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Gee D
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Homesickness so often shows itself in longing for particular foods -- I have South African friends in the UK and Antipodes who write about craving biltong, bobotie, Mrs Ball's Chutney and boerewors (a spiced sausage). The taste of home.
Mrs Ball's Chutney is available in supermarkets here as are the sausages and dried meats you mention - perhaps neither quite the style or quality you're used to in RSA.
BL, you'll probably come to appreciate the extra height as you step out of the SUV - you just swing around in the seat and the ground's where your feet are. The same getting in and no stooping either. My father bought a well-known small one 20 or more years ago for that reason. Both he and my mother appreciated it very much.
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I had Uber ride in one of those cubes on wheels a few months ago. I was surprised how comfortable it was, don't know if that was a feature of the particular model I was in. Also easy to get in and out as you mention. My sister's Hyundai is awkward, son's Megane is fine.
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For the making of marmalade, we have transferred our loyalties to the slow cooker. Made some lovely orange-based brandy and whisky marmalades last winter. I was given a huge bag of mandarins yesterday, so there is a new recipe to be tried, probably after church tomorrow. We also have lemons and limes in stock, so I'm considering that as a variant. The great advantage is that the jam doesn't scorch, and in the case of the orange recipe, doesn't even require water, just the flesh, peel and sugar which gels nicely.
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Slow cooker marmalade sounds wonderful. Is there any chance of a recipe share?
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Originally posted by MaryLouise:
Homesickness so often shows itself in longing for particular foods -- I have South African friends in the UK and Antipodes who write about craving biltong, bobotie, Mrs Ball's Chutney and boerewors (a spiced sausage). The taste of home.
While I was living in Belfast, I became pregnant with my first child. I developed an intense craving for cranberry juice, which was completely unknown in Belfast at the time. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Clarence, I will post some recipe links in Heaven once I find out whether the mandarin recipe works as well as the other.
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Marmalade, anybody?
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Grapefruit marmalade -- what a lovely thought. Unfortunately, grapefruit is contra-indicated for just about every drug taken to deal with diabetes, no matter how mild the diabetes.
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Marmalade would be o.k. if it didn't have pieces of peel in it, but I guess then it wouldn't be marmalade.
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Keillor used to make delicious lemon marmalade, but apparently they've discontinued it.
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Marmalade would be o.k. if it didn't have pieces of peel in it, but I guess then it wouldn't be marmalade.
Wilkins of Tiptree make orange marmalade without bits. It's available by mail-order, but whether they can export it to Foreign Parts™ may be another matter.
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MaryLouise
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You're right GeeD, many South African favourites are imported and available, but often more expensive and without the context. The craving is often bigger than the food itself.
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Gee D
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And very understandable.
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Clarence
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Marmalade is sticky, doesn't know whether to taste like petrol or treacle, is consequently horrible, and makes the baby Jesus cry.
Just saying. Not opinionated at all. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Well, FD would agree with you. So all the marmalade in our house is mine, all mine.
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Originally posted by Clarence:
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Originally posted by Zappa:
Marmalade is sticky, doesn't know whether to taste like petrol or treacle, is consequently horrible, and makes the baby Jesus cry.
Just saying. Not opinionated at all.
Well, FD would agree with you. So all the marmalade in our house is mine, all mine.
FD and I are persons of fine taste
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I happen to agree with Zappa and FD, so all the marmalade in the house belongs to TP, his mother, or Paddington Bear, depending on who gets to the fridge first.
Mind you, I feel the same way about jam - awful waste of fruit.
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Grapefruit interferes with a surprising range of medication, including some contraceptive pills, diabetic (as mentioned above) and some blood pressure meds. A pharmacist told me that it prevents some medication working, but potentiates others. I've often wondered if those properties could be used in some positive ways.
The plumber has been and gone and a shiny new hot water cylinder is in place, now I just need the electrician to connect it to the power supply and the bloke to come and install the shower dome and I will have burnt through the best part of $2,000. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) . I'm trying to prepare my house so at when I retire next year I will need to spend less money on emergency maintenance - fingers crossed!
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The batch of marmalade I made on Saturday was definitely Not My Best – it was indeed sticky, though it was set well enough. I just wanted to do some useful things while I can (no date yet for the deferred surgery)but I was pretty uncomfortable by the end of the day. My usual marmalade is a clear jelly with small pieces in it.
