Friday, June 26, 2020

Digest for rec.food.cooking@googlegroups.com - 25 updates in 10 topics

Lucretia Borgia <lucretiaborgia@fl.it>: Jun 26 10:52AM -0300


>A day to be nice (for a change) to one of us here.
 
>Happy Birthday, Julie! :-D
 
Happy Birthday Julie (if indeed it is your birthday lol)
Cindy Hamilton <angelicapaganelli@yahoo.com>: Jun 26 06:17AM -0700

On Friday, June 26, 2020 at 7:07:24 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> Pretty nasty, imo.
> For that reason, I've never bought any to cook
> in some other way.
 
Ok, try this hypothetical on for size:
 
I've only had fish raw in sushi.
Pretty nasty, imo.
For that reason, I've never bought any to cook
in some other way.
 
Cindy Hamilton
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Jun 26 09:24AM -0400

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> For that reason, I've never bought any to cook
> in some other way.
 
> Cindy Hamilton
 
lol Ok, I'll grant you that one. I still don't plan to
buy any cauliflower. I can live fine without it. :)
Cindy Hamilton <angelicapaganelli@yahoo.com>: Jun 26 06:46AM -0700

On Friday, June 26, 2020 at 9:26:44 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
 
> > Cindy Hamilton
 
> lol Ok, I'll grant you that one. I still don't plan to
> buy any cauliflower. I can live fine without it. :)
 
I wasn't asking you to. Although it's delicious roasted and made
into a salad like tabouli, with parsley, lemon juice, olive oil, etc.
 
As crucifers go, it's pretty bland. That's why people like it as a
rice substitute. And why it's better cooked using dry heat like
roasting, grilling, or frying.
 
Cindy Hamilton
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: Jun 26 09:15AM -0400

On 2020-06-26 6:30 a.m., dsi1 wrote:
 
> 50 dollars and my client paid about 100 dollars. As anybody with a
> rational mind can see, the American healthcare machine is critically
> ill.
 
It has been 10 years since I had bypass surgery. I had had an angiogram,
then the emergency surgery, 4 days in ICU and 4 more days. When I was
discharged from the hospital there was no bill to pay. At the time,
bypass surgery here was $10,000, and in the US the same surgery was
$20,000.
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Jun 26 09:24AM -0400

Hank Rogers wrote:
 
> Ed, those giant avocados are only for show. Here, they are sold as
> "california" avocados. Almost tasteless, not like a haas. They look
> good, but like a wax apple, they are worthless as food.
 
Even the Haas avocados are fairly tasteless in my opinion.
Added plain slices to a sandwich once. Not much more than
a filler.
 
I do like them with something added. A guacamole salad or
dip can be mighty tasty.
Ed Pawlowski <esp@snet.xxx>: Jun 26 09:30AM -0400

On 6/26/2020 6:20 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> grams.
 
> ===
 
>     LOL did you mean 510 grams?
 
Should have been 16 oz, 1 pound, typo
Cindy Hamilton <angelicapaganelli@yahoo.com>: Jun 26 06:34AM -0700

On Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 8:42:41 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> seen avocados.
 
> And what's the big deal? You say it tastes good and that's the main
> thing.
 
In most of the U.S. (the places where the weather isn't so nice), the
only avocados we generally see are Hass avocados smaller than my fist.
 
Cindy Hamilton
Cindy Hamilton <angelicapaganelli@yahoo.com>: Jun 26 06:38AM -0700

On Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 9:56:35 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> "free". Most have no idea of cost. I talked to the owner of the villa
> we rented in Italy and he said it is about 15% of income. There are
> exceptions.
 
If I had to pay for all of my family health insurance (my employer picks up
a big chunk of the premiums), it would cost me about 33% of my income.
 
It's a decent policy, but very chintzy on covering prescriptions. My
husband uses GoodRx or the Kroger "prescription club" for several of his,
and doesn't bother trying to use insurance for them.
 
Cindy Hamilton
Taxed and Spent <nospamplease@nonospam.com>: Jun 26 05:14AM -0700

On 6/25/2020 5:54 PM, Bruce wrote:
> strict gun laws are much less likely to be killed than people in the
> US.
 
> But to each their own, so: Enjoy!
 
If you eliminate the deaths, mostly black on black, in the
long-democratic controlled inner cities, the statistics are much better.
 
But we can't talk about such things.
Taxed and Spent <nospamplease@nonospam.com>: Jun 26 05:16AM -0700

On 6/25/2020 7:38 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
 
> https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Canada/United-States/Crime/Violent-crime
 
Why are their numbers/rankings for "murder rate" different than for
"murders per million people"? And others. Isn't that what "rate" means?
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Jun 26 09:25AM -0400


> That's the truth! What good is a gun that is locked and unloaded? The
> only time my gun is unloaded is when I'm cleaning it then it is reloaded
> with hollow points until the next cleaning.
 
