-=> Quoting Dave Drum to All <=-

 DD> I'm doing what I can to keep three cooking echoes alive.

Two of them are dead. This one is on life support.

 DD> with no one else posting for the past few I'm beginning to
 DD> wonder if it's all worth it or is it almost over.

I appreciate what you're trying to do. I am doing the same on a
smaller scale with my cross Canada iconic foods thread. But
robot-like recipe posts without any back and forth real dialogue is
a lost cause.

FIDO has been shrinking since 1994 when the internet became more
widely available. When Yahoo groups, which used to be huge, shut
down Facebook Groups mushroomed. It has hundreds of food groups;
I'm on 2 of them, all I have time for. The largest one is now up to
28,000 members with a few hundred posters, and maybe 50 who
frequently contribute original content. It has the added advantage
to traditional mail lists of allowing pictures and even videos. Plus
you can access it by cell phone as well as computer so it attracts
younger members. You mock Facebook frequently but you really ought
to take a look at it. I can see us migrating over to that platform
and getting back some of the old FIDO participants who have dropped
out as well attracting new younger ones.

 DD> Apparently I hit a home run.
 DD> Title: No Tomato Pasta Sauce (No Mato Sauce)
 DD> 1 c  Carrots; in 1/2" pieces
 DD> 2 md Sweet potatoes; diced (4 c)
 DD> 3 tb Fresh lemon juice
 DD> 1 tb Balsamic vinegar
 DD> 8 oz Can beets
 DD> Blend the contents of the pot until smooth

That's an interesting combination of sauce ingredients! My own
aberration is to simply replace about a quarter of my tomatoes with
an equal volume of zucchini if I have some on hand. In fact I just
did that earlier this evening when I made a batch of ground beef
and mushroom pasta sauce. Ironically a house guest we didn't know
at all (friend of a friend) is a vegetarian who is celiac AND has
such a severe MSG allergy that she avoids tomatoes, mushrooms and
Parmesan cheese. Luckily she brought her own food for the weekend.
And we went out to a Vietnamese restaurant where she was able to
find a reasonable selection of dishes to choose from.

Cheers

Jim


... Don't restrict Italian food to an imaginary, rigid ideal.

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