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COsmo's COrner: Household Hints, from soup to nuts

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hi, cosmo.. my name is rosemarie.

i come from a long line of wonderful italian cooks and chefs.

however, it seems i am missing the cuisnart gene.

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Hello Cosmo,

I just read Rosemarie's letter. Poor girl! I feel bad for her, but at least I know my way around the kitchen.

I'm in a muddle about one thing though. Two things, actually. On I Love Lucy Ricky and Fred were cooking dinner for Lucy and Ethel, a sort of surprise if I remember right. Anywho, they confer on how to wash the chicken and decide on cleanser. I didn't know if that was a hidden message to the audience that properly prepared poultry prevents psalmonella. Was that scene only meant to be comic or is there some truth that chlorinated fowl is safer to eat than one that is merely roasted?

Point two. My uncle asked his wife for chicken soup and she boiled the chicken and made soup from the broth. She presented my uncle with a bowl of soup and he asked where the meat was. She replied that she had thrown away the chicken. What I don't understand is why she divorced him.

My hat's off to you if you can figure this one out!

Thanks,

Judi

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Dear Judi,

Anything learned on I LOVE LUCY cannot be questioned. Go with the wisdom of '50s sitcoms and your gut. Drink lots of water with your dinner.

As to the chicken toss and the divorce, I can only add that your uncle received the Pullet Surprise. In some cultures ruining -- the merest dissatisfaction -- a meal results in matters far worse than the dismissal of the malefactor.

Don't run afoul of the soup.

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COsmo's COrner: Household Hints, from soup to nuts

by compound complex in

hi, cosmo.. my name is rosemarie.

i come from a long line of wonderful italian cooks and chefs.

however, it seems i am missing the cuisnart gene.

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Hi, Cosmo.

My name is Rosemarie. I come from a long line of wonderful Italian cooks and chefs. However, it seems I am missing the cuisnart gene. But I'm a fighter and not about to give up. You see, I'm about to be married to a fellow countryman. Well, I say that in a most loose sense, as we are 3rd generation Italian-Americans. Okay, I digress.

You know how my people are infamous eating machines. And we breed more eating machines. My reason to life is to make my Antony happy and so proud of me, his Rosemarie, when the whole fam damily, his and mine, when they come over on Sundays for a little antepasto, and some vino and some pasta, and the main course. Followed up by the sfingi, some espresso. Of course, la mia mama, she makes it all and everyone groans with delight as they roll away from the table after the antepasto and the vino and . . .

I seen my Mama and her sisters make all these wonderful dishes all my life and my Antony he just assumes I can do it. I can not. My best for the man I worship would be burnt offerings. So what must I do? I get take out from Luigi's Trattoria Romana and lay it out so nice and beautiful on my best Alibaba and light us some candles. Well, that works, but when he come over for breakfast . . . How do you fry an egg?

Should I call off the wedding till I get it all together? A lie is a terrible thing to live.

Rosemarie

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Dear Rosemarie,

This is most unusual. All Italians can cook! You must search your soul and determine if this is not perhaps all in your head. Have you told Mama what you've told me? I should think she would have noticed your major mishaps in la cucina by this late date.

Be that as it may -- or may not -- there are some lovely cooking courses offered in your local junior colleges. Don't be afraid. Give it a try! Italian friends and relatives are always supportive when it comes to something as important as food! We do not simply eat to live, NO! We live to eat! CHI MANGIA BENE VIVA BENE!

As to calling off the wedding, that would depend on one major consideration -- have the invitations already been posted?

Fry an egg? Hmmm . . . Let me get back to you on this one.

Buon appetito!

CC

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So, I went to the memorial service of a man I have known since childhood...

by Captain Schmideo2 in

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i have been on a fade for years, so this is the first time i have been in a kh for months.the deceased was barely 52 when he died.

from cancer.

one year younger than me.the memorial was the standard "read the obituary column word for word, then do the jw commercial for 25 minutes" plus a new twist (to me), they played a video called "around the corner" https://youtu.be/tfccoyp0vsu.

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Likewise, Captain Schmideo2, I am sorry for your losing a good friend.

Yesterday, I stopped at the local WT cart and decided to get the latest magazines. Was I ever surprised that the husband was once a little kid I remembered from 40 years ago. He's now around late-forties and remembered me (despite my changed appearance). His parents, my contemporaries, are gone. Mutual friends are ill, some terminally.