Hollow points. You're packing serious heat. What caliber?
I either read (or saw a movie) where someone drilled down
into their bullets to make hollow points. They then filled
the hollow with mercury then soldiered over the end to
seal it up.
 
Shoot someone even in the shoulder or leg with one of those
and they will die quickly.
 
So Joan...did you ever get a good holster? I remember you
were looking for one once.
 
Also, do you "carry" outside of the home often or just
mostly keep it handy in the house?
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: Jun 26 09:32AM -0400

On 2020-06-26 8:16 a.m., Taxed and Spent wrote:
 
> Why are their numbers/rankings for "murder rate" different than for
> "murders per million people"?  And others.  Isn't that what "rate" means?
 
Good question, but still 23 times higher????
There is still that irony about the fact that so many people are armed
to protect themselves and, rather than the homicide rate being lower, it
is a lot higher. We aren't even talking small differences that a
statistician would call significant differences ant 10% probability.
They are astounding differences.
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Jun 26 08:20AM -0400

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
 
> Really? I sat on a jury and voted not guilty in a criminal trial
> based on the evidence (which wasn't much, in this case). I'm not
> a low-paid schmuck.
 
You misinterpreted what I said. I wasn't talking about your
personal income, just your juror pay for the trial.
 
I was in the middle of a job when I got called for jury
duty. Rather than making $250 that day, I got paid $20
for my day in court.
 
The jurors are the lowest paid shanghaied schmucks.
The judge is paid well for his day.
The lawyers are paid well. Even the deputys and all
other court people get paid well for their time.
Us jurors got paid $20 for the day. Not even close
to minimum wage.
 
All this city money spent to try a fellow that
shoplifted "a $5 box of steak."
 
I was so damn mad at how frivolous this trial was.
I was *so* tempted to stand up and open my wallet
and give the grocery store the $5 stupid money, and
say "Here's your 5, let's all go home."
Naturally, judge wouldn't have liked that.
 
Even worse... this was the fellow's 3rd shoplifting
arrest. The judge informed us that if we find him
guilty, he faced 8 years in the state prison.
(3 misdeamors = a felony in Virginia)
 
But we shouldn't consider that. Our job was to only
determine if he was guilty or not. Well he shouldn't
have told us the penality then.
 
Imagine what 8 years in prison would cost the state too.
All for stealing a $5 box of steak. (I assumed Steakums).
 
I also was NOT going to vote to send him to prison for
8 years just for that. I would think some hours of
community service would have been a better sentence.
 
Anyway the trial went on all morning. I was convinced
that the defendant was guilty but I was NOT going to
vote that. Not with that harsh sentence. That was
just so wrong.
 
Luckily, the trial was dismissed before it ended. WHEW!
 
He had ditched that steak before they chased him down so
they really didn't have any real proof.
 
Two weeks later, I got called in for another trial.
Waited around for 2 hours then right before the trial,
a deal was made so we all got sent home.
 
Another worthless $20 a day in the court system.
At least that time, I got to work on my own that afternoon.
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: Jun 26 09:02AM -0400

>> sentence and the execution. Shudder!!!!
 
> Many times here it is 30 or more years before the accused receives his
> just reward. We can thank lawyers for filing appeal after appeal.
 
 
After that amount of time some of the witnesses will be gone and the
evidence perhaps mislaid. They end up getting acquitted for lack of
evidence, not necessarily because the were actually innocent.
 
 
> Just last month one was granted another stay of execution because of the
> Covid19 virus here in Tennessee.
 
 
That seems like an odd reason to stay an execution.
Cindy Hamilton <angelicapaganelli@yahoo.com>: Jun 26 06:25AM -0700

On Friday, June 26, 2020 at 8:22:32 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
 
> I was in the middle of a job when I got called for jury
> duty. Rather than making $250 that day, I got paid $20
> for my day in court.
 
When I was on jury duty, I was paid by my employer just as if I
had been at work.

Cindy Hamilton
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: Jun 26 09:28AM -0400

On 2020-06-26 6:57 a.m., dsi1 wrote:
 
> involved time and money. The judge is so happy about it that he's
> willing to give a lighter sentence. American justice loves to save
> time and money! Who the heck doesn't?
 
Pleas can be a good deal. The accused may not get the serious sentence
he deserves, but it does save time and money, and it sometimes saves the
victim the ordeal of testifying and being cross examined.
 
On the flip side, the prosecution sometimes offers a deal because they
may not have a really solid case. I have gone to court twice on my
wife's behalf, and got the charges dropped both times.
 
The first time I asked them to drop the charge and was told they could
not because it was before the court. Well, that is rubbish, because when
the case is called it can be withdrawn. She had pulled out our our
driveway and did not speeding car that clipped her. She was charged
with failing to yield at an unmarked intersection. The driveway is
actually an unopened road allowance. I did not tell them that. I
pointed out the location noted on the accident report. It was the
intersection 1/2 mile down the road. The prosecutor talked to the
witness and to the cop and consulted someone else and when the case was
called they agreed that the location did not fit the definition of an
intersection. She said the charge should have been Careless Driving.
Perhaps so, but it wasn't.
 
