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General Discussion, Sunday, January 21, 2018
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OregnMuse’s at Ace’s movie thread today is about animated films.
I had never seen this, and I’m absolutely stunned. No computers rendered any of this. It’s all hand-drawn, inked, and filmed.
Part one is here. It’s better than Disney, and was never finished. Sad. Disney copied both the villain and the love interest in this one for Aladdin. Straight up copy.
The animation is so good and detailed, you may want to use the YouTube settings to slow it down to 75% or even 50%. This is the pinnacle of hand-drawn animation.
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That is absolutely phenomenal.
The old lady throttling the thief, the feet on the king character, the movement, “I need a cobbler.” Wow!
Not finished ? Why?
Watching part 2 now.
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Thank you for sharing Wooly.
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Delightful, Wooly! Thanks. The thief with his muslim hat, big ears and fly infestation reminded me of someone,…
who could it be?
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Tried to call the character up but it was Barry’d too deeply in my subconscious.
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Barry might be giving matinee performances…….
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I’ll bet he’s done more than one matinee…
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Stella, is that photo of a beautiful Italian villa interior?
If so, here is a Pinterest link which shows exteriors of many more villas. A person could get used to such luxury rather quickly, I think.
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Palazzo Barbaro, San Marco, Venice
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If I won the lottery and went on world travels, I would go to Venice. I’ve always wanted to see it, and I used to dream of traveling. But now that I am older, I hate planes so very much that I really do not know if I would undertake such a trip.
For most of my life I have been interested in Venice, but a number of years ago I stumbled into an interest in Murano glass, and that makes me want to go more, and tour the island of Murano.
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When I went it flooded so much that the platforms for walking on when it floods were floating, and some older folks got knocked off. Make sure you go in warmer season. It was different for sure. Easy to get turned around but fun if you have time to explore.
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Skip summer & carnival, too many tourists. I liked late Sept – Oct.
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We went in November. Not awful but just a simdge too late.
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I know a woman who owns an old hotel in Venice. Her family has had it for a very long time. She was married to the son of the man who founded the company I worked for, and they lived in the US for quite a long time. I haven’t seen her in years, though.
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Here she is. Her ex-husband, Marco Possati, and his two brothers Stefano and Eduardo, own the company that I worked for, which is based in Bologna.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Bortolotto_Possati
https://www.luxeinacity.com/francesca-bortolotto-possati-ceo-of-bauers-hotel-group/
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Let me say, whoa…. thats luxury.
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Yes, it is. People like that live in another world entirely. Nice, though.
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I have a couple of pieces of Murano glass. I would love to go there too.
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A cruise would be nice…follow the links…http://traveltips.usatoday.com/shortest-cruises-europe-30094.html
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I don’t know for sure, but I think all the elaborate detailing on the walls may be cast plaster. I did some restoration work on ceiling moldings of cast plaster once, in a senator’s home. I didn’t repair the actual molding, that was done by others. I had to make the new stuff look like the old stuff and match it.
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There’s still quite a few mansions in New Orleans left over from the days when cotton was king – and the remaining upper middle class housing ain’t too shabby either. More than a little money in some families left over from antebellum days too.
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As in Charlestown, SC…….
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Oh yeah, touristed a few during the almost a year I was stationed there. Was there when Osceola’s body was supposed to be stolen from Ft Moultrie. Park service denies it was stolen but some Seminole activists swear it was. No interest in it now, apparently a dead issue.
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Have a wonderful and blessed Sunday, Stellars….
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Thank you Lucille, and the same to you 🙂
I love that Bible verse, and take comfort every time I hear it.
Good night, and have a peaceful and joyful Sunday everyone!
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Thanks, G&C!
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One of my favorites, too, Lucille. Thank you.
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You’re welcome, Lburg!
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Have a beautiful day Lucille 🙂 . 33° here already !
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Thanks, lovely! The weather channel says it’s 38 degrees but the sun is out. Very different winter so far from last year with much less snow. Hope that keeps up.
