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Researching History's Mysteries
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Western New York State
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I'm going to send the CM writers a mean letter! How dare they!
Yes. Loads of real sleuthing. My job is fun. Think I may do a true crime for October and Jan issue of our quarterly. A Halloween murder to be exact. |
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The usual suspect
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
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Wow, HS. This is really something. How come they were allowed to build a library over a cemetary in the first place? Has a new cemetary been made available for the bodies discovered?
Some years back, a cemetary in Joburg had to be moved. There was such an outcry over that, but it was moved anyway. At least there, people knew which body belonged to which headstone. ![]() Now, after all that, we need chocolate.
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gulf coast of FL
Posts: 13,906
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Gail, may I just say that your logic is flawless.
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Researching History's Mysteries
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Western New York State
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I'm off to work soon, so I'll hear what happened with the library vote. I was waiting til after that to discuss the tombstone thing with the village mayor. Didn't want to call attention to the ones set up behind the building. I figured curious people would go back and look at the memorial marker behind the building when they came to vote and see the other ones there too. I didn't want the library board to know they were there yet and remove them. I'll keep you all posted. |
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grump
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 1,620
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This week's chocolate purchase: sugar-free, fat-free fudge bars. Hot here, so it had to be cold, and I couldn't find any fat-free ice cream, dang it.
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ideas are floating where they will
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: where you can put sugar sprinkles on lots of things
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Fat free ice cream, or fat free enough ice cream is called ice milk. You could try sherbet. But before you go for fat free, consider what you're doing to the moment and to the point of buying ice cream.
I mean really. |
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grump
Join Date: Aug 2011
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I have a medical condition that requires I limit my fat intake to 25 grams a day. Wish I didn't! But I do.
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gulf coast of FL
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Mmm. Ice cream.
I somehow, alarmingly, gained a big 7ish pounds. By which I mean 8. I've been working hard to shed these extra pounds, but they're a stubborn beast.
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pretending to be awake
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Berkshire, UK
Posts: 2,014
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I have a recipe for a chocolate sherbet - it comes out quite like granita (which, if you have ever been to Italy, you will know is heaven in a bowl on a hot day). Let me know if you want it! It requires an ice-cream machine though.
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knows a hawk from a handsaw
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Elsinore
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Yesterday was my sis-in-laws birthday - today is the celebration lunch. I'm at home with a lurgy. Sigh . . . still, I might get some writing done!
HJ about the weight loss - have you tried having soup once a day? Home made soup so you can control what is in the soup? I like soup. Simple recipe: various vegetables cleaned and chopped. Several pints of water. Add vegs to water and leave to simmer until vegs are softish. Season to taste - a soupçon of salt and/or pepper. Eat. Yummy. You can add pulses and beans - but ones that you have prepared yourself. Some tinned beans/pulses have sugar added.
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gulf coast of FL
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That's a good idea, Shakes. If only it weren't a million degrees here.
But I love bean soup... Mmm... black bean soup...
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pretending to be awake
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Berkshire, UK
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My favourite soup is made by first roasting a turkey and then eating it. Then you make a soup from the carcass.
Obviously this doesn't really fit with the whole "healthy" thing, but it's damn tasty.
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gulf coast of FL
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Hee. It doesn't fit my whole "vegan" thing, either.
Give me black beans any day!
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knows a hawk from a handsaw
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Elsinore
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If you put the soup through a blender it becomes a smoothie! And you can drink them cold. Spice it up with some ginger or whatever!
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grump
Join Date: Aug 2011
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I think cold chicken broth/soup tastes good. I guess that is only one of about a thousand things that makes me a little odd. When I was a kid, I loved drinking the brine from an olive jar. That's probably a lot odd.
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pretending to be awake
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Berkshire, UK
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That has major potential as a seasoning for chips (fries, for the americans).
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gulf coast of FL
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Cold bean soup... Um... mebbe not.
But I had a fruit soup (some fancy name, I forget) that was cold the other day and it was really good. It had chopped up veggies in it, too.My boy drinks the pickle juice. He loves it! ::shudder:: |
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Lost in mental space.
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Someplace else.
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Lentils!
I've got some quinoa with lentils just waiting for me to add vegetables to them.
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grump
Join Date: Aug 2011
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I love the idea of quinoa, but it gets stuck in my teeth! I feel like I'm picking birdseed out for days afterwards. Now if I only had some nice olive-brine mouthwash for that....
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gulf coast of FL
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Mmm... lentils. We had lentil tacos last night. Love.
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The usual suspect
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Posts: 5,161
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While you lot up there are frolicking the sun, it's freezing down here.
Second big cold front has just hit and they're predicting rain and possibly snow. (Snow is relatively unheard of in Jo'burg.) Soup is just about the perfect thing right now. I've done my grocery shopping and I bought potatoes, leeks and butternut. Now the decision is: Leek and potato soup with rye bread - or - butternut soup with sesame seed bread. (I bought a packet of sesame seeds just in case.) Oh. And I bought chocolate too.
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standing on head, typing one-handed...
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Ireland
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How strange, that is my favourite soup too. I'm also partial to turkey. (with ham, and meat stuffing, and roasties... )Thundery wet weather here at the moment, perfect for home-made soup. |
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Hopes to one day write for food.
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: In the foothills of nowhere...
Posts: 1,430
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![]() Some days you just break my heart with the things you say...
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Making my own sunshine
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Gulf coast of FL
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I'm back from my usual Friday trip over the bridge. Managed to stop for Whole Foods, at which I procured both quinoa AND chocolate.
Life is good. ETA: Cross-posted with Doc. You're going to love this one!
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ideas are floating where they will
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: where you can put sugar sprinkles on lots of things
Posts: 1,725
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If you use your usual receipt for tomato based soup and add a fourth a cup more water you can serve it cold. At least it works with many tomato bases soups.
There's a name for cold tomato with chopped veggies soup - gespo something. I think it's Spanish. Gail!!!! how do you spell that soup's name? |
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