On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:30:56 -0600 "Kestrel"
 writes:

> > > amen, sister!
> > > though I do sometimes wish I had a stand-alone freezer....
> >
> > they're nice -- mine is pretty full right now, though.
> > Some day they need to build in barcodes or other automatic 
> inventorying
> > system....
> 
> I understand they have something darn close now... though I think 
> you have  to enter it yourself. Not sure.

I expect you would, technology being close but not there....

> I *am* sure I wouldn't sit down to program my fridge (or freezer) 
> with its  contents 

Nah, it would be something you'd do AS they entered.... 
But I have anal-compulsive tendencies toward inventory (they usually die
3/4s into the project -- or, I'll get caught up, then the next three
shopping trips are unpacked in a hurry (or sit in a bag behind me for
months (not groceries -- but I'll buy a card 3 months in advance of the
date then never send it -- or anything -- it, well, sucks rocks, sandy
yickky ones)) -- or I'll MOVE -- and I'll be back to where I started.
Well, not quite all the way back to the trail head, but.....

> > > A Broccoli Cheese Casserole
> > > Everyone loved it, and everyone was modifying it because no one 
> knew
> > > what "1 cup raw ric" was
> > > (I'm not kidding)

all the various recipes should have been gathered. It would make a book
of its own.
The Broccoli Cheese Casserole Incident
or
What a Typo Can Do

> > LOL!!!
> > >
> > > it's a cup of rice, of course :)
> >
> > and here I thought it was ricotta cheese..... =wink!=
> 
> It just amazed me...

I think it would be good with ricotta cheese

> I remember mom sitting round the table with my grandmother, and our 
> family
> friend and maybe a couple other women, and my mom was just *sure* it 
> was
> rice, and hadn't anyone done that? None of them had. One thought 
> about rice,
> but you never see it as "raw rice" so she thought she must be wrong, 

of course, the raw vs cooked measure is different, so I can see why they
would have done it that way -- save us the post processing deductive math

> and
> besides even if it *was* raw rice, why wouldn't you cook it first? 
> Well, the
> rest of the story is that it was missing the instruction that said 
> to cook
> the rice... which contributed to the problem :) So anyway... mom 
> decided to
> cook the rice and add it, and WOW whole new dish! LOL. Belvy still 
> tells the
> story...

=grins=
and so do you!

You know, you should type that up and send it to Reader's Digest or as a
filler for any number of Wimmens/Cooking 'zines.
We can ALL relate..... (I'm serious, really!)

=HUGS=


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