I do make lime marmalade for those with stickers on their meds. I've never stopped eating grapefruit marmalade and it hasn't done any harm. When I confessed to one GP she said 'Spread it thin then' but a later one just laughed. But my pharmacist said that over a good many years at least two customers have had serious reactions.
I love my breakfast, always starting with a locally grown orange. There are still a few valencias but the first navels are in the shops – as well as lots of Aussie ones, which I won't buy.
I'd better get it ready and then off to bed.
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Mind you, I feel the same way about jam - awful waste of fruit.
Oh, yes ... though back when I could eat icecream (without stacking on 30 kgs just by looking at it) i did like jam on that.
My first wife at one stage became partial to whisky on iceream. I was a little shocked to find large doses of Islay Mist (etc) violated in so terrible a way ... ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif) ![[brick wall]](graemlins/brick_wall.gif) ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Well, I had the whole batch (10 Jars) and a few unused jars, on a very unstable wheeled bed table, which I turned round rather carelessly in order to trundle them to the cupboard.
I think there are 3-4 jars, and a couple of empty ones, saved.
Pollyanna says: a good thing it was a disappointing batch.
And isn't it a mercy we have cork tiles instead of carpet.
I'm only sorry two of my eight Tang jars broke. When we were first married, 49 years ago, we had Tang for our breakfast drink, and I've always used those for our/my own marmalade.
Have a nice day.
My day can only get better.
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Banner Lady
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Spending time with my eldest granddaughter today - a rare treat. She has a very enquiring mind and a rather dramatic way of presenting information, so the day will no doubt be entertaining.
Yesterday I had to make a dental appointment for my mother. I did enjoy the reaction of the receptionist after she enquired my mother's DOB. After "Could you please say that again?" and "Really?" she finished with "Well, that's impressive!" Not sure if she was referring to the fact that mum is 99 or that she has any teeth left to look at, but I am quite sure that by midday tomorrow the mater and I will both be in need of a nanna nap. Mum is starting to get muddled a bit, so tomorrow's appointment will be challenging to navigate.
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Most unfortunately, Rexory and Dark Knight were late scratchings from lunch yesterday. However, Jugular and AdamPater were both in fine form.
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MaryLouise
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Zappa, I have a teetotal friend who took a Cordon Bleu cooking course and decided that cooking with wine and liqueurs was 'sophisticated'. She plonks at least half a bottle of sweet sherry into desserts and makes an orange sauce that has enough unvolatilised Cointreau to knock out a grown man. She doesn't eat these dishes herself but serves them up to guests with the idea that 'some more of what you fancy can't go wrong'.
GG, so sorry to hear about that and the loss of the Tang jars.
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As promised, the orange brandy marmalade recipe is posted in the recipe thread in Heaven. It works just as well with a good blended Scotch [never single malt!!]
The mandarin marmalade recipe is still under trial. We have two slow cookers, and my wife made the first batch in the larger one, which didn't seem to get hot enough, so that batch was finished on the stove. I will try again in a day or so in our smaller cooker, which has been successful with other recipes.
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Huia
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GG I read your post about the Tang jars, now I have the jingle, Start everyday with a Tang as an earworm
I had the first shower with water heated by my new cylinder this morning - pure bliss. ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif) The temperature is set higher, so the water is warmer and the volume has also improved. In addition the temperature control is easier, so the water doesn't go from freezing cold to burning hot with the slightest adjustment as it previously did.
I'm getting a shower dome too, which will lessen the amount of steam in the bathroom. I've always preferred a bath, and wouldn't buy a house without one, but I am beginning to be persuaded that showers can be almost as enjoyable - apart from the fact that you can't read in the shower.
If I had realised it could be this much better I would have got the cylinder earlier. It was well worth the money.
I am impressed yet again, by the woman in the office at the plumbing firm - it she were in charge of the Christchurch rebuild, everything would be sorted by now - AND she can translate plumbers' language into plain English - she's a gem, and one of the main reasons the firm has had my repeat business.
Huia
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Clarence
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
I'm only sorry two of my eight Tang jars broke. When we were first married, 49 years ago, we had Tang for our breakfast drink, and I've always used those for our/my own marmalade.
