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  What's your culinary specialty?

  by pmouse in

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  reading hortensia's topic "menu" made my mouth water.

  i remember in the 70's (when we used to be able to have lots of jw social get-togethers like picnics and parties) some of the friends would bring pot-luck specialties that were to die for!.

  everyone has a dish they consider their "specialty" which gets high praise and generally requests for the recipe.

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  I'm 'resurrecting' this old thread (no pun intended re: witlesses); but I am asking any of you southern belles and gentlemen out there if any of you has a good southern "green" or vegetable dish to go with a baked spiral ham.

  My parents and grandmother are on their way up today from Florida and I have decided to have ham, potato salad, baked beans and Frannie Bannanie's yummy sounding P-Nutty Banana Cream Pie posted on this thread. My stepmother and her mother are as close to my real mom and grandmother as you can bet and I would like to honor their southern heritage by not screwing up anything.

  My dilemma is the "green" side dish. I really don't want to do the old standby Green Bean Casserole, so I was thinking possibly a spinach souffle...turnip greens? Any ideas?

  Thanks ladies/guys!

  Paula

  PS.... This is not excluding the Yankees out there! Your ideas are more than welcomed and hoped for as well!
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  My Mom died yesterday

  by skeptic1914 in

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  my mom passed away yesterday.

  she was a die-hard jw.

  i tried to explain why i couldn't accept certain teachings but rather than rationally consider what i had to say she chose to believe i was just "confused".

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  My condolences Skeptic.
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  What are the love names you call your pets?

  by restrangled in

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  since we have heard many bad names for humans lately in the media, i thought it would be fun to hear what we call our pets..... i have two large male (one in tact) dobermans and they are called an answer to: lovies, darlings, gooies, babies and bad boy loves.. what do you call your pets?.

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  We have a little 13 pound Mal-tishi (Maltese/Shih-tzu mix). Her name is Heidi and her nicknames range from Scooter, Spike, Snuggums, Heidi-Ho, baby-doll, pretty-girl and so on.

  Now the cat, Casey, is probably the most needy cat you'll ever meet. We call him muttonhead most of the time. And worse when he tries to trip me first thing in the morning. Is this just a 'cat thing'?
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  ANYTHING EXCITING EVER HAPPEN AT YOUR KINGDOM HALL?

  by anewme in

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  did anything exciting or alarming ever happen at your hall?

  i remember only funny incidents, like one brother getting up there with his zipper down.

  (i knew alot of brothers after that felt no shame to actually check down there before going up on the podium!

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  I remember sitting in the hall with one of the "primo" members of the congo sitting right in front of us. Their teenage son was my age and apparently whispered something smart mouthed into his mother's ear during the middle of the public talk. She hauled off and slapped him across the face so fast that I jumped in my chair.

  The remainder of the congo jumped too because the sound was so loud. He continued to look straight ahead, but his face and the back of his neck turned the darkest shade of red and stayed that way for the duration of the meeting.

  That was gossip fodder for weeks to come and vanquished any inklings of courtship between us from my mother's point of view.
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  Anyone here drop out of high school pre 1975?

  by Threestars in

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  just wondering.

  and if so, were you able to go back later on and finish?

  i barely made it in under the wire, so to speak, but my three younger siblings had to quit (our dad made them--he said they would be better off "pioneering" but in reality he put them to work in a gardening business he started since he had quit his job and maxed his credit cards--waiting for "the end".

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  I finished high school in Jan 1973 when they allowed those who had completed the necessary credits to graduate early. I then proceeded to get married to my JW boyfriend in September of 1973 when I was only 17. My step-father tried to convince me to go to college (he was not a JW) but my mother argued that armageddon was just around the corner and I did not need college...

  After one child, and a successful fade in 1976-77, a divorce and remarriage, I went back to school in my late 40's and graduated at the ripe old age of 50 with my bachelor's degree (October of last year). I was so under the control of my mother (who ruled the roost who was under the control of the JW's) that I jumped at the chance to get married to assert my independence.

