I need someone to bake for
Dover Beach
roll me to the swimming pool. I want to make a ginger-pear coffee cake,
but my husband and I are both trying to cut back on the calories. I
used to take all the baked goods into the office, where my locust
coworkers would devour them. I guess I should make friends with the
neighbors. I should also stop buying entire flats of pears at Costco
just because they seem like such a good deal.
--
Dover
landotter
This is what craigslist is for. Swap baked goods for personal yoga
instruction or your preferred facsimile.
Dover Beach
news:fbc53e13-e5aa-41fe...@z41g2000yqz.googlegroups.com:
That's an intriguing idea, but I really can't believe it would work. It's
too easy to buy Oreos at the store.
--
Dover
Snidely
What about taking a tray down to the volunteer office they dispatch
you from? Or brginging to couch for the AFCA Book Club?
/dps
Veronique
Volunteer organizations, I mean organizations that use volunteers. Of
course, we are rapidly approaching the time when even those places are
overwhelmed with donations of good stuff, but still, a delicious pear-
ginger coffee cake beats imported Chinese candy canes hands down.
We had a discussion touching on this very thing this morning: my
desire to bake and having a potentially willing subject for the
creations momentarily at hand.
V.
--
Veronique Chez Sheep
Veronique
Another alternative with coffee cake is to soak it in premium
alcohols, wrap it tightly in foil, and mail it to somebody.
Boron Elgar
wrote:
>I really love to bake, but if I ate everything I baked, they'd have to
>roll me to the swimming pool. I want to make a ginger-pear coffee cake,
>but my husband and I are both trying to cut back on the calories. I
>used to take all the baked goods into the office, where my locust
>coworkers would devour them.
Can you foist some off on the seniors you help? Perhaps bake some
smaller portions in mini-loaf form. What about treats at the place
your mom is staying? They probably would have a fit and say no because
of insurance and dietary restrictions, but I bet there are a lot of
folks there that could appreciate home made contraband.
Another option is just divvying up what you make and freezing it is
smaller, less tempting packages.
> I guess I should make friends with the
>neighbors. I should also stop buying entire flats of pears at Costco
>just because they seem like such a good deal.
It is often hard for us to go through the large packs of fruit at
Costco, too, and we all make our lunches. Even with some wastage, the
outcome is better fruit and cheaper prices. Sad, even though I have a
wonderful Honey Crisp apple here.
Boron
Dover Beach
news:lb1jg5d3pg0opmbrg...@4ax.com:
>
> Can you foist some off on the seniors you help? Perhaps bake some
> smaller portions in mini-loaf form. What about treats at the place
> your mom is staying? They probably would have a fit and say no because
> of insurance and dietary restrictions, but I bet there are a lot of
> folks there that could appreciate home made contraband.
>
Oh, that's not a bad idea. They're actually quite loose about food and
alcohol -- it's not a nursing home, it's continuing care. I could give
them to Mom, who would eat a tiny bite, and she'd push the rest on
everyone else. Hmm. Good thought!
> Another option is just divvying up what you make and freezing it is
> smaller, less tempting packages.
Uh, yeah, as long as I have access to the freezer and a microwave, that
doesn't work so well.
--
Dover
Dover Beach
news:058a87d1-7490-4192...@z35g2000prh.googlegroups.com:
>
>
> Volunteer organizations, I mean organizations that use volunteers. Of
> course, we are rapidly approaching the time when even those places are
> overwhelmed with donations of good stuff, but still, a delicious pear-
> ginger coffee cake beats imported Chinese candy canes hands down.
>
Yeah, I'll have to give that some thought.
>
> We had a discussion touching on this very thing this morning: my
> desire to bake and having a potentially willing subject for the
> creations momentarily at hand.
>
You're lucky that he's got a fast metabolism.
--
Dover
Dover Beach
news:58634525-2bb1-49eb...@o9g2000prg.googlegroups.com:
>
> Another alternative with coffee cake is to soak it in premium
> alcohols, wrap it tightly in foil, and mail it to somebody.
>
Hmm, I wonder to whom I could mail such a thing. It's a puzzler.
--
Dover
Dover Beach
news:b89e3966-2b0e-419d...@d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com:
> What about taking a tray down to the volunteer office they dispatch
> you from? Or brginging to couch for the AFCA Book Club?
The dispatcher people are on the other side of the metro area,
unfortunately. They'd be a good choice, too, because they run a senior
day care in addition to having dozens of people milling around all the
time. I deal with them almost entirely by phone and email. I can take
it to the library, but there are all those rules about not smearing
coffee cake into the keyboards. Nazis.
