Topic 31 of 88: l'alimento
Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (11:23) |
Host (KitchenManager)
that Italian food thang...what's your favorite dishes,
recipes, regions, styles, etcetera?
117 responses total.
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Response 1 of 117: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (14:07) * 5 lines
i make a v. nice lasagne, but i'm looking for suggestions on how to improve it.
also, how does one make spaghetii-bolognese more exciting?
hints? tips?
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Response 2 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (16:03) * 1 lines
Afraid I only know Mum's boer recipes. No Italian.
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Response 3 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (16:18) * 1 lines
post the recipes, Mike, then I can make suggestions...
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Response 4 of 117: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (16:57) * 15 lines
lasagne:
minced beef (enough for one person, not sure how much really. maybe 125g?)
one can of plum tomatoes (yeah yeah, tins, but i'm a poor student :)
garlic
dash of salt
freshly ground black pepper
pinch of sugar
mixed mediterranean herbs
all fried together then added to the lasagne dish with cheese sauce, pasta etc.
suggestions?
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Response 5 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (01:13) * 33 lines
my initial response is
a dab of butter, some minced onion, and a pinch of crushed red pepper flakes...
but, any of the following will work
(I don't know your likes and dislikes, so...)
FATS
a dab of butter
a drizzle of a good olive oil
VEGETABLES
minced onion
minced scallions
minced shallots
minced celery
fresh or dried mushrooms
grated carrots
diced red bell pepper (preferably roasted)
SPICES
pinch of sweet paprika
pinch of crushed red pepper flakes
pinch of ground white pepper
HERBS
additional oregano
fresh basil
fresh flat leaf (Italian) parsley
ETCETERA
splash of wine (white or red, your preference, should be full-bodied)
anything sound good yet?
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Response 6 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (01:15) * 1 lines
btw, what did you mean by cheese sauce?
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Response 7 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (02:00) * 1 lines
Men exchanging recipes - this is a definite first for me.
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Response 8 of 117: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (17:59) * 4 lines
i'm not very into vegetables in my lasagne, but i could try those in spaghetti sauce. i'll try the fat thing, although the meat itself is quite fatty, and both butter and olive oil are v. expensive in the UK. Especially Olive Oil! It's outrageous! the herbs and spices sound divine, and when i'm not so poor i'll definitely invest. and the wine similarly...mmm...it never occurred to me to put wine in before. *schlurp* :-)))
cheese sauce? lasagne: meat, pasta, cheese sauce, all in layers.
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Response 9 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (01:04) * 4 lines
what's in the cheese sauce?
(you could also add 3 to 5 g of minced pancetta...
or brush a layer of pesto onto the pasta...)
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Response 10 of 117: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (05:07) * 1 lines
it's just a packaged sauce, since I don't have the time/inclication/money to make my own. It's very nice, actually. i'm not a pesto man,I would probably leave that out. What's pancetta?
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Response 11 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (09:27) * 4 lines
in it's shortest definition: Italian bacon
finally figured out where I was confused with the cheese sauce:
most Americans use a cheese blend of some sort and meat sauce...
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Response 12 of 117: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Jul 22, 1998 (16:36) * 1 lines
Are we talking Cheez Whiz here, Mike? (*shudder*)
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Response 13 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Thu, Jul 23, 1998 (02:11) * 1 lines
He's a student - that explains it!
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Response 14 of 117: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Jul 24, 1998 (22:35) * 1 lines
Oh, yeah! I am now applauding Mike for cooking any lasagna. (clap, clap) Good for you, Mike, in the midst of fast food and vending machine hell.
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Response 15 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Sat, Jul 25, 1998 (02:10) * 1 lines
Absolutely!
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Response 16 of 117: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Tue, Sep 29, 1998 (21:51) * 5 lines
Belated response to this!
Today I cooked a bolognaise and it was the *best* I've ever managed. I've been trying hardeer ever since I had one that a friend made that was out of this world, and finally I got closer to that level of greatness today! Yay!
