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Hi Colleen,
If you like liver sausage you would probably like liver pate. I don’t care for liver and onions but I do love the pate. Traditionally the fancy kind is made with goose livers but ours is a version using chicken livers-it’s from a very old Better Homes and Gardens cookbook and we have been making it for years around the holidays.
People’s lives would be changed too if you had not been born. Ron’s for one and your daughters wouldn’t be here and your grandkids. All those nieces and nephews would have had no one to organize games and give them prizes at the Christmas parties for all these years. All those nursing home patients would not have had you to help them and Christine would not have you as a loving second mother. Even if none of us do things that the world knows about we all have a profound effect upon our families.
That woman that you worked with sounded bulimic if she made herself sick to lose weight. That is so dangerous and it is so sad that she died at 37. Someone that has that problem needs psychiatric help. It’s a sad and dangerous situation. Greg’s uncle was a priest and one of his jobs over time was counseling girls and women with anorexia and bulimia and back then he was considered an expert on the subject. He was quite a brilliant priest with many accomplishments and it was so sad when he got older and got alzheimers-that’s a terrible disease too. I hope they are getting closer to a cure or a way to prevent it.
Greg did not actually break my mixer. I just said that for dramatic effect (like Piper would) it just broke while he was using it so he’s going to try to fix it first before we go out and buy a new one. He had no idea how expensive they are which is kind of funny as I’m pretty sure that mine came as a Christmas gift from him many years back. You probably never heard of the bacon buns as they are a Lithuanian food. We don’t really have a standard recipe for the bread dough-we use several different ones as we don’t have a recipe directly from his Mom or Grandfather. Anyway, they are filled with a mixture of bacon and ground pork and ham. We usually can get the ground pork and ham mixture from a local butcher shop but this time we made our own as we bought ground pork at the store and used the last of our leftover Christmas ham and ground it up and added it to the ground pork. The dough has to be rolled out and cut in circles and then stuffed with the filling. When he had the dough and the filling all prepared I helped him stuff the buns as that would have taken him forever as he made a double recipe.
Last night we stayed home and made burgers and watched some shows that I had copied from PBS over the holidays. We watched a Josh Groban concert-I absolutely adore him-my ringtone is one of his songs. Except for some reason the sound kept going out on the recording so that was kind of a bummer. And Greg always sings along and I had to keep asking him to please keep quiet so that I could hear Josh. He always does that and much as I like his singing it’s annoying when you are trying to listen to someone else that you like and he is singing along and he just doesn’t get it and gets all insulted. Many a TV concert I have watched with my finger in my right ear so I can hear the person on TV and not him sitting to the right of me. But that’s not an ideal way to hear a concert-with only one ear. Then we watched a Christmas Carol-the concert. I copied it off of PBS last year and when we watched it it was so good and we liked it so much that I copied it to watch again this year. It is like the book or play but done in the form of a concert with an orchestra a chorus and a narrator and a few singers playing all the parts. It’s an excellent show and if you see it on PBS next year I highly recommend that you copy it and watch it as I know that you like that story too. I would imagine you could buy the DVD from PBS if you wanted to also.
I don’t know what is on the agenda for today. We didn’t go to Jenny’s last night since Adam was home and Kelly and Aaron wanted them to come over for dinner. Maybe we’ll go tonight unless we decide to do something else. We still have two days of the long weekend left but I know tomorrow will be the last Bears game of the season so we will watch that.
I wonder if Adele noticed that I started a new discussion as she has not been here yet. I try to announce it when I do but I guess sometimes people miss it amidst the other posts.
GailHey Adele,
Today was Greg’s day for baking in the kitchen. He made bacon buns today and of course he also made a big mess! But they are delicious! He also manged to break my Kitchen Aide Mixer in the process so the poor dear had to mix that heavy dough by hand. I would have had to give up right then as I can no longer mix heavy batters by hand. So he looked up online what was probably wrong with it and ordered a part so we will see if he can fix it or if I will have to get a new one. I won’t go without as it’s now a staple of the kitchen. It’s funny-you always buy the warrentey for things and Greg never does as he says it’s a waste of money because nothing ever breaks until after it expires. But you are right it does protect you if you get a lemon. He says his ankle is feeling somewhat better today which I am very happy about.
