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I believe this particular recipe calls for half a dozen horse feathers.
We could probably use the neighbor's old bathtub to cook it up in. Just scoop out the dirt (it used to be a planter), drag in some firewood, and there ya go.
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Well here, I'll just post the recipe for puppy pie. It's all over the internet, anonymous, so safe to post I'm sure. That way the pets will feel a bit more at ease. The Cat Stew recipe is along the same vein.
quote:How to Make Puppy Pie
Take one puppy, gently roll and play until lightly pampered, then add the following ingredients.....
1 cup patience.... 1 cup understanding.... 1 pinch correction.... 1 cup hard work.... 2 cups praise and 1 1/2 cups fun ... blend well.
Heat with warmth of your heart until raised or until puppy has doubled in size. Mix with owner until consistency is such that owner and puppy are one.
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Poor puppies. They get pinched when they need correction?
Michaela, maybe the neighbor will let us use his bathtub planter if we promise him a generous serving of elephant stew. But if it's not quite big enough, we could comandeer his hot tub for the job, with his approval, of course. "um, sir, we're using your bathtub or hot tub for a little stew we're cooking up. Simmer down and say it's ok or you may be simmering in it right along with the carrots and potatoes." Is that tactful enough?
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"You humans sure had us worried. Shame on you, Spotted Horse, here we thought you were a four-footer like us. Punkin took off, & Pepper can't see but she has ears like radar & followed Punkin. They almost knocked over Curelom coming up the path, but they were too scared to stop & apologize."
"I'm too slow, so all I could do was sneak into the woods & hope those people hadn't started making the stew. And poor Annabelle is still up in the tree. ."
"I'll go see if I can round up everyone. Then I'll make Spotted Horse come & show all of us critters how she fixes those recipes. That won't make up for the scare we had, but at least we'll get petted & fussed over. And maybe those people will think twice about how things look to us from 8 inches off the ground."
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I don't think I will be eating any elephants, "one bite at a time."
Meadowbee, that sounds like a great biography about John Adams. I was given a biography on Abigail Adams a few years back. Just reading their long separations when John Adams was in Europe made me so anxious for them to be reunited. And imagine living it! I agree that John and Abigial were people of honor! And they both had such love and respect for each other. One of the great love stories of all time!
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Just start thinking about it, Abby. No elephant, no dessert. We won't be serving him for a few more months. Goodness, we have to go on safari and bring him to the states before we get too far along in our plans, unless Curelom's sophisticated shopping choices include a Jungle-mart.
I just ordered up another batch of books this morning. Since John Adams read Shakespeare so often, I ordered "The Life and DEath of King John". First ime I've read the bard's work without being assigned it. I made a list of others available to read throughout the summer. For a distinct change of pace, I also requested Weight-Training for Dummies and another fitness type book.
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I've just read one of the flurry of Joseph Smith biographies that came out during his 200th birth year. This is a short one by Robert Remini, a professor at (I think) U of Illinois and a professional biographer (I think he wrote on Jefferson as well).
It's easy to read, & it sets the stage for Joseph Smith & his experiences, revelations, & activities by describing America in the Jacksonian period.
Remini mentions both roses & warts & tries to explain them. He tries very hard to be objective. He is not LDS, but seems to have made an effort to understand our perspective.
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Meadowbee, we've run into serious problems with the elephant stew plans.
First, there are customs & animal welfare laws that regulate importing elephants into the U.S. Even zoos have to get special permits. I have my doubts whether Customs would let private citizens bring in an elephant without some legitimate plan of what we intend to do with it.
Unless we want to rustle an elephant from a zoo, we may have to settle for some other kind of meat.
I know many of us were eagerly anticipating this--not only the delicious stew, but the bonding experience of making it. I'm disappointed, but we have a lot of creative Porchupines. I'm sure we'll come up with something fun & maybe easier that everyone can enjoy just as much.
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Tofuey! Yuck. I'm not totally convinced we can't procure an elephant. This is the porch, you know, the place where anything is possible.
Let me get my people working on it and I'll report back in a few days. Otherwise, I vote for mock elephant stew. Dress up a good-sized steer in an elephant suit. Teach it to trumpet. Do a photo shoot, and call it good. Enough mockery. Then, um, prepare it for the feast. The party must go on.
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I'm experimenting this morning with a no-bake cellar cake, for a RS function tonight. It's actually a breakfast, but hey, who hasn't had cake for breakfast before?
It consists of layers of chocolate, butter cookies, chocolate, cinnamon graham crackers, chocolate, raspberry ricotta cheese, chocolate, etc. If it is good, I'll send it to KQ for inclusion in the recipe book.
I'll let you know tomorrow if it turns out!
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Your RS function tonight is a breakfast? Or your chocolate-and cake is a breakfast? Or you're just experimenting with it by eating it for breakfast?
I find the first two options very interesting.
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So do I. Breakfast parties are lots of fun. We are just a bunch of party people here. No wonder I love ya'll so much.
Uh, Spotted Horse, you know tomorrow is Wednesday and breakfast cakes taste especially good on Wednesday. Posts: 3711 | Registered: Feb 2005
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Did you hear that? Pop! The page turned and a recipe popped into my head. Problem is, I can't quite remember how it all went together. I need help.
