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  recipes

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  beets in mustardy vinaigrette.

  1 rounded teaspoon grainy mustard .

  3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar .

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  Hortensia

  Pears in white wine syrup

  1 bottle of white wine, dryish, not sweet
  1 bottle of water
  2 cups of sugar
  2-inch fresh ginger root, peeled and cut into matchsticks
  Zest strips from 2 lemons -- use a vegetable peeler to make strips about 1/2 inch by 2 inches
  juice from 2 lemons
  
  As many pears as you can peel, halve and core to fit into the syrup.
  
  Combine all the ingredients except for the pears in a large pot. Simmer for about 10 minutes. Start preparing pears next to the stove, and put them right into the syrup as you work. When you have as many pear halves as will fit into the syrup, bring the mixture to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer for another 10 minutes or so, until the pears are tender. Serve the pears with some of the liquid and some of the ginger and lemon peel.
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  recipes

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  beets in mustardy vinaigrette.

  1 rounded teaspoon grainy mustard .

  3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar .

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  Hortensia

  I got this recipe online somewhere -- Chef Pam Anderson, I think. It's for roasting in an electric oven. If you start in a cold oven, the heating element is on most of the time while the chicken cooks, making the skin crisper and browner.

  3- to 4-lb. chicken
  Paper towels
  Kitchen string
  Roasting pan
  1 cube soft butter
  Salt and pepper
  Tongs or 2 wooden spoons
  Instant-read thermometer
  Platter
  Foil
  
  Rinse the chicken inside and out in cold running water. Pat it completely dry with paper towels. Let it rest at room temperature for 30 minutes.
  Truss the chicken, tying the wings and legs close to the body with kitchen string. Use 2 or 3 tbsp of butter to grease the roasting pan. Rub butter all over the chicken's skin. Generously season the chicken with salt and pepper.
  
  Put the chicken in the pan breast side down. Put the pan in the cold oven and set the heat at 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Roast the chicken for 30 minutes. Remove it from the oven, turn the chicken breast side up, using tongs or two wooden spoons. Return the chicken and cook for another 30 to 45 minutes until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh registers 165 degrees.
  
  Remove the chicken to a platter. Cover it with foil and let it rest for 20 minutes before carving.
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  recipes

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  beets in mustardy vinaigrette.

  1 rounded teaspoon grainy mustard .

  3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar .

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  Hortensia

  Caponata

  2 medium eggplanst about 2 lb total

  2 medium zucchini

  2 large red or yellow bell peppers

  1 onion

  2 large tomatoes (I used stewed tomatoes)

  ½ cup wine vinegar

  2 tsps sugar

  1 bay leaf

  ½ cup olives (sometimes I leave this out)

  ¼ cup olive oil

  Cut eggplant into 1 inch cubes. Sprinkle with salt. Let stand for 20 minutes. Rinse and pat dry. Cut zucchini into slices. Slice peppers and onion. Place eggplant, zucchini peppers and onion in a large roasting pan.

  Combine tomatoes, vinegar and sugar. Put on vegetables with bay leaf, olives and oil. Mix to blend. Bake in a 400 oven, stir every half hour until vegetables are soft and liquid evaporates. I did it on stove top instead, hardly stirring, until tender and liquid had evaporated. Leave some liquid.
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  recipes

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
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  beets in mustardy vinaigrette.

  1 rounded teaspoon grainy mustard .

  3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar .

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  Biscuits

  2 1/4 cups of flour

  1 tablespoon baking powder

  1 teaspoon of salt -- more if you use unsalted butter

  1 stick of frozen butter -- 4 oz.

  1 1/2 cups of thick buttermilk

  Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl. Dice or grate the butter into the bowl. Mix with your fingers until you have lots of flour-coated flakes of butter. Don't let the butter get warm, so work quickly. Stir in enough buttermilk to make a rough dough. Dump the dough on a floured board and pat it into a circle, about 3/4 to 1-inch thick. Butter a 9-inch round baking pan. Cut the biscuits and place into the pan, nearly touching each other. It should fill the pan with a tiny bit of space around each biscuit. Bake for about 15 minutes until the biscuits are nicely browned. I like more brown, not so much golden.
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  recipes

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  beets in mustardy vinaigrette.

  1 rounded teaspoon grainy mustard .

