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Re: Fresh Farms: an amazing ethnic market

Tracy Rowan — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 18:45:47 -0000

Sadly, no. We didn't get to the Poptart aisle. Maybe next time. Maybe we can find some garam masala ones.

Re: Fresh Farms: an amazing ethnic market

Rris Centaur — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 16:44:09 -0000

Whut? No Poptarts? :)

Re: Kittehs

Tracy — Wed, 29 May 2013 21:34:29 -0000

I have lovely children and lovely nieces and nephews.

Re: Kittehs

Jean Kluge — Wed, 29 May 2013 21:06:58 -0000

He is GORGEOUS! But Peeb is awfully cute, too. It's just that he's amazingly beautiful.

Re: Of hummus and headaches

Tracy — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:47:01 -0000

I remember your photo, and it looked lovely. Mine looks gritty, but it tastes good. I'm wondering if you could use almond or cashew butter to make some kind of hummus. I'm willing to experiment this summer. What the hell, right? The worst that could happen is I'll lose maybe $3 worth of food and some time.

Re: Of hummus and headaches

Barbara — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:49:31 -0000

The last time I made hummus, I went to the trouble of taking the skins off all the chickpeas, because I'd read that made the hummus smoother. It was pretty good hummus, but a lot of trouble. Now I've got half a jar of tahini in the fridge and don't know what to do with it, other than make more hummus.

Re: The past tastes like a chocolate soda today

Tracy — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:47:49 -0000

Thank you for your memories. So many of us remember that place with fondness. It was more than the ice cream, wasn't it?

Re: The past tastes like a chocolate soda today

Penny — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:41:23 -0000

Your memories are so vivid of The Buffalo, taking me back in a most remarkable way. The tastes, the smells, and that panelling. Thank you for posting this - and for linking to my blog.

Re: Demon Slayer

Tracy — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:17:01 -0000

Thank you!

Re: Demon Slayer

JJ Toner — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:25:52 -0000

Brilliant! Really put me in there with you. Great writing. JJ

Re: Demon Slayer

Tracy — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:27:11 -0000

Thank you, DrAllecon. In this case I felt that I was able to get my point across better with brevity than I could have done in a longer piece. Appreciate the feedback.

Re: Demon Slayer

Tracy — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:25:54 -0000

Thanks, Alex. It was a surprisingly important exercise. I'm glad I chose to participate. Appreciate the feedback.

Re: Demon Slayer

DrAllecon — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:24:01 -0000

That was amazingly touching and poignant, especially considering how you were restricted to so few words due to the nature of the challenge.

Re: Demon Slayer

Alex Wren — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:59:27 -0000

Though there is a fictional bent to this story, you gave a very realistic description of dementia. This certainly is how it seems when you're dealing with it. Great story :)

Re: Settling in

Tracy — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:17:35 -0000

Those are the ones they have at a local coffee house, Kopi. You'd like the place, I think.

Re: Settling in

Bill46260 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:48:58 -0000

I have that same cup :)

Re: All About Me

Tracy — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:11:03 -0000

Hi, Monette, what an exciting project. I'd be happy to help however I'm able. I'll be writing to you privately.

Re: All About Me

Monette Bebow-Reinhard — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:24:12 -0000

Hi! I'm working on a novel with Marshall Fields in Chicago as a backdrop - in fact, I'm writing you from the Starbucks at the Macys now. I'm looking for memories of the store from the 1960s. Can you help? I was trying to find out of Marshall Fields had a credit card by 1968 and it led me to you and yelp.

Re: You are a sorry lot of cookie-makers, I must say.

Tracy — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:40:52 -0000

Natch! That's one reason why they're breakfast cookies. Heh.

Re: You are a sorry lot of cookie-makers, I must say.

Tracy — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:40:30 -0000

LOL, Carol, I post here, on Facebook, Twitter, Dreamwidth, Tumbler, Live Journal, Linked In, and G+, and it gets picked up by Goodreads, my Amazon author page and (I think) Library Thing. Could you tell me which rock you're living under so I can direct future contests to you as well? :P

I actually like pecans very much, just not so much as walnuts or almonds. They're also wicked pricey. Bacon is good. I told Taylor that bacon and toffee might make a killer cookie.

Re: You are a sorry lot of cookie-makers, I must say.

Carol Clayton — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:14:13 -0000

And the chocolate shouldn't be sweet, natch. It's breakfast, after all. I'd put an egg in the dough as well.

Re: You are a sorry lot of cookie-makers, I must say.

Carol Clayton — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:13:27 -0000

I plead ignorance of the entire affair. I would of course have suggested bacon. With dark chocolate chips, and a sprinkle of sea salt. Walnuts or almonds, though pecans would be my first choice, I seem to remember you aren't fond of them, and some oatmeal and flax seed.

Re: I’m so tired I’m punchy

Bess — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:39:43 -0000

That's funny, I watched all of the Haunting, which is super good and creepy, and then the Uninvited, which I actually really liked. I'd never seen it before, and I usually like Ray Milland so much. The plot was a bit predictable, I figured out the big mystery about Stella as soon as I saw her mother's portrait. But I really liked Gail Russell (sad that she had such a sad life) and Donald Crisp was so good as her father. I started House on Haunted Hill, but couldn't finish it, too campy. And I didn't have any sympathy for any of the characters. Also it was so similar to Then There Were None by Christie, which is so much better, that I just decided to give it a miss. Going to keep an eye out for other cool old scary flicks this month though!

Re: Review: The Blood Sugar Solution, by Mark Hyman, MD

Tracy — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:51:22 -0000

Susi, it's been a while since I read the book, but I'd say that people on a mainly raw food diet might well already have the discipline to follow very strict guideleines. Oh the other hand there may well be many things currently in a raw food diet that will be removed by the BSS, at least in the early stages of the program. My best answer is that you need to read the book or at least take a close look at it to decide.

Re: Review: The Blood Sugar Solution, by Mark Hyman, MD

susi — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:46:15 -0000

Hi I am wondering if this book would be helpful for vegetarians and vegan vegetarians on a mainly raw food diet with marginal diabetes?