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>
> Dawne
>
>
That's the beauty of bread pudding - it can be made from any kind of
left-overs. I once used a new recipe to make a honey cake, which turned
out to be very tough. I made BP with it, and it was enjoyed by the
whole family. I've used all kinds of stale bread, buns, etc. at
different times. I've never tried it with jam or marmalade sandwiches,
though. It's an ides!

Pancakes are another good use for left-overs, especially sour milk and
cream.

Joyce in RSA.

Cathy from KY in CA

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Dec 7, 2009, 5:50:43 AM12/7/09
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>
> So what do you eat to cheer you up on a cold miserable day??
>


Potato soup and cornbread!! Made some this past week and enjoyed
every bite!!

just me,
Cathy from KY in CA

Cheryl Isaak

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Dec 7, 2009, 6:50:59 AM12/7/09
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On 12/7/09 12:32 AM, in article 4B1C9355...@africanbush.co.za, "joycem"
<joy...@africanbush.co.za> wrote:

Funny thing - last night I was using stale bread to make bread crumbs for
upcoming meals. I had bought a roasted garlic loaf to have with pasta but
something came up and we were scattered the whole last half of the week.


Cheryl

bobbieviorritto

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Dec 7, 2009, 7:48:32 AM12/7/09
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I often use stale leftover Tannenbaum Brot to make a bread pudding on
Little Christmas (Jan. 6), It looks almost jewel like with the candied
fruit in it.

Bobbie V.

Keith Barber

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Dec 7, 2009, 8:07:42 AM12/7/09
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"Dawne Peterson" <valk...@sasktel.net> wrote in
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>
> So what do you eat to cheer you up on a cold miserable day??
>
> Dawne
>

I grew up in New Hampshire and just made a batch of one of my comfort
foods-baked beans.
I never eat the store canned beans, they are too high in salt and sugar and
they just don't taste right.

Keith Barber

1961...@gmail.com

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Dec 7, 2009, 9:43:10 AM12/7/09
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Mashed potatos, made with lots of butter.

linda

joycem

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Dec 7, 2009, 11:34:47 AM12/7/09
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Somehow, I don't think roasted garlic loaf would make an enjoyable bread
pudding! BG.

Joyce in RSA.

Parrotfish

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"Keith Barber" wrote ...
> "Dawne Peterson" wrote in

> :
>
>>
>> So what do you eat to cheer you up on a cold miserable day??
>>
>>
> I grew up in New Hampshire and just made a batch of one of my comfort
> foods-baked beans.
> I never eat the store canned beans, they are too high in salt and sugar
> and
> they just don't taste right.
>
>
Ahhh........ a Baked Bean Butty........
2 slices of crusty buttered bread, heat up the Baked Beans (gotta be Heinz
!)
pour over one slice and top with the other one.
Eat with knife and fork.

--
Regards........P-f

Cheryl Isaak

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On 12/7/09 11:34 AM, in article 4B1D2EA7...@africanbush.co.za, "joycem"
<joy...@africanbush.co.za> wrote:

No kidding.


C

Dawne Peterson

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"Keith Barber" wrote

>> So what do you eat to cheer you up on a cold miserable day??
>>
>> Dawne
>>
> I grew up in New Hampshire and just made a batch of one of my comfort
> foods-baked beans.
> I never eat the store canned beans, they are too high in salt and sugar
> and
> they just don't taste right.
>
i should never have started this conversation! Too many things that make me
hungry. I happen to have part of a ham leftover, and I could start soaking
the beans tonight....... And you are so right....no beans you can buy taste
as good as the ones you make.


Dawne Peterson

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Dec 7, 2009, 4:55:41 PM12/7/09
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<lucretiaborgia wrote>>>

>>> I soak raisins for bread pudding in rum overnight lol

I was thinking about you this morning while I made Bishop's Bread for my
Bible Study class tonight---soaked the raisins in rum for a while to get
them nicely plumped up.

