[Sca-cooks] Thanksgiving feasts

[Olwen the Odd]

>Spinach for the veggie, which doesn't hold
>a candle to the traditional asparagus, but also raw spinach
>for the salad -- she got a huge bag of the stuff at Costco,
>apparently -- that I discovered I quite like.  I had in
>fact had it before but didn't know what it was, and hadn't
>ever bought any because I didn't think I'd like it.
>Anyway, the raw spinach was served with pears and an
>oil-and-vinegar dressing.

A nice way to have fresh spinach is to toss in some mandarin orange sections
and add some of the canned juice to vinegar for the dressing.  I toss in
some pecans or sliced almonds also if I have them around.

>So now I get to figure out a way to put new flooring over
>old, dirty, probably waxy linoleum -- anybody know if you
>can sand linoleum?

If your linoleum is the really old stuff then yes, you could sand it if you
are crazy.  It contains asbestos.  If it's not the really old stuff then,
no, it contains too much something that just gums up.  The way to re-cover
old linoleum is to take it up and begin anew.  If that is simply not an
option you can email me directly and I can talk to you.
>
>The new stove, by the by, is a beautiful black glass-topped
>one (Hotpoint), and the oven actually heats to the
>temperature you set it for!  I checked -- it's habit.  I
>told the salesman I was probably buying it in an attempt to
>recapture my lost Goth youth, but in fact it's very
>aesthetic and makes the '70s decor of the rest of the
>kitchen look really, really sad and tacky.
>
70's RULE!

>Dana/Ximena

Olwen



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