• A nice simple dinner

    From Carol@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 23 23:41:52 2025
    My this was fast! It even fits our new reduced cholestrol diet fairly
    well.

    https://postimg.cc/TyMmJ5tc

    1 can Fire roasted diced tomatoes
    1 can Red Kidney beans
    2 diced Kayem sweet Italian sausages (not a fatty sausage)
    8oz tomato juice
    1 tsp toasted onion
    1/2 tsp roasted garlic powder
    1 tsp Indochina curry blend (any mild curry will work)
    S&P to taste

    Put all in a pot and simmer on low for 30 minutes. We served it in a
    bowl with rice on the bottom. Since we veggied out on the last of the
    'snow soup' for lunch, we didn't need more.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Carol on Mon Feb 24 16:09:25 2025
    On 2025-02-23, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    My this was fast! It even fits our new reduced cholestrol diet fairly
    well.

    https://postimg.cc/TyMmJ5tc

    1 can Fire roasted diced tomatoes
    1 can Red Kidney beans
    2 diced Kayem sweet Italian sausages (not a fatty sausage)
    8oz tomato juice
    1 tsp toasted onion
    1/2 tsp roasted garlic powder
    1 tsp Indochina curry blend (any mild curry will work)
    S&P to taste

    Put all in a pot and simmer on low for 30 minutes. We served it in a
    bowl with rice on the bottom. Since we veggied out on the last of the
    'snow soup' for lunch, we didn't need more.

    we went low, slow and very rich on sunday. oxtail stew. i put
    it together in the morning and it simmered on the stove all
    afternoon. was so delightfully thick and velvety no thickening
    with starch needed.

    last time i made it it was too greasy, this time i trimmed as
    much as fat as i could get at off the oxtail. took roughly a
    pound of fat off a 4.5 lb package of it.

    followed this recipe fairly close;

    https://www.myforkinglife.com/jamaican-oxtails


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  • From dsi1@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Feb 24 19:26:35 2025
    On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:09:25 +0000, [email protected] wrote:

    On 2025-02-23, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    My this was fast! It even fits our new reduced cholestrol diet fairly
    well.

    https://postimg.cc/TyMmJ5tc

    1 can Fire roasted diced tomatoes
    1 can Red Kidney beans
    2 diced Kayem sweet Italian sausages (not a fatty sausage)
    8oz tomato juice
    1 tsp toasted onion
    1/2 tsp roasted garlic powder
    1 tsp Indochina curry blend (any mild curry will work)
    S&P to taste

    Put all in a pot and simmer on low for 30 minutes. We served it in a
    bowl with rice on the bottom. Since we veggied out on the last of the
    'snow soup' for lunch, we didn't need more.

    we went low, slow and very rich on sunday. oxtail stew. i put
    it together in the morning and it simmered on the stove all
    afternoon. was so delightfully thick and velvety no thickening
    with starch needed.

    last time i made it it was too greasy, this time i trimmed as
    much as fat as i could get at off the oxtail. took roughly a
    pound of fat off a 4.5 lb package of it.

    followed this recipe fairly close;

    https://www.myforkinglife.com/jamaican-oxtails


    I don't know how I would trim fat off of a tail but it's easy enough to
    get rid of the fat in a bowl of oxtail soup - you just float a paper
    towel on the surface. It might be harder to do in a bowl of oxtail stew
    though. The oxtail served in Hawaii is more of a Chinese style soup
    rather than the stew served on the mainland. The Hawaiian soup has stuff
    like peanuts and mustard green in it. It's a popular cult food around
    here. I've seen a bowl go for $25. Amazing!

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/U1VUnmtJUvbnnPXn7

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/3V1NoScYcgyWoywE9

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  • From Janet@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 24 19:24:32 2025
    In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
    says...

    On 2025-02-23, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    My this was fast! It even fits our new reduced cholestrol diet fairly well.

    https://postimg.cc/TyMmJ5tc

    1 can Fire roasted diced tomatoes
    1 can Red Kidney beans
    2 diced Kayem sweet Italian sausages (not a fatty sausage)
    8oz tomato juice
    1 tsp toasted onion
    1/2 tsp roasted garlic powder
    1 tsp Indochina curry blend (any mild curry will work)
    S&P to taste

    Put all in a pot and simmer on low for 30 minutes. We served it in a
    bowl with rice on the bottom. Since we veggied out on the last of the 'snow soup' for lunch, we didn't need more.

    we went low, slow and very rich on sunday. oxtail stew. i put
    it together in the morning and it simmered on the stove all
    afternoon. was so delightfully thick and velvety no thickening
    with starch needed.

    last time i made it it was too greasy, this time i trimmed as
    much as fat as i could get at off the oxtail. took roughly a
    pound of fat off a 4.5 lb package of it.

    followed this recipe fairly close;

    https://www.myforkinglife.com/jamaican-oxtails

    To reduce the fat,let the pan cool; (overnight in
    fridge is ideal) all the fat will solidify on top like
    icebergs and can just be lifted off.

    Like many stews it tastes even better the second
    day.

    Janet UK

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  • From Dave Smith@21:1/5 to Janet on Mon Feb 24 14:42:37 2025
    On 2025-02-24 2:24 p.m., Janet wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
    says...

    On 2025-02-23, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    My this was fast! It even fits our new reduced cholestrol diet fairly
    well.

    https://postimg.cc/TyMmJ5tc

    1 can Fire roasted diced tomatoes
    1 can Red Kidney beans
    2 diced Kayem sweet Italian sausages (not a fatty sausage)
    8oz tomato juice
    1 tsp toasted onion
    1/2 tsp roasted garlic powder
    1 tsp Indochina curry blend (any mild curry will work)
    S&P to taste

    Put all in a pot and simmer on low for 30 minutes. We served it in a
    bowl with rice on the bottom. Since we veggied out on the last of the
    'snow soup' for lunch, we didn't need more.

    we went low, slow and very rich on sunday. oxtail stew. i put
    it together in the morning and it simmered on the stove all
    afternoon. was so delightfully thick and velvety no thickening
    with starch needed.

    last time i made it it was too greasy, this time i trimmed as
    much as fat as i could get at off the oxtail. took roughly a
    pound of fat off a 4.5 lb package of it.

    followed this recipe fairly close;

    https://www.myforkinglife.com/jamaican-oxtails

    To reduce the fat,let the pan cool; (overnight in
    fridge is ideal) all the fat will solidify on top like
    icebergs and can just be lifted off.

    Like many stews it tastes even better the second
    day.



    When I cook things that are going to release a lot of fat I usually put
    them in our tall thin asparagus pit. That allows faster transfer of heat
    so it cools off faster. The reduced diameter reduces the surface area on
    top so there is a thicker layer of fat on top and makes it easier to remove.

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Feb 25 07:16:28 2025
    On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:42:37 -0500, Dave Smith
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-02-24 2:24 p.m., Janet wrote:

    To reduce the fat,let the pan cool; (overnight in
    fridge is ideal) all the fat will solidify on top like
    icebergs and can just be lifted off.

    Like many stews it tastes even better the second
    day.

    I see 2 boomer tabs right above here.

    When I cook things that are going to release a lot of fat I usually put
    them in our tall thin asparagus pit.

    Is that what you call your mouth? Quaint.

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  • From Carol@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Feb 24 23:46:52 2025
    [email protected] wrote:

    On 2025-02-23, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    My this was fast! It even fits our new reduced cholestrol diet
    fairly well.

    https://postimg.cc/TyMmJ5tc

    1 can Fire roasted diced tomatoes
    1 can Red Kidney beans
    2 diced Kayem sweet Italian sausages (not a fatty sausage)
    8oz tomato juice
    1 tsp toasted onion
    1/2 tsp roasted garlic powder
    1 tsp Indochina curry blend (any mild curry will work)
    S&P to taste

    Put all in a pot and simmer on low for 30 minutes. We served it in
    a bowl with rice on the bottom. Since we veggied out on the last
    of the 'snow soup' for lunch, we didn't need more.

    we went low, slow and very rich on sunday. oxtail stew. i put
    it together in the morning and it simmered on the stove all
    afternoon. was so delightfully thick and velvety no thickening
    with starch needed.

    last time i made it it was too greasy, this time i trimmed as
    much as fat as i could get at off the oxtail. took roughly a
    pound of fat off a 4.5 lb package of it.

    followed this recipe fairly close;

    https://www.myforkinglife.com/jamaican-oxtails

    Sounds lovely but I'll skip the peppers!!! Sorry, not a chile head.

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to Carol on Mon Feb 24 19:07:15 2025
    Carol wrote:
    [email protected] wrote:

    On 2025-02-23, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    My this was fast! It even fits our new reduced cholestrol diet
    fairly well.

    https://postimg.cc/TyMmJ5tc

    1 can Fire roasted diced tomatoes
    1 can Red Kidney beans
    2 diced Kayem sweet Italian sausages (not a fatty sausage)
    8oz tomato juice
    1 tsp toasted onion
    1/2 tsp roasted garlic powder
    1 tsp Indochina curry blend (any mild curry will work)
    S&P to taste

    Put all in a pot and simmer on low for 30 minutes. We served it in
    a bowl with rice on the bottom. Since we veggied out on the last
    of the 'snow soup' for lunch, we didn't need more.

    we went low, slow and very rich on sunday. oxtail stew. i put
    it together in the morning and it simmered on the stove all
    afternoon. was so delightfully thick and velvety no thickening
    with starch needed.

    last time i made it it was too greasy, this time i trimmed as
    much as fat as i could get at off the oxtail. took roughly a
    pound of fat off a 4.5 lb package of it.

    followed this recipe fairly close;

    https://www.myforkinglife.com/jamaican-oxtails

    Sounds lovely but I'll skip the peppers!!! Sorry, not a chile head.