Bishop's Bread is a basic quickbread to which you add all possible luxurious
ingredients. Not sure whether people thought this is how bishops ate, or
just that this would be the right thing to serve a bishop should one turn
up. The recipe I have calls for raisins or currants, walnuts, chocolate
chips and glace cherries. I used orange peel instead of the cherries, as I
love the combination of orange and chocolate, and thought the rummy raisins
would work well with those.

And now comes an email that my Bible Study is cancelled. i am tempted to
scoff down a large part of the bread, but think I will maybe pour a little
more rum over it, wrap it up, and take it to church for Sunday coffee time.

Dawne


Cheryl Isaak

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On 12/7/09 4:55 PM, in article
3cudnSWpPtJC5IDW...@posted.sasktel, "Dawne Peterson"
<valk...@sasktel.net> wrote:

They're going to love you on Sunday.

Cheryl

Dawne Peterson

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"Cheryl Isaak" wrote
Possibly almost as much as the Anglican church parish council loved me when
I took a slow cooker full of glogg/mulled wine to the December council
meeting. Gosh everybody loved everybody else by the end of the evening.
Dawne


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Olwyn.Mary

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Dec 7, 2009, 9:55:30 PM12/7/09
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You know what they say about us Anglicans/Episcopalians - "Where three
or four are gathered together, you'll always find a fifth."

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Fred

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All food is perfect except turnips, parsnips, meatloaf and brownies, all in
that order!!
My preference would be a couple of yams sliced up and fried in butter and
then covered with maple syrup with a sizeable helping of hot kosher Montreal
smoked corn beef.

Fred
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"Dawne Peterson" <valk...@sasktel.net> wrote in message
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> It is suddenly very cold here, and blowy. A person needs comfort food.
> So I made one of mine--bread pudding. I just fished it out of the oven,
> and it is golden and puffy. Warm table cream, beaten eggs, maple syrup,
> pinch of salt, pour it all over the bread and bake. So simple
> really--although I did go to the trouble of cutting the cinnamon raisin
> bread into nice triangle quarters and lining them up in rows. Spoon some
> out, pour on a little cream, or some ice cream, or some more syrup, or
> make a little whisky sauce if you arevvery patient which I won't be. And
> the leftovers make breakfast.
>

Fred

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Dec 7, 2009, 11:20:39 PM12/7/09
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Right about now you should be taking a *big* jar of marchino cherries,
dumping out the juice and filling the jar with vodka or everclear. Let the
cherries soak and in a week or two take out the cherries and dip them in hot
choclate and let them cool off. Package up the choclate covered cherries and
send them to me, then drink the cherry juice/vodka/everclear wine that is
left - waste not - want not.

If you take a dozen or two cherries (I'll suffer) to your bridge club for
the members, after about 20 minutes you ought to win every hand.

Fred
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> On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 21:47:25 -0600, "Dawne Peterson"
> <valk...@sasktel.net> wrote:
>

>>It is suddenly very cold here, and blowy. A person needs comfort food.
>>So
>>I made one of mine--bread pudding. I just fished it out of the oven, and
>>it
>>is golden and puffy. Warm table cream, beaten eggs, maple syrup, pinch of
>>salt, pour it all over the bread and bake. So simple really--although I
>>did
>>go to the trouble of cutting the cinnamon raisin bread into nice triangle
>>quarters and lining them up in rows. Spoon some out, pour on a little
>>cream, or some ice cream, or some more syrup, or make a little whisky
>>sauce
>>if you arevvery patient which I won't be. And the leftovers make
>>breakfast.
>>
>>So what do you eat to cheer you up on a cold miserable day??
>>
>>Dawne
>>

> It's only just started here - the power went about 7:30ish and
> returned three hours later. I had those snow tires put on last
> Tuesday so I figure I shall try them out today and go and attend the
> bridge club Xmas party. There will be all sorts of treats there, I
> am taking some Onion Tart, made in the French method, it was from
> Alsace Lorraine and was the forerunner to Quiche Lorraine.
>

Dawne Peterson

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Dec 7, 2009, 11:46:04 PM12/7/09
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"Fred" wrote

