[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 27, Issue 95

[Rosie Posie]

Is there a way I can change settings so that I only get -one- digest per day
instead of a new updated digest every time someone posts?

I came home to 15 emails just today. :P

Thanks,

Rose.

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>   1. Re: Vegetarian & Vegans was Re: lethal drinks (Susan Fox)
>   2. Re: Cooking steaks was Re: lethal drinks (Audrey Bergeron-Morin)
>   3. Re: Vegetarian & Vegans was Re: lethal drinks (Michael Gunter)
>   4. Re: South Beach (was Re: Rice) (Lilinah)
>   5. Re: South Beach (was Re: Rice) (Kathleen A Roberts)
>   6. Re: South Beach (was Re: Rice) (Dragon)
>   7. Re: Cooking steaks was Re:  lethal drinks (Susan Fox)
>   8. Re: Cooking steaks was Re: lethal drinks (Mark Hendershott)
>   9. Re: teacup? (Arianwen ferch Arthur)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:38:06 -0700
> From: Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Vegetarian & Vegans was Re: lethal drinks
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Message-ID: <48876C7E.8050708 at earthlink.net>
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> Lilinah wrote:
> > Jeez, i ruined my own story - i got the words wrong! How could i!
> >
> > Here it is again, with the right words.
> >
> > In the 70s, i was looking for a room and was turned down because i was
> > a vegetarian.
> >
> > It seems that the other two apartment mates ate meat and had
> > previously had a rather self-righteous vegetarian room mate.
> >
> > He was asked to leave because he would stalk into the kitchen while
> > the others were eating and intone ominously:
> >
> > I...
> >
> > smell...
> >
> > DEATH!
> >
> >
> > That kinda put them off vegetarians.
>
> That would put me off self-righteous jerks, if I weren't already.
>
> Mmmm, tasty, tasty death.  Who wants to eat a live cow?
>
> Selene
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:38:30 -0400
> From: "Audrey Bergeron-Morin" <audreybmorin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Cooking steaks was Re: lethal drinks
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
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> > She had apparently smelled that while still out in the hallway, outside
> our
> > apartment door.
>
> When I take walks in the neighborhood in the summer, with all the
> windows open, it's quite easy for me to say "someone's having pasta"
> or "someone cooked rice". Yes, even from the sidewalk. Of course, you
> can also smell a barbecue from about a mile away...
>
> This is one of my favourite things in the world: coming home to find
> the place fragrant with whatever's cooking for dinner. When I was
> still living with my parents, the fun was trying to guess what was on
> the menu from the doorway :-)
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:39:50 -0500
> From: Michael Gunter <countgunthar at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Vegetarian & Vegans was Re: lethal drinks
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Message-ID: <BAY121-W137628684B72D677ABBFF4DF840 at phx.gbl>
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>
> > I...
> >
> > smell...
> >
> > DEATH!
>
> To paraphrase Dennis Leary:
> "Meat is murder and let me tell you something.
> Murder tastes pretty *&@#()@ good!"
>
> Gunthar
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:46:03 -0700
> From: Lilinah <lilinah at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] South Beach (was Re: Rice)
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
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> Helena wrote:
> >  We are doing South Beach as well...
> SNIP
> >  I am having real trouble with breakfast.  I don't like to eat eggs by
> >  themselves.
> SNIP
> >  Cereal is supposed to be out, English muffins are supposed to be out.
> >  What am I supposed to have in the morning?
>
> I don't understand why people in the US feel they must eat eggs or
> cereal or bread for breakfast. In many other cultures breakfast is
> not appreciably different from other meals.
>
> Eat anything you like and have time to prepare that the diet allows.
>
> If you have tight time constraints, eat already sliced lunch meat
> (ham, turkey, whatever appeals to you), with the condiments you like
> (mayo, mustard). You can spread the condiments on the meat and roll
> the meat up, or you could put the meat on a large lettuce leaf and
> roll it up...
>
> If you have time, cook something other than eggs. Sausage...
> Hamburger patty without bread... with a side salad or some other
> vegetable, or permitted fruit.
> --
> Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
> the persona formerly known as Anahita
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:55:42 -0600
> From: "Kathleen A Roberts" <karobert at unm.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] South Beach (was Re: Rice)
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
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> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:46:03 -0700
>  Lilinah <lilinah at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > I don't understand why people in the US feel they must
> >eat eggs or cereal or bread for breakfast. In many other
> >cultures breakfast is not appreciably different from
> >other meals.
>
> that will probably be our salvation.  we eat most anything
> any time.
>
> looks like i am back to grilling and cooking on saturdays
> for the week!
>
> cailte
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:11:25 -0700
> From: Dragon <dragon at crimson-dragon.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] South Beach (was Re: Rice)
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
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>
> >Helena wrote:
> >>  We are doing South Beach as well...
> >SNIP
> >>  I am having real trouble with breakfast.  I don't like to eat eggs by
> >>  themselves.
> >SNIP
> >>  Cereal is supposed to be out, English muffins are supposed to be out.
> >>  What am I supposed to have in the morning?
>
> I was going to stay out of this, I really feel these programmed diets
> are not the solution. Changing ones habits, portion control and
> exercise are the only things that really, truly work.
>
> I've lost 50 pounds since I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, I am
> on the cusp of dropping below what I weighed when I graduated high
> school, I feel better for it and am looking better than I have in a
> long time (not that I am any model of good looks, all things are
> relative...)
>
> I still eat rice and bread, I eat ice cream and chocolate and many
> other things that are supposed to be "verboten" for somebody with my
> condition, the difference is in both quantity and frequency, I eat
> less of these things than I used to less frequently. The point being,
> the equation is simple. Calories in must be less than calories out in