    Not to worry. Her royal Majesty will be along soon to jump his ass for
    his post ... and yours too, for responding.

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  • From songbird@21:1/5 to Carol on Mon Feb 24 23:42:06 2025
    Carol wrote:
    My this was fast! It even fits our new reduced cholestrol diet fairly
    well.
    ...

    it sounds ok to me. :)

    i've been eating some pretty simple meals recently.

    last night i warmed up some tomato chunks that we'd
    previously canned and had only used part of the quart
    jar so i needed to use up the rest of it.

    warmed up, then cut a homemade dinner roll in half
    and buttered it well and dunked it in the tomatoes
    to make a tomato and bread pudding.

    delicious, warm and filling enough but best of all
    quick and easy.


    songbird

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Carol on Tue Feb 25 12:01:20 2025
    On Sun, 23 Feb 2025, Carol wrote:

    My this was fast! It even fits our new reduced cholestrol diet fairly
    well.

    https://postimg.cc/TyMmJ5tc

    1 can Fire roasted diced tomatoes
    1 can Red Kidney beans
    2 diced Kayem sweet Italian sausages (not a fatty sausage)
    8oz tomato juice
    1 tsp toasted onion
    1/2 tsp roasted garlic powder
    1 tsp Indochina curry blend (any mild curry will work)
    S&P to taste

    Put all in a pot and simmer on low for 30 minutes. We served it in a
    bowl with rice on the bottom. Since we veggied out on the last of the
    'snow soup' for lunch, we didn't need more.


    Good stuff Carol! I would look forward to that for sure! =) I do say that
    your keyboard needs a bit of cleaning though. =/

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  • From D@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Feb 25 12:05:01 2025
    On Mon, 24 Feb 2025, [email protected] wrote:

    On 2025-02-23, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    My this was fast! It even fits our new reduced cholestrol diet fairly
    well.

    https://postimg.cc/TyMmJ5tc

    1 can Fire roasted diced tomatoes
    1 can Red Kidney beans
    2 diced Kayem sweet Italian sausages (not a fatty sausage)
    8oz tomato juice
    1 tsp toasted onion
    1/2 tsp roasted garlic powder
    1 tsp Indochina curry blend (any mild curry will work)
    S&P to taste

    Put all in a pot and simmer on low for 30 minutes. We served it in a
    bowl with rice on the bottom. Since we veggied out on the last of the
    'snow soup' for lunch, we didn't need more.

    we went low, slow and very rich on sunday. oxtail stew. i put
    it together in the morning and it simmered on the stove all
    afternoon. was so delightfully thick and velvety no thickening
    with starch needed.

    last time i made it it was too greasy, this time i trimmed as
    much as fat as i could get at off the oxtail. took roughly a
    pound of fat off a 4.5 lb package of it.

    followed this recipe fairly close;

    https://www.myforkinglife.com/jamaican-oxtails

    Do jamaicans have tails?

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Janet on Tue Feb 25 18:43:13 2025
    On 2025-02-24, Janet <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
    says...

    last time i made it it was too greasy, this time i trimmed as
    much as fat as i could get at off the oxtail. took roughly a
    pound of fat off a 4.5 lb package of it.

    To reduce the fat,let the pan cool; (overnight in
    fridge is ideal) all the fat will solidify on top like
    icebergs and can just be lifted off.

    Like many stews it tastes even better the second
    day.

    is not a foreign concept to us. the porch on our house is
    enclosed but not heated. in the winter we do utilize it as a
    walk in cooler to cool broths and stocks overnight to make it
    easy to separate fat. is standard procedure actually. make
    stocks and broths on a saturday and can or use it on a sunday.
    my cooking revolves around weekends since i'm still a working
    schmuck. :)

    the way this oxtail stew recipe smells though, is not a
    snowballs chance in hell of it making it through an overnight
    rest to the next day. the bit of fat, perhaps an eighth inch
    thick at the most on top was easily stirred in and clung to the
    solids. last time i made it i didn't trim the meat as it was
    allegedly trimmed by the butcher (i paid more per pound for
    trimmed vs untrimmed) and despite skimming some of it off, it
    was still too greasy to the point of being slimy.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Feb 25 18:57:47 2025
    On 2025-02-24, dsi1 <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:09:25 +0000, [email protected] wrote:

    we went low, slow and very rich on sunday. oxtail stew. i put
    it together in the morning and it simmered on the stove all
    afternoon. was so delightfully thick and velvety no thickening
    with starch needed.

    last time i made it it was too greasy, this time i trimmed as
    much as fat as i could get at off the oxtail. took roughly a
    pound of fat off a 4.5 lb package of it.

    followed this recipe fairly close;

    https://www.myforkinglife.com/jamaican-oxtails

    I don't know how I would trim fat off of a tail but it's easy enough to
    get rid of the fat in a bowl of oxtail soup - you just float a paper
    towel on the surface. It might be harder to do in a bowl of oxtail stew though. The oxtail served in Hawaii is more of a Chinese style soup
    rather than the stew served on the mainland. The Hawaiian soup has stuff
    like peanuts and mustard green in it. It's a popular cult food around
    here. I've seen a bowl go for $25. Amazing!

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/U1VUnmtJUvbnnPXn7

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/3V1NoScYcgyWoywE9

    Ooo!

    oxtail soup of Asian origin.

    a Jamaican coworker turned me on to the oxtail stew. it's the
    only way i've had it so far.

    now you've opened an entirely new rabbit hole for me to explore!

    muchas gracias.


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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Carol on Tue Feb 25 19:08:00 2025
    On 2025-02-24, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    [email protected] wrote:

    https://www.myforkinglife.com/jamaican-oxtails

    Sounds lovely but I'll skip the peppers!!! Sorry, not a chile head.

    my wife makes only a few exceptions for spicy heat. this stew is
    one those rare exceptions. it takes her mind back to having some
    rather spicy jerk chicken in Montego Bay, Jamaica. :)

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  • From Carol@21:1/5 to songbird on Tue Feb 25 23:23:24 2025
    songbird wrote:

    Carol wrote:
    My this was fast! It even fits our new reduced cholestrol diet
    fairly well.
    ...

    it sounds ok to me. :)

    i've been eating some pretty simple meals recently.

    last night i warmed up some tomato chunks that we'd
    previously canned and had only used part of the quart
    jar so i needed to use up the rest of it.

    warmed up, then cut a homemade dinner roll in half
    and buttered it well and dunked it in the tomatoes
    to make a tomato and bread pudding.

    delicious, warm and filling enough but best of all
    quick and easy.


    songbird

    I just had a sort of disjointed meal. Rice, Gyoza (potstickers), and a vegetable soup. The soup was reworked from some of the 'snow soup'
    that didn't fit in the crockpot. I added the ends of mustard greens on
    it's last trimmable useful day and added a bit more tomato juice. I
    gave it a tsp olive oil, some black pepper, toasted onions, and last of
    my Indochina blend which is best described as a mild curry blend.

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  • From Cindy Hamilton@21:1/5 to Carol on Sat Mar 1 10:22:09 2025
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:57 PM, Carol wrote:
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:00:50 +0000, Carol wrote:

    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing excited me.
    I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online but ALL of them
    were desserts or had Spinach. All were pricey to make and
    frankly, I'm getting pinched in the budget here.

    Ah well. At least bread has stayed cheap to make.

    Things aren't looking so good for veterans.

    (link snipped)>
    Nope, but they never have.


    Fer cryin' out loud, please stop letting dsi1 turn into a political
    crap newsgroup.

    Jill

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on him.

    Or killfile him. That's worked beautifully for me.

    --
    Cindy Hamilton

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  • From Carol@21:1/5 to Ed P on Sat Mar 1 23:59:39 2025
    Ed P wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:59 PM, Carol wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 4:00 PM, Carol wrote:
    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing excited me.
    I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online but ALL of them
    were desserts or had Spinach. All were pricey to make and
    frankly, I'm getting pinched in the budget here.

    You don't like spinach?

    Jill

    I love it. Don refuses to try it ever in any form. I think his Mom
    fed him watery canned stuff.

    Same here. I'd not touch it for years until I learned it is good raw
    in a salad and lightly cooked in butter with garlic.

    Me, I liked it, even canned watery stuff (no, Mom didn't drop me on my
    head (grin)).

    Don's a special kind of stubborn on some things.

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Mar 2 11:01:22 2025
    On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 23:59:39 -0000 (UTC), "Carol"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Ed P wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:59 PM, Carol wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 4:00 PM, Carol wrote:
    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing excited me.
    I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online but ALL of them
    were desserts or had Spinach. All were pricey to make and
    frankly, I'm getting pinched in the budget here.

    You don't like spinach?

    Jill

    I love it. Don refuses to try it ever in any form. I think his Mom
    fed him watery canned stuff.

    Same here. I'd not touch it for years until I learned it is good raw
    in a salad and lightly cooked in butter with garlic.

    Me, I liked it, even canned watery stuff (no, Mom didn't drop me on my
    head (grin)).

    What happened then?

    --
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  • From dsi1@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 00:44:16 2025
    On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 11:17:23 +0000, D wrote:

    Wow! That's an awesome view! How close is it to your apartment?

    That's in Kailua, on Oahu. The town is famous for its beaches. Kailua
    beach has been called the best beach in America. It's the town where I
    grew up. These days, it's just a tourist town. President Obama put that
    place on the national map. After that, Japanese rock stars would visit
    Kailua and post about restaurants they ate at in the town. That's when
    the shit hit the fan.

    I live in the next town over, Kaneohe. It suits me better. Tourists
    aren't a problem here but sooner or later it'll become famous and we'll
    be moving. We were at a small beach the other day. It's not much of a
    beach but we're told that King Kamehameha and his army landed at that
    spot and conquered the island of Oahu. If that's true, it's truly a
    historic spot.

