General Discussion, Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Stella

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  1. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    August 6, 2019 at 1:20 am

    Stellars…

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  2. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    August 6, 2019 at 3:41 am


    Ten trouble-shooting tips for tasty tomatoes
    By John Walker – 3 AUGUST 2019
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/grow-to-eat/ten-trouble-shooting-tips-tasty-tomatoes/

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  3. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    August 6, 2019 at 8:35 am

    Goodness, did everybody sleep in this morning? 😯

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  4. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    August 6, 2019 at 9:19 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_| (Tom Collins)
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_| (Black & Tan)
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_| (Boilermaker)
    Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_| (Irish Car Bomb)
    Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_| (Godfather)
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Gin & Tonic)
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
    Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
    Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
    Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_| (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_| (Stinger)
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_| (Rusty Nail)
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_| (Whiskey Smash)
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_| (Rum & Coke)
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_| (Night Train Express)
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
    Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
    Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
    Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
    Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂 |_| (Albanian Raki Moskat)
    Mornin’ rheavolans! (aka “Rhea Salacia Volans”) 🙂 |_| (Hot Buttered Rum)
    Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 |_| (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 |_| (RumChata)
    Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 |_| (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
    Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Smoking Bishop)
    Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
    Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 |_| (Red Russian)
    Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
    Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 |_| (Yuengling)
    Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
    Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
    Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
    Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 |_| (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 |_| (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
    Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 |_| (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
    Mornin’ NC Nana! 🙂 🍸 (Beautiful)
    Mornin’ bjosz! 🙂 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Some of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
    Mornin’ Angelle Staria Literary Works! 🙂 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Some more of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
    Mornin’ just stevie! 🙂 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 (Chateau Pape Clement Blanc Pessac, 2014)
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Pastries for coffee!

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  5. just stevie's avatar just stevie says:
    August 6, 2019 at 9:35 am

    Good Tuesday morning guys! Ran across this mug I like…because…LOL

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    • czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
      August 6, 2019 at 10:25 am

      Yeah you right, dawlin’! When I cook, I put a piece of frozen chicken in the oven with a potato, come back in an hour and open a can of veggies, put it on a plate & eat.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      August 6, 2019 at 10:58 am

      A recipe’s like a road map. It just shows you a starting point and an end, there is a number of ways to get from start to finish.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        August 6, 2019 at 11:34 am

        This morning I’m roasting tomatoes (halved) with onion, garlic, carrot, oil, thyme, salt and pepper. When they are cooked, I’ll remove the skins and whiz the whole thing up in the blender for pasta sauce. Easy and tasty.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          August 6, 2019 at 11:55 am

          That sounds great. Roma tomatoes?

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          • Stella's avatar stella says:
            August 6, 2019 at 12:18 pm

            No, just some cocktail size tomatoes that were over ripe. I just finished removing the skins and whizzing it up. Tastes great! Any kind of tomatoes works, but the more acid works best.

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            • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
              August 6, 2019 at 1:15 pm

              I like Romas as they’re cheaper and better than the table varieties in the store.

              The growers usually flood the fields before harvest as the toms pick up the extra water and they’re sold by weight. Romas are a meatier tomato and make a better sauce, I haven’t roasted any tomatoes recently but when I do I find Romas crinkle up and disappear less.

              If we can get them in the ground before the heat and wet hit next year I’d like to get some of the heirloom eggplant-size Italian paste tomatoes in, they’re pure meat.

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              • Stella's avatar stella says:
                August 6, 2019 at 1:48 pm

                I like Roma style tomatoes too, and have grown them several times in the past.

                I have Amish paste tomatoes growing now, but have only picked a couple so far. Waiting for ripening!

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                • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                  August 6, 2019 at 2:05 pm

                  We have a sort of second season here for tomatoes, you can put plants in in the late summer for a fall crop. Usually they’re a strain more adapted to the heat but they usually all taste like blah.

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          • Stella's avatar stella says:
            August 6, 2019 at 12:20 pm

            You could add some heat, if you like.

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        • Sharon's avatar Sharon says:
          August 7, 2019 at 6:11 pm

          Hi stella – as I do on most days, I read here and I think I’m going to try the pasta sauce suggestion. I’ve just done my general harvest for scads of cherry tomatoes (two varieties, both nice and edible right off the stem – but so many of them)

          I’m not clear on what you mean by “carrot” in the list – just referring to the inclusion of a whole carrot in the roasting process?

          I’m dense on these things – so all of this is roasted in the oven and then blended?

          If more moisture is needed, just add a little water?

          I’m really tickled that I go so many tomatoes. And I also just brought my garlic harvest onto the patio a couple of days ago, too – the process with garlic is digging them up (when they are ready) and letting them dry, still attached to the long, long stems (like 6′ tall) for a few days before separated the clove(s). So beautiful.

          I have a pasta sauce recipe I really like but this just looks yummy.

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          • Stella's avatar stella says:
            August 7, 2019 at 6:45 pm

            Hi Sharon,

            Carrot is a peeled carrot cut into small pieces so that it cooks along with the other veggies. Adds sweetness and color to the sauce. Cherry tomatoes are perfect. I have lots this year too. I don’t think you will need any water if you use enough oil, but keep an eye on it. I roasted mine in the oven at 375 for about 45 minutes, but watch to make sure they don’t burn.

            I let it cool a bit, then removed the skins from the tomatoes, and blended everything with a stick blender, but a regular blender works too.

            If you feel more comfortable with a recipe, here’s one from Martha Stewart that will give you a general idea about proportions. I’m sure I used more olive oil than she is calling for. Easy if you put all of the veg in a bowl, then toss them in the oil and seasonings:

            https://www.marthastewart.com/337008/roasted-tomato-sauce

            I use a sheet pan covered with foil, so cleanup is easy.