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Got up to 71 today! I sat out in the sun for awhile. I went for a walk. Then we went for a ride. Nobody wanted to be inside!
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Sounds nice. I think we peaked at 49° still very nice for us 🙂 .
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Gorgeous! I love that verse. Have a beautiful day, Lucille.
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Thanks, sand! And the same for you.
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Thank you Lucile…….
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The Fennec fox is a sandy nocturnal desert fox. It is the smallest of the foxes – even smaller than the domestic cat – and has oversized ears like pumpkin leaves. With its tiny pointed face, the Fennec fox looks adorable.
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My son loves those. Theyre so fluffy!!!
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Cute. 🙂
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He’ so cool! Every time I scroll by I want to keep him. Foxes are more like cats than dogs, & they are so shy you never see them. Occasionally in the evening we see one of the regular American foxes in the neighborhood, meaning there are many more around.
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We catch a quick glimpse every now and again of one at the edge of our woods. I don’t know which type it is, can’t see it very well.
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They’re not so shy around here. I think they are over populated because you see them day and night.
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Beautiful scenery and enchanting music….
Michel Pépé × Le respir de la terre
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Happy Sunday, Stellars! In lieu of the usual break feast prepared by Nyet…. food for thought instead.
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” ~ G.K. Chesterton
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Morning Lburg! Breakfast is served! 👇🏻 😊
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Wonderful Chesterton quote. Thanks, Lburg!
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Mornin’ y’all!
https://twitter.com/WeeWeedTX/status/955090339978792960
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Happy Sunday Weeweed!
Dems have stepped in it bigly.
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Mornin’ Gil!
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Howdy WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Not to mention that while the soldiers in harm’s way won’t get paid on time during a shutdown all Congressperson will.
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This is all backwards. Congress should NOT get paid. No EBT cards. All monies to illegals stopped. All monies to charities that are bringing in illegals stopped. ALL monies to sanctuary states and cities stopped. There. That ought to do it.
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They won’t do that even without a shutdown…they won’t stop nurturing their little sheepses before the midterms, they need more Rats in Congress to hasten our demise.
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Mornin’ Z!
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Morning, WeeWeed!
“Wasting Away in Chuckschumerland”
By Clarice Feldman – January 21, 2018
“…Chuck Schumer, whose surname (per ancestry.com) is “a nickname from Middle Low German ‘good-for-nothing,’ ‘vagabond,'” revealed how aptly he is named.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/wasting_away_in_chuckschumerland.html
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Afternoon Lucy!
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Evening Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!!!! Yes release the Memo……..
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Busy week as in last week, working in the esophagus, M/W/F. ……….
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Happy Sunday Wee! 🙂 !
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Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
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Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Cinnamon rolls for coffee!
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Good morning, Nyet! Thank you for this great breakfast.
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Good Morning, Nyet and (oh thank heaven for bacon!!!!!) Thank You for Breakfast. Chow’s on!
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Ah, bacon, eggs, and toast. Looks good to me. 🙂 Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Bacon…bummer
Bad news, bacon lovers: This beloved breakfast food may make your skin start to sag well before your AARP card arrives. The reason: Sixty-eight percent of bacon’s calories come from fat, with almost half of that being the saturated variety. Besides contributing to weight gain and increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke, saturated fats can cause inflammation that accelerates skin aging.
Bacon and other processed meats also contain sodium nitrate which, according to a 2013 study published in the journal European Cytokine Network, enhances oxidative stress. Oxidative stress can cause structural changes in collagen and elastin (the proteins that keep skin looking young), resulting in premature wrinkles, explains St. Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology researchers. Luckily, you don’t have to give up bacon altogether to keep your skin smooth. Just switch to a nitrate-free variety with less than 2 grams of fat and no more than 1 gram of artery-clogging saturated fat (like Applegate Natural Good Morning Bacon) and cut yourself off after two slices.