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/XnvdFmVuStoF9xbd6

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Mar 2 12:16:38 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 00:44:16 +0000, [email protected] (dsi1) wrote:

    That's in Kailua, on Oahu. The town is famous for its beaches. Kailua
    beach has been called the best beach in America. It's the town where I
    grew up. These days, it's just a tourist town. President Obama put that
    place on the national map. After that, Japanese rock stars would visit
    Kailua and post about restaurants they ate at in the town. That's when
    the shit hit the fan.

    I live in the next town over, Kaneohe. It suits me better. Tourists
    aren't a problem here but sooner or later it'll become famous and we'll
    be moving. We were at a small beach the other day. It's not much of a
    beach but we're told that King Kamehameha and his army landed at that
    spot and conquered the island of Oahu. If that's true, it's truly a
    historic spot.

    King Kamekame was an invader?

    --
    Bruce
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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to Bruce on Sat Mar 1 19:22:50 2025
    Bruce wrote:
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 00:44:16 +0000, [email protected] (dsi1) wrote:

    That's in Kailua, on Oahu. The town is famous for its beaches. Kailua
    beach has been called the best beach in America. It's the town where I
    grew up. These days, it's just a tourist town. President Obama put that
    place on the national map. After that, Japanese rock stars would visit
    Kailua and post about restaurants they ate at in the town. That's when
    the shit hit the fan.

    I live in the next town over, Kaneohe. It suits me better. Tourists
    aren't a problem here but sooner or later it'll become famous and we'll
    be moving. We were at a small beach the other day. It's not much of a
    beach but we're told that King Kamehameha and his army landed at that
    spot and conquered the island of Oahu. If that's true, it's truly a
    historic spot.

    King Kamekame was an invader?


    Yes. He was an asian.

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  • From Jill McQuown@21:1/5 to Cindy Hamilton on Sat Mar 1 20:27:28 2025
    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:57 PM, Carol wrote:
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:00:50 +0000, Carol wrote:

    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing excited me.
    I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online but ALL of them
    were desserts or had Spinach. All were pricey to make and
    frankly, I'm getting pinched in the budget here.

    Ah well. At least bread has stayed cheap to make.

    Things aren't looking so good for veterans.

    (link snipped)>
    Nope, but they never have.


    Fer cryin' out loud, please stop letting dsi1 turn into a political
    crap newsgroup.

    Jill

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on him.

    Or killfile him. That's worked beautifully for me.


    Already did. Yet Carol and others keep replying to him. Not only about politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be the only
    one who ever brings it up.

    Jill

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Mar 2 12:39:49 2025
    On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 20:27:28 -0500, Jill McQuown
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on him.

    Or killfile him. That's worked beautifully for me.

    Already did. Yet Carol and others keep replying to him. Not only about >politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be the only
    one who ever brings it up.

    Do you really expect everybody to killfile the same people you
    killfile, meaning half the newsgroup? Just don't read it if it bothers
    you.

    What would be handy is a feature that says "Killfile messages that are
    a reply to XX". I don't need to see the Baltic Bozo constantly
    stroking dsi1's dick, for instance, but I don't need to killfile
    dsi1's other, unrelated posts.

    --
    Bruce
    <https://i.postimg.cc/zf7JhPvB/the-lord-of-the-rings.jpg>

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to Jill McQuown on Sat Mar 1 19:32:30 2025
    Jill McQuown wrote:
    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:57 PM, Carol wrote:
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:00:50 +0000, Carol wrote:

    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing excited me.
    I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online but ALL of them
    were desserts or had Spinach.� All were pricey to make and
    frankly, I'm getting pinched in the budget here.

    Ah well.� At least bread has stayed cheap to make.

    Things aren't looking so good for veterans.

    (link snipped)>
    Nope, but they never have.


    Fer cryin' out loud, please stop letting dsi1 turn into a political
    crap newsgroup.

    Jill

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on him.

    Or killfile him.� That's worked beautifully for me.


    Already did.� Yet Carol and others keep replying to him.
    Jill

    Consider killfiling carol too. She only irritates the hell out of your
    Majesty.

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  • From gm@21:1/5 to Jill McQuown on Sun Mar 2 01:37:32 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 1:27:28 +0000, Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:57 PM, Carol wrote:
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:00:50 +0000, Carol wrote:

    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing excited me.
    I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online but ALL of them
    were desserts or had Spinach. All were pricey to make and
    frankly, I'm getting pinched in the budget here.

    Ah well. At least bread has stayed cheap to make.

    Things aren't looking so good for veterans.

    (link snipped)>
    Nope, but they never have.


    Fer cryin' out loud, please stop letting dsi1 turn into a political
    crap newsgroup.

    Jill

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on him.

    Or killfile him. That's worked beautifully for me.


    Already did. Yet Carol and others keep replying to him. Not only about politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be the only
    one who ever brings it up.


    Dunderhead Carol is apparently due for a good FLOGGING...

    --
    GM

    --

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  • From dsi1@21:1/5 to Bruce on Sun Mar 2 02:09:49 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 1:39:49 +0000, Bruce wrote:

    On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 20:27:28 -0500, Jill McQuown
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on him.

    Or killfile him. That's worked beautifully for me.

    Already did. Yet Carol and others keep replying to him. Not only about >>politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be the only
    one who ever brings it up.

    Do you really expect everybody to killfile the same people you
    killfile, meaning half the newsgroup? Just don't read it if it bothers
    you.

    What would be handy is a feature that says "Killfile messages that are
    a reply to XX". I don't need to see the Baltic Bozo constantly
    stroking dsi1's dick, for instance, but I don't need to killfile
    dsi1's other, unrelated posts.

    dsi1 - can't live with me. Can't live without me. What can be said? I
    have that effect on people.

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Mar 2 13:30:37 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 02:09:49 +0000, [email protected] (dsi1) wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 1:39:49 +0000, Bruce wrote:

    On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 20:27:28 -0500, Jill McQuown
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on him. >>>>
    Or killfile him. That's worked beautifully for me.

    Already did. Yet Carol and others keep replying to him. Not only about >>>politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be the only >>>one who ever brings it up.

    Do you really expect everybody to killfile the same people you
    killfile, meaning half the newsgroup? Just don't read it if it bothers
    you.

    What would be handy is a feature that says "Killfile messages that are
    a reply to XX". I don't need to see the Baltic Bozo constantly
    stroking dsi1's dick, for instance, but I don't need to killfile
    dsi1's other, unrelated posts.

    dsi1 - can't live with me. Can't live without me. What can be said? I
    have that effect on people.

    :)

    --
    Bruce
    <https://i.postimg.cc/zf7JhPvB/the-lord-of-the-rings.jpg>

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  • From dsi1@21:1/5 to Bruce on Sun Mar 2 06:32:48 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 1:16:38 +0000, Bruce wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 00:44:16 +0000, [email protected] (dsi1) wrote:

    That's in Kailua, on Oahu. The town is famous for its beaches. Kailua
    beach has been called the best beach in America. It's the town where I
    grew up. These days, it's just a tourist town. President Obama put that >>place on the national map. After that, Japanese rock stars would visit >>Kailua and post about restaurants they ate at in the town. That's when
    the shit hit the fan.

    I live in the next town over, Kaneohe. It suits me better. Tourists
    aren't a problem here but sooner or later it'll become famous and we'll
    be moving. We were at a small beach the other day. It's not much of a
    beach but we're told that King Kamehameha and his army landed at that
    spot and conquered the island of Oahu. If that's true, it's truly a >>historic spot.

    King Kamekame was an invader?

    Indeed, King Kamehameha went from island to island to wage war and
    conquer the peoples of the islands. He's a local hero and there are
    statues of him in Honolulu and Hilo. I'm not sure why he's such a big
    hero - he seems like a big troublemaker to me. He took over Oahu by
    pushing a lot of people off a big cliff.

    https://bulletin.punahou.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/HI4b_Herb-Kane_Battle-at-Nuuanu-Pali-High-Res.jpg

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Mar 2 17:50:24 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 06:32:48 +0000, [email protected] (dsi1) wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 1:16:38 +0000, Bruce wrote:

    King Kamekame was an invader?

    Indeed, King Kamehameha went from island to island to wage war and
    conquer the peoples of the islands. He's a local hero and there are
    statues of him in Honolulu and Hilo. I'm not sure why he's such a big
    hero - he seems like a big troublemaker to me. He took over Oahu by
    pushing a lot of people off a big cliff.

    Is it then fair to say that Hawaiians are used to such practices and
    the next wave of invaders were whites and Asians and the natives can't
    really complain about it?

    --
    Bruce
    <https://i.postimg.cc/zf7JhPvB/the-lord-of-the-rings.jpg>

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  • From dsi1@21:1/5 to Jill McQuown on Sun Mar 2 07:06:55 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 1:27:28 +0000, Jill McQuown wrote:
    Already did. Yet Carol and others keep replying to him. Not only about politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be the only
    one who ever brings it up.

    Jill

    That's just so silly. You're only saying that because I'm not white. How shameful!

    I'm working on a guitar today. It has some kind of weird white stuff
    growing on the pickups. I replaced the pickups with Temu Chinese
    pickups. I could have replaced the pickups with original Seymour Duncan
    SDs for 200 bucks but I liked the Chinese pickups for under 25 bucks. I
    mean, I ain't stupid, you know.

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/WGNZ7syJhuBEx3aR8

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/UVWpgAd3prHm5UdH8

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  • From dsi1@21:1/5 to Bruce on Sun Mar 2 07:19:44 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 6:50:24 +0000, Bruce wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 06:32:48 +0000, [email protected] (dsi1) wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 1:16:38 +0000, Bruce wrote:

    King Kamekame was an invader?