--
Dover
Boron Elgar
wrote:
>Boron Elgar <boron...@hotmail.com> wrote in
>news:lb1jg5d3pg0opmbrg...@4ax.com:
>
>
>
>>
>> Can you foist some off on the seniors you help? Perhaps bake some
>> smaller portions in mini-loaf form. What about treats at the place
>> your mom is staying? They probably would have a fit and say no because
>> of insurance and dietary restrictions, but I bet there are a lot of
>> folks there that could appreciate home made contraband.
>>
>
>Oh, that's not a bad idea. They're actually quite loose about food and
>alcohol -- it's not a nursing home, it's continuing care. I could give
>them to Mom, who would eat a tiny bite, and she'd push the rest on
>everyone else. Hmm. Good thought!
Christmas Cookie Espress - Chew-Chew!
There are so many fabulous baking ideas on TasteSpotting and
FoodGawker that I may need another portable drive to stash all the
recipes.
>
>> Another option is just divvying up what you make and freezing it is
>> smaller, less tempting packages.
>
>Uh, yeah, as long as I have access to the freezer and a microwave, that
>doesn't work so well.
This is why I make sweets, bagels, buns, etc, in a Honey I Shrunk the
Kids size. It is like 100 calories bags of things. Granted, you can
consume the whole 12 pack, but you really have to make an effort. It
isn't fool-proof and I really shouldn't type with my mouth full like
this and my hands are sticky, too..
Boron
Boron Elgar
wrote:
>Veronique <veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote in
There are ways to send home baked good to soldiers overseas.
http://www.treatthetroops.org/
http://www.tauntongazette.com/dining/x1158535090/Send-cookies-to-troops-but-pack-them-with-care
Boron
Dover Beach
Well, that's a good suggestion; I was kind of kidding. I know lots of
people, including a few posters here! who would probably accept coffee
cake.
--
Dover
Opus the Penguin
You should move here. Well, not here here. This house is occupied.
Maybe down the street. Only you can afford a swankier street. Plenty of
that around. You can travel to us on the other side of the tracks.
Wait. I'm pre-diabetic. Scratch that. Stay where you are.
--
Opus the Penguin
The best darn penguin in all of Usenet
Opus the Penguin
> Dover Beach <moon.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I really love to bake, but if I ate everything I baked, they'd
>>have to roll me to the swimming pool. I want to make a
>>ginger-pear coffee cake, but my husband and I are both trying to
>>cut back on the calories. I used to take all the baked goods into
>>the office, where my locust coworkers would devour them.
>
> Can you foist some off on the seniors you help? Perhaps bake some
> smaller portions in mini-loaf form. What about treats at the place
> your mom is staying? They probably would have a fit and say no
> because of insurance and dietary restrictions, but I bet there are
> a lot of folks there that could appreciate home made contraband.
>
"Psssst! Pop! You want some coffee cake? Not out here. Get in the car."
Slow Motion Apocalypse
You can send it to me. I can leave it out at work. I do that with
stuff my gives me and it gets eaten really quick.
Snidely
+use...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wait. I'm pre-diabetic. Scratch that. Stay where you are.
Well, that does tie into the CFD. The question is whether
inflammation causes diabetes or diabetes causes inflammation. And the
answer appears to be "yes".
/dps
Veronique
> Boron Elgar <boron_el...@hotmail.com> wrote innews:lb1jg5d3pg0opmbrg...@4ax.com:
This is why I've wanted a chest freezer. Put the good stuff on the
bottom, cover it with frozen Brussel sprouts, and Bob's yr uncle so
far as balancing desire v. work to unearth it.
hpjeannie
four more for family, one for the motorcycle bunch dinner, one for a
nearby bachelor friend, one for the local volunteer firehouse, and if
there are any left over I take them to work for the locusts.
Neighbors are great...when they bring their cookie or bread plates,
you get ideas for next year's batches, and you get to meet them and
offload your zucchini, potatoes, carrots, firewood and tomatoes and
bring in persimmons, apples, other kinds of tomatoes, gravel or
concrete chunks when they redo a driveway, leaves for mulch, and help
or advice whenever you need it (and sometimes when you don't). :)
Jeannie
rural gural
Dana Carpender
Do you have a deep freeze? Bake up a storm, wrap everything well and
freeze it, and you'll have all your incidental and bread-and-butter
gifts for Christmas. Homemade coffee cake makes a lovely hostess gift.
The postman would love a tin of cookies. Etc.
Dana
Dana Carpender
Like, say, Veronique. Just a thought.
