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• At 2008.07.29 17:37, Scotia48 said:

  I made a wonderful Lamb Madras last night. Let’s see..I caramelized 1/2 a yellow onion with 2 diced shallots in olive oil in a cast iron dutch oven, added 3-4 whole cloves, a star anise, 1 Thai green pepper, 1 crushed dried red pepper without the seeds, sauteed a pound of lamb stew meat, added a tsp of Mai Ploy red curry, some turmeric, some curry powder, about 4 T tamarind juice, sea salt and sugar to taste, chopped broccoli, 3 small chopped german gold potatoes,other veggies(I can’t remember what), kept adding hot water to make it a sauce, Thai basil and Holy basil sliced, cooked until tender and served over some steamed basmati rice with Naan.

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• At 2008.07.29 17:52, biscuit said:

  Mmmmmm. Lovely!

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• At 2008.07.29 19:09, mango said:

  I’ll be wearing hats for the next month. Come, join me and celebrate the worst haircut in history! I look like an army recruit.

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  • At 2008.07.29 19:24, Scotia48 said:

    I seriously thought about buzzing my head the other day. Do I color or not color, do I streak or not streak? Do I go la natural with icky grey streaks or not? I feel better with color in my hair, but, but, but it’s so natural to go natural!
    What to do?

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    • At 2008.07.29 19:47, mango said:

      If you go see my haircutter, you won’t have to worry about what to do with your hair. You won’t have any!

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      • At 2008.07.29 20:53, Scotia48 said:

        Been there and done that!! I told a hairdresser one time, “I am swimming this summer, can you give me a shorter haircut?” Well, she sheared me! ICK, it was months before I felt like a girl again.

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  • At 2008.07.29 19:35, Kate Petersen said:

    Mango, I bet your hats will look lovely.

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    • At 2008.07.29 21:38, drchelo said:

      I think my hairdresser and yours are partners in crime, mango-cita. I went for my SECOND haircut this year (whoop!) and asked for a “trim” on the top and to “clean up” the back and sides….and the best I can say about my new do is that it will be nice and cool..
      The disadvantage of hair re-growth after chemotherapy is that it is coming back more vigorously in some spots than in others! I tried to cover the emerging gray with L’Oreal - and it did a good job, until the other spots started growing exuberantly, with even more gray than before.
      It looks like L’Oreal and I will be making friends again very soon.
      One good thing about hats - they do protect the lily-white skin of my face from the sun!

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• At 2008.07.29 19:30, Kate Petersen said:

  Today’s frugalness: making banana bread to use up the rapidly browning bananas. That’s one less-desirable side effect of keeping the house temperature high to reduce the AC cost — fruit goes bad much faster and you can’t refrigerate the bananas because the peels turn black.

  Unsettling discovery: My hands are now giving me enough trouble that it’s very difficult to juggle my beloved heavy glass mixing bowl one-handed while I scrape the batter into the loaf pan. I dropped it to the counter a couple of times, not far enough to break it, but enough to make an unholy mess with spatters.

  “Duh” moment: As I was struggling with the bowl, I thought that I really needed to see about getting a lighter weight batter bowl with a handle for just such occasions. The lightbulb went on over my head. I put the bowl down. I thumped myself on the forehead. I went into the spare room where I have a set of shelves holding rarely-used cooking equipment, and I brought out the box containing the brand-new set of Melamine batter bowls — with handles — that I’d bought for next to nothing at Costco three or four years ago, long before I broke my hand. Problem solved!

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  • At 2008.07.29 19:55, mango said:

    I love banana bread. We use bananas and pecans down here in our bread and I can eat a whole loaf. My friend makes a zuchinni and beet bread. I’ve never tasted it but it sells well at the deli.

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• At 2008.07.29 20:50, Scotia48 said:

  Kate,
  I’m so sorry you are having these problems. I have a wonderful melamine bowl I’ve had for about 40 years. Got it at a factory in Oak Cliff that made the stuff in the 60’s. They took all the leftover colors and molded them into mixing bowls. I think I paid 75 cents for the bowl in 1967! I stlll have it and use it. They are great and lightweight enough for us oldsters to use. My right wrist is getting really bad.

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