    Indeed, King Kamehameha went from island to island to wage war and
    conquer the peoples of the islands. He's a local hero and there are
    statues of him in Honolulu and Hilo. I'm not sure why he's such a big
    hero - he seems like a big troublemaker to me. He took over Oahu by
    pushing a lot of people off a big cliff.

    Is it then fair to say that Hawaiians are used to such practices and
    the next wave of invaders were whites and Asians and the natives can't
    really complain about it?

    Da Hawaiians didn't mind the immigrants that came to their lands to work
    the fields. What they don't like is the rich and powerful Americans that
    stole their land and hold it still to this day. Da Hawaiians know all
    about the rich and powerful Americans - better than most Americans.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzYM4ZpSDJg

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Mar 2 18:54:33 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 07:19:44 +0000, [email protected] (dsi1) wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 6:50:24 +0000, Bruce wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 06:32:48 +0000, [email protected] (dsi1) wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 1:16:38 +0000, Bruce wrote:

    King Kamekame was an invader?

    Indeed, King Kamehameha went from island to island to wage war and >>>conquer the peoples of the islands. He's a local hero and there are >>>statues of him in Honolulu and Hilo. I'm not sure why he's such a big >>>hero - he seems like a big troublemaker to me. He took over Oahu by >>>pushing a lot of people off a big cliff.

    Is it then fair to say that Hawaiians are used to such practices and
    the next wave of invaders were whites and Asians and the natives can't
    really complain about it?

    Da Hawaiians didn't mind the immigrants that came to their lands to work
    the fields. What they don't like is the rich and powerful Americans that >stole their land and hold it still to this day. Da Hawaiians know all
    about the rich and powerful Americans - better than most Americans.

    But are all those Europeans and Asians now running the place at state
    level?

    --
    Bruce
    <https://i.postimg.cc/zf7JhPvB/the-lord-of-the-rings.jpg>

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  • From D@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 11:43:28 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, dsi1 wrote:

    On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 11:17:23 +0000, D wrote:

    Wow! That's an awesome view! How close is it to your apartment?

    That's in Kailua, on Oahu. The town is famous for its beaches. Kailua
    beach has been called the best beach in America. It's the town where I
    grew up. These days, it's just a tourist town. President Obama put that
    place on the national map. After that, Japanese rock stars would visit
    Kailua and post about restaurants they ate at in the town. That's when
    the shit hit the fan.

    I live in the next town over, Kaneohe. It suits me better. Tourists
    aren't a problem here but sooner or later it'll become famous and we'll
    be moving. We were at a small beach the other day. It's not much of a
    beach but we're told that King Kamehameha and his army landed at that
    spot and conquered the island of Oahu. If that's true, it's truly a
    historic spot.

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/XnvdFmVuStoF9xbd6


    You are a lucky man, living in paradise! I do not see any reason to leave
    this island. I am worried though, that the amount of tourists will force
    you to move again. This is not so good. =/

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Sun Mar 2 11:50:00 2025
    This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text,
    while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

    On Sat, 1 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    Jill McQuown wrote:
    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:57 PM, Carol wrote:
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:00:50 +0000, Carol wrote:

    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing excited me. >>>>>>>> I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online but ALL of them
    were desserts or had Spinach.� All were pricey to make and
    frankly, I'm getting pinched in the budget here.

    Ah well.� At least bread has stayed cheap to make.

    Things aren't looking so good for veterans.

    (link snipped)>
    Nope, but they never have.


    Fer cryin' out loud, please stop letting dsi1 turn into a political
    crap newsgroup.

    Jill

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on him.

    Or killfile him.� That's worked beautifully for me.


    Already did.� Yet Carol and others keep replying to him.
    Jill

    Consider killfiling carol too. She only irritates the hell out of your Majesty.

    Yeah... do it! Do it! Do it! Show that you dare!

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  • From D@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 11:52:08 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, dsi1 wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 1:39:49 +0000, Bruce wrote:

    On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 20:27:28 -0500, Jill McQuown
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on him. >>>>
    Or killfile him. That's worked beautifully for me.

    Already did. Yet Carol and others keep replying to him. Not only about >>> politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be the only
    one who ever brings it up.

    Do you really expect everybody to killfile the same people you
    killfile, meaning half the newsgroup? Just don't read it if it bothers
    you.

    What would be handy is a feature that says "Killfile messages that are
    a reply to XX". I don't need to see the Baltic Bozo constantly
    stroking dsi1's dick, for instance, but I don't need to killfile
    dsi1's other, unrelated posts.

    dsi1 - can't live with me. Can't live without me. What can be said? I
    have that effect on people.


    We are thankful for your friendliness, cooking and inspiring posts!

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  • From D@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 11:54:33 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, dsi1 wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 1:27:28 +0000, Jill McQuown wrote:
    Already did. Yet Carol and others keep replying to him. Not only about
    politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be the only
    one who ever brings it up.

    Jill

    That's just so silly. You're only saying that because I'm not white. How shameful!

    That's right! But what else to expect from a plantation owner with negro slaves?! It's shameful!

    I'm working on a guitar today. It has some kind of weird white stuff
    growing on the pickups. I replaced the pickups with Temu Chinese
    pickups. I could have replaced the pickups with original Seymour Duncan
    SDs for 200 bucks but I liked the Chinese pickups for under 25 bucks. I
    mean, I ain't stupid, you know.

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/WGNZ7syJhuBEx3aR8

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/UVWpgAd3prHm5UdH8


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  • From gm@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 11:40:36 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 10:54:33 +0000, D wrote:



    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, dsi1 wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 1:27:28 +0000, Jill McQuown wrote:
    Already did. Yet Carol and others keep replying to him. Not only about >>> politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be the only
    one who ever brings it up.

    Jill

    That's just so silly. You're only saying that because I'm not white. How
    shameful!

    That's right! But what else to expect from a plantation owner with negro slaves?! It's shameful!


    Truth!

    Jill's racism is simply shameful...!!!

    David here is not her "slave"...

    :-\

    --
    GM

    --

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  • From songbird@21:1/5 to Carol on Sun Mar 2 09:38:34 2025
    Carol wrote:
    ...canned spinach...
    Me, I liked it, even canned watery stuff (no, Mom didn't drop me on my
    head (grin)).

    it's fine for me too. to make it a bit more tolerable
    i do like to add a little apple cider vinegar to it. yet
    i have gotten quite a few cow-orkers to look at me funny
    for eating it cold right out of the can.


    Don's a special kind of stubborn on some things.

    heh. :) we all are i'm sure. :)


    songbird

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  • From Mike Duffy@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 16:13:19 2025
    On 2025-03-02, dsi1 wrote:

    You're only saying that because I'm not white. How shameful!

    You should not feel shameful because you are not white.

    Lot's of people of defective or mediocre abilities due to
    being cursed with poor genetics / education / morals &c
    can still be useful & productive members modern society.

    Just let go of all that racist / religious / political
    mental baggage and become simply a planet Earth citizen.

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  • From Carol@21:1/5 to Jill McQuown on Sun Mar 2 19:29:51 2025
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 8:38 PM, Ed P wrote:
    On 2/27/2025 7:59 PM, Carol wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 4:00 PM, Carol wrote:
    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing excited
    me.  I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online but ALL of
    them were desserts or had Spinach.  All were pricey to make
    and frankly, I'm getting pinched in the budget here.

    You don't like spinach?

    Jill

    I love it.  Don refuses to try it ever in any form. I think his
    Mom fed him watery canned stuff.

    Same here.  I'd not touch it for years until I learned it is good
    raw in a salad and lightly cooked in butter with garlic.

    I don't care for it raw but if it is wilted in hot olive oil browned
    slivers of garlic it's delicious! And I use frozen leaf spinach in
    quiches and other dishes such as the ground lamb recipe I posted
    recently.

    I'm sure glad I don't have to worry about what someone else might
    want to eat if I want to cook something with spinach.

    Jill

    It can be a pain in the ass, but if you love'em, you figure out
    compromises. Mostly lately, it's been Don's taste for spices. He's
    not hopeless on that, it's just he used to be the spice hound here so I
    had to gear up a bit.

    We found a surprising winner for us both. Now I know instant oatmeal
    isn't nearly as good the old fashioned kind but Don's never going to be
    the sort to make oatmeal on the stove first thing in the morning. For
    all these years (39 years now), Don has made our breakfast unless I was
    on a night shift or something. I usually do dinner (about 5 times a
    week) and we combine on stir fry style sides with me chopping and him
    cooking.

    So the surprise is the instant oatmeal packets are tolerable! It's
    fast enough to be workable and with added fruits (dried or fresh) to
    suit. I'd tried them long ago and they were nasty. They've improved.

    I'll try it later using the rice maker and rolled oats but suspect Don
    likes the speed more and considers it a workable tradeoff.

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  • From gm@21:1/5 to Mike Duffy on Sun Mar 2 19:34:36 2025
    Mike Duffy wrote:

    On 2025-03-02, dsi1 wrote:

    You're only saying that because I'm not white. How shameful!

    You should not feel shameful because you are not white.

    Lot's of people of defective or mediocre abilities due to
    being cursed with poor genetics / education / morals &c
    can still be useful & productive members modern society.

    Just let go of all that racist / religious / political
    mental baggage and become simply a planet Earth citizen.


    "... a planet Earth citizen ..." - yes, just like ME...!!!

    My existence transcends the BOUNDS of mere space and time...

    Kinda like "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"...!!!

    😎

    --
    GM

    --

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  • From Carol@21:1/5 to Jill McQuown on Sun Mar 2 19:38:35 2025
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:59 PM, Carol wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 4:00 PM, Carol wrote:
    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing excited me.
    I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online but ALL of them
    were desserts or had Spinach. All were pricey to make and
    frankly, I'm getting pinched in the budget here.

