Easter Eggs

On Apr 26, 2:26?pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:

I rarely finish fries when out anywhere. In Oregon and sw Washington,
there are several Burgervilles, and they serve yukon gold fries
seasonally. I always finish those. They are much better than regular
fries. I wish they sold them year round.
 
On Apr 24, 11:30?pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:

Why make real eggs just to throw them away? That's like pissing in
the faces of hungry children everywhere. Next time get some plastic
eggs you can refill every year.

--Bryan
 
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:51:05 -0500, Omelet
wrote:

The places these owls nest is over the actual swamp. My house sits
right on the edge of it. There is nothing short of a life and death
situation that will make me go into that swamp on foot or even in a
boat. Mother Nature still owns it. I'm not trespassing. Not too far
from my house, there are creatures that have never seen a human.

Some of them come up into my yard once in awhile. I'll tell you my big
pink pig story some day.
 
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:08:31 -0500, Omelet
wrote:


You can order another wire rack from the company that made your
toaster oven. It might take a bit of research, but you can find their
email if you search the web.

I also have a counter-top rotisserie that I can use the wire vegetable
rack in. I put all types of food in the rack and it cooks it very
similar to grilling. It makes "grilled" veggies to kill for. No fan to
dry the food out and it gives veggies a great charred taste if I let
it lightly char the pieces. Then a quick spray with butter and serve!
 
In article ,
Tara wrote:


I am. I blow them out before I decorate them. :-)
Pictures (made between April 7 and April 22 are on my online gallery at
http://gallery.me.com/barbschaller/100477

Here's a recipe; adjust the canned and pre=prepared ingredients to
suit yourself (e.g., cream sauce from scratch):


Shrimp-Sauced Bacon and Eggs

Recipe By: Barb Schaller, posted to r.f.cooking 4-25-2011

Serving Size: 8


Eggs:

2 slices bacon crisply cooked
8 hard-cooked eggs peeled and halved
lengthwise
1/3 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon curry powder (1/2 to 3/4)
1/4 teaspoon dry mustard

Shrimp Sauce:
2 Tbsp. butter
2 Tbsp. flour
1 can cream of shrimp soup (10 oz.)
1 1/4 cup milk (soup can)
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 pkg. small frozen (6 oz.) cooked
shrimp

Topping:
1 cup fresh bread crumbs
1 Tbsp. butter melted

Crumble the cooked bacon (rather small pieces) and set aside. Scoop egg
yolks from eggs and mash with mayonnaise, paprika, curry powder, and
mustard. Stir in crumbled bacon. Spoon yolk mixture back into white
halves.

Make Shrimp Sauce: Melt butter and flour together; stir. Gradually add
soup and milk; cook until thick and bubbly. Stir in cheese until
melted, then stir in frozen shrimp.

Arrange eggs in a shallow baking dish, about 7x11". Pour sauce over
eggs. Toss bread crumbs in butter and sprinkle on top of eggs and
sauce. Bake at 350? just to heat through, about 15 minutes. Makes 6
servings. This does NOT reheat well -- the egg whites toughen.

Notes: Won 3rd Place and $100 in the 1986 Minnesota Egg Council
Cooking Contest -- their first such contest.

--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
Pepparkakor particulars posted 11-29-2010;
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
 
On Apr 26, 2:55?pm, Dave Smith wrote:

I know how that feels. I mentioned seeing an owl land on our deck. I
waited over 10 minutes before slowly exiting the room, running for my
camera, and slowly entering the main room again. Unfortunately, should
have changed lenses before returning as I ended up trying to change it
in a dark room after midnight. I never got a good shot. Even a dark
blurry shot would have helped us to identify the type of owl.
 
In article , [email protected] says...


An increasing number of places here now offer half price "small
portions" from the main menu, popular with older people with smaller
appetites, and families whose children don't eat the usual child-menu
junk.

The restaurant doggybag has never caught on in Europe. Partly because
food is more expensive here but also maybe a cultural thing, memories of
food rationing and times in living memory when leaving precious food on
the plate uneaten was shameful, and hungry/poor people bought and ate
petfood.

From the business POV, serving food that's cheap enough to squander,
implies an unappetising downmarket connotation. The more upmarket the
place is, the more care is given to portion control.

Janet UK
 
"Noemi" wrote in message
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Well I'm allergic to eggs so that's why they can't be eaten by me. Actually
now that I think about it I probably shouldn't give them to the kitties. I
gave Maui some food with egg in it and after she ate it, she licked me. I
got a nasty rash where she licked.
 
Bryan wrote:

And do what with them? You can't dye plastic eggs. Daughter likes to dye
the eggs.

I give plenty of food to the food bank. If I want to buy a dozen eggs and
throw most of them out, I surely can do that. I'm not going to go comb the
streets looking for poor children who might want eggs.

I don't personally know any poor kids. My friend does have an adult son who
has a child. The mother of that child does have more children by different
fathers. I don't know this for a fact but I believe they are not well to
do. But I think they are. Perhaps they could use some eggs but... They
live in another city pretty far from here. The amount of money I would have
to spend in gas to get $1.59 worth of eggs to them just wouldn't be
justified.
 
In article , [email protected] says...