  3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar .

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  Hortensia

  Beets in mustardy vinaigrette

  1 rounded teaspoon grainy mustard
  3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
  3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil1 teaspoon sugar
  6 to 8 ounces mixed baby greens
  Salt and pepper

  4 or 5 boiled beets, cubed

  goat cheese, optional

  Mix oil, vinegar, mustard and sugar, beat with a fork. Taste, add salt and pepper to taste. Pour over beets and put in frig. Serve over greens with some goat cheese on the side.

  Bloody Mary recipe

  12 ounces vodka
  4 cups tomato juice
  1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
  Worcestershire sauce to taste
  Tabasco to taste

  black pepper
  celery stick for garnish

  Combine the vodka, the tomato juice, the lemon juice. Add the Worcestershire sauce, the Tabasco, and black pepper. Shake the mixture well, taste and add more Worcestershire sauce, tabasco and black pepper as necessary. Strain it into tall glasses filled with ice cubes. This is delicious even without vodka. It tasted better after an hour in the refrigerator, still tasted good two days later.
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  Has anybody meet anyone on here who they knew as a JW. Experiences please

  by joe134cd in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm just curious but has anybody meet some one on jehovahwitness-net who they knew in their jw lives.

  just want to hear experiences.

  please include the indicators that led up to you identifying each other, and how you eventually revealed yourself.

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  Hortensia

  Yeah, I connected with someone I knew a long time ago, met his wife, too. Not in touch too much, but so darned glad they are not JWs.
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  Thoughts on going back, am I the only one that feels this way?

  by excaliber in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello everyone, i know you have heard this topic before and your probably thinking.

  ...not again lol.. but i was wondering if anyone has thought of going back for the same reasons as myself, i don't think its the truth but i searched and my conclusion is that other religions don't have the truth, they are all wrong in my opinion.

  if there is no other religion to go too, why leave were i was born and raised.

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  Hortensia

  Religion isn't all there is in the world. All religion sucks, in my opinion. Turn your back on it and get involved in something truly interesting and worthwhile, rather than playing silly games at the KH.

  There is so much to do, to learn, to see outside the KH and loads of really great people to meet. If you're young, why aren't you backpacking around Europe or hiking some of the wonderful trails in the wilderness or going to school to become someone really interesting yourself?

  Go have fun, go learn, go live!
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  Are you excited about the next space race?

  by tootired2care in

  1. social
  2. current

  for the last several years a number of things have been coalescing to make deeper space exploration and colonization possible and even feasible.

  it seems that the velocity of such endeavors has really increased the last couple of years.

  big things are in the works such as:.

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  Hortensia

  I don't know that it excites me -- but it's very interesting and I wonder what will happen next. The Chinese are very determined, and I think they'll get a settlement on the moon if that's their goal.

  But then, who owns the moon? Could be a problem there.
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  The Terracotta Warriors Museum in Xian has new discoveries.

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  the museum at the site of china's first emperor's mausoleum has a new exhibit.

  as archeologist's press on excavating the site, they have found the first examples of ancient chinese armour, and it has now gone on display:.

  a china national tv provides some images.. http://english.cntv.cn/program/cultureexpress/20131216/104966.shtml.

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  Hortensia

  I've been to Xian a couple of times. It was very interesting, especially the little museum outside the excavation area. I would love to see it again. For years I had the fantasy of getting on the train in xian and heading out into the Gobi desert. You can go quite a way on the train, then switch to a bus and go all the way to the Pakistan border.

  Won't happen, but it was a good fantasy.

  Actually, since you can't really get near the terracotta soldiers at the excavation, you can see them better in the original National Geographic article. They've got a building like a football stadium built over the solders, and you walk around a catwalk up high, so you can see down into the pit, but can't get near. Can't take photos, either. However, it has been over 20 years since I was there, and I imagine things might have changed.
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  The Terracotta Warriors Museum in Xian has new discoveries.

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  the museum at the site of china's first emperor's mausoleum has a new exhibit.

  as archeologist's press on excavating the site, they have found the first examples of ancient chinese armour, and it has now gone on display:.

  a china national tv provides some images.. http://english.cntv.cn/program/cultureexpress/20131216/104966.shtml.

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  Hortensia

  Thanks for sharing that video - I enjoyed it.