    You don't like spinach?

    Jill

    I love it. Don refuses to try it ever in any form. I think his Mom
    fed him watery canned stuff.

    That would explain it. Canned spinach sucks.

    Jill

    I seem to be the only person I know who finds it fine. Charlotte has
    never experienced spinach other than occasionally at the salad bar (it
    doesn't last well so runs out within days of getting underway) and from industrial sized cans.

    A surprising number of Navy people tolerate it in the steam table
    offerings but opt to put it in a coffee mug so it doesn't run all over
    the plate.

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  • From dsi1@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 20:58:36 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 10:43:28 +0000, D wrote:

    You are a lucky man, living in paradise! I do not see any reason to
    leave
    this island. I am worried though, that the amount of tourists will force
    you to move again. This is not so good. =/

    As old dsi1 says in times like these, we live in this world one time
    only. Don't fuck it up!

    So far, so good.

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  • From dsi1@21:1/5 to Bruce on Sun Mar 2 21:08:28 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 7:54:33 +0000, Bruce wrote:

    But are all those Europeans and Asians now running the place at state
    level?

    Of course not!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP1GchaSO1A&t=150s

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  • From dsi1@21:1/5 to Mike Duffy on Sun Mar 2 21:01:24 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 16:13:19 +0000, Mike Duffy wrote:

    On 2025-03-02, dsi1 wrote:

    You're only saying that because I'm not white. How shameful!

    You should not feel shameful because you are not white.

    Lot's of people of defective or mediocre abilities due to
    being cursed with poor genetics / education / morals &c
    can still be useful & productive members modern society.

    Just let go of all that racist / religious / political
    mental baggage and become simply a planet Earth citizen.

    Well that's Canadian humor/wit for you. Don't give up your day job.

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  • From D@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 22:55:44 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, gm wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 10:54:33 +0000, D wrote:



    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, dsi1 wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 1:27:28 +0000, Jill McQuown wrote:
    Already did. Yet Carol and others keep replying to him. Not only about >>>> politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be the only >>>> one who ever brings it up.

    Jill

    That's just so silly. You're only saying that because I'm not white. How >>> shameful!

    That's right! But what else to expect from a plantation owner with negro
    slaves?! It's shameful!


    Truth!

    Jill's racism is simply shameful...!!!

    David here is not her "slave"...

    :-\

    It is very sad. =( You would think that all americans would be way past
    that by now, but I think Jill is living too much in the past. =/

    --
    GM

    --


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  • From dsi1@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 21:58:07 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 10:54:33 +0000, D wrote:


    That's right! But what else to expect from a plantation owner with negro slaves?! It's shameful!


    My wife's kinfolk had slaves. Back in the day, you could sign over your
    slave and her baby to your heirs or whomever else you wanted to - if you
    lived in a Southern slave state. My wife's family has such a historic,
    yet horrific, document.

    Of course, that was then, this is now. My wife has fully apologized and renounced the sins of her family. As such, I'll only beat her once a
    week with a bamboo stick. It is, I might add, a very short stick and I
    use only one. I mean, I'm not an animal, right?

    https://content.king5.com/photo/2016/01/27/635895151072664476-puli-sticks-dance_678236_ver1.0.JPG

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  • From songbird@21:1/5 to Carol on Sun Mar 2 16:49:00 2025
    Carol wrote:
    ...
    It can be a pain in the ass, but if you love'em, you figure out
    compromises. Mostly lately, it's been Don's taste for spices. He's
    not hopeless on that, it's just he used to be the spice hound here so I
    had to gear up a bit.

    We found a surprising winner for us both. Now I know instant oatmeal
    isn't nearly as good the old fashioned kind but Don's never going to be
    the sort to make oatmeal on the stove first thing in the morning. For
    all these years (39 years now), Don has made our breakfast unless I was
    on a night shift or something. I usually do dinner (about 5 times a
    week) and we combine on stir fry style sides with me chopping and him cooking.

    So the surprise is the instant oatmeal packets are tolerable! It's
    fast enough to be workable and with added fruits (dried or fresh) to
    suit. I'd tried them long ago and they were nasty. They've improved.

    I'll try it later using the rice maker and rolled oats but suspect Don
    likes the speed more and considers it a workable tradeoff.

    i tried them many years ago too and ended up going to
    making plain ones instead because i like more texture
    and less salt and other odd things.

    if it is time involved in making oatmeal that he objects
    to i've found that i can measure things and use the microwave
    to start the oatmeal and then after it reaches a boil i can
    turn it down to a lower power level for however long to
    finish. so there's actually very little time i'm having to
    do much of anything other than waiting for it to finish.

    the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes
    or less. after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level. and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.


    songbird

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  • From D@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 23:40:36 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, dsi1 wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 10:43:28 +0000, D wrote:

    You are a lucky man, living in paradise! I do not see any reason to
    leave
    this island. I am worried though, that the amount of tourists will force
    you to move again. This is not so good. =/

    As old dsi1 says in times like these, we live in this world one time
    only. Don't fuck it up!

    So far, so good.


    A philosopher as always! =)

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  • From Cindy Hamilton@21:1/5 to songbird on Sun Mar 2 22:45:38 2025
    On 2025-03-02, songbird <[email protected]> wrote:

    the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes
    or less. after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level. and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    Granted I use the "1-minute" oats and add the water about
    an hour before I nuke 'em so they'll be fully hydrated.
    I microwave oatmeal on full power for 2.5 minutes, stirring
    after the first 1.5 minute.

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.

    --
    Cindy Hamilton

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 16:53:13 2025
    dsi1 wrote:
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 7:54:33 +0000, Bruce wrote:

    But are all those Europeans and Asians now running the place at state
    level?

    Of course not!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP1GchaSO1A&t=150s

    Damn, Tojo, I KNEW da hawayans are Still running hawaya!

    They'll have to kiss trump's ass for a while, and they'll do that, along
    with the rest of the world.

    But they will still be running hawaya, long after trump's sorry ass is
    decaying in a urine stained grave site at arlington.

    And da hawayans in charge will never deport yoose good old asians Uncle!

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to Cindy Hamilton on Sun Mar 2 17:11:51 2025
    Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, songbird <[email protected]> wrote:

    the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes
    or less. after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level. and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    Granted I use the "1-minute" oats and add the water about
    an hour before I nuke 'em so they'll be fully hydrated.
    I microwave oatmeal on full power for 2.5 minutes, stirring
    after the first 1.5 minute.

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    Works perfectly for me too. The "quick oats" are the same as "old
    fashioned" except they are not only steamed and pressed, but also cut,
    so they are a little finer, and cook a little faster.

    I like a tiny amount of chopped dates for flavor, a touch of salt and
    pepper, small chunk of butter, and that's it.

    I don't bother to stir, but I do use a lower power setting and cook longer.

    I also love cream of wheat, but I never found a way to make it without
    stirring every 30 seconds. Else, I get lumpy stuff.

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 2 17:15:17 2025
    dsi1 wrote:
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 10:54:33 +0000, D wrote:


    That's right! But what else to expect from a plantation owner with negro
    slaves?! It's shameful!


    My wife's kinfolk had slaves. Back in the day, you could sign over your
    slave and her baby to your heirs or whomever else you wanted to - if you lived in a Southern slave state. My wife's family has such a historic,
    yet horrific, document.


    Damn Tojo, that's what yoose get for marrying a white woman. Couldn't
    yoose find an asian or Hawayan to hump?

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  • From Dave Smith@21:1/5 to Cindy Hamilton on Sun Mar 2 18:19:13 2025
    On 2025-03-02 5:45 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, songbird <[email protected]> wrote:

    the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes
    or less. after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level. and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    Granted I use the "1-minute" oats and add the water about
    an hour before I nuke 'em so they'll be fully hydrated.
    I microwave oatmeal on full power for 2.5 minutes, stirring
    after the first 1.5 minute.

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste. I go for the
    large flake oats or steel cut. Real oats taste great.

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  • From Leonard Blaisdell@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Mar 2 23:53:21 2025
    On 2025-03-02, dsi1 <[email protected]> wrote:

    I live in the next town over, Kaneohe. It suits me better. Tourists
    aren't a problem here but sooner or later it'll become famous and we'll
    be moving. We were at a small beach the other day. It's not much of a
    beach but we're told that King Kamehameha and his army landed at that
    spot and conquered the island of Oahu. If that's true, it's truly a
    historic spot.

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/XnvdFmVuStoF9xbd6


    What are those weird, big, upside-down feather dusters called again?
    I may have seen some on my only trip to Vegas, but that was long ago. :(

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  • From dsi1@21:1/5 to Leonard Blaisdell on Mon Mar 3 00:33:09 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 23:53:21 +0000, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

    On 2025-03-02, dsi1 <[email protected]> wrote:

    I live in the next town over, Kaneohe. It suits me better. Tourists
    aren't a problem here but sooner or later it'll become famous and we'll
    be moving. We were at a small beach the other day. It's not much of a
    beach but we're told that King Kamehameha and his army landed at that
    spot and conquered the island of Oahu. If that's true, it's truly a
    historic spot.

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/XnvdFmVuStoF9xbd6


    What are those weird, big, upside-down feather dusters called again?
    I may have seen some on my only trip to Vegas, but that was long ago. :(

    They're all over the place on this rock. Da Hawaiians call them
    "chickens." Sometimes, it's "god damn chickens" and indeed, they can be
    used as feather dusters - if you can catch one.

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to Dave Smith on Sun Mar 2 18:37:50 2025
    Dave Smith wrote:
    On 2025-03-02 5:45 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, songbird <[email protected]> wrote:

    �� the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes
    or less.� after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level.� and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    Granted I use the "1-minute" oats and add the water about
    an hour before I nuke 'em so they'll be fully hydrated.
    I microwave oatmeal on full power for 2.5 minutes, stirring
    after the first 1.5 minute.