They do here :-) But Scotland is a cold country where home-made soup
(from scratch) is seen as the ultimate comfort food, and so widely eaten
that nobody could pass off canned/reconstituted as the real thing. Even
the cheapest little pitstop caff/tearoom serving mostly microwaved factory
food, will often proudly boast their soup is made from scratch on the
premises (and it is).

Janet UK
 
On Apr 26, 9:29?pm, Omelet wrote:


Same here. I'm going to pull a turkey breast from the freezer and cook
it in the crock pot. Make up a nice pot of mashed potatoes, and I will
have several great meals. I have also come up with single serving of
lasagne that works well for me. Rather than working with larger
noodles and making a full pan at a time, I can make up larger batches
of sauce and freezer in smaller amounts. Then when i want lasagne, I
can cook noodles (whatever kind i want) and then add the sauce and
cheeses. It is more like a bowl of casserole than a plate of lasagne,
but the taste is the same, and it is easier to do in smaller batches.
 
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:31:59 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
wrote:


What beautiful eggs. Who taught you how to make them? Do you save
them, give them away, sell them, all of the above?

I hope you might read these lovely Patricia Polacco books to your
grandchildren. Both books feature pysanky eggs.

Chicken Sunday
http://www.amazon.com/Chicken-Sunda...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303768584&sr=1-1

Rechenka's Eggs
http://www.amazon.com/Rechenkas-Eggs-Paperstar-Patricia-Polacco/dp/0698113853/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1

Tara
 
"Omelet" wrote in message
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We've done that. I like to do crafts but once I've done something I pretty
much don't want to do it again. We made over a dozen of them and gave them
out as gifts. No Hobby Lobby here. I ordered the eggs from a place in PA.
I think the name was Maplewood. Could not find what I needed locally.

I used to be really big on crafts. I can pretty much look at something and
figure out how to make it. But... I am seriously working on de-cluttering
our house. And the people I gave them to are doing the same so really
didn't want them.

I didn't even put up my lights for Valentine's day or Easter. I have some
egg shaped lights. With the crime rate in this area, I just don't see the
point any more. We were just at my daughter's friend's house and the mom
said her car was prowled last night. They live just down the street from
us.

I used to go all out with the decorating. I think that has more impact when
the kids are young. I don't mind putting them up. I don't like taking them
down. And neither does daughter so like me she is taking the minimalist
approach on things. She did find an egg on a stick that is meant for flower
arrangements or potted plants. Normally we would have put them in our
potted plants. But... I just discovered that the two I had in the bathroom
are poisonous to cats. So they're gone. She put the egg in a vase. That
was our only decoration.
 
[email protected] wrote:

There is a park across the street. A lot of the trees are coming down
though because of the high winds we've had these past few years. Either
they blew over or they have been taken down so they won't.
 
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:19:50 -0700, "Julie Bove"
wrote:


I love the owls around my place. There are a bunch! Every evening,
they all start "talking" to each other and it's like a chorus of
"hoots".

They eat all the rats, snakes and mice. I'm in the middle of a huge
swamp in Florida and only seldom see any rodents or snakes on my own
property. In the city, where all the car exhaust is, they have much
fewer owls and suffer the consequences of it.

A few years ago, I was sitting in my Florida room one evening and a
HUGE owl swooped in and crash landed on a rattlesnake directly in
front of my view. I grabbed my binoculars and watched it take the dead
rattler up to a tree limb and eat it head first, one swallow at a
time. Damn snake was about 3 feet long and it made me like that owl a
lot. Good owl! Good owl!
 
this is one of my pet peeves, there is no shame in asking for a take away
box when dining out, often as soon as i see what has been served i ask for
the cotntainer, deplate what i will not eat and set it aside, not only do
people waste money in eateries, they are wasting money, if the food is worth
eating at the eatery, its most likeyly good enough to eat for another
meal...

as to the eggs, i think planned dying and discard of julie's eggs is not a
big deal, and when i suggested feeding the eggs to the kittys i actually
didn't think about her allergy... so the new suggestion is...

have angela mash them up and put them outside for the wildlife that is
lurking... even birds will eat them.

Lee
"Bryan" wrote in message
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On Apr 25, 4:51 pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:

I'm just disgusted by the amount of food I see PIG Americans waste.
It's shameful. Pig Americans order food in a restaurant, foul it with
their saliva, then leave it on their plates, half uneaten. Pig
Americans are privileged to do so. Perhaps God loves us more than
starving Ethiopians. A canine will overeat, the vomit up the excess,
as it is perfectly willing to eat its own vomit, while other dogs are
repelled by another dog's vomit. At least they are planning on eating
their ruined discard, whereas pig Americans just have the bussers toss
it into the garbage.

It's not a huge deal that you wasted that small amount of food, but
that you failed to think ahead of time about your daughter really only
using the eggs she is willing to eat, and explaining to her that the
reason for that is a respect for food, and sympathy for the hungry.
Both the Pagan and Christian traditions behind the Easter Egg thing
are tied up with moral teachings. I just spent the day reading a book
that espoused very bad morals, but that pointed out that we Americans
have become so dependent on convenience and creature comfort that we
seldom concern ourselves with the ethics of our actions.

This isn't a personal attack on you, but upon the schizo love for
food, coupled with disrespect for food that I see nearly every time I
dine out. Every time I waste food, I feel some shame.

--Bryan
 
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