The trick, I think, was putting in a beef stock cube and putting a bit more sugar in than I noramlly would.
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Response 17 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (07:16) * 3 lines
Sugar and beef stock?????
°horrified gasp°
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Response 18 of 117: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (13:58) * 1 lines
it was *gorgeous*, it really was. I'd recommend it to everyone :-)
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Response 19 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (14:09) * 1 lines
And who recommended it to you?
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Response 20 of 117: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (15:54) * 3 lines
It was how my friend made his, and it was superb.
Tonight I'm having Cajun chicken and rice which should be nice :)
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Response 21 of 117: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (18:44) * 4 lines
had leftover 'clean out the fridge casserole'
rice, green chiles, monterey jack cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms and garlic...
mixed together only slightly better than haphazardly, baked and eaten
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Response 22 of 117: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (19:07) * 1 lines
sounds wild, stace :))
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Response 23 of 117: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (19:16) * 1 lines
the fact I regularly clean out my fridge or the fact I insist on cooking all the odds and ends together?
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Response 24 of 117: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (19:17) * 1 lines
the odds and ends together part - i never can do that. too bloody picky...guess it's about time i grew up :) *but* I did have a Chinese for the first time ever recently, so I'm still pretty impressed with myself at the moment :)
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Response 25 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Thu, Oct 1, 1998 (01:54) * 2 lines
HA-HA!!!! Your first Chinese meal, and you're 20? That is for me the equivalent of remaining a virgin until one's 50!
Do you at least make use of all the wonderful Indian restaurants you have in England?
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Response 26 of 117: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Thu, Oct 1, 1998 (15:00) * 1 lines
Soho = curry
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Response 27 of 117: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Thu, Oct 1, 1998 (19:18) * 1 lines
I actually had an Indian about a week later...but it was only tandoori chicken, which I've had before...I've got to say that I'm not very experimental with food, and I'm rather childishly picky. But, I'm trying to "branch out" a bit more :))
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Response 28 of 117: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 2, 1998 (00:17) * 2 lines
She gets pretty wild cleanin' that fridge!
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Response 29 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Oct 2, 1998 (05:37) * 3 lines
Who???
And what sort of things do you like, Mike? Pastas?
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Response 30 of 117: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 2, 1998 (07:19) * 3 lines
Stacey, that's who.
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Response 31 of 117: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Fri, Oct 2, 1998 (08:08) * 2 lines
huh?
(i must've really lost this thread!)
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Response 32 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Sat, Oct 3, 1998 (05:56) * 1 lines
No, Terry, Mike likes Michelles!
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Response 33 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Sat, Oct 3, 1998 (05:57) * 1 lines
Oh, no, now I understand! Silly me! You were answering my 'who?'. OH!
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Response 34 of 117: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sat, Oct 3, 1998 (06:32) * 3 lines
Hehe...good one, Riette :)
I am a big pasta fan, yeah, but I am getting in to other things :-)
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Response 35 of 117: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Sat, Oct 3, 1998 (12:13) * 1 lines
and her name is...
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Response 36 of 117: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sat, Oct 3, 1998 (16:08) * 5 lines
lol! :-)
Now don't be rude, stacey! However, I am feeling horny as hell today - it's terrible, cos I'm not going to see her for a fortnight...*damn!*
Trust me to get horny now :)
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Response 37 of 117: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Sat, Oct 3, 1998 (17:21) * 1 lines
Perhaps making lasagna would help to burn off some of that "energy"?
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Response 38 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Sun, Oct 4, 1998 (02:30) * 1 lines
Or even better: a quick wank!
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Response 39 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Oct 4, 1998 (17:54) * 1 lines
just not into the pasta water...
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Response 40 of 117: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Sun, Oct 4, 1998 (20:05) * 1 lines
or it might add that extra "pow" to your dish!
