-=> Quoting Janis Kracht to Nancy Backus on 01-21-16  02:41 <=-

 > Meanwhile, I'm still paddling along, working on catching up the
 > backlog...  ;)  It's starting to look a little less hopeless now, with
 > Mommy's therapies down to just two PT sessions in the week, everything
 > else is done now... and with Lydia and Marguerite expected home the end
 > of this week... :)

 JK> I've been reading about your Mom,etc, and really just too busy here to
 JK> comment.. or too wiped out from "other things in life"   but I
 JK> wanted to get back in the flo here in the echo as well :)

Good to see you back...  :)  And I can well relate to the too busy/too
wiped out... ;)  My sister and her daughter DID make it back home safely
Saturday morning (their connecting flights were in LAX and Detroit, so
missed that East Coast storm, thankfully)... and I can finally go back
to a more "normal" life... ;)

 JK> It's insane to me...though Mom died 2012 I still have dreams like
 JK> she's right here... Dad as well.  It's kind of good, though sometimes
 JK> disconcerting if you know what I mean 

Quite...  :)  I've recently been having dreams with Daddy featuring in
them... and he's been gone since 2008...  They don't really leave your
consciousness... :)

 JK> An interesting new toy here.  You may remember me yapping about the
 JK> Marcato Regina Atlas pasta extrusion machine I bought .. It makes great
 JK> rigagoni and spaghetti.. even though it's a manual machine... a little
 JK> tough to clean the macaroni disks, but not so horrible as the
 JK> Kitchenaid disks... (the horror (g))..
 JK> So around Chrismas Ron was scouting around and found an electric
 JK> Macaroni machine made by Philips.. It's incredibly nice.. I use it a
 JK> lot.  You can make macroni in 15 minutes.. dump in the ingredients
 JK> (flour, egg and water by their measurement cups, it's easy), and it
 JK> pumps out 'ronies.  So far, the texture of the macaroni is great (more
 JK> than great) given that it's extuded macaroni. I have to say that even
 JK> using any one of the disks provided with the Philips Macaroni machine
 JK> are insanely EASY to clean... 

Sounds like the manual machine will be relegated to storage... ;)  Or
does it do some forms that the new one doesn't..?  I suppose it could
also be useful in a power shortage... (G)

 JK> I'm now playing with a great mixure of semolina flour and "00" flour
 JK> imported from Italy.. what fun :)  and yummy ;)

Are you thinking of experimenting with non-gluten flours...?

ttyl       neb

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