Dana
Dover Beach
news:hec8gs$47j$1...@news.eternal-september.org:
> Veronique wrote:
>> On Nov 22, 10:33 am, Snidely <snidely....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Nov 22, 10:20 am, Dover Beach <moon.blanc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> landotter <landot...@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> innews:fbc53e13-e5aa-41fe-884f-f7f2fda916e6
@z41g2000yqz.googlegroups
>>>> .com:
>>>>> On Nov 22, 11:58 am, Dover Beach <moon.blanc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I really love to bake, but if I ate everything I baked, they'd
>>>>>> have to roll me to the swimming pool. I want to make a
>>>>>> ginger-pear coffee cake
>>>>> ,
>>>>>> but my husband and I are both trying to cut back on the calories.
>>>>>> I used to take all the baked goods into the office, where my
>>>>>> locust coworkers would devour them. I guess I should make
>>>>>> friends with the neighbors. I should also stop buying entire
>>>>>> flats of pears at Costco just because they seem like such a good
>>>>>> deal.
>>>>> This is what craigslist is for. Swap baked goods for personal yoga
>>>>> instruction or your preferred facsimile.
>>>> That's an intriguing idea, but I really can't believe it would
>>>> work. It's too easy to buy Oreos at the store.
>>> What about taking a tray down to the volunteer office they dispatch
>>> you from? Or brginging to couch for the AFCA Book Club?
>>
>> Another alternative with coffee cake is to soak it in premium
>> alcohols, wrap it tightly in foil, and mail it to somebody.
>>
>
> Like, say, Veronique. Just a thought.
>
Oh...why...yes! That never occurred to me.
--
Dover
QueBarbara
wrote:
>Dana Carpender <dcar...@kivanospam.net> wrote in
>news:hec8gs$47j$1...@news.eternal-september.org:
>
>> Veronique wrote:
>>> On Nov 22, 10:33 am, Snidely <snidely....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Nov 22, 10:20 am, Dover Beach <moon.blanc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> landotter <landot...@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>> innews:fbc53e13-e5aa-41fe-884f-f7f2fda916e6
>@z41g2000yqz.googlegroups
>>>>> .com:
>>>>>> On Nov 22, 11:58 am, Dover Beach <moon.blanc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> I really love to bake, but if I ate everything I baked, they'd
>>>>>>> have to roll me to the swimming pool. I want to make a
>>>>>>> ginger-pear coffee cake
>>>>>> This is what craigslist is for. Swap baked goods for personal yoga
>>>>>> instruction or your preferred facsimile.
>>>>> That's an intriguing idea, but I really can't believe it would
>>>>> work. It's too easy to buy Oreos at the store.
>>>> What about taking a tray down to the volunteer office they dispatch
>>>> you from? Or brginging to couch for the AFCA Book Club?
>>>
>>> Another alternative with coffee cake is to soak it in premium
>>> alcohols, wrap it tightly in foil, and mail it to somebody.
>>>
>>
>> Like, say, Veronique. Just a thought.
>>
>
>Oh...why...yes! That never occurred to me.
And it still hasn't. You were planning on send them to someone in
Houston, capiche?
--
Que "and no one gets hurt" Barbara
Dover Beach
news:h6hjg5l1skdsctqdv...@4ax.com:
Guess I'd better start buying some amaretto to soak these babies in.
--
Dover
Kajikit
wrote:
>I really love to bake, but if I ate everything I baked, they'd have to
I love to bake too... but if we ate everything by ourselves we
wouldn't be able to roll, or a lot of it would be wasted! So I always
give at least half of it away or else bake it for someone else
entirely. Last week I baked for our church's Thanksgiving potluck.
This weekend the Friends of the Library had an event so I offered to
bake for them - I made three slices with two new recipes and two kinds
of cookies. There ended up with way too much supper because they had a
lot of leftovers from ANOTHER event, so I took most of my goodies away
with me again. But that was okay - I gave a tray to our neighbour, put
a plate aside for us, and took the rest to church this morning to
share. We only kept a dozen assorted pieces, because on tomorrow I get
to bake again, and then I have to make something for Thursday!
If I'm baking just for us I cut the recipe in half and make an
eight-inch square cake or a SMALL casserole of dessert, and so on.
--
My website - http://www.kajikitscorner.com
My cooking blog - http://kajikit.wordpress.com
My crafty blog - http://kajikit.blogspot.com
Kajikit
wrote:
>Snidely <snide...@gmail.com> wrote in
The library workers might appreciate a treat for their breakroom.
They're very hard-working people!