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Response 41 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Oct 5, 1998 (03:20) * 1 lines
Spaghetti Spermoso....
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Response 42 of 117: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Tue, Oct 6, 1998 (21:22) * 1 lines
Y.U.K!!!!!!! I just wrote her a sexy letter, instead :-) You lot are more disgusting than me, and I thought *I* was a pervert :-)
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Response 43 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Oct 7, 1998 (00:48) * 1 lines
Someone called?
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Response 44 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Oct 7, 1998 (04:29) * 1 lines
How do sexy letters go? 'My Darling, I wish I could give you a little breast pummel....' And then?
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Response 45 of 117: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Oct 7, 1998 (16:38) * 1 lines
Aren't they sick, Mike?
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Response 46 of 117: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Fri, Oct 9, 1998 (12:28) * 2 lines
*grin*
;
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Response 47 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Jul 4, 1999 (23:30) * 1 lines
wer, you were right!
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Response 48 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul 5, 1999 (02:17) * 1 lines
about?
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Response 49 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 5, 1999 (02:21) * 1 lines
all Boards leading back to the same topic. (Figure it out!)
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Response 50 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul 5, 1999 (02:24) * 3 lines
that!
I tried to warn you...
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Response 51 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 5, 1999 (02:26) * 1 lines
This and Pizza were my downfall today. Yes, you did.
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Response 52 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul 5, 1999 (02:33) * 3 lines
just join in...we all take turns,
don't you see...what would your
favorite Italian meal consist of?
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Response 53 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 5, 1999 (02:39) * 1 lines
Cannelloni(sp?) stuffed with ricotta, salad of mixed greens and tomatoes and onions with vinegar and oil dressing on the side. This is without thinking deeply. Tomorrow might bring new insight into my taste in this department.
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Response 54 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul 5, 1999 (02:50) * 1 lines
hmmm...
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Response 55 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 5, 1999 (02:55) * 1 lines
Is that a good hmmm... or a bad hmmm...? It has been a while. I make excellent spaghetti. People who do not eat it come here for mine!
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Response 56 of 117: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Mon, Jul 5, 1999 (16:13) * 3 lines
I'll be there!
(I normally DO eat spaghetti but I am now intrigued)
... where exactly do you live?
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Response 57 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 5, 1999 (17:20) * 1 lines
Hilo, Hawaii - on the Big Island where the volcano is always erupting =)
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Response 58 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Jul 6, 1999 (00:27) * 2 lines
that hmmm indicated a lack of anything else
to say at the moment...
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Response 59 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jul 6, 1999 (22:10) * 2 lines
Ah! Yes! We all have our moments, and as host of this board, you are entitled
to more of them than we.
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Response 60 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Jul 6, 1999 (22:20) * 2 lines
actually, I'm entitled to maintain as many moments
as possible in rapid succession...
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Response 61 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Jul 6, 1999 (22:22) * 2 lines
whoever their author or owner...
(although, the more the better!!!)
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Response 62 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jul 6, 1999 (22:50) * 1 lines
So I would gather...ah, but we cannot all be hosts and we are not all cute, so you get mine!
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Response 63 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jul 7, 1999 (00:43) * 1 lines
you can be a host...
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Response 64 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Jul 7, 1999 (00:50) * 1 lines
I thought the idea was to help Terry...!
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Response 65 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Tue, Jul 13, 1999 (13:54) * 2 lines
ha-ha! Some hosts know exactly what you're talking about....
No wonder the poor man is frequently driven to nekkid girls and booze. Yeah, Kitchen Man, I know just what you're going to say - it doesn't take inspiration does it? Okay, stupid point. I'll just sit down, eath my roasted jellyfish and shut up.
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Response 66 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jul 13, 1999 (18:42) * 3 lines
Ree, check out http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/geo/all
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Response 67 of 117: Host (KitchenManager) * Tue, Jul 13, 1999 (19:05) * 4 lines
and, Marcia is now a host too...
ah, Ree, your back and picking on me already...
seems just like old times doesn't it?