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Who let this person in who speaks so ill of bacon? Is this person a bacon troll? 😯
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a vastly saddened old white male who would like to lose belly fat and mistakenly went on the internet for advice.
I posted it in anguish, not in fact…..if there were no bacon, I would have to turn to chicken fried steak and cream gravy for a soul food fix.
Everyone I grew up had grandmothers that lived into their 90s and even 100s….and they ate everything fried or full of fat….and most smoked Camel cigarettes, dipped snuff, or took a pinch of chewing tobacco somewhere along the path…but they espoused booze and went to church everytime the doors were opened.
makes no sense to me…..we are maybe living longer, but less happy and fatter and with eye strain from TV and Computer screens.
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Yup, my maternal grandmother smoked Viceroys and drank while my paternal grandmother didn’t smoke or drink but never let a piece of fatted pork get by her…both lived to a ripe old age.
The nitrates are used to help retard spoilage and retain a nice color to the product. (f you want to avoid the problems of nitrates and make your own ‘processed’ meats you can do batches and freeze them. I try to avoid the nitrates as much as possible, can’t do it every time, but commercial sources have a large exposure to liability and have to make a visually appealing product sooooooo………
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It has become pretty easy to find bacon that is smoked, but not cured. Not that I’d turn down a nice piece of ham or sausage!
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my remembrance was that Viceroys had such a tight dense filter that you could get a hernia trying to such smoke through them….
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My memories are they tasted like Passaic, New Jersey. I smoked a cigarette when I was quitting that had less tar & nicotine in a whole pack than was to be had in one Marlboro…I almost sucked one inside out trying to get a fix.
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I know what you mean. (Oh, and I forgot the “/s” on my last comment. 🙄 )
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Hmmmmmm….wrinkles/bacon….wrinkles/bacon…..what the heck, don’t wanna save myself just to look good for the undertaker.
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Well while you’re giving up yer bacon, do not stock up on celery!
(from https://www.thespruce.com/sodium-nitrate-and-sodium-nitrite-facts-996129)
Snip:
The reality is that companies that make nitrate-free hot dogs have to use something to substitute for sodium nitrate. Celery juice is a popular choice. And guess what celery juice contains lots of? Sodium nitrate. And guess what that sodium nitrate turns into when you eat it? Sodium nitrite!
As we said earlier, celery is a natural source of sodium nitrate. (Notice that no one is currently claiming that celery causes cancer or that people should reduce their intake of celery.) But by adding celery juice to their hot dogs, manufacturers can make products loaded with sodium nitrate while legally being able to claim “no added nitrates.” Because all the nitrates are in the celery juice.
As a matter of fact, these supposedly “natural” or “organic” products sometimes contain twice as much sodium nitrate, even up to a whopping ten times as much sodium nitrate, as conventional products.
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😯
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Yeah, I know I posted it before but your breakfast post reminds me of Sundays when we’d go to the Roosevelt hotel in NOLA for Sunday brunch. It was an amazing place, it had retained all of the bygone grandiosity of its NOLA heyday past.
They’d use a main dining/ballroom and place food stations with various offerings around the walls, one whole wall devoted to desserts alone. Down the center would be more tables loaded with foods and active chef posts with servers carving various meats and fresh-making things like pancakes, waffles, eggs to order, and a lot of other things. There’d be active stations at the desset table too with bananas foster, baked alaska, cherries jubilee and other freshly prepared goodies.
The seafood section was amazing – fresh boiled shrimp and crawfish, shrimp cooked at least bthree more ways and either oysters shucked as you watched, grilled, rockefeller or otherwise cooked. Redfish, trout, red snapper or flounder prepared a number of ways, all hot and bubbling from the kitchen.
That all died before Katrina, the victim of a number of ills. It’s sadly missed, it was a lark.