  I basically shot myself in the foot for not allowing my father to assist me financially in going on to college and ended up in a miserable marriage for over ten years to a hypocrit. All is well now, but I really resent what could have been. Someday I'll really vent on this forum, but not now!
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  What's your culinary specialty?

  by pmouse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  reading hortensia's topic "menu" made my mouth water.

  i remember in the 70's (when we used to be able to have lots of jw social get-togethers like picnics and parties) some of the friends would bring pot-luck specialties that were to die for!.

  everyone has a dish they consider their "specialty" which gets high praise and generally requests for the recipe.

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  LynnA - going to try that tuna casserole. You're right...hubby loves that stuff.

  Does anyone have a good recipe for flatbread? When we were out west traveling in Utah, we were served all kinds of good food including flat bread. I had never had it before then. Delicious!!!!! Crisp on the outside and tender on the inside.

  Anyone know how to make it?
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  Tell us a weird fact about yourself

  by ninja in

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  i will start....i can speak conversational albanian....thanks to the foreign language field...really useful in everyday life as a cleaner....sniff...why didnt i pick mandarin?

  ..would be useful when they take over the world....but one day i will find an albanian to talk to ...that or a needle in a haystack....the emmerdalian world of jw's

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  I used to rock myself to sleep (no, not with a real rock) until I got married.
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  What's your culinary specialty?

  by pmouse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  reading hortensia's topic "menu" made my mouth water.

  i remember in the 70's (when we used to be able to have lots of jw social get-togethers like picnics and parties) some of the friends would bring pot-luck specialties that were to die for!.

  everyone has a dish they consider their "specialty" which gets high praise and generally requests for the recipe.

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  pmouse

  LynnA - Love it! Spill the goods!
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  What's your culinary specialty?

  by pmouse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  reading hortensia's topic "menu" made my mouth water.

  i remember in the 70's (when we used to be able to have lots of jw social get-togethers like picnics and parties) some of the friends would bring pot-luck specialties that were to die for!.

  everyone has a dish they consider their "specialty" which gets high praise and generally requests for the recipe.

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  pmouse

  Pmouse,.....please find the recipe! I am of sweedish and irish desent but being born and raised in Chicago, learned to love greek food!

  Finally found it! Remember, this was my mom's -she got it out of a local newspaper in the early 60's and her notes aren't the best. There are some items I'm not totally clear on...but you catch the drift....

  Louis Pappas Famous Greek Salad

  Make a potato salad from these ingredients:

  • 6 boiled potatoes
  • 2 medium onions
  • 1/4 cup chopped celery
  • 1/2 cup sliced green onions
  • 1/2 cup salad dressing*
  • Salt to taste

  Salad Ingredients:

  • 1 head lettuce
  • 3 cups potato salad (above)
  • 12 Roka leaves
  • Tomatoes cut in wedges
  • Cucumbers cut lengthwise
  • 1 avocado
  • Feta Cheese
  • 1 green bell pepper
  • Cooked beets
  • Cooked shrimp (large jumbo fresh if possible)
  • Anchovies
  • Black Greek Olives
  • Whole green onions
  • 1/2 cup white vinegar
  • 1/4 cup olive oil and salad oil, blended
  • Oregano to taste

  Arrange the above ingredients on a large platter and serve with toasted crisp greek garlic bread (Restrangled's sounded good). Potato salad under all of the above.

  Louis' Dressing

  • 1 cup mayonaise
  • 1/4 cup whipping cream
  • 1/4 cup chilled sauce ?
  • 1 T. lemon juice
  • 1/4 cup green pepper chopped fine
  • 1/4 cup green onion chopped fine

  Blend first four ingredients - add vegetables. Mix well. Serve ice cold with any seafood salad, preferable with crab meat then shrimp, etc.
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  What's your culinary specialty?

  by pmouse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  reading hortensia's topic "menu" made my mouth water.

  i remember in the 70's (when we used to be able to have lots of jw social get-togethers like picnics and parties) some of the friends would bring pot-luck specialties that were to die for!.

  everyone has a dish they consider their "specialty" which gets high praise and generally requests for the recipe.

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  pmouse

  Restrangled....ever been to Tarpon Springs FL and had the Louis Pappa's Greek Salad? They put potato salad in it...It's unique to the area....I've not been able to locate it any where else but FL.

  My mother had the recipe from years ago....I've got to go through her recipe box and see if I can find it.