Dover Beach
news:52mjg597jaf2qd2r5...@4ax.com:
> On 22 Nov 2009 19:04:55 GMT, Dover Beach <moon.b...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Snidely <snide...@gmail.com> wrote in
>>news:b89e3966-2b0e-419d...@d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com:
>>
>>> What about taking a tray down to the volunteer office they dispatch
>>> you from? Or brginging to couch for the AFCA Book Club?
>>
>>The dispatcher people are on the other side of the metro area,
>>unfortunately. They'd be a good choice, too, because they run a
>>senior day care in addition to having dozens of people milling around
>>all the time. I deal with them almost entirely by phone and email. I
>>can take it to the library, but there are all those rules about not
>>smearing coffee cake into the keyboards. Nazis.
>
> The library workers might appreciate a treat for their breakroom.
> They're very hard-working people!
You know, the really weird thing about the break room at the main
library is that it's always utterly deserted. I don't understand it.
Everywhere else I've ever worked, there were always people loitering in
the break room.
--
Dover
Charles Wm. Dimmick
Yabbut, I wouldn't send anything soaked in alcohols to either Iraq or
Afghanistan. They don't even allow Vanilla Extract across the border.
Charles
Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)
wrote:
> On 22 Nov 2009 17:58:53 GMT, Dover Beach <moon.b...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I really love to bake, but if I ate everything I baked, they'd have to
> >roll me to the swimming pool. I want to make a ginger-pear coffee cake,
> >but my husband and I are both trying to cut back on the calories. I
> >used to take all the baked goods into the office, where my locust
> >coworkers would devour them. I guess I should make friends with the
> >neighbors. I should also stop buying entire flats of pears at Costco
> >just because they seem like such a good deal.
>
> I love to bake too... but if we ate everything by ourselves we
> wouldn't be able to roll, or a lot of it would be wasted!
I used to bake for the folks at work for this reason. I never had a
problem with leftovers that way. We had enough young people around,
particularly co-operative education students and new-hires, that there
was never much food left over. Home-baked foods were really popular
with everyone, but particularly with these young people who were
missing Mom.
Mary "It was fun and I miss it."
--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
reunite....@gmail.com or mil...@qnet.com
Visit my blog at http://thedigitalknitter.blogspot.com/
Jon M
And the Postal Service prohibits mailing any alcohol, too.
Jon "more than .5%" M
Hank Gillette
Dover Beach <moon.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I really love to bake, but if I ate everything I baked, they'd have to
> roll me to the swimming pool. I want to make a ginger-pear coffee cake,
> but my husband and I are both trying to cut back on the calories. I
> used to take all the baked goods into the office, where my locust
> coworkers would devour them. I guess I should make friends with the
> neighbors. I should also stop buying entire flats of pears at Costco
> just because they seem like such a good deal.
Why not take some to the nearest local homeless shelter, or battered
women's shelter. I'm sure there are a lot of other similar places that
would love to have fresh baked goods. Take something to your local auto
mechanic the next time you get good service.
--
Hank Gillette
"Years ago, I asked my dad for a boob job and he said it would cheapen
my image" -- Paris Hilton
Mac
> In article <Xns9CCB6F721D3BFmoonblanchedgmail...@130.133.1.4>,
> Dover Beach <moon.blanc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I really love to bake, but if I ate everything I baked, they'd have to
> > roll me to the swimming pool. I want to make a ginger-pear coffee cake,
> > but my husband and I are both trying to cut back on the calories. I
> > used to take all the baked goods into the office, where my locust
> > coworkers would devour them. I guess I should make friends with the
> > neighbors. I should also stop buying entire flats of pears at Costco
> > just because they seem like such a good deal.
>
> Why not take some to the nearest local homeless shelter, or battered
> women's shelter. I'm sure there are a lot of other similar places that
> would love to have fresh baked goods. Take something to your local auto
> mechanic the next time you get good service.
Habitat for humanity, and such. Places where sugary foods are
actually not just good, but good for you.
huey.c...@gmail.com
> Dover Beach <moon.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I really love to bake, but if I ate everything I baked, they'd have
> > to roll me to the swimming pool. I want to make a ginger-pear
> > coffee cake, but my husband and I are both trying to cut back on the
> > calories. I used to take all the baked goods into the office, where
> > my locust coworkers would devour them. I guess I should make
> > friends with the neighbors. I should also stop buying entire flats
> > of pears at Costco just because they seem like such a good deal.
> Why not take some to the nearest local homeless shelter, or battered
> women's shelter. I'm sure there are a lot of other similar places that
> would love to have fresh baked goods. Take something to your local
> auto mechanic the next time you get good service.