GG
I hope the day did improve GG. It's awful when a little piece of history goes.
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We echo what Clarence and others have said.
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Originally posted by MaryLouise:
Zappa, I have a teetotal friend who took a Cordon Bleu cooking course and decided that cooking with wine and liqueurs was 'sophisticated'. She plonks at least half a bottle of sweet sherry into desserts and makes an orange sauce that has enough unvolatilised Cointreau to knock out a grown man. She doesn't eat these dishes herself but serves them up to guests with the idea that 'some more of what you fancy can't go wrong'.
A while ago, a shippie told about a woman who never drank but somehow had a bottle of Jack Daniels. She came across a recipe using sweet potatoes and Jack Daniels and decided to make it to take to a potluck. Since she had had the Jack Daniels for years, she assumed that it had deteriorated. She put in several times the amount that the recipe called for. The dish was very well received, but afterwards people wondered why they felt woozy.
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Hope all those nifty NZ bookshelf holders held!
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My morning has not been good. Not on the scale of GG's broken Tang jars but along those lines. I had planned on using five spice powder in a dish tonight so I bought another jar in grocery order.
Rathrer than put it in my handy pantry/storeroom only to get it out again, I left it on the kitchen bench.As i put a new liner in the rubbish bin, I bumped the jar off.
Tiny shards of thick glass all over the tiles and also on the carpet at end of lounge. Kitchen and lounge area here is all in one. The carpet had just been vacuumed a few minutes before.
Another vacuuming needed, the floor needs to be washed in kitchen and the whole area smells strongly of five spice powder. As do my clean warm clothes. I think a vast cloud of smelly powder must have risen in the air and settled on me and lounge furniture.
Why wasn't it the fresh star anise I also bougght? That was a packet, not a jar.
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Originally posted by Mr Curly:
Most unfortunately, Rexory and Dark Knight were late scratchings from lunch yesterday. However, Jugular and AdamPater were both in fine form.
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Very sorry to miss you, Curls.
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The dental trip passed uneventfully, though it needed both TP and I to wrangle all the parking, path and door navigating necessary for smooth access and egress. Mum sailed through it, and they nabbed me for a check up too as I had been ignoring the reminders. So they got two birds for the price of - well, I wish it were one - but it felt more like 5. I think my aged P was rather shocked at the price of dental care these days.
Though it was worth it to see the young receptionist being presented with a cheque. She had never had to deal with one before.
BL. Now feeling very old indeed.
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A sixteen-year-old (adopted) granddaughter came next day and helped clean up the mess. Nice kid and good company. I couldn't have got down to floor level.
If the pile had been darker (and without broken glass around it) it would have had just the shape and consistency of what the cow did.
Still waiting for the spinal surgery (winter: I suppose shortage of beds, nurses with winter colds etc) but scheduled to have right eyelid lifted on Monday (local anaesthetic) and waiting for appointments for my deteriorating right knee and a BCC on my neck.
2017 will have to have a special name or title.
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The Year of Medical Procedures, perhaps?
That would be about right. Was it this year I had the BCC on my lip done? I think it must be.
But if I need a new knee I don't think I'd want it too soon after the spinal job.
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My section is awash! Another winter storm is passing over the country and news is coming in from other areas where it has been particularly bad with loss of power and flooding. So far it's not particularly cold here, but then I have arranged things so I don't have to go anywhere until after the weekend. Mushroom soup for lunch, a pile of books to read and a fluffy, if damp, cat to cuddle - who could ask for more?
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My section is awash! Another winter storm is passing over the country and news is coming in from other areas where it has been particularly bad with loss of power and flooding. So far it's not particularly cold here, but then I have arranged things so I don't have to go anywhere until after the weekend. Mushroom soup for lunch, a pile of books to read and a fluffy, if damp, cat to cuddle - who could ask for more?
Huia
I saw the forecast of that coming over. I hope it passes quickly.
Mushroom soup sounds wonderful. I love it.
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Cold here, but not wet. Snow nearby overnight. Just had to do an emergency school run with B1.1 and B1.2. Their mother had not realised that when one receives notice there will be a power outage, then the underground parking doors for one's apartment block will not open.
First world problems.
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Snow last night not only in Canberra but also Berridale and Jindabyne which can be very cold but are usually too low for snow.