This is a list of what I'm missing:
Whole Number or Fraction 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Units of measure: (cups, feet, oz., etc.) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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Biologic substances scare me, so I didn't bring any with me. But here's a shopping bag with a noun, verb, and adjective for you, MIchaela. 1. Noun-chandelier 1. Verb-puncture 1. Adjective-misshapen
If you need to borrow anything else for this mysterious recipe, just let me know. Posts: 4056 | Registered: Apr 2005
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Good morning, Sis. Bee! I see we were thinking at the same time!
I can't stay and visit! I am giving up and going to the Dr. with this gunky cough! Yuck! I'll wander back in later! V.
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Yes, we were. I'll edit my numbers a bit for the sake of clarity. You work on getting rid of that cough! Maybe MIchaela will have a treat ready for you by the time you return.
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V, maybe this recipee will be just what the doctor ordered! I am still planning to email you about Nonverbal Learning Disorder. It is just hard to know where to begin.
I wonder where this recipee would fall in the food time line.
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All this heavy-duty hunting for ingredients has sent me to the kitchen to whip up an energizing morsel of goodness. Bet you haven't had this in a while, if ever. Let me serve you a slice of scuppernong pie.
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I thought you may have been making that one up so I put scuppernong pie in a search engine and there is such a thing! I also put scuppernong in alone and found out it is a type of Muscadine grape named for Scuppernong, NC. Posts: 3434 | Registered: Feb 2005
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V, I hope you get a good witch doctor who puts a powerful hex on that nasty cough & sends it flying right out of your earthly tabernacle
Abby, I looked up scuppernong too, because it didn't sound edible . I thought it might be a gardening tool or a 16th century prisoner restraint device. I don't think I've ever had a grape pie, so I think I'll have a bite.
Looking out the window, I see some sunshine, so I'm going to go out in a few minutes & investigate this remarkable phenomenon.
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Michaela is going to use all the ingredients to create a bodacious "dish" for us. I'm keeping a list of all the contributions & I'm going to try to use them & see how my creation compares with hers. I might have to feed it to the pets
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Report on the kellerkuchen: It was tasty and very rich, to be sure, but I need to work on the recipe. The consistency was not what I wanted, at all. Folks kept asking if there was pudding in it, 'cause it wasn't firm like it should have been. The flavour was a success, but I want to work on the consistency. Hopefully I'll have a chance to perfect it before the cookbook is completed!
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Meadowbee, we're still waiting on that new word game you promised to post!
And while we wait, since it's going to be so hot today, I have a wonderful variety of ice cold fruit juices. There's grape, white cranberry peach, strawberry kiwi, cranberry mixed berry, cran-raspberry, white grape, regular and pink lemonade, peach lemonade, strawberry lemonade, raspberry lemonade, and fruit punch. Plenty of ice, so help yourselves!
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Mmm, having to choose - I love cranberry-raspberry, but today it's going to have to be Strawberry Lemonade. And I needed it ... it's hot and EXTREMELY humid here today, and I was outside at a graveside service at noon. <insert sweating graemlin here>
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I'd love a white cranberry juice, please. Oh, about that game. Well, I forgot about that game. And maybe it's charm was more in the fact that my son and I were swinging together on the patio while he described the sunrise at five in the morning than in the game itself.
But if you really want to give it a try, I'll 'splain it after Michaela's fun madlib recipe is golden brown and well done. Posts: 4056 | Registered: Apr 2005
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I just put kellerkuchen in a search engine and the majority of the listings look to be in German. I can't say I have heard of it. I served a mission in Pennyslvania Dutch Country where there are a lot of people of German heritage so I may have had it and not known about it.
Some of the food experienced for the first time while there were stromboli(although that is probably more Italian), perogies, funnel cakes, chicken pot pie(not like the pie with a crust on top but rather chicken in a dutch oven with pieces of pie or maybe dumplings), and chicken and waffles.
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Obviously I omitted the coffee and rum! I didn't have any solid vegetable shortening on hand so I substituted butter. That may have affected the consistency. I'll try it with the solid vegetable shortening next time I make it, which will be... tomorrow? I'm also going to try honey graham crackers rather than butter cookies. Easier to get them to conform to the shape of the pan. Once again, I'll let you know how it turns out, but I may not be able to post until Monday. This is going to be a busy weekend.
Anyone to join me for a smoked turkey and avocado salad for dinner?
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So ... I don't see another good thread to post this in but I thought I'd share. I guess this is the thread for that, isn't it?
Picture my almost-7-year-old and my 2-year-old daughters sitting together in the recliner, watching TV. The youngest for some reason starts singing at the top of her lungs, "I love you! You love me!" At which point her older sister joins her, "We're a happy family! With a great big hug ..." and they stop and give each other a squeeze, "and a kiss from me to you," and the two year old puckers up her lips and the 7 year old kisses her, "Won't you say you LOVE ME TOO!!!"
Even on my toughest days, they can melt my heart. Times like this are why I'm a mother.
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here we thought you were a four-footer like us. Punkin took off, & Pepper can't see but she has ears like radar & followed Punkin. They almost knocked over Curelom coming up the path, but they were too scared to stop & apologize."![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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