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Response 68 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Jul 14, 1999 (14:22) * 4 lines
It's great, Marcia. I LUUUUUV your background. Is geography what you do for a living?
Wer, just doing my job - - - see, I know what keeps you happy....
°grin°
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Response 69 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Jul 14, 1999 (15:00) * 1 lines
(Ummmm...so do I....) I am a researcher and editor and volunteer (disaster relief and fundraising for the UH at Hilo. I would have become a tasty and saucy (keeping on topic) Geologist had I been able handle the math, so I became a tech writer instead. My son is a Geologist. My degree was in Earth Sciences and Journalism.
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Response 70 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Jul 14, 1999 (15:02) * 1 lines
BTW, thanks for the kind comments. Wer asked what I wanted for wallpaper and I sent him off with chisel and hammer for grey limestone. He came back with polished marble, and I was in love!
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Response 71 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (10:49) * 1 lines
Too cool! That must be such an interesting career. My brother, who still lives in Africa, is studying to become a tour guide. It involves alot of geology and geography and stuff like that. I have no idea about any of it, but he tells me the most interesting stuff.
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Response 72 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Jul 16, 1999 (00:21) * 1 lines
Your brother will be put on point duty sometime - just as my son was when he was a Park Ranger for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. That meant, when he posted out in the field to answer tourists' questions, the most common one was, "Where is the eruption?" Obscuring the entire sky behind him was a cinder cone with a huge fountain of molten lava hurling itself into the sky and down the flanks of the cone with the most tremendous roar. His job was to turn and point to the eruption. Thus, point duty!
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Response 73 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Jul 16, 1999 (17:13) * 1 lines
Gawd!!! I hope people will never ask my brother stupid things like that. He will not take kindly to it; afraid tact doesn't exactly run in the family...
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Response 74 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Jul 16, 1999 (17:29) * 2 lines
That is just the beginning of the fun things he will be asked. David was asked if the Island was completely surrounged by water; If the ocean on the other side was the same one as on this side; and when he was a Ranger at the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, someone asked him if the ship's bell had floated to the surface or if they had to go down to get it. (Realize a Battleship's bell is a big solid bronze item weighing a great deal.) One must stifle the need to say anything untoward and just make me
tal notes for discussion when the rangers all get together to swap stories! Tell your brother to save money on charm school and learn to say "fantastic" instead of Bull$h**
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Response 75 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (01:38) * 2 lines
Good God, are people really that stupid??? It would be hilarious if it weren't so damned pathetic. I mean, why bother to put in those years of study if people are going to ask one nonsense like that?? I'll be sure to tell him though - he's bound to break into fits of laughter.
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Response 76 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (09:56) * 1 lines
are people really that stupid...if only it wasn't so...
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Response 77 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (12:50) * 1 lines
To be charitable, we are a tourist destination, and along with their problems and work, vacationers usually leave their brains behind. We try to keep them from hurting themselves like benevolent spirits.
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Response 78 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (13:01) * 1 lines
can we have a vote for natural selection please?
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Response 79 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (16:46) * 1 lines
I've never believed in that. The very fact that I am alive proves that selection has nothing to do with Nature, but everything to do with printing errors.
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Response 80 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (17:00) * 3 lines
If natural selection means too weak to breed, I'll agree with wer, but these touri (plural of touriststs)either did not know about their being selected for the current list of Darwin Awards, or were not literate. Scarily enough, these people were being followed by tubby little miniature copies of themselves.
Ree, Dear, let us do that dictionary!
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Response 81 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (19:22) * 2 lines
maybe ya'll can teach somebody something useful
that they ain't learned yet!
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Response 82 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (19:28) * 1 lines
That is precisely the attitude I take and that is why I took on that Geo conference. I keep thinking no one is beyond teaching and inspiring, so I keep plugging at it.