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste.� I go for the
    large flake oats or steel cut. Real oats taste great.

    Check at a farm feed store. You can buy 50 pound bags of whole oats.
    These are perfect for you, and not cooked, steamed, ground or processed
    in any way.

    Years ago, I fed them to 4 horses, but I stopped, because the animals
    shit out about 30% of the oats undigested. and it gave them the runs.

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  • From Carol@21:1/5 to songbird on Mon Mar 3 01:26:38 2025
    songbird wrote:

    Carol wrote:
    ...canned spinach...
    Me, I liked it, even canned watery stuff (no, Mom didn't drop me on
    my head (grin)).

    it's fine for me too. to make it a bit more tolerable
    i do like to add a little apple cider vinegar to it. yet
    i have gotten quite a few cow-orkers to look at me funny
    for eating it cold right out of the can.


    Don's a special kind of stubborn on some things.

    heh. :) we all are i'm sure. :)


    songbird

    I remember grabbing a can in college and tossing a can opener in my bag
    when running off to class once. I was sitting outside the library
    studying and eating it when a friend came by and pretended to gag
    (grin). It was a joke between us ever since I caught him eating a
    pickle and Mayo sandwich.

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  • From Carol@21:1/5 to Jill McQuown on Mon Mar 3 01:19:48 2025
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:57 PM, Carol wrote:
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:00:50 +0000, Carol wrote:

    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing
    excited me. I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online
    but ALL of them were desserts or had Spinach. All were
    pricey to make and frankly, I'm getting pinched in the
    budget here.

    Ah well. At least bread has stayed cheap to make.

    Things aren't looking so good for veterans.

    (link snipped)>
    Nope, but they never have.


    Fer cryin' out loud, please stop letting dsi1 turn into a
    political crap newsgroup.

    Jill

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on
    him.

    Or killfile him. That's worked beautifully for me.


    Already did. Yet Carol and others keep replying to him. Not only
    about politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be
    the only one who ever brings it up.

    Jill

    I'm well aware of his comments and now ignore them. He's just
    attention seeking like JK used to do here. Ignore him is the best
    advice any can give on it.

    Cindy, agreed.

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  • From Carol@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 3 01:30:26 2025
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 11:17:23 +0000, D wrote:

    Wow! That's an awesome view! How close is it to your apartment?

    That's in Kailua, on Oahu. The town is famous for its beaches. Kailua
    beach has been called the best beach in America. It's the town where I
    grew up. These days, it's just a tourist town. President Obama put
    that place on the national map. After that, Japanese rock stars would
    visit Kailua and post about restaurants they ate at in the town.
    That's when the shit hit the fan.

    I live in the next town over, Kaneohe. It suits me better. Tourists
    aren't a problem here but sooner or later it'll become famous and
    we'll be moving. We were at a small beach the other day. It's not
    much of a beach but we're told that King Kamehameha and his army
    landed at that spot and conquered the island of Oahu. If that's true,
    it's truly a historic spot.

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/XnvdFmVuStoF9xbd6

    K-bay is pretty awesome looking!

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  • From heyjoe@21:1/5 to Dave Smith on Mon Mar 3 13:21:19 2025
    Dave Smith wrote :

    I go for the
    large flake oats or steel cut. Real oats taste great.

    Took your advice from long ago and moved to large flake oats.
    3 parts water, 1 part oats.
    Some raisins. Molasses to taste.
    Boil/simmer for 5 minutes.
    Cover and let stand, off heat, for 12 minutes.

    Oh . . . It's so good.

    Steel cut oats take longer than I have patience for.

    --
    Take me to your centrifuge.

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  • From Cindy Hamilton@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Mon Mar 3 13:46:18 2025
    On 2025-03-02, Hank Rogers <[email protected]d> wrote:

    I like a tiny amount of chopped dates for flavor, a touch of salt and
    pepper, small chunk of butter, and that's it.

    Raisins, a little brown sugar, butter, and quite a lot of salt.
    More than 1/4 teaspoon, sometimes close to 1/2 teaspoon for 3/4
    cup of oats.

    --
    Cindy Hamilton

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  • From Cindy Hamilton@21:1/5 to Dave Smith on Mon Mar 3 13:46:49 2025
    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2025-03-02 5:45 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, songbird <[email protected]> wrote:

    the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes
    or less. after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level. and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    Granted I use the "1-minute" oats and add the water about
    an hour before I nuke 'em so they'll be fully hydrated.
    I microwave oatmeal on full power for 2.5 minutes, stirring
    after the first 1.5 minute.

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste.

    Perhaps they have the texture of paste. Their flavor should
    be the same as rolled oats.

    --
    Cindy Hamilton

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  • From Dave Smith@21:1/5 to Cindy Hamilton on Mon Mar 3 09:02:41 2025
    On 2025-03-03 8:46 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste.

    Perhaps they have the texture of paste. Their flavor should
    be the same as rolled oats.

    Should perhaps, but they don't. Steel cut and large flake oats are very
    tasty. I think they are delicious. The quick cooking is less flavourful
    and the instant stuff is bland. It has to be sweetened and flavoured to
    taste like anything.

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  • From dsi1@21:1/5 to Dave Smith on Mon Mar 3 16:50:38 2025
    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 14:02:41 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

    On 2025-03-03 8:46 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste.

    Perhaps they have the texture of paste. Their flavor should
    be the same as rolled oats.

    Should perhaps, but they don't. Steel cut and large flake oats are very tasty. I think they are delicious. The quick cooking is less flavourful
    and the instant stuff is bland. It has to be sweetened and flavoured to
    taste like anything.

    I'd always ask my patients what they had for breakfast to see if they
    could understand what I'm saying. Most of the time they'll say "oatmeal"
    and "papaya." When people reach an advanced age, they gravitate towards
    a breakfast that's easy to digest. That's my theory anyway. I never
    asked them what they had for lunch so I have no clue about that.

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  • From D@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 3 22:19:24 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, dsi1 wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 10:54:33 +0000, D wrote:


    That's right! But what else to expect from a plantation owner with negro
    slaves?! It's shameful!


    My wife's kinfolk had slaves. Back in the day, you could sign over your
    slave and her baby to your heirs or whomever else you wanted to - if you lived in a Southern slave state. My wife's family has such a historic,
    yet horrific, document.

    Of course, that was then, this is now. My wife has fully apologized and

    Of course! She is not Jill, but a warm and kind woman!

    renounced the sins of her family. As such, I'll only beat her once a
    week with a bamboo stick. It is, I might add, a very short stick and I

    You are very kind David. You always managed to strike the right balance
    between kindness and discipline! ;)

    use only one. I mean, I'm not an animal, right?

    https://content.king5.com/photo/2016/01/27/635895151072664476-puli-sticks-dance_678236_ver1.0.JPG

    Have you been working out? I say you look impressive for your age! =D

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Cindy Hamilton on Mon Mar 3 22:27:32 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    On 2025-03-02, songbird <[email protected]> wrote:

    the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes
    or less. after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level. and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    Granted I use the "1-minute" oats and add the water about
    an hour before I nuke 'em so they'll be fully hydrated.
    I microwave oatmeal on full power for 2.5 minutes, stirring
    after the first 1.5 minute.

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.

    Butter in oatmeal is good! This is proven by science!

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Mon Mar 3 22:28:39 2025
    On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, songbird <[email protected]> wrote:

    the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes
    or less. after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level. and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    Granted I use the "1-minute" oats and add the water about
    an hour before I nuke 'em so they'll be fully hydrated.
    I microwave oatmeal on full power for 2.5 minutes, stirring
    after the first 1.5 minute.

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    Works perfectly for me too. The "quick oats" are the same as "old fashioned" except they are not only steamed and pressed, but also cut, so they are a little finer, and cook a little faster.

    I like a tiny amount of chopped dates for flavor, a touch of salt and pepper, small chunk of butter, and that's it.

    I don't bother to stir, but I do use a lower power setting and cook longer.

    I also love cream of wheat, but I never found a way to make it without stirring every 30 seconds. Else, I get lumpy stuff.

    Salt is also approved by science!

    Sometimes, I add peanut butter and chopped bananas. Other times, I might
    add raisins (vegetarian free range raisins!).

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Cindy Hamilton on Mon Mar 3 23:26:21 2025
    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2025-03-02 5:45 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, songbird <[email protected]> wrote:

    the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes
    or less. after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level. and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    Granted I use the "1-minute" oats and add the water about
    an hour before I nuke 'em so they'll be fully hydrated.
    I microwave oatmeal on full power for 2.5 minutes, stirring
    after the first 1.5 minute.

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste.

    Perhaps they have the texture of paste. Their flavor should
    be the same as rolled oats.

    This is the truth! I eat all kinds of oats.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From D@21:1/5 to Carol on Mon Mar 3 23:18:12 2025
    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Carol wrote:

    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:57 PM, Carol wrote:
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:00:50 +0000, Carol wrote:

    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing
    excited me. I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online
    but ALL of them were desserts or had Spinach. All were
    pricey to make and frankly, I'm getting pinched in the
    budget here.

    Ah well. At least bread has stayed cheap to make.

    Things aren't looking so good for veterans.

    (link snipped)>
    Nope, but they never have.


    Fer cryin' out loud, please stop letting dsi1 turn into a
    political crap newsgroup.

    Jill

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on
    him.

    Or killfile him. That's worked beautifully for me.


    Already did. Yet Carol and others keep replying to him. Not only
    about politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be
    the only one who ever brings it up.

    Jill

    I'm well aware of his comments and now ignore them. He's just
    attention seeking like JK used to do here. Ignore him is the best
    advice any can give on it.

    Cindy, agreed.