The more recent one was fender bender in which she was charged for
unsafe passing on the right. The prosecutor agreed to reduce it to
following too close. Nope. Still points involved. I fought it. I had
measured the road. It was extremely wide.... wide enough for two lanes.
The other car was way over to the left and she was to the right, which
is the proper driving position. He turned into a driveway just past
the intersection. She was not passing him. He suddenly slowed and
turned, and without signalling. All that bluster from the prosecutor and
he left it to his assistant to come and tell me they would be
withdrawing it.
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Jun 26 09:26AM -0400

Bruce wrote:
> >part of convicting one innocent person.
 
> The jury decides on guilty or innocent, but the judge decides on the
> the death penalty or the length of the jail term, is that correct?
 
Correct. See my other post about my day in court on a jury.
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Jun 26 09:26AM -0400

Bruce wrote:
> >I would never try to get out of jury duty. Because "duty".
 
> I can probably be called for jury duty in Australia. I'd do everything
> I can to get out of it.
 
Definitely try to get out of it. Normally, a lack of reliable
transportation claim will do it.
 
Cindy can do her "civic duty" and mine too.
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Jun 26 09:29AM -0400

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > for my day in court.
 
> When I was on jury duty, I was paid by my employer just as if I
> had been at work.
 
I was self-employed then. My "employer" also paid for that day.
He wasn't very happy about it. ;)
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Jun 26 09:25AM -0400


> > I had sous vide a top round steak, cut into serving size portions, and had that in the freezer. I seared the steak and got a nice crust on it. We had it with a nice baked potato with all the fixins and a Fresh Express Sweet Kale Salad.
 
> > I've come to really like Fresh Express' Sweet Kale salad. If you haven't tried it, do. It's quite good.
 
> Sounds really good!
 
I looked that up. Sounds worth trying to me too. I wonder where
in the grocery store would you find that? Maybe on a
refridgerated shelf in the produce section?
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: Jun 26 09:10AM -0400

On 2020-06-26 12:28 a.m., Nemo wrote:
>> On 6/25/2020 10:01 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
ay out of her house.
>> leave, we're in the middle of a pandemic!"
 
>> Jill
 
> She needs to be aware of what are called "Squatter's Rights".
 
We used to have a neighbour who screwed other neighbours out of land by
working their land long enough to claim it under squatters rights. He
tried to to the same to me, planting right up to the property line and
then plowing and disking my land and
 
One day I went back there with an axe and a bunch of stakes and drove
the stakes in along the property line. He we just run right over them,
so I stood stood there to block him. He told me "get the fuck out of my
way or I'll run you over." Then he popped the clutch. I had the axe in
my hand and swung it as his tractor. Unfortunately, it hit the
headlight, knocking in flying right at his head. It missed. He left and
then about 15 minutes later the cops showed up talking about attempted
murder. I explained what happened and they left.
 
The guy's antics backfired on him. In order to claim squatter's rights
you have to have been allowed to use the land for a certain period of
time. Thanks to him calling the cops there is now a police report that
is evidence that he most certainly did not have permission.
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Jun 26 08:43AM -0400

jmcquown wrote:
 
> > My comment came from all your past crabcake posts, Jill.
 
> Dude, I use canned crabmeat to mix with pasta in cream sauce. For crab
> cakes I buy refrigerated lump crabmeat from the seafood counter.
 
"Pants on fire, Jill." You might have bought the refrigerated
pasteurized crabmeat this last time but in the past you've
always said "canned" crabmeat. Others here have mentioned the
pasteurized product.
 
You were waiting for me to mention the canned crabmeat because
that's what you've always used in the past. I must be part
elephant as "an elephant never forgets."
 
You also occasionally make salmon cakes using canned salmon
rather than fresh.
Gary <g.majors@att.net>: Jun 26 08:42AM -0400

jmcquown wrote:
> and start collecting Social Security, he can do that at age 62. Of
> course he won't get much per month because apparently he hasn't worked
> most of his adult life.
 
Tell us about your work history and inheritance, Jill.
Cindy Hamilton <angelicapaganelli@yahoo.com>: Jun 26 05:41AM -0700

On Friday, June 26, 2020 at 6:39:37 AM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
 
> > --
 
> > ____/~~~sine qua non~~~\____
 
> It seems that being a super taster would kind of suck. My guess is that most of the people here are super tasters because they're so picky and prissy about the foods they eat. I'm probably not a super taster because I like intensely flavored foods. Well that's my guess.
 
No, most of the people here are not supertasters.
 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster#Specific_food_sensitivities>
 
I like intensely flavored foods AND I'm picky and prissy about what I eat.
 
Cindy Hamilton
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