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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on August 26, 2011, 08:51:00 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x88823
Oh my.
The cooking and baking forum continues to languish in cobwebbery, what with hippywife Mrs. Alfred Packer not there any more.
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-17-11 10:19 PM
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Lets say you have 2 peaches, 3 figs, 3 butter pats, 6 splenda packs, and some balsamic vinegar . . .
Chop the figs really fine. Virtually to a paste. Put the butter in a small saucepan. Add the figs and splenda. Season with the balsamic. You want it to taste . . . . adult.
Cut the peaches in half. Lightly oil the cut face with olive oil. Not much, but you want that taste in the mix.
Grill the peaches on both sides. You want them "done" but not falling apart.
Put the peaches face up on a plate. Top with the fig sauce.
MMMMmmmmMMMMM!
canetoad (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-17-11 11:02 PM
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1. Reminds me of a thing I used to do when pineapples are cheap.
Cut one into big, rustic chunks. Marinate in brown sugar, cardamon, cloves and a little balsamic then roast in butter until sort of caramelized. Served with creme fraiche, good yoghurt etc.
grasswire (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-18-11 12:42 AM
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2. I love grilled peaches
one of Bobby Flay's recipes pairs them with bleu cheese and chipotle glaze
The grasswire primitive's trying to be francais again.
NashVegas (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-22-11 09:31 PM
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3. Goodness, Stink
Pure goodness.
Why Splenda and not sugar?
The sparkling husband dude's on a cardiac diet, that's why.
Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-22-11 09:40 PM
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4. Sounds good, but I'd skip the sweetener altogether.
The fig sugar alone would make it sweet enough for me. Just started seeing local figs at the market too...
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-17-11 10:19 PM
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Lets say you have 2 peaches,
blahblahblah
Let's talk, MELONS, dude!!!
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Did he get the peaches from his elm tree?
Why did he start with "Lets say you have?" You either have them or you don't. Sounds like he is trying to create a food bouncy.
The lost boys in Peter Pan would say, "Let's say we have bread, butter and gruel and sit down to dinner" because they really didn't have food so they had to pretend. Presumably, Sparkley's elm tree provided him with all the peaches, pairs, and butter pats he could handle until it got chopped down so he would either have these items or he wouldn't.
Zero bongs.
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Duke harshes Stinky's melons.
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Did he get the peaches from his elm tree?
Why did he start with "Lets say you have?" You either have them or you don't. Sounds like he is trying to create a food bouncy.
The lost boys in Peter Pan would say, "Let's say we have bread, butter and gruel and sit down to dinner" because they really didn't have food so they had to pretend. Presumably, Sparkley's elm tree provided him with all the peaches, pairs, and butter pats he could handle until it got chopped down so he would either have these items or he wouldn't.
Zero bongs.
He is a DUmmie so there's no way of knowing if there was supposed to be an apostrophe in lets. He could be speaking in ebonics about someone named Lets.
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I know Splenda is the new rage but I don't trust that stuff at all, I tried it and it made me feel weird.
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I know Splenda is the new rage but I don't trust that stuff at all, I tried it and it made me feel weird.
I've avoid all artificial sweeteners after having heart problems that appeared to be caused by aspartame.
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I've avoid all artificial sweeteners after having heart problems that appeared to be caused by aspartame.
Seriously?
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-22-11 09:31 PM
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3. Goodness, Stink
Pure goodness.
Why Splenda and not sugar?
The dude can hide more in his man purse.
grasswire (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-18-11 12:42 AM
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2. I love grilled peaches
Why in the bloody hell do I want peaches to taste like bacon?
canetoad (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-17-11 11:02 PM
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1. Reminds me of a thing I used to do when pineapples are cheap.
Really do NOT want to know what you did with those pineapples.
Last damn time I ever eat pineapple.
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Why in the bloody hell do I want peaches to taste like bacon?
I think I could go for peaches and bacon. That sounds kinda tasty, but I prefer my bacon well-done and crispy.
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Seriously?
Yeah. I have no 100% proof, but I'm pretty sure that aspartame was the culprit.
A few years back the doc said that based on an ekg that was done I showed evidence of having Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome. Several months later I started having heart flutters. At least that's what I called it. Being a bit leery after learning about the WPW thing, I made a bee line back to the doctor. The doctor said he could only be sure of what was wrong if he could check me while it was happening which would mean wearing some sort of monitor thing-a-ma-bob. When I told him I really wasn't crazy about that due to my job he asked if I was doing anything different. I told him that I had switched to diet drinks. He told me stop drinking them and see what happened. As soon as I stopped drinking diet drinks the flutters became a very rare thing. They still happen occasionally, but not too often.