    Do you ignore me? That would not be very kind. =(

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 3 17:30:50 2025
    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2025-03-02 5:45 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, songbird <[email protected]> wrote:

    �� the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes
    or less.� after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level.� and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    Granted I use the "1-minute" oats and add the water about
    an hour before I nuke 'em so they'll be fully hydrated.
    I microwave oatmeal on full power for 2.5 minutes, stirring
    after the first 1.5 minute.

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste.

    Perhaps they have the texture of paste.� Their flavor should
    be the same as rolled oats.

    This is the truth! I eat all kinds of oats.

    Officer Dave is rarely satisfied with anything, except for revenge
    projects he executes.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 3 17:29:06 2025
    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Carol wrote:

    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:57 PM, Carol wrote:
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:00:50 +0000, Carol wrote:

    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing
    excited me.� I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online
    but ALL of them were desserts or had Spinach.� All were
    pricey to make and frankly, I'm getting pinched in the
    budget here.

    Ah well.� At least bread has stayed cheap to make.

    Things aren't looking so good for veterans.

    (link snipped)>
    Nope, but they never have.


    Fer cryin' out loud, please stop letting dsi1 turn into a
    political crap newsgroup.

    Jill

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on
    him.

    Or killfile him.� That's worked beautifully for me.


    Already did.� Yet Carol and others keep replying to him.� Not only
    about politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be
    the only one who ever brings it up.

    Jill

    I'm well aware of his comments and now ignore them.� He's just
    attention seeking like JK used to do here. Ignore him is the best
    advice any can give on it.

    Cindy, agreed.


    Do you ignore me? That would not be very kind. =(

    Of course she does. She follows every order that her royal Majesty Queen McCrone issues.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From D@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Tue Mar 4 22:01:00 2025
    This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text,
    while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Carol wrote:

    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:57 PM, Carol wrote:
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:00:50 +0000, Carol wrote:

    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing
    excited me.� I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online
    but ALL of them were desserts or had Spinach.� All were
    pricey to make and frankly, I'm getting pinched in the
    budget here.

    Ah well.� At least bread has stayed cheap to make.

    Things aren't looking so good for veterans.

    (link snipped)>
    Nope, but they never have.


    Fer cryin' out loud, please stop letting dsi1 turn into a
    political crap newsgroup.

    Jill

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on
    him.

    Or killfile him.� That's worked beautifully for me.


    Already did.� Yet Carol and others keep replying to him.� Not only
    about politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be
    the only one who ever brings it up.

    Jill

    I'm well aware of his comments and now ignore them.� He's just
    attention seeking like JK used to do here. Ignore him is the best
    advice any can give on it.

    Cindy, agreed.


    Do you ignore me? That would not be very kind. =(

    Of course she does. She follows every order that her royal Majesty Queen McCrone issues.

    What a shame! =( Hey, how come you manage to slip through?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Carol@21:1/5 to songbird on Tue Mar 4 22:35:20 2025
    songbird wrote:

    Carol wrote:
    ...

    We found a surprising winner for us both. Now I know instant
    oatmeal isn't nearly as good the old fashioned kind but Don's never
    going to be the sort to make oatmeal on the stove first thing in
    the morning. For all these years (39 years now), Don has made our breakfast unless I was on a night shift or something. I usually do
    dinner (about 5 times a week) and we combine on stir fry style
    sides with me chopping and him cooking.

    So the surprise is the instant oatmeal packets are tolerable! It's
    fast enough to be workable and with added fruits (dried or fresh) to
    suit. I'd tried them long ago and they were nasty. They've
    improved.

    I'll try it later using the rice maker and rolled oats but suspect
    Don likes the speed more and considers it a workable tradeoff.

    i tried them many years ago too and ended up going to
    making plain ones instead because i like more texture
    and less salt and other odd things.

    Actually these have more texture than when Mom made old fashioned oats
    for us kids at times.

    I'll have to do my own comparison but I'm happy and the ingredient
    lists are clean. The sodium is 150-160 mg (well in acceptable range)
    depending on version. There's a lot of versions and I've found a good
    use for all the dehydrated apple chips I've made from my own trees. I
    like the Brown Sugar and Apple one very well but there's a cinnimon one
    for variety. Don already knew he liked the Strawbery and there's more
    than one type. Right now, he's adding fresh sliced strawberries to it.

    Lot's of flavors to try. Probably 20 or so between Quaker and the
    store brand. Here's an oddity, the store brand is healthier and
    BETTER! That may not be true where others shop but hey, I'm happy.

    Price: All the HT ones have 10 packets and 1.5oz, Quaker is .99oz and
    flavored ones are 8 packs. Quaker is literally 2/3 product per packet!!

    (I'm going to see if HT has a strawberry version and if Don likes it).
    It doesn't break the piggy bank either way but Don's are 43 cents each
    and mine are 20 cents each so if they taste as good in strawberry for
    the store brand, we'll swap his.


    if it is time involved in making oatmeal that he objects
    to i've found that i can measure things and use the microwave
    to start the oatmeal and then after it reaches a boil i can
    turn it down to a lower power level for however long to
    finish. so there's actually very little time i'm having to
    do much of anything other than waiting for it to finish.

    the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes
    or less. after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level. and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    It's the speed. As he boils water for his Tea, he's also doing the
    water for his breakfast bowl. You can't speed that up ant more so
    tinkering with microwave levels (my base model doesn't have those)
    doesn't fit. Sorry but I know that without asking.

    While the Quaker one has a preservative, the store brand doesn't.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Carol@21:1/5 to Dave Smith on Tue Mar 4 23:00:51 2025
    Dave Smith wrote:

    On 2025-03-03 8:46 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste.

    Perhaps they have the texture of paste. Their flavor should
    be the same as rolled oats.

    Should perhaps, but they don't. Steel cut and large flake oats are
    very tasty. I think they are delicious. The quick cooking is less
    flavourful and the instant stuff is bland. It has to be sweetened and flavoured to taste like anything.

    You may have missed it, but the instants got better. Way better than
    the spackle they used to be. I'd have agreed with you if they were
    still as bad as the old ones when they were a fairly new product.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 4 17:33:51 2025
    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Carol wrote:

    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:57 PM, Carol wrote:
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:00:50 +0000, Carol wrote:

    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing
    excited me.� I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online >>>>>>>>>>> but ALL of them were desserts or had Spinach.� All were
    pricey to make and frankly, I'm getting pinched in the
    budget here.

    Ah well.� At least bread has stayed cheap to make.

    Things aren't looking so good for veterans.

    (link snipped)>
    Nope, but they never have.


    Fer cryin' out loud, please stop letting dsi1 turn into a
    political crap newsgroup.

    Jill

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on >>>>>>> him.

    Or killfile him.� That's worked beautifully for me.


    Already did.� Yet Carol and others keep replying to him.� Not only
    about politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be
    the only one who ever brings it up.

    Jill

    I'm well aware of his comments and now ignore them.� He's just
    attention seeking like JK used to do here. Ignore him is the best
    advice any can give on it.

    Cindy, agreed.


    Do you ignore me? That would not be very kind. =(

    Of course she does. She follows every order that her royal Majesty
    Queen McCrone issues.

    What a shame! =( Hey, how come you manage to slip through?


    I don't. Her royal highness hates me with a burning passion, probably
    more intense than she hates anyone else. And she has a lot of hate to
    spread around.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 4 17:39:16 2025
    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2025-03-02 5:45 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, songbird <[email protected]> wrote:

    �� the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes
    or less.� after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level.� and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    Granted I use the "1-minute" oats and add the water about
    an hour before I nuke 'em so they'll be fully hydrated.
    I microwave oatmeal on full power for 2.5 minutes, stirring
    after the first 1.5 minute.

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste.

    Perhaps they have the texture of paste.� Their flavor should
    be the same as rolled oats.

    This is the truth! I eat all kinds of oats.

    Officer Dave is rarely satisfied with anything, except for revenge
    projects he executes.

    How sad! =( He should embrace and welcome Jesus into his life! Only then
    will he be happy! =D

    Jesus saves, you know!

    Indeed. I happen to know jesus, and he has an account at a large US bank
    which contains all the offerings Christians have given him.

    Hell, I even gave him a few dollars when he was down on his luck.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From gm@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Tue Mar 4 23:43:18 2025
    On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 23:33:51 +0000, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Carol wrote:

    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:57 PM, Carol wrote:
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:00:50 +0000, Carol wrote:

    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing
    excited me.  I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online >>>>>>>>>>>> but ALL of them were desserts or had Spinach.  All were >>>>>>>>>>>> pricey to make and frankly, I'm getting pinched in the >>>>>>>>>>>> budget here.

    Ah well.  At least bread has stayed cheap to make.

    Things aren't looking so good for veterans.

    (link snipped)>
    Nope, but they never have.


    Fer cryin' out loud, please stop letting dsi1 turn into a
    political crap newsgroup.

    Jill

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on >>>>>>>> him.

    Or killfile him.  That's worked beautifully for me.


    Already did.  Yet Carol and others keep replying to him.  Not only >>>>>> about politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be >>>>>> the only one who ever brings it up.

    Jill

    I'm well aware of his comments and now ignore them.  He's just
    attention seeking like JK used to do here. Ignore him is the best
    advice any can give on it.

    Cindy, agreed.


    Do you ignore me? That would not be very kind. =(

    Of course she does. She follows every order that her royal Majesty
    Queen McCrone issues.

    What a shame! =( Hey, how come you manage to slip through?


    I don't. Her royal highness hates me with a burning passion, probably
    more intense than she hates anyone else. And she has a lot of hate to
    spread around.


    Widder Jill I'd aver *might* loathe me more because of those "rape"
    jokes I made about her...