> order for weight loss to occur. It takes discipline, it has not been
> easy for me and I do sometimes fall off the wagon but I climb back on
> rather quick because I know what the potential consequences of me not
> doing so will be.
>
> These strict weight loss diets like Atkins and South Beach are a
> quick fix, I really think that they should be avoided as the
> statistics show that vast majority of people do not achieve lasting
> results with them. They go on a roller coaster cycle of ups and
> downs, there have been suggestions that such a cycle is no better
> than remaining overweight.
>
> Weight loss is hard. There is no way around that. The only thing that
> has been shown to work long term for the majority is change in habits
> and portion control coupled with regular exercise. Yes, I know there
> are exceptions to this due to metabolic issues but for most people,
> this applies.
>
> Lilinah wrote:
> >I don't understand why people in the US feel they must eat eggs or
> >cereal or bread for breakfast. In many other cultures breakfast is
> >not appreciably different from other meals.
> >
> >Eat anything you like and have time to prepare that the diet allows.
> >
> >If you have tight time constraints, eat already sliced lunch meat
> >(ham, turkey, whatever appeals to you), with the condiments you like
> >(mayo, mustard). You can spread the condiments on the meat and roll
> >the meat up, or you could put the meat on a large lettuce leaf and
> >roll it up...
> >
> >If you have time, cook something other than eggs. Sausage...
> >Hamburger patty without bread... with a side salad or some other
> >vegetable, or permitted fruit.
>
> Agreed. I have never much liked the giant pile of starch, sugar and
> fat that many Americans consider to be breakfast. There are some
> individual "breakfast" items I like but I am inclined to eat them any
> time and not just in the morning. I'm likely to be a lot happier
> eating a bowl of soup, a steak, a bean burrito, or a slice of
> leftover pizza or some Chinese style stir fry for breakfast than I am
> sitting down to the traditional American idea of breakfast.
>
> I have not had cold breakfast cereal in my house in years, I do eat
> oatmeal once in a while but it is not a regular thing. Most mornings,
> my breakfast is pretty small and simple due to both an elevated blood
> glucose response in the morning which I have to deal with and
> convenience on my way to work. I usually eat some sort of whole grain
> bread (about 30 g total carbohydrate) and some form of protein,
> usually in the form of about 2 to 3 ounces of cheese.
>
> Later in the day I can up my per-meal carbohydrate consumption to as
> much as 60 to 80 g and be in control but that's after my insulin
> response gets kick-started.
>
> I know this doesn't really help with somebody insisting on using one
> of these diets. I really don't have advice for anyone in that boat.
> I'm just saying what works for me to get my issues under control and
> as a consequence, I have managed to lose a lot of weight and continue
> to have a slow and steady weight loss.
>
> Dragon
>
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> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:36:10 -0700
> From: Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Cooking steaks was Re:  lethal drinks
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Message-ID: <48877A1A.30301 at earthlink.net>
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>
>
> > I don't think the man had any such intent, unless as a way to add a
> > little humorous weight to his point. And, frankly, there are places
> > where the cooks can become a little miffed at certain requests. Y'ever
> > see the Lenny Henry TV series "Chef!"? It's actually not that far off
> > absolute truth, and this doesn't just apply to Le Grenouille
> > Pretentieuse. I seem to recall the Pinnacle Peak restaurants all over
> > the Western US didn't like serving well-done steaks (this was in
> > addition to snipping off guys' neckties and nailing them up over the
> > bar).
>
> Good ol' Pinnacle Peak.  I remember that from the ancient days starting
> in Phoenix, Arizona.  Yes, SCA people tried to go in there with
> chainmail ties.  They got wise to that pretty quickly and now stock wire
> snips for smartasses like us.  Their response to an order of Well-Done
> steak is to bring you an old shoe on a plate.  No joke.
>
> Selene
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:06:23 -0700
> From: Mark Hendershott <crimlaw at jeffnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Cooking steaks was Re: lethal drinks
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20080723120504.027059a8 at jeffnet.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>
> At 10:38 AM 7/23/2008, you wrote:
> > > She had apparently smelled that while still out in the hallway, outside
> our
> > > apartment door.
> >
> >When I take walks in the neighborhood in the summer, with all the
> >windows open, it's quite easy for me to say "someone's having pasta"
> >or "someone cooked rice". Yes, even from the sidewalk. Of course, you
> >can also smell a barbecue from about a mile away...
>
> I think I recall reading of situations in which folks made complaints
> against their neighbors because the mere smell of the BBQ offended
> their sensibilities.
>
> Simon Sinneghe
> Briaroak, Summits, An Tir
>
>
> >This is one of my favourite things in the world: coming home to find
> >the place fragrant with whatever's cooking for dinner. When I was
> >still living with my parents, the fun was trying to guess what was on
> >the menu from the doorway :-)
> >_
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:07:54 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Arianwen ferch Arthur <caer_mab at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] teacup?
> To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> Message-ID: <431239.22376.qm at web30002.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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>
>
> -I remember seeing the china sets when teaching in
> Australia, the teacups were the larger cup, the coffee
> cups were smaller (not as small as demitasse though)
>
> and then getting cooking in old virginia, a thinble
> full of this or a wine glass of that...
>
> Did they have all the different sizes of wine glasses
> that we have?  and i know thimbles came in sizes, I
> used to buy size 7 or 8, but we had a 12 around the
> place too...
>
> My grandmother showed me how to make dumplings, and
> for me to duplicate her recipe I would need her green
> china bowl and the tea/coffee cup she measured with,
> foolishly I never measured the volumes against a
> standard, so I usually wind up making hockey pucks...
>
> Arianwen ferch Arthur
> "Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend. And inside of a dog it's too
> dark to read." G. Marx
>
>
>
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