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Response 83 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Sun, Jul 18, 1999 (15:57) * 1 lines
Good thing, Marcia. I don't know of a single useful thing that I could possibly teach another person. 'Part from that plugging-thang, that is...
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Response 84 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Jul 18, 1999 (16:12) * 1 lines
?
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Response 85 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Jul 18, 1999 (16:19) * 3 lines
Ree, Dear, I am sure you could teach a lot...you have a huge conference on art, and if men were not reading this, too, I could suggest some other things in which I consider you an expert.
I, on the other hand have rocks in my head...
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Response 86 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Jul 18, 1999 (16:35) * 1 lines
wrong gender again...
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Response 87 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (01:24) * 1 lines
No dear, you are just a tad too young to know these things...we would not like to wander too far afield from the ante pasto and linguini.
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Response 88 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (01:26) * 1 lines
Oh...if my opinion matters, you are precisely the correct gender!
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Response 89 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (03:57) * 1 lines
Whatever that may be! Wer is such a feminist, one can never tell.
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Response 90 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (12:59) * 1 lines
I am pretty sure I know....and he is the perfect gender and what a specimen he is (as much as I can tell from half way across the Pacific!) Just let me asssure you he is not of the XX variety.
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Response 91 of 117: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (13:03) * 4 lines
now... how exactly am I to interpret those Xs??
*grin*
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Response 92 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (13:26) * 1 lines
*Grin* knowingly. Out here they are chromosomes. Other places we can define the Xs as we wish to. (I wish the host would awaken and talk to us. It is lonely in here without his pithy remarks!)
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Response 93 of 117: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (13:30) * 2 lines
oh l'alimento of our conference...
awaken... awaKEN... AWAKEN...
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Response 94 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (16:34) * 2 lines
He can DO that???
°grin°
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Response 95 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (17:34) * 1 lines
I shall investigate and report back....*grin*
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Response 96 of 117: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (18:06) * 2 lines
*cackle*
(now he's just to embarassed to comment!)
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Response 97 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (19:06) * 1 lines
I think it is more that he is working today and has not posted at all...but, when he gets home I am sure we will hear from him *giggle*
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Response 98 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (23:35) * 5 lines
thank you, ladies!
can each of you see my swelled head from
your current residence?
(and with help like this, I can do just about anything!!!)
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Response 99 of 117: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Tue, Jul 20, 1999 (10:44) * 1 lines
but you may need help reducing the swelling???
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Response 100 of 117: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Jul 20, 1999 (11:56) * 1 lines
I'm sure it will go away of it's own accord...
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Response 101 of 117: Autumn (autumn) * Tue, Jul 20, 1999 (12:11) * 1 lines
Unfortunately, it never lasts for long...
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Response 102 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Tue, Jul 20, 1999 (13:59) * 1 lines
If would if people could tell each other they're gorgeous ALL the time.
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Response 103 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jul 20, 1999 (15:02) * 1 lines
Since inner beauty lasts forever, I think that is truly a great idea, and a wonderful morale booster. You are some of the most beautiful people I have ever met. Thank you.
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Response 104 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (03:51) * 2 lines
°glowing°
And you are the kindest and most knowledgable, and sound just like the place you live in.
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Response 105 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (14:48) * 1 lines
°beaming°....°hugs°
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Response 106 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (16:11) * 1 lines
And as such, I'll ask you something really stupid. What does 'l'alimento' mean???
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Response 107 of 117: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (04:33) * 1 lines
Italian for "food stuffs". Italian food stores are called "Alimentari".
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Response 108 of 117: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (04:34) * 1 lines
Oh. I spoke out of turn. Sorry, ladies!
Topic 31 of 88 [food]: l'alimento
Response 109 of 117: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (07:11) * 17 lines
Anyway, go south and look for your self, Riëtte!
Florence (Firenze) is not too far from where you live, and as well as Siena worth visiting. Especially for people who care about art history... intrigues... feudes... and good food. In the region around it, the Toscana, many artists give courses. And there are hot springs!