> Right about now you should be taking a *big* jar of marchino cherries,
> dumping out the juice and filling the jar with vodka or everclear. Let the
> cherries soak and in a week or two take out the cherries and dip them in
> hot
> choclate and let them cool off. Package up the choclate covered cherries
> and
> send them to me, then drink the cherry juice/vodka/everclear wine that is
> left - waste not - want not.
>
> If you take a dozen or two cherries (I'll suffer) to your bridge club for
> the members, after about 20 minutes you ought to win every hand.
>
I toured the Bernard Callebaut chocolate factory in Calgary one summer.
They were putting dark red long-stemmed Okanogan cherries into vats of
brandy to let them soak for several months. They are chocolate dipped with
the long stems still on, and sold as a Christmas specialty. I thought the
stems were for aesthetic reasons, but your post makes me think maybe they
are to hang on to once the room starts spinning. I have a jar of
Maraschinos in the cupboard. Now I have a project for tomorrow morning.

Dawne


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Fred

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"Dawne Peterson" <valk...@sasktel.net> wrote in message
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Depending on where you live in SK you might be able to get a quart or two of
locally produced spirits on the cheap.
As I remember some local entrepreneurs could make stuff that would make the
best of vodkas seem like water.
One used to be able to buy a 20# turkey in Grayson SK - loaded or unloaded
if you get the drift. LOL
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Cheryl Isaak

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On 12/7/09 6:00 PM, in article
ToWdnXZQm4CMFIDW...@posted.sasktel, "Dawne Peterson"
<valk...@sasktel.net> wrote:


And how many cabs did they need to call?

Cheryl Isaak

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On 12/7/09 11:46 PM, in article
MuednW4XLc-SR4DW...@posted.sasktel, "Dawne Peterson"
<valk...@sasktel.net> wrote:

Oh - the is a local brand of sour cherries, that I love to pour on ice
cream. I wonder if I drained off the syrup and added some brandy how that
would work....

C

Fran

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On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:07:26 -0600, "Fred" <bksti...@mts.net> wrote:

>All food is perfect except turnips, parsnips, meatloaf and brownies, all in
>that order!!
>My preference would be a couple of yams sliced up and fried in butter and
>then covered with maple syrup with a sizeable helping of hot kosher Montreal
>smoked corn beef.

How can anyone not like brownies!?! Thick, moist, darkly chocolate
squares served up with ice cream in the summer or hot fudge in the
winter.
Yum!

Cathy from KY in CA

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On Dec 8, 6:36 pm, Fran <fran1...@volcanomail.com> wrote:

>
> How can anyone not like brownies!?!  Thick, moist, darkly chocolate
> squares served up with ice cream in the summer or hot fudge in the
> winter.
>


I don't eat chocolate, cheese, pizza, or olives. And nothing that
even hints of spicy. All are totally disgusting to me.

t

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I love a steak and guiness pie especially with extra bacon and
brownies with vanilla ice cream with raspberry sauce YUM.

Liz from Humbug

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On Dec 8, 6:36 pm, Fran <fran1...@volcanomail.com> wrote:

My thought exactly! That's OK; those few people who don't like
brownies mean seconds for the rest of us! :-) You can keep the yams,
though. They are one of the few foods I don't like. I've even tried
them different ways and at different times but I've always been sorry
I tried. :-)
Liz from Humbug

Fred

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"Fran" <fran...@volcanomail.com> wrote in message
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Brownies are just another name for a half cooked choclate cake. UGH!
If the cake is a flop, throw it out for the birds, don't try calling it
brownies and passing it off on me as some kind of new treat!! My DW's
malamute has been decorating the snow in our back yard for a week with
brownies - get the picture???

Joy Beeson

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Dec 10, 2009, 12:02:57 AM12/10/09
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On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:34:47 +0200, joycem <joy...@africanbush.co.za>
wrote:

> Somehow, I don't think roasted garlic loaf would make an enjoyable bread
> pudding! BG.

I dunno -- leave out the sugar, substitute boullion for the milk, mix
in a little left-over meat . . .

--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at comcast dot net

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Fran

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Dec 11, 2009, 8:25:51 PM12/11/09
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That depends on how you make your brownies - mine are the cacke-like
brownies, not the ones that are half-way to being fudge.
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