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Texas, TY for the crab recipe, I hand wrote it on an index card and will make it tomorrow.  Candle lit with prayers for your tests and your fortitude.  17??!!!! who'd wanna be that age again, lol.  Have fun with your new kitchen widgets.  I agree about the hand-ground pork; we have a nice butcher who grinds ours after DH picks the meat, nice old-fashioned service.  Awww, sounds like Mocha found herself a snuggle basket, one can find kitties in the wierdest places.

Twinkle, har-har, my bikini days are looonnnngggg gone, once I hit 45, good-bye two piece as well.  Now I go for the "Jackie-O" look with my new black sunglasses, capris; and hopefully not tripping over my feet in my new sandals.  Ice skating in your own backyard - do you go too?  I'd love to ice skate; but, been so long, I'd probably spend most of the time on my rump.

Berny, sent you an e-mail - did you get it?  This stupid computer is more temperamental than a man; snit fits?

Renate, Erna, Marlene, I have almost the opposite LWAM snydrome.  DH is the constant critic until I threaten to wack him.  He doesn't bake, but seems to be the Julia Child of baking when I'm doing it.  I've walked out in the middle of my baking recipes and told him, if he's so smart, to do it himself.  Evil Blondes Rule (at least sometimes).

Jet and Kath, OMG sounds like you have 49 tons of food at the celebrations.  Lol, my mother, el-cheapo food hostess of the millenium, would ask us ahead of time how many fried shrimp we would like for Christmas Eve dinner, and made just that many; it was hysterical.  Like Germanlady said, it's good to count your blessings and a full table is one of them.

Maynard is getting bold in his old age - we caught him angling for leftover bread pudding covered by the stove.  He's mad because he's on a reduced dog food diet; he'd probably eat a grease-soaked napkin, he also eats wood chips, grass, frogs - oh, gross me out!

lydia

Hi Berny  -  as there were only three of us here to eat on Xmas day I bought a small turkey.  It was about 10 lbs.   I stuffed it with my meat dressing and stuck it in an uncovered pan and in the oven.  Turned on the convection part of the oven and set the heat at 325.   Now this all got stuck in the oven after 10:30 in the morning and by 4 pm  I decided it had to be done and stuck a meat thermometer in the dressing and it sure was done.  Could have taken the turkey out at least by 3:30 if not earlier.  The skin browns so well and is so crispy it is like searing meat to retain the juices.  I had saved the liquid from cooking the giblets or we would have been short on juices for the gravy.  That is how little escapes the bird.  Very moist meat.  In former years I would have had to get up early to get the bird in the oven.  With the convection I don't need to lose sleep.

 I hope that is clear enough for you.

 Marlene

Lydia,what a good idea ! All the recipes I write on cards I never loose and I always find a recipe,because they are in a file. The ones I copy on paper from the computer,I never know,where a recipe is. When I ones have never anything to do,I guess I should put them in alphabetical order. Renate

Texas,thank you so very much for your recipes. I will copy them on recipe cards,the best way not to loose them. I gues I will dig out my bamboo steamer.

Berny ,how drunk will you make us.?All your recipes sound great.Maybe somebody will make some for me. Since this is the first day,my DH and I are feeling better and we are waiting for the Highway 70 to clear,we could have a few of those.

Picasso, I am very sorry for you,that you are without work. I think ,as the Germanlady says,we have to count our blessings what we have. This is worse,as what happened to us,that we are stuck here at home.

Twinkle,one of those days I hope and play in your backyard too.Very need ,having ice in your backyard. 

 Marlene I always make my turkey in a Reynolds roasting bag in the oven. The turkey is not very brown,but very moist and I have lots of gravy. I put bacon on top of the turkey and this gives the turkey such a good flavor.

How do I get the smiling faces at the end of the sentence? They always escape to the top.

I have to make some lunch and cook some vegies.

It is raining here today. I should sit in Colorado in the snow and not here in the rain.

Renate 

Renate - I keyed in a response and tried to preview but then when I did I lost what I had keyed.

 What you do is like this example.  Click onto the smiley face in the menu (B I U ARC etc. and go to the smiley face, click onto it and select the type of face that you want) where ever you want it.  An example is  (a boxed in D showed for the second smiley face and when it is posted you get the image.  And then (a boxed in 6) gets a devils face.