My first wife took a wedding-cake decorating class. Her 'final exam' was
brought to the local fire station, and extremely well-received there.
--
Huey
Peter Boulding
<Xns9CCB6F721D3BFmo...@130.133.1.4>:
>Subject: I need someone to bake for
I love you and want to have your babies.
--
Regards, Peter 'the way to a man's heart' Boulding
pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk (to e-mail, remove "UNSPAM")
Fractal Music and Images: http://www.pboulding.co.uk/ and
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=794240&content=music
Kajikit
<pjbn...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk> wrote:
>On 22 Nov 2009 17:58:53 GMT, Dover Beach <moon.b...@gmail.com> wrote in
><Xns9CCB6F721D3BFmo...@130.133.1.4>:
>
>>Subject: I need someone to bake for
>
>I love you and want to have your babies.
You don't have to go that far to get baked goods... a simple please
would probably do the trick. :P
Opus the Penguin
> Guess I'd better start buying some amaretto to soak these babies in.
Mmmmm. Alcohol soaked babies.
Opus the Penguin
> But that was okay - I gave a tray to our neighbour, put
> a plate aside for us, and took the rest to church this morning to
> share. We only kept a dozen assorted pieces, because on tomorrow I
> get to bake again, and then I have to make something for Thursday!
Is "on tomorrow" a normal way of speaking for you, or is it a typo? I
never encountered it before moving here to the central US. And here
I've only encountered it among African-Americans. Many, but not all,
will say "on today" or "on tomorrow" where I would just say "today" or
"tomorrow".
Peter Boulding
<df9pg55cgstn8dhbv...@4ax.com>:
>>>Subject: I need someone to bake for
>>I love you and want to have your babies.
>You don't have to go that far to get baked goods... a simple please
>would probably do the trick. :P
You appear to doubt my sincerity.
--
Regards, Peter Boulding
Heather
If it is a normal way of speaking for her it is something she picked
up in Florida. I suspect she was originally going to say "on Monday"
(or whatever day of the week she was talking about) but changed her
mind as she typed and forgot to delete the "on".
--
Heather
Bill Turlock
>
> Dover Beach (moon.b...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > Guess I'd better start buying some amaretto to soak these babies in.
>
> Mmmmm. Alcohol soaked babies.
But will they float?
landotter
wrote:
> Opus the Penguin wrote:
>
> > Dover Beach (moon.blanc...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > > Guess I'd better start buying some amaretto to soak these babies in.
>
> > Mmmmm. Alcohol soaked babies.
>
> But will they float?
If you feed them Mexican food before dispatching, yes.
Kajikit
<opusthepen...@gmail.com> wrote:
Certainly not. But my fingers move faster than my brain when I'm
typing and sometimes I change my mind mid-sentence, so it slipped
through.
()
> I really love to bake, but if I ate everything I baked, they'd have to
> roll me to the swimming pool. I want to make a ginger-pear coffee cake,
> but my husband and I are both trying to cut back on the calories. I
> used to take all the baked goods into the office, where my locust
> coworkers would devour them. I guess I should make friends with the
> neighbors. I should also stop buying entire flats of pears at Costco
> just because they seem like such a good deal.
>
I am always happy to eat any surplus cake.
()
> On 22 Nov 2009 19:02:46 GMT, Dover Beach <moon.blanc...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Veronique <veroniqueuni...@gmail.com> wrote in
> >news:58634525-2bb1-49eb...@o9g2000prg.googlegroups.com:
>
> >> Another alternative with coffee cake is to soak it in premium
> >> alcohols, wrap it tightly in foil, and mail it to somebody.
>
> >Hmm, I wonder to whom I could mail such a thing. It's a puzzler.
>
> There are ways to send home baked good to soldiers overseas.
>
Aren't there concerns that someone might send a poisoned cake, or that
even someone with good intentions might make something that causes
upset stomachs?
Boron Elgar
wrote:
Don't tell the terrorists.
Boron
Peter Ward
> I am always happy to eat any surplus cake.
Surplus cake? I do not understand your crazy moon-man talk.
--
Peter, from outside the asylum
I'm an alien
email: usenet at peterward dot adsl24 dot co dot uk
http://blowinsmoke.wordpress.com/
Screw fashion
- Darkon
groo
> I really love to bake, but if I ate everything I baked, they'd have to
> roll me to the swimming pool.
While they're rolling you onto the diving board, lob me a few cupcakes, OK?
--
"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." -
Hamilcar Barca