The diet drinks contained aspartame so I just assume that was the cause.
edit to add: Keep in mind that the original ekg was done because I'm basically a hypochondriac if use the formula (ailment + medical book), but the ekg situation was kind of funny afterward.
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Yeah. I have no 100% proof, but I'm pretty sure that aspartame was the culprit.
A few years back the doc said that based on an ekg that was done I showed evidence of having Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome. Several months later I started having heart flutters. At least that's what I called it. Being a bit leery after learning about the WPW thing, I made a bee line back to the doctor. The doctor said he could only be sure of what was wrong if he could check me while it was happening which would mean wearing some sort of monitor thing-a-ma-bob. When I told him I really wasn't crazy about that due to my job he asked if I was doing anything different. I told him that I had switched to diet drinks. He told me stop drinking them and see what happened. As soon as I stopped drinking diet drinks the flutters became a very rare thing. They still happen occasionally, but not too often.
The diet drinks contained aspartame so I just assume that was the cause.
I had a friend whose Husband had that, also I think the singer Meatloaf was diagnosed with that too. Did you get an official diagnosis of it?
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I had a friend whose Husband had that, also I think the singer Meatloaf was diagnosed with that too. Did you get an official diagnosis of it?
Nope. Never did. I've had occasional heart flutters (or whatever they are officially called) since my senior year in high school. The first one actually happened in medical biology and scared me. Someone told me that they could be stress related so I just ignored them.
Fast-forward to sometime between 2001 and 2005. My date memory isn't too good. I had a bad day at work. I was having some heart fluttering. My chest was hurting. I had some shortness of breath. I go online to medical sites to diagnose my problem. Most of the sites naturally mentioned heart attack. To top it off my aunt was in the hospital at the time with a suspected heart attack. I went to the ER. As soon as I said the word heart attack they rushed me into a side room to take my blood pressure.
Now, keep in mind, that I spent my childhood in hospitals and doctors' offices with very bad asthma so my white coat syndrome has always been a little higher than that of other folks. My blood pressure is always kind of high in those settings even when it's normal at the house. This time, when the nurse saw my BP her eyes got huge, and she asked if I had always had blood pressure problems. My wife asked her if it was high. The nurse said it was VERY high, then ran from the room. This made my situation worse.
They wheeled me into a back room and did an ekg and a ton of other things. Finally, the doctor came in and asked if I had had a bad day at work. I told him that I had, and he told me that I was apparently suffering from an anxiety attack. He said everything looked fine but requested a chest x-ray to be sure that was okay too.
By the time I got to x-ray I had already calmed down. The nurse asked why I was being x-rayed and I told her that it was apparently because I was a hypochondriac. She looked puzzled so I explained how reading medical articles about what ailed me made matters worse. She said that she had the same problem and that her husband always gave her a hard time about it. Then she related a story about a problem that she had with her leg that her mind over-inflated after reading medical books on her symptoms. I then told her that after checking on some symptoms one time that I had almost become convinced that I had ovarian cancer. She admitted I won the "crazy" game.
Now flash-forward again to my doctor's visit with the heart flutters. He was basing the Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome diagnosis on the ekg that was done in the ER and the notes that the ER doc had made. He even showed me on the ekg what made them suspect Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome, but it just looked like squiggly lines to me. Up until this point nothing had ever been said to me about Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome.
I suppose one day I need to have it checked out, but I figure as long as the flutters are rare I'm sort of okay. The last flutter that I had was probably a couple of months ago. When I was drinking diet drinks I was have tons per day.
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You should find out, they do surgery for that, my friends Husband and Meatloaf are doing fine.
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CJ, might be well worth talking to BG about that.
Not in this public forum, of course.
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The dude can hide more in his man purse.
Why in the bloody hell do I want peaches to taste like bacon?
Really do NOT want to know what you did with those pineapples.
Last damn time I ever eat pineapple.
Is Vinnie The Dude trying to act like Nadin now?
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I know Splenda is the new rage but I don't trust that stuff at all, I tried it and it made me feel weird.
The only time I've heard that is from people at the DUmp who snort it.
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-17-11 11:02 PM
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1. Reminds me of a thing I used to do when pineapples are cheap.
Cut one into big, rustic chunks. Marinate in brown sugar, cardamon, cloves and a little balsamic then roast in butter until sort of caramelized. Served with creme fraiche, good yoghurt etc.
What's the story on this canetoad DUfus? Does the unusual spelling of yogurt give the impression of a sophisticated continental.
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What's the story on this canetoad DUfus? Does the unusual spelling of yogurt give the impression of a sophisticated continental.
This is from the cooking and baking forum, where the primitives tend to be, uh, rather pretentious, using French and other languages as if they've been speaking it all their lives.