You’d get dressed up and spend a few hours eating and drinking at one of the oldest and grandest hotels in the city. Now no one gets dressed, it’s drive-thru at the Mickey-D’s and off to something else, unless you’re a tourist you don’t get dressed for eating and precious few of them do too. Mostly gone, so sad.
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most youth today own no ties, do not tuck in their shirts, could not TIE a tie if they had one, and seem to be unable to get their razor very close to their face.
but man they do know video games and social media.
gracious living? not so much….too much bother when you are a smartazz narcissizt wet behind the year with the wisdom of a gerbil.
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Yeah, ‘formal wear’ is a clean t-shirt
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I LOVE TO GO A-GORGING
I love to go a-gorging amid great gobs of food,
And as I do my abdomen continues to protrude.
Calorie, calorah, calorie, calorah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Calorie, calorah, my body is obese.
Italian food with all its cheese and thick tomato paste,
It never seems to pass on through but hangs around my waist.
French cuisine inspires me to even greater heights.
An eight-course meal is quickly done in seven standard bites.
A German meal is all I need to make my day complete.
It’s hard to keep account of all the strudel that I eat.
At hot dog stands and burger joints to make my power play,
They bring it in a wheelbarrow instead of in a tray.
Tune: The Happy Wanderer
@parody @food
filename[ AGORGING
TUNE FILE: HAPWANDR
CLICK TO PLAY
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I have a peculiar friend, he is in his late 20’s and was telling me about how he goes car-o-ling. I sad do you mean caroling he said no car-o-ling. He would drive around at Christmas time and when he was stuck at a a red light he would open all his windows and his sunroof and play Christmas carols very loudly from his car.
😏
He said people gave he really weird looks but ended up smiling about it.
Go figure 🙂 .
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I think casual dress has taken a lot of romance out of life. I loved to dress up and go out with my sweetheart.
If I hadn’t just eaten, your description of the Roosevelt would make me want to go out and look for a really good brunch!
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The Roosevelt was the last vestige of an era gone by. You go into places like Commanders and you see folks dressed as if they’re going to a pizza parlor. Then again, if you dress with a suit and tie walking in certain NOLA areas you become a target.
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Czar, you have painted a most splendid picture.
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A tasty memory of days past.
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Perfection, Nyet, for breaking o’ the fast! Yum on all that bacon!
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Donuts and (potential) bacon!
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Children’s breakfasts around the world
https://www.tuxboard.com/petits-dejeuners-enfants-hanna-whitaker-monde/reykjavik-petit-dejeuner/
Japan
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sad……
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Nye!!!! Making myself a Bacon Smoothie!!!!!! I trust Mrs. Nye had a great Russian Christmas…….
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Good evening Nyet 🙂 !
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Morning all! I love our president, who along with his entire family, has given up so much for us. We are truly blessed that God has given us this man to lead us into a new era of prosperity and freedom.
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Beautifully said, S&S. What an appropriate and wonderful verse and gorgeous photo!
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Thank you, Lburg.
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S&S, thank you for posting the 9:00 prayer for me while I was gone. 🙂 ❤ ❤ ❤
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Glad to ! I hope you had a wonderful cruise!
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Yes, I did.
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Good morning Sand! 🙏🏼
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Make that good evening 🙄 Seems I have to type the words I want to say rather than what my tired brain is thinking 🙂 !
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here’s one for ZM…..we sang this in elementary school music class…..
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More on the Italian theme, I ordered a used hardcover copy of Elizabeth David’s, “Italian Food”. It was published originally in 1954; this copy was reprinted in 1996 in Italy.
When ordering a used book, it is my experience that the seller is optimistic about the condition. Being that this is essentially a cookbook (but much more than that), I was stunned to receive an almost brand new copy of the book, including an unmarred dust jacket. $7.35, including tax and shipping! Really beautiful and interesting/informative book.