 Marlene

To keep your recipes organized - invest in an inexpensive 3-hole punch and a binder.

As soon as

you print off a recipe, punch the holes and place in the binder.  You can organize them alphabetically or in categories like a cookbook.

Guten Abend! Renate, I am so happy you found my "letter" and yes, I tend to write them "long" and windy, LOL!

I do hope that you and DH can visit family in CO. Our son loves to go out there to ski. I don't like to know when he goes, as I worry that he will not come back alive. But he has so far. Maybe he is better on the skis now!

The Gooey Butter Cake sounds so good. I wanted to try it but didn't. Since I am "watching" what I "don't eat" (LOL) and wishing I could, lol, I baked nothing. Truthfully, I was so weary and baking just didn't seem that important. Knowing the kids were not coming held me back. DH doesn't need it, I don't need it and they are young enough to gobble it up or take it home. Probably both, lol!

We did miss DGB but we talked to him on the phone. He loves to call me Oma and it warms my heart when he says, Oma, I love you! I must teach him to say it in German now! He says Oma in German, of course, but he doesn't know how to say Ich Liebe Dich! That will come later, lol! I told his parents that I would teach him German. They just frowned. They want him to learn Spanish. And I think, why can't he learn both. He's smart! LOL  I will continue to work on the language so I can properly teach DGB. And the new baby coming in June. That is something great to look forward to seeing! Aber ja!

Okay, enough of my chatter. I must think of supper. After reading so many good recipes, I think I will call some of you to make supper for us, lol!

Warm hugs, Germanlady

Renate you are not supposed to have them all at once! lol

  

Yes Marlene that sounds very clear and I will try convection next time I cook a bird. 

  

Picasso that is exactly what I do with my reams of recipes I print off of the BB!

  

Yes Lydia I did get your email.  I am sorry for not replying sooner but I will try to do that tonight!

 

 

 

 

Thanks for your advice  Marlene .I will try it. It seems to be very easy. I am just trying it out.

 Erna , I will try Texas's Crab Dip. Did you ever post yours? I copied a few recipes .

Renate 

Germanlady, your grandson sounds very cute. At a young age it is easy to learn several languages.We have several relatives,who speak several languages. My DH speaks three,my Grandfather spoke four and my daughters DH also four and Teo's cousins ,she speaks six and teaches three.

Great,that you will have another grandchild in June. Does your DS and family lives very far away?

Alles Liebe und Gute, Renate 

Renate, the crab dip I make is from Texas. It is so good and I got it in my folder. I made me folders under Wordpad Documents and thats were  I save my recipes to. DD taught me that. Of course if I ever crash the CP everuone is lost. One of those days I copy them on a disk. This will solve my worry.

Okay Berny and all you drinkers. Those recipes are all sounding so good and tempting to make. Copied quite a few and have DH make me them in the summer. Renate is right, you get drunk from just reading them.

Opened my toaster oven box today and I am almost sure I will return him. It is just to beg for my counter and I think I will not get the use out of it. Cosco flyer came today and in January they have one for $47 r $49 dollar. I will check that one out. Tomorrow is return day for some of the presents.

I guess I'm cooking now for the young ones (DD & fiance) too. they call and tell me how much theire like my food and me, the softy, says I make some extra stuffed peppers for you. DH loved them.

Twinkle, can I come and join in the hockey game. I told DH about it and he said this is realy cute. How smart of Niklas to improwise.

Having some beautiful, but cold winter days, but forecast is for more rain, which so far I don't mind.

Bis spaeter

Erna

Lydia, when are you leaving for the sun?

 

 

Erna, as I said before, I had most of my BB recipes and many,many collections in my Bookmarks and I can not access them any more,since we have the new BB. I still can see them in the bookmarks,like Twinkles recipes or Crock Pot recipes.but when I click on it,it tells me,that the BB has changed and I can not open them anymore. I just could go in there and find any recipe I wanted, in case I saved it. I am lucky,that I have some in my E-mail folders but I don't have any collections or German Corners in there. I don't think I have the time to start all over again and when Reiman changes I lose all of them again.´´´´´´´´´´´´ I copied Texas's Crab Dip. Gute Nacht, ich bin müde und gehe ins Bett! Renate