While in the area, do not miss Pisa and Ravenna. I did. I regret it.
While driving around the motorways, stop at least at every second service station for a café (another expression for espresso), or a cappucino. And sample the wonderful sandwiches!
Nice alimentari are the sun-dried tomatoes, the olives, the Parmigiano cheese (if freshly grated), ham from Parma (sliced so thin you can read our postings through it), Pesto (a mix of herbs, olive oil and Parmegiano, perhaps even pine seeds, that is e.g. stirred into cooked pasta to provide for a simple, fast and delicious dish; also nice as sandwich spread - very thinly spread!) and of course the very nice pasta. Not to forget the extremely superb olive oils (even IBM uses them in their commercials thes
days...)!
Amaretto comes from Florence, too.
May I recommend a wine? Be sure to sample some Vernacchia, grown around the small town of San Gimignano (thus called Vernacchia Di San Gimignano). It is a wonderful dry white wine that is quite an experience and contrast to all the Chianti, which is rather heavy and not be as becoming.
(For those who get an allergy around Germans:
Do not visit during Summer. Fall is quite enjoyable, Spring (Easter!) a treat.)
Topic 31 of 88 [food]: l'alimento
Response 110 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (10:12) * 4 lines
Alexander, light of my life, WHAT do you think I DO over here? Go around with my eyes shut? I'm an artist - for me not to have seen Florence and Pisa and Rome would be like a clown who never visited the circus. And I eat spaghetti with pesto sauce every other night, even when I'm not in Italy, I order a crate of heavy red whine from the different little towns just across the border every year (don't care for white wine), and when I feel like Italian food and have no money, I just go to Lugano or Ascona
or wherever in the south - food there is just as good. But ALL that doesn't mean I know the word 'l'alimento'. Sure, I knew it had something to do with food (otherwise it wouldn't be here, right), but it might as well have meant 'cook' - so, I thought I'd ask. See?
°shaking head, grinning°
I don't know - male logic!
Topic 31 of 88 [food]: l'alimento
Response 111 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (12:27) * 1 lines
Good Morning (at least in Hawaii) Riette and Alexander. I am afraid my sources would not have given you a better answer to your question than his. I do envy that lovely trip you are taking...and (for the record, there is no such thing as a stupid question.)
Topic 31 of 88 [food]: l'alimento
Response 112 of 117: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (13:10) * 3 lines
R., I just thought anybody who has ever been anywhere in Italy would have seen the shop signs all over spelling it out.
Please excuse me. My fault.
Topic 31 of 88 [food]: l'alimento
Response 113 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (14:22) * 2 lines
No, I actually didn't notice! ha-ha! How embarassing. I think there are 2 reasons for that, the first being the obvious: I usually live on McDonald's from the 2nd day of holiday onwards, since I spend too much money on other useless things. And the second is, I think, that I tend to notice places only when they look strange. For instance I can't remember looking at the names of shops and restaurants when I was in Cyprus, but I vividly remember a sports shop in Nicosea (spelling????), called 'Athlete
s Foot'. Almost make me wet my pants!
Topic 31 of 88 [food]: l'alimento
Response 114 of 117: Autumn (autumn) * Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (23:50) * 3 lines
They're a huge chain here! But I digress.
Hugs to all my fellow springeurs! You are beautiful.
Topic 31 of 88 [food]: l'alimento
Response 115 of 117: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (23:57) * 1 lines
Hugs, Autumn. One great thing about hugs is when you give one you usually get one =)
Topic 31 of 88 [food]: l'alimento
Response 116 of 117: Autumn (autumn) * Fri, Jul 23, 1999 (00:00) * 1 lines
It's hard not to reciprocate a hug, isn't it?
Topic 31 of 88 [food]: l'alimento
Response 117 of 117: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Jul 23, 1999 (04:00) * 1 lines
Virtually impossible, I'd say.
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