If you are interested:
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I find that people buy a cookbook more than they use them. I buy all of mine used that I can, silly but I can imagine it in some previous owner’s hands/kitchen and a little piece of that stays with the book. The creased pages, the little stains…just makes you wonder. Two of my sons ill be arguing over my collection and there’s more than enough for both of them.
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Just got my copy….$7.43…Czarina’s going to start throwing my cookbooks at me. The big draw was the basil on the cover, only thing that comes close to my favorite is cilantro. Someone comes up with a cilantro and basil beer and they’ve got me.
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I hope your copy is as nice as mine. It was probably a gift that was never used.
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I hope it has some stains from someone else’s good times
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It also has beautiful prints of Italian art.
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First thing that came to mind was ‘prints made by someone’s red sauce-stained fingers’.
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Juan Browne and family are on a trip to London…
British Museum Jan 2018
blancolirio YouTube Channel
Tower of London Jan 2018
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Sunday Bread Miracle and Thankfulness…..Batch 3 of panettone had rested and was ready to be ‘shaped’ (as much as you can shape a dough that has the texture of soft-set jello). I had forgotten to look at my notes from batch #2, so I ran to the computer, saw that I had made two identical loaves and one smaller one and decided to go with what worked for that batch – two 767 gram loaves and one 566 gram loaf.
So back to the kitchen. I grabbed my plastic bench scraper and proceeded to make three cuts in the rested dough blob. I picked up one baby blob and plopped it into a buttered bowl which was already ‘zeroed out’ and sitting on my scale. What? What is THIS? It weighed exactly 767 grams! I laughed with delight that somehow, someway, the first blob weighed what it was supposed to weigh. Grabbed the second blob, plopped that one into the bowl and …. it weighed exactly 767 grams as well.
I really laughed with that one and sent out huge amounts of gratitude for the unseen hand that had guided mine to make the correct cuts to the dough blob.
I made a lot of bread. I bake at least twice a week. I NEVER get the cuts right the first time around. Of course, now I have to amend that statement and remember, with gratitude, the time that I made the right cuts the first time around. Maybe it had something to do with making this batch specifically for my son’s birthday. Perhaps it was just me listening (for a change) to my inner voice instead of arguing with it. Whatever it was, I will remain astounded…..and thankful.
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Homemade bread is a joy! Seems you got an extra helping of joy when making it today!
I haven’t made bread regularly since the 70’s. My specialty was a double loaf of challah to take to parties. It was best while still warm with butter on it.
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Wow. That’s a tricky one, Czarina. I’ll bet your parties were a lovefest of good feelings and good food.
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What the fox say?
Hatee-hatee-hatee-ho
Hatee-hatee-hatee-ho
Hatee-hatee-hatee-ho
What the fox say?
Joff-tchoff-tchoff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff
Joff-tchoffo-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff
Joff-tchoff-tchoff-tchoff-tchoffo-tchoffo-tchoff
What the fox say?
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Challah bread braid knot to complicated for me to understand….
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If I could have my homemade blueberry jam, I would be over………
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It’s in the ‘fridge, Colonel Sir! C’mon over – you’d always be welcome here.
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Love it!!!
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Do you make it plain, with fruit, or chocolate? Ive never made anything but quick breads. Challah and brioche dont last at at around here if I find them in the store. I havent had pannetone in a few years. How lucky you cut just right.
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Hey Gil! I’ve been making chocolate since it seems I’m the only one who likes candied fruit peel! However, I made a batch of candied orange fruit peel today and have a feeling I may begin batch 4 tomorrow….
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I prefer the fruit bc its more savory and suits the bread better. Chocolate is always a winner with boys, but my kiddo really likes savory flavors(quite the palate for a little guy). Im sure whatever you make will be eaten in an instant.
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I like the fruit too, but I use dried cherries, golden raisins and dried apricots (cut up).
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I envy you who can bake. Cookies, corn bread, waffles/pan cakes and uncooked commercial rolls in a bag are about it for me – I fail at bread/rolls in a tube. Nothing else faxes me, anything containing yeast is my nemesis.