We were discussing the "hope that does not lead to disappointment." I was cheerful and positive in my desire to be upbuilding, yet, inside, was the niggling knowledge of our having been fed that line, "just around the corner . . ."

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For Smiddy: Cool and Damp

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gosh, smiddy, it's nice to have a request for poetry!.

"the black oaks" describes where i live in the california sierra foothills; we are, for the most part, above the fog and below the snow.

nevertheless, we do get both occasionally.

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Cropped out the lens flare . . .

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For Smiddy: Cool and Damp

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gosh, smiddy, it's nice to have a request for poetry!.

"the black oaks" describes where i live in the california sierra foothills; we are, for the most part, above the fog and below the snow.

nevertheless, we do get both occasionally.

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Greetings, Diogenesister and smiddy:

I certainly appreciate your comments and that you like what you read and saw. It would be pretty cool to sort of get inside the hearts and minds of others, but I guess the best we can do is through their individual manners of expression.

I took that picture that is "from my backyard." Not literally, but at the lake in my small community. I took it after the rains and the fog had set in. But now, we're back to an extended dry period. I'll pm you, Diogenesister, regarding the image. By Orccha do you mean the Indian city with huge buildings?

Yes, smiddy, the same movies I loved as a kid back in the '50s. Monsters from the mist!!! My first scary movie was The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, about an awakened dinosaur. I was about 6 years old and my aunt, with whom I was staying, called Mom and Dad to get permission for me to go with my older cousin.

About Australia, my traveling companion had American friends who settled there and now have dual citizenship. I met them and they sounded just like Americans, but I struggled to understand their kids!

Thanks again for answering my post!

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For Smiddy: Cool and Damp

by compound complex in

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gosh, smiddy, it's nice to have a request for poetry!.

"the black oaks" describes where i live in the california sierra foothills; we are, for the most part, above the fog and below the snow.

nevertheless, we do get both occasionally.

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From my backyard . . .

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$5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

by Sour Grapes in

a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

it was sold a couple of years ago.

we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

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Thanks, OC, for the reality check.

Come to think of it, when I went to Bethel in '69, the Squibb Building had been recently purchased, but it was Jehovah's hand in the matter! There was a story told about how Squibb spent a fortune shoring up the quicksand base, and . . . Apocryphal tales are not told at World Headquarters!

I've always been naive and easily swayed, believing and hoping the best. I guess the seamy underbelly developed very early on. It simply did not occur to many of us that Jehovah would permit anything that "broke the rules." Was I ever uninformed!

It's good there are realists like you who know the truth and state it. I'm still trying to shed my Pollyanna nature and get real.

Thanks for links.

CC

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$5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

by Sour Grapes in

a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

it was sold a couple of years ago.

we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

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I'm sorry, Sour Grapes, for those affected by this move. I can add nothing other than when I became a Witness in the '60s, we rented the civic auditorium in my coastal town for the circuit assembly and the fairgrounds for the district.

Sure, it was lot of work, but it was good to participate in the set up, the cooking, distributing the anticipated releases -- everything that made our faith seem relevant. And leaving the venue cleaner than when we arrived. Oh yeah, the latest from FWF!

For the circuit assembly, the Friday evening meal was prepared in portable kitchens, then the program; Saturday morning service, afternoon and evening programs; Sunday, the same. Not to overlook, the three squares during each day of the weekend. It was exciting as we anticipated the countdown to the Big A.

No denying the craziness of the religion, but money and real estate were by no means the focus.

What a total letdown, on all counts.

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One day the Nouns were clustered . . .

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one day the nouns were clustered on the street.. an adjective walked by, with her dark beauty.

the nouns were struck, moved, changed.

the next day a verb drove up, and created the sentence.. -- kenneth koch, "permanently".

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sir82:

Our senior citizens creative writing class will love this and be forever indebted to you for your magnanimity of spirit.

Well, until we all die off.

THANKS!

Frank Carton

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The Desolation of One Man

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he has searched long for that love of all loves, but it hastens not, although winter has come and left him desolate of every hope of warmth, comfort, and prospect of his name's immortality.

nor will this elusive love reveal itself in his tiny dreams, allowing, at the very least, a gossamer of muted visions that would elevate a worn and bitter man to a level of expanded vistas, kindling within the flame of love's illusion..

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Nancy Drew is a gem, and so, too, her fanciful spin offs on the all-too serious musings of a demented poet.