            I think you’ll like it!

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      • JTR's avatar JTR says:
        August 6, 2019 at 1:18 pm

        I consider most recipes as just a suggestion! I’m a pretty strict baker, but everything else is “just do it”! Tonight we had fried andouille sausage and potatoes with onion and courgettes. A one-pan meal with a salad, yummm. DH must have liked it, because I found an empty pan when I went to do the dishes!

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  6. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    August 6, 2019 at 10:56 am

    Watching Trump get trapped into the Democratic gun control/pro-immigration trap. He’s decrying racism AND white supremacy. Note the importance of verbally separating two concepts, it make white supremacy a different category, making racism a lesser offense, a fuzzier concept and attributing a separate class of special hate to whites.

    You may have noticed, if you spend a lot of time slogging thru the medis, that there’s been a movement to conceptually super glue guns to white supremacy. The idea is to make white supremacy a totally different and more villainous concept that plain old garden variety racism, and in process makes guns the symbol of white supremacy. If you are white and own a gun – you are a white supremacy advocate. If you are white and say anything positive about guns – you are a white supremacy advocate. If you are white and don’t support the abolition of private firearm ownership -you know the drill…

    If this succeeds you will see it used as a lever to deprive the citizenry of other things the Left deems vital to their agenda. Don’t like open borders – white supremacist. Don’t like expanding public and decreasing private transportation – white supremacist. It will effectively do what progs have been trying to do for decades and make racism a totally white concept by generally accepted definition.

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  8. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    August 6, 2019 at 12:25 pm

    Well, you can think me a really kind person or a fool. I went to Walmart to pick up my groceries and then went to the gas station. A man pulled up and went inside and then came back out looking very worried. He noticed me watching him and asked if I could help. He was on his way to the VA in Tampa and didn’t have enough money for the gas he needed. His foot was in a cast, he had a military sticker on his car, and then he showed me the picture of his foot after the surgery. By then I was putting some gas in his car. He had spent 20 years in the Army. I thanked him for his service, he gave me a hug, jumped in the car and was on his way.

    I figure even if he wasn’t telling the truth, I earned a couple points toward a star in Heaven.

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    • JTR's avatar JTR says:
      August 6, 2019 at 1:23 pm

      You are so sweet! I hope someday he can pass that kindness on.

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    • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
      August 6, 2019 at 3:11 pm

      Aus, you went with your heart…”blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

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      • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
        August 6, 2019 at 3:36 pm

        ❤

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        • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
          August 6, 2019 at 5:39 pm

          When I worked in Santa Monica, CA our offices were across the street from Palisades Park just up the cliffs from the Pacific Coast Highway and the ocean. The park had a lot of homeless folk even in those days, but they couldn’t stay overnight.

          One of the main boulevards leading to the park is Wilshire and there are a lot of both fast food and regular restaurants in the vicinity where the “better-dressed” panhandlers used to hang out. The restaurants were less likely to shoo them away if they weren’t disheveled. Generally I ignored their pleas for money, there being no way of knowing what they would spend it on.

          One afternoon, though, I was walking by one of the fast food places and a young man in relatively clean clothing and carrying a backpack approached and asked if I could help him buy a hamburger at the outlet. Feeling strangely compelled, I handed him the money…whereupon he took my hand and kissed it with profuse thanks.

          That’s got to be 30 years ago and I’ve never forgotten it.

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    • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
      August 6, 2019 at 5:44 pm

      You’re a good woman, USmom.

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  9. Stella's avatar stella says:
    August 6, 2019 at 1:33 pm

    Shooting in Baton Rouge Walmart. Apparently not an active shooter event.

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  10. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    August 6, 2019 at 3:22 pm

    From the Brink: Kyle Carpenter’s Recovery
    Published on Jun 18, 2014

    On November 21, 2010, Lance Cpl. Kyle Carpenter threw his body on an enemy hand grenade to save a fellow Marine. The medical professionals that stood by him through his recovery talk about Carpenter’s return from the brink.

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  11. Stella's avatar stella says:
    August 6, 2019 at 3:58 pm

    Harvest chez moi past 24 hours:

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  12. FofBW's avatar FofBW says:
    August 6, 2019 at 6:10 pm

    Thought I would come over here and take a break from CTH for awhile.

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    • Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
      August 6, 2019 at 6:22 pm

      FofBW, you missed breakfast and lunch; but join us for dinner…

      …or if you eat healthy…a tofu salad….

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      • czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
        August 6, 2019 at 6:41 pm

        I’m only liking the pretty picture, I avoid tofu. Years ago, Czar tried using it in several recipes, and eating it was a chore. Gave up after about a week. Froze some, which is stil in the freezer: I really must throw it away sometime.

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        • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
          August 6, 2019 at 7:15 pm

          Tofu makes me gag. I don’t like the texture of it or the non-taste of it. I has occasionally been in a salad or soup or something else I have ordered in a restaurant and I always think it is something nasty. 😯

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      • FofBW's avatar FofBW says:
        August 6, 2019 at 6:50 pm

        mmmmmm

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  13. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    August 6, 2019 at 8:56 pm

    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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  14. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    August 6, 2019 at 8:57 pm

    A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Gen. Flynn:

    Prayer to St. Michael

    St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
    be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
    May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
    and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
    by the power of God,
    thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
    who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.

    In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

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  15. Lucille's avatar Lucille says:
    August 6, 2019 at 9:58 pm

    PRAGER U VIDEO: THE CHARLOTTESVILLE LIE
    Did Trump really call neo-Nazis “very fine people?”
    August 7, 2019 – Prager University
    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274540/prager-u-video-charlottesville-lie-prager-university

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