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I’m finding out, after many years of not baking yeast bread, that I can do it. Weighing your flour is very important, and watching the amount of liquid you use, which changes with the seasons (especially here, where we have the central heating on for several months). A lot of it is just learning by doing, and by handling the dough, to learn what works and what doesn’t.
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Czarina just stands there, throws **** around and stirs a few times then – poof – great baked breads appear. I’ll stick to areas that I can do and leave the mysteries of incinerating living microorganisms and turning them into good eats to her.
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My husband can do a mean pbnj, can boil an egg, and make frozen waffles oh and microwave oatmeal. Anything past that hes like a a primate poking things with a stick. 😏
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I made the mistake, at a young age, of criticizing something my grandmother cooked. I was immediately handed an apron, cookbook and kept on the razor edge of starvation until I learned how to cook.
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My grandsons both can cook. Good skill to have.
ADD: My son-in-law is an excellent cook too.
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Teaching the GGS to cook but his taste buds haven’t developed past simple sugary things…a work in progress.
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He’ll get there. My older grandson is vegetarian, but is surprisingly adventurous with flavors. Loves heat. Loves pesto (makes his own). He told me that he did eat fish while he was in Japan, because that was what he was served by his host family.
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Yeah, his mom says he eats what he gets at home but plays me…so I figure I’ll just string him along for a while. Kids have a different taste bud setup than adults anyway.
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You can do it, Czar, and would be a homemade bread convert. Here’s an easy one that doesn’t even need kneading.
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/06/better-no-knead-bread-recipe.html
Just do what the recipe says to do even if you disagree and/or don’t believe it. (Huh. Maybe that’s the problem you’ve had in the past! >laughing<)
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I love bread like this. This is also good, and easy:
https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/chewy-italian-rolls-recipe
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A gypsy baker at sometime in the distant past put a curse on some long gone ancestor that still hangs in there. If anything happens to Czarina it’ll be just me and Bunny Bread…or whatever one-size-fits-all crap Wally World’s pushing.
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Czar has a cast iron Dutch oven. I’ll have to set him up so all he has to do is drop it in & bake! I love coarse breads.
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Thank you for your prayers of support. This month is working in the esophagus. Around the first week in March, will be the cancer update.
Thank you……
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Thank you for updating Col. Ken. Will continue to pray for you.
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🙏🏼 always, thank you Col.
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Sorry Col., haven’t been around in awhile and didn’t know you were sick. Prayers offered up.
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Praying every day Colonel.
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I haven’t commented much, but you are always in mine. 🙂
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Then the little congregation
Prayed for guidance from above
“Lead us not into temptation
Bless this hour of meditation
Guide him with eternal love”
GOD lives in all of us, whether we like it or not.
And the little congregation
Prayed for guidance from above
“Lead us not into temptation,
May his soul find the salvation,
Of thy great eternal love”
JJJ
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Beautiful
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Sorry guys I’ve been away awhile and haven’t checked in. Life sometimes throws you lots of curve balls and it has thrown several the past few months.
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It’s good to see you, Michelle. 😊
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I hope nothing too rough Michelle, I was just asking about you, prayers. You can email me I was going to email you but I thought you probably never really check that email.
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I sent you an email lovely. Thank you for the prayers.
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lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen
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Amen.
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Amen
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Since we have a cookbook jag of sorts going on may I suggest one of my favorites (OK, I will)? Jeff Smith’s “The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors…”. You might remember Jeff, he had a PBS show back when and a newspaper column. This particular book, one of a few he wrote, has recipes from immigrant sources from a number of cultures and they are all good. Time to pull my copy down and go to work.
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I also like his book called “The Frugal Gourmet Cooks three ancient cuisines, China, Greece, Rome”. Lots of good recipes.
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Yup, got that one too. Jeff Smith, an early recipient of the sexual harassment ‘Don’t Poop Where You Eat’ award.
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