    --
    GM

    --

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to Carol on Tue Mar 4 17:47:35 2025
    Carol wrote:
    Dave Smith wrote:

    On 2025-03-03 8:46 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste.

    Perhaps they have the texture of paste. Their flavor should
    be the same as rolled oats.

    Should perhaps, but they don't. Steel cut and large flake oats are
    very tasty. I think they are delicious. The quick cooking is less
    flavourful and the instant stuff is bland. It has to be sweetened and
    flavoured to taste like anything.

    You may have missed it, but the instants got better. Way better than
    the spackle they used to be. I'd have agreed with you if they were
    still as bad as the old ones when they were a fairly new product.


    Are you contradicting Officer Dave?

    You are a fool. Queen McCrone will surely jump your ass for this!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Ed P@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 4 18:56:23 2025
    On 3/4/2025 6:43 PM, gm wrote:


    I'd aver *might* loathe me more because of those "rape"
    jokes I made about her...

    --
    GM

    --
    Any decent person would loath you for that.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From gm@21:1/5 to Ed P on Wed Mar 5 00:15:00 2025
    Ed P wrote:

    On 3/4/2025 6:43 PM, gm wrote:


    I'd aver Widder Jill *might* loathe me more because of those "rape"
    jokes I made about her...

    -
    GM


    Any decent person would loath you for that.


    You simply lack a sense of humor, Ed...

    ;-D

    --
    GM

    --

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Graham@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 5 01:16:23 2025
    On 2025-03-04 2:01 p.m., D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2025-03-02 5:45 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, songbird <[email protected]> wrote:

       the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes
    or less.  after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level.  and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    Granted I use the "1-minute" oats and add the water about
    an hour before I nuke 'em so they'll be fully hydrated.
    I microwave oatmeal on full power for 2.5 minutes, stirring
    after the first 1.5 minute.

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste.

    Perhaps they have the texture of paste.  Their flavor should
    be the same as rolled oats.

    This is the truth! I eat all kinds of oats.

    Officer Dave is rarely satisfied with anything, except for revenge
    projects he executes.

    How sad! =( He should embrace and welcome Jesus into his life! Only then
    will he be happy! =D

    Jesus saves, you know!

    But Moishe invests!!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From D@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Wed Mar 5 13:42:13 2025
    This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text,
    while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

    On Tue, 4 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Carol wrote:

    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 3/1/2025 5:22 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-02-28, Carol <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jill McQuown wrote:

    On 2/27/2025 7:57 PM, Carol wrote:
    dsi1 wrote:

    On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:00:50 +0000, Carol wrote:

    I was looking over an Italian cook book but nothing
    excited me.� I also looked a Medditerranian dishes online >>>>>>>>>>>> but ALL of them were desserts or had Spinach.� All were >>>>>>>>>>>> pricey to make and frankly, I'm getting pinched in the >>>>>>>>>>>> budget here.

    Ah well.� At least bread has stayed cheap to make.

    Things aren't looking so good for veterans.

    (link snipped)>
    Nope, but they never have.


    Fer cryin' out loud, please stop letting dsi1 turn into a
    political crap newsgroup.

    Jill

    Jill, if you have a problem with David's comments, take it out on >>>>>>>> him.

    Or killfile him.� That's worked beautifully for me.


    Already did.� Yet Carol and others keep replying to him.� Not only >>>>>> about politics but his yammering about racism when he appears to be >>>>>> the only one who ever brings it up.

    Jill

    I'm well aware of his comments and now ignore them.� He's just
    attention seeking like JK used to do here. Ignore him is the best
    advice any can give on it.

    Cindy, agreed.


    Do you ignore me? That would not be very kind. =(

    Of course she does. She follows every order that her royal Majesty Queen >>> McCrone issues.

    What a shame! =( Hey, how come you manage to slip through?


    I don't. Her royal highness hates me with a burning passion, probably more intense than she hates anyone else. And she has a lot of hate to spread around.

    I thank you Hank, for absorbing so much hate, that otherwise would have
    landed on us. You do an important service for humanity by distracting her!
    =)

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From D@21:1/5 to Ed P on Wed Mar 5 13:45:07 2025
    On Tue, 4 Mar 2025, Ed P wrote:

    On 3/4/2025 6:43 PM, gm wrote:


    I'd aver *might* loathe me more because of those "rape"
    jokes I made about her...

    --
    GM

    --
    Any decent person would loath you for that.


    Not necessarily! It would depend on the joke itself!

    Knowing GM, it was probably a great, good natured joke! =D

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From D@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Wed Mar 5 13:43:03 2025
    This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text,
    while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

    On Tue, 4 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2025-03-02 5:45 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, songbird <[email protected]> wrote:

    �� the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes
    or less.� after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level.� and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    Granted I use the "1-minute" oats and add the water about
    an hour before I nuke 'em so they'll be fully hydrated.
    I microwave oatmeal on full power for 2.5 minutes, stirring
    after the first 1.5 minute.

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste.

    Perhaps they have the texture of paste.� Their flavor should
    be the same as rolled oats.

    This is the truth! I eat all kinds of oats.

    Officer Dave is rarely satisfied with anything, except for revenge
    projects he executes.

    How sad! =( He should embrace and welcome Jesus into his life! Only then
    will he be happy! =D

    Jesus saves, you know!

    Indeed. I happen to know jesus, and he has an account at a large US bank which contains all the offerings Christians have given him.

    Hell, I even gave him a few dollars when he was down on his luck.



    You are a kind man! Jesus rocks! =D

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From gm@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 5 15:10:13 2025
    D wrote:

    On Tue, 4 Mar 2025, Ed P wrote:

    On 3/4/2025 6:43 PM, gm wrote:


    I'd aver Widder Jill *might* loathe me more because of those "rape"
    jokes I made about her...

    --
    GM

    --
    Any decent person would loath you for that.


    Not necessarily! It would depend on the joke itself!

    Knowing GM, it was probably a great, good natured joke! =D


    I was just trying to "cheer" Jill up, lol...

    She seems a very "lonely" type of person...

    ;-D

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  • From D@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 5 22:22:25 2025
    On Wed, 5 Mar 2025, gm wrote:

    D wrote:

    On Tue, 4 Mar 2025, Ed P wrote:

    On 3/4/2025 6:43 PM, gm wrote:


    I'd aver Widder Jill *might* loathe me more because of those "rape"
    jokes I made about her...

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    Any decent person would loath you for that.


    Not necessarily! It would depend on the joke itself!

    Knowing GM, it was probably a great, good natured joke! =D


    I was just trying to "cheer" Jill up, lol...

    She seems a very "lonely" type of person...

    ;-D

    You are a good man! She doesn't deserve you! ;)

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 5 17:07:00 2025
    D wrote:


    On Tue, 4 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2025-03-02 5:45 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, songbird <[email protected]> wrote:

    �� the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes >>>>>>>>> or less.� after that it is a few seconds of putting in the
    new power level.� and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish.
    i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    Granted I use the "1-minute" oats and add the water about
    an hour before I nuke 'em so they'll be fully hydrated.
    I microwave oatmeal on full power for 2.5 minutes, stirring
    after the first 1.5 minute.

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste.

    Perhaps they have the texture of paste.� Their flavor should
    be the same as rolled oats.

    This is the truth! I eat all kinds of oats.

    Officer Dave is rarely satisfied with anything, except for revenge
    projects he executes.

    How sad! =( He should embrace and welcome Jesus into his life! Only
    then will he be happy! =D

    Jesus saves, you know!

    Indeed. I happen to know jesus, and he has an account at a large US
    bank which contains all the offerings Christians have given him.

    Hell, I even gave him a few dollars when he was down on his luck.



    You are a kind man! Jesus rocks! =D

    Some say he was a jewish magician. Some say he was a bum. Some say he
    was strung out on drugs. I don't really know, but he always did have the
    aroma of a street bum, and he always smelled of cheap wine.

    King trump would probably have him deported (unless he could make some
    kind of one sided deal).

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Thu Mar 6 12:19:57 2025
    This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text,
    while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

    On Wed, 5 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Tue, 4 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Hank Rogers wrote:

    D wrote:


    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    On 2025-03-02, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2025-03-02 5:45 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2025-03-02, songbird <[email protected]> wrote:

    �� the first stage for how much i normally cook is 2 minutes >>>>>>>>>> or less.� after that it is a few seconds of putting in the >>>>>>>>>> new power level.� and then waiting 8:11 for them to finish. >>>>>>>>>> i can easily do other things while the 2 and 8:11 are
    going so it's really not a lot of time involved at all.

    Granted I use the "1-minute" oats and add the water about
    an hour before I nuke 'em so they'll be fully hydrated.
    I microwave oatmeal on full power for 2.5 minutes, stirring
    after the first 1.5 minute.

    That gives me enough time to pour a glass of milk and slice
    a pat of butter to go in my oatmeal.


    I can't do the quick cooking oats.They taste like paste.

    Perhaps they have the texture of paste.� Their flavor should
    be the same as rolled oats.

    This is the truth! I eat all kinds of oats.

    Officer Dave is rarely satisfied with anything, except for revenge
    projects he executes.

    How sad! =( He should embrace and welcome Jesus into his life! Only then >>>> will he be happy! =D

    Jesus saves, you know!

    Indeed. I happen to know jesus, and he has an account at a large US bank >>> which contains all the offerings Christians have given him.

    Hell, I even gave him a few dollars when he was down on his luck.



    You are a kind man! Jesus rocks! =D

    Some say he was a jewish magician. Some say he was a bum. Some say he was strung out on drugs. I don't really know, but he always did have the aroma of a street bum, and he always smelled of cheap wine.

    King trump would probably have him deported (unless he could make some kind of one sided deal).

    I'm not sure! If Jesus could feed america with just a few fish and some
    bread, Trump could use that to make food prices come down!

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