Notices are a nuisance here. Lift maintenace company is now in danger of being the boy who cried wolf. Carpet in the lift is to be replaced by good quality vinyl. Four attempts lately to do this and it still has not been done. It will mean the lift is out of use for most of the day. I did not even see the notice for last Monday's no-show.
I re-arranged a hairdresser visit on one of the days as I knew she would have trouble carrying a big suitcase up several floors.
It is now down for next Monday. Ho, hum. I'll believe it when I see it.
First world problems? Probably but luxury is having the hairdresser come to me. She works all over Sydney metropolitan area, is good at it and very popular. It takes at least six to eight weeks to arrange a first visit. Cleans up after cut and is pleasant to talk to.
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Bought a jar of cranberry sauce to use with oven-roasted duck breasts (one of my more popular Saturday night suppers) and dropped it, thought immediately of others on this thread. Butter fingers! Splinters everywhere and wasted cranberry sauce spattered about. Now I shall have to do an orange sauce which is good with duck but I do it all the time, along with redcurrant.
Lothlorien, a hairdresser who makes home calls is a luxury! I go to a stylist, let me call her Tia, who is into punk spiky cuts right now and plays rap-rave music from Die Entwoord loudly in the salon. She still cuts my hair well though, and blessedly doesn't confide in me about her love life.
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If this reaches you in time, leave the orange out of consideration and instead just fry some onion and mushrooms - goes very well and most certainly not the inevitable orange.
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B1 still locked in to her carpark at school pickup time so Nan to the rescue again. She was getting some action from the body corporate last I heard. Not a bad day for her though, as she was notified via email of a promotion.
Visit today from B4 who is transitioning from one lot of meds to another. Pleased to report she has changed both her doctor and her psychologist this week. Her last doc did not think she even needed a transition plan (she does, as these meds can and sometimes do give her serious side effects) and her previous psych appointment ended up with the psychologist telling my daughter all her problems and then crying on B4's shoulder - quite literally. Not much help there.
Hoping it will be a quiet weekend. Without snow.
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Oh my, that sounds horribly wrong, the crying psychologist! Does the psychologist need... a psychologist? ![[Frown]](frown.gif) ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
Regarding the locked-in B1 car: I'm surprised that there are no manual ways to open the door! Seems a bit counterproductive! I suppose if the parking space is paid for, then in a sense the owners have a duty to provide access? Or perhaps not? Now, if there were a car fire or flooding, the fire brigade would need to be able to open the door as well, even w/o working leccie, wouldn't they?!
I hope all works out eventually - annoying not having a car if you need it!
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The right medical personnel for the particular patient can make a lot of difference in success of treatment. I speak not as a patient but an observer of a family member. After a move anew GP was found who suggested a particular medication. Amazing. Miles better than anything else ever used and it pursuaded gthe family member to continue with it. He was also recommended to a new psychologist who clicked with him. Much progress was made.
I hope B4 can have similar success. Parenting is often very hard, even when the child is an adult. Heartbreaking at times.
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Bought a jar of cranberry sauce to use with oven-roasted duck breasts (one of my more popular Saturday night suppers) and dropped it, thought immediately of others on this thread. Butter fingers! Splinters everywhere and wasted cranberry sauce spattered about. Now I shall have to do an orange sauce which is good with duck but I do it all the time, along with redcurrant.
Lothlorien, a hairdresser who makes home calls is a luxury! I go to a stylist, let me call her Tia, who is into punk spiky cuts right now and plays rap-rave music from Die Entwoord loudly in the salon. She still cuts my hair well though, and blessedly doesn't confide in me about her love life.
What I spilt was terribly messy with glass and very fine powder, but at least not sticky like cranberry sauce or marmalade. I think I would have called for reinforcements to deal with that.
I found my home call hairdresser when looking for another person by name. The hairdreser was the first result. She lives fairly locally to me, does a good cut, is pleasant. Charges much what I would expect from a salon and the last time I went to a local salon I was allocated the apprentice.
Hairdressing apprentice rules and regulations have changed here and there is little education at TAFE required now. It was terrible. She was nervous, I do not know if I was the first client, had no real idea of what to do. The salon owner finished the job but I was never going back there. The other salons around here are exceedingly expensive, very uo market and not my style at all.
I was so pleased to find Patricia.
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