Chatty Charley thread for the week of March 10th 2008

It's Monday, So who/what is a star?

Especially after a time change. I was really enjoying getting to work after it was light. Now my entire commute was in the dark this morning.

Oh and did I mention that I hate Mondays?

So a star could be a general maintainer of the site. Like an admin or moderator with special privileges. At least it makes sense to me having such a large number of members.

Nothing like nursing a bad cold on a monday

I think you are enjoying this way too much...

Daniel

Umm I’m a good chef, I made chicken soup. Okay it came in a can but I added the water, ha!

At least I didn’t burn down the kitchen

You're a step ahead of wife. I love her to death, but she can burn water.

lol thanks, I needed a good laugh.

My wife doesn't burn anything since I do the cooking. But it works out ok for us, I like to cook and she doesn't mind cleaning up (which I hate)

So she knows how to burn water, anybody can do that! How does she do with a casserole?

Mike

I have discovered that I can make Thai curry in my Crockpot;) So we have been having curry once a week.

My friends call me the Crockpot Queen. Last night I made Zuppa Tuscana soup like they have at Olive Garden, it was so yummy.

Miss POI

Next Monday, are you going to do Corned Beef & cabbage in the crock? I might.

Keith, all you do is dial the local Jewish deli and order a corned beef on club, rye or whole wheat if you prefer and a Guinness to wash it down. Or if you like, you can substitute a Dr. Browns root beer!

On St. Paddy's Day even I'm IRISH!

Mike

I'd have to take my Nuvi on a day trip to find a Jewish deli But we do have a few places locally that make a fairly decent Reuben...

I make that as well, but not in the crock pot, send me the recipe. I love Zuppa Tuscana!!!!

Do I smell a POI Factory Cookbook in the air?

We may get people coming here looking for recipes for the Hawaiian dish if we're not careful with all this cooking talk

In the aftermath of the snowstorm here in ohio, we were rewarded with $3.30 gas prices and $3.99 diesel prices per gallon.I didn't know snow could make gas more valuable?.lol

The supply of gas is a little tight as refineries switch from producing winter blends to summer blends, so the price goes up...should come back down a bit again as long as crude prices remain stable, or drop and get back under a Franklin/barrel.

Friends in Canada stated it's $1.10 a liter.Whats that converted to gallons?

1 liter = 0.264172052 US gallons

the british pound equals out to $2.10 in the us,so that would be what about $9 bucks a gallon

I'm glad I found this site, it has a lot of info that is pretty helpful.

$3.50 a gallon today. Ouch!

I always check gasbuddy.com. That is the national site. I have the locals as wichitagasprices.com and kansasgasprices.com.

After you watch a while you can "almost" predict when it is going to go up, like every couple days

Daniel

Here in the oil state of Texas (remember the Houston Oilers?) diesel is $3.80. Diesel is a byproduct of gasoline and needs less refining, so the higher price is a mystery. My Super Duty drinks $125 worth per fill-up. But we all are diesel buyers since it is used in producing and transporting food and other goods. Watch for inflation in almost everything. Well, maybe not GPS's (I hope) since they are easy to transport and are still evolving technology.

Time change ... and a long evening reloading my computer last night.

*yawn*

I think Miss POI should publish these food recipes for all of us to enjoy.........

I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.

Late last week I was mentioning to a group of friends at lunch that I had upgraded my outdoor spot lights to the newer fluorescent spots to both conserve energy and (most of all) so that I did not have to replace the bulbs every 6 months. The newer bulbs supposedly have 5 year lifespan. Yesterday, I noted that one of these bulbs had already gone out after only 3 months. I removed the bulb from the 2 bulb fixture and after about 60 seconds the second bulb also went out. It lasted only about 1 month. Now I'm thinking my plan wasn't so great after all... Wondering if anyone else might have had the same bad luck...

Casserole in our house is a weeks worth of Cracker Barrel left overs in one pot. It's bad when the wait staff there knows us on a first name basis.

Tonight is my wifes first attempt in her new crock pot. If you ever publish a cook book, I'm in!!!

No it is bad when they know your drink order and food order. We got to a chinese place quite often for lunch at work and the lady always says,..

"Coke, no ice for you", "Spring veggies with shrimp and white sauce, not brown"

All I have to say is, "yes"

Here is the cookbook you want to get: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1059655402&...
this is also a link to a place to find books for a buck.
Miss POI

I love to cook and if you keep this up you will have to start a recipe thread too. Can I have that soup recipe???? Please!!!

25 more days till I'm on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera! Woo-hoo!

I really like that Brook, didn't at first, but do now. She and ramiele are my favorite girls (ramiele is just so cute)

But David archuleta is my favorite above all.

The idea of a POI Factory Cookbook could catch on and I wouldn't mind that Zuppa Toscana recipe myself.

Yeah that is one of my favorite soups, but sorta labor intensive...

1) cook meat, grind it down (cutting it)
2) wash kale
3) cut potatoes thin

Ok ok, not alot, but that is a lot of cutting.

Charley,

That sounds like the lady at the Queen Bee in Arlington when I used to go for lunch there. They do remember, don't they.

Tried the link to the cookbook and got this message:

The following Listing ID could not be found: 1059655402

I could search for the cookbook at the abebooks site if you will give me the name.

Thanks

Guess Abebooks sold out.

It's the Fix It and Forget It Cookbook; here's the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Fix-Forget-Cookbook-Dawn-Ranck/dp/1561...

I thought the judges were pretty harsh on Ramiele.

Even if the song performance wasn't so outstanding, her appearance and personality were! Just because the song wasn't "boisterous" didn't make it boring to me.

Maybe I'm partial to Filipinas, too, as I'm married to one.

Can you believe it i hit the big 40 today.Yep,March 12 is my birthday.Celebrating tonight with an all you can eat dinner at Montana's Cook House.Mmmmmm....nice back ribs..meat falling off the bone.Almost brings a tear to my eyes...lol.Can it get any better than this?

"Old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway...." is my response when asked my age

I like that response....People say i'm getting old...i tell them no..i'm getting better.

Heck I am partical to any pretty asian woman, could be that I am asian...lol.

Little David did horrible last night, hope he can stay though.

Yeah, it could be better, be 10 years younger...lol. I can't believe that I am going to be soon 36. BTW, HBD!

Thanx alot.When is your birthday? Is it this month or next month?

My bday is in april

MrKen, you are old, if you can be my father...lol. But the older I get, the younger the older are.

Me too. Very late April in fact. And it will be the second anniversary of the birthday that was nearly my last....thanks be to divine intervention & Mayo doctors, I'm still here. Hope you never get necrotic pancreatitis.