Dear Ponine,

It's really Ok...I had my brow sewn back on with this thread, and Bemo cleaned up just fine. It was a long time ago, before any of you sweet folks came along to make everything just right.

Smooch,

The Stoat XXX. and X.

PS/ The cheese is happy too...

Hello! I hate that. My apartment is mostly quiet, but the area outside is on the way from the train station to the university, so I occasionally get drunk people wandering by making a racket.

When I was growing up my mom would fry a lb of bacon (that's a little less than half a Kg to Lash and Stoat ;) ) and then fry the eggs in the bacon fat to feed the family. I'm sure the amount of extra bacon fat riding on the eggs isn't all that much more than what you get by eating several slices if the bacon anyway. It's the saving of the extra fat in a coffee can and then adding it to all sorts of food that made the difference in our diet. We must have ate a lb a month (thats 454 grams to Lash and Stoat)!

I use the MO a lot. One nice thing to do is take chicken (legs and thighs bone on, skin off) and cook them about half to 3/4 way, then place on the Barb-B-Q on high heat. Cook a few minutes then turn. Cook a few more, then apply Barby sauce. Cook on low two minutes on each side, re-sauce, cook two minutes on each side. You can make this chicken on a weeknight in just about 20 minutes instead of an hour, and you are much less likely to have that nasty raw flesh next to the bone). NEVER cook breast in the MO, unless you plan to add it cut up to soup.

I also use the MO to cook frozen ingredients before adding to a dish. I cut up things like onions, bell peppers, soup veggies, carrots & onion & bell peppers (I can't spell the french name for this but sounds like Mira Puwa). Also, I bake potatos in it, scoop out the insides, mix in cheese, milk, onion, bacon bits, salt and pepper, then return to the skins and add grated cheddar on top and put in the oven to warm back up and brown the top. Twice baked potatos in 1/3 the time!

Mirepoix. :D (old catering college Culinary French kicking in again - you never really forget, do you?)

Dear RStar,

Mira Puwa !!! ROFL !!! That's a scream...Bear and I just swam past an island of the same name, and I swear to God that Not-Henry or John Locke shifted it there. (I hope you're up to speed with LOST..or you'll be ...ummm... lost with the reference, but even if you are following it, you'll be lost anyway).

Big hugs,

The Stoat.

L.O.S.T. = Literate Other Story Tomorrow.

(...and hope to God the continuity hangs together before the series ends, but the bike is getting the death wobbles as we speak).

Still, better with than without.

...and I hate Jack's (fake) beard. And the one on his face ain't much better !!!

Hey wait on...who put this black underline beneath my post...if I'd wanted a black underline, I'd have underlined the post myself...

I tried to edit it out, but it just keeps coming back...what is this?

National Black Underline Day?

...next thing you know it'll be bloody

National Italics Day or even

National Arial Day.

Sheesh.

Just to add my family to the eggs cooked in bacon grease...

I always thought it was a southern thang? Like, sausage in a biscuit with strawberry jam?

{oh, and I am soooo proud of you guys!! I signed on after I am not sure how long and there were 100 new posts!!! :snap: }

I had to endure the Opening act twice,so I'll share the pain with everyone.

http://www.nicolacongiu.com/

Great show anyway - the encore was just amazing with both bands on stage doing 3 songs from each band. Rockin' Down the Highway, Free, Takin' it to the Streets, Does Anybody Really Know What Time it is?, Listen to the Music, and 25 or 6 to 4. :snap:

Not sure I've ever seen it in print, I didn't even know it was one word! I couldn't even google it without knowing how to spell it, and I just got a bunch of french sites when I tried.

Thanks!

Are you sure that island wasn't St. Puwa? :D

Yes, I do follow Lost, so I got the references.

Hugs back at ya!

~Bob

OMG!! OMG!! OMG!!

I just got back from the grocery store.... Flaky-Flicks are back!!! I saw them! Right there in the cookie isle!! A glorious, chocolatey-wafery ghost from the past!

I bought a package for frantic mass consumption!!

OMG, I'm sooooo happy!!!