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Tundra # 15
Hmm. Tough women, tough cats. That's some lifestory, Quill.— April 25, 2010 12:46 p.m.
Wake Up, Speak Up
I've got no Surfpuppy in this fight, either! :) Daniels I thought so too, only needed more rope to hang it good and tight. If you see a new account with the name AngelFish, that would not be me. ;)— April 25, 2010 12:28 p.m.
Simple Food
Thanks, nan, especially thanks for sharing your wonderful memories, they are perfect treasures. (((((nan))))) Love the recipes, keep them coming. I bet you are an awesome cook!!! :) Will share the recipe for homemade flour tortillas in another thread.— April 25, 2010 12:26 p.m.
Just Tell Me What You Want
James Spader has that wonderfully creepy sexy vibe, doesn't he?— April 25, 2010 11:39 a.m.
Any Wednesday Morning
Well girl, it couldn't have been much worse than the club I used to spend much of my time in. I should say, in my groupie days, as we've discussed before, I was far-ranging in my travels, and when I worked downtown, there were some nicer places to hang out at after work. But when I got down to serious clubbing, I used to go to this place in National City, the Trophy Lounge. Serious jammed pack booty music blasting meat market, waitresses all Filipinas with boob jobs in daisy dukes, WestPac widows grinding it on the floor with sailors on leave, OMG crazy drama. I remember when I was working on a government project some years later and this nice older man and I were in his car going to a training site and we drove by the Trophy and he pointed at it and said, Don't ever go in there, nice ladies like you would hate it.— April 25, 2010 9:21 a.m.
Tipping Them and Tipping Them
Well, I tell ya something, SurfPup my dear, those parents are not far from wrong. There is an alcohol ban at Memorial Park. On Sundays when many of the adult leagues play, whether soccer or baseball or softball or whatever, after the games they break out the beers and sit there and drink for hours. The next morning, when the parents are walking with their children through the park to take them to the local elementary, and when the preteen-age kids are walking through the park to the middle school, they are making their way through litter blowing all over the place, overflowing trash cans, torn empty cartons of Corona circling the cans. I personally don't think that's a good thing for the mothers and small children to have to contemplate early on a Monday morning, the filth and leftovers of drunken grown men who live and work in this community, and I don't think it sets a very good example for at-risk youngsters; this is not what I consider role model conduct. And that's that there is an alcohol ban at the park! With signs posted! Now, do I want anybody arrested for drinking a beer at a birthday party at a park, or even those guys who drink all that beer after a game? No, and I don't think the police would do that. The alcohol ban aims to reduce to a manageable level the people who want to get together and drink themselves stupid by ticketing the worst of the offenders.— April 25, 2010 9:12 a.m.
Simple Food
I enjoyed that book, Like Water For Chocolate, because of the way it was written, like a Mexican soap opera, but also because of the recipes offered in each chapter. I always was tempted to try a few of them. The ox-tail soup was especially tasty-sounding. I did try it once and it did come out well.— April 25, 2010 8:15 a.m.
Simple Food
SurfPuppy, for you my special guacamole and tortillas chips! xxx— April 25, 2010 7:58 a.m.
Simple Food
The hated wheels, LOL http://www.racconto.com/images/Rac-Rotelle.jpg I've made the typical long noodles, as pictured in the soup, I've made the shells and stars and elbows. But I will NEVER make the wheels, or the alphabets! My whole childhood comes back, too many bad memories.— April 25, 2010 7:58 a.m.
Simple Food
Daniels, oh ye of the keen eye and mind. I think the reason that commercial was effective was that enough people share that feeling of not being made for that "fine life" style of dining. People want the familiar food they've grown up with; it's fear and inadequacy, sure, to some extent, but there's some real life experience in there, too. For myself, I've been in enough of those restaurants (catered events, too) to know that the food is intimidating in presentation and not so great in flavor and expensive. I personally think it is phony and pretentious to put a few exotic ingredients in a chicken salad, plate it with a few stripes of dressing, and then charge twenty-five bucks for it. Give me a steak and potato at Sizzler's, and I'm happy. Fideo is a type of pasta that comes in different shapes, and is cooked anywhere from semi-dry to an ingredient in soup. Here is a picture of dry fideo in the packages. I've used those three brands. Fideo is pretty cheap, four packages for a dollar. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FfcExS5YVaQ/SgtNkuwcn5I… Here is fideo prepared as soup: http://othersideofthetortilla.files.wordpress.com…— April 25, 2010 7:53 a.m.