So what are they operating on in Gary’s shoulder. Does he have RA or OA or both? I hope that you all will get to see Steph and the kids this weekend. I understand that Jhonny may not want to go anywhere on his day off as there are a thousand games on this weekend. All the college bowls and such. Does Steph not drive either? it seems like some of your grandaughters didn’t drive and then one just recently got her license. It’s funny-out in the country you couldn’t do anything if you didn’t have a license. All the kids around here get them as soon as they are 16. But if you live by a big city then there is public transportation. I had a license but never had a car when I lived in Chicago-I took buses or Els everywhere and if i was out late at night I caught a cab. I wouldn’t want to do that anymore waiting out in the freezing cold for a bus or a train but then I was young and could tolerate it.
I hope everyone had a good night yesterday.
GailHi Christine,
Happy New Year to you and Stewart too. It sounds like you had a nice Christmas in spite of being sick. I hope that you will feel better soon and also get that heel spur fixed up. I’m glad that Patch is doing so well. Colleen is so sweet to send you a gift for Christmas and your birthday. Isn’t it wonderful how the two of you became such good friends through Quacker clothes. It sounds like you and Stewart will have a nice New Years turkey dinner. You are such a good cook-you are always cooking something up that sounds good. Here’s to a great new year for all Quackers.
GailHi Barbara,
What an exciting way to start the New Year looking forward to a new grandchild. I remember Jenny used to tell every month that the baby was the size of a grape and then a lemon, orange, grapefruit etc. I never even had an ultrasound did anyone else. I know other people did when I was pregnant but I never did-I think that was right on the cusp before it began to be a normal part of prenatal care.
I think you are right and it will happen for Lisa when the time is right. Perhaps also she and Joey should go to that counseling and get their relationship in order before bringing a new life into the world. Just reassure her all the babies are equally welcome and special whether they are the first or the fifth-it makes no difference to the grandparents. We embrace them all-especially because we don’t have to be responsible for raising them. lol We can just love them and spoil them and send them home to Mom and Dad. lol
I definitely think Piper will be an artist of some kind. Probably a thespian as she has a flair for the dramatic and wonderful facial expressions. She is so different from Kendall who is cautious and wants to always do the right thing and is kind of shy. And then there is Lachlan who is just all boy amidst his four sisters.
I don’t think it’s funny that Jerry talks to his trees. They are living things. Now if they start answering back-that’s perhaps another story. My Mom always used to go out and talk to her flower garden as she insisted that talking to them made them grow better. So I come from a line a plant whisperers and don’t think it’s “that” odd. lol
I have just come to a point where I ignore all the New Year-New You stuff. People are going to get the old me whether they like it or not. lol It would be nice to lose weight and get fit but one has to just go ahead and live their life and enjoy it no matter what their shape or size. That should be the real message. Accept who and what you are and make the best of it. Don’t let a future goal stop you from living fully in the “now.”Jeanne was good at pointing that all out.
I’m glad that Jerry is overseeing things for his Mom. How sad that he seems to be the only one that has her best interests at heart. Jerry is a good man.
GailHi Colleen,
That’s right I forgot that you fall so on this one I will have to go with Ron and not spike your eggnog. We had a nice evening. We watched Spy with Melissa McCarthy and had appetizers. I had a vodka and lemonade and one glass of champagne and that was it for me. Greg’s liver pate turned out really good and hardly gave me heartburn at all. lol Then I found it’s a Wonderful Life on TV and we watched that until Greg went to bed at 11:00 and left me alone to toast the New Year as usual. He’s just a party pooper! It would be kind of interesting to see like George Bailey did how things would have been different for the people in your life if you had never been born. It’s an interesting concept.
Hope everyone had a nice evening and I hope the coming year is the best ever. Just think we have two new little Quacker grandbabies to look forward to. That’s a pretty darn good start to the New Year.
GailHi Sue-hope the vertigo goes away and stays away. Happy New Year to you.
Don’t forget to check the box after your first post to the new discussion.
Hello Everyone,
Happy New Year to all Quackers!
Colleen, we mainly got snow and ice no rain. I’m glad that your Mom will be safe and I hope the waters recede soon. All these natural disasters have been awful this week between Christmas and New Years. I hope all the people celebrating will be safe tonight as there were more warnings of possible terrorist activities. It must be horrible to be in law enforcement and have to be at high alert all the time now.
I have used those wash machine pods for both the laundry wash machine and the dish washer. Costco does have some great deals on cleaning products and they come in such large amounts that you don’t have to get more for a long time. Greg did get my machine fixed and it works fine-I’m glad that i didn’t have to get a new one as i really like the one that i have. We call soda both pop and soda around here. I’m not sure if one is used more than the others. In some places in the south all pop is coke-I could never figure that one out-what if you want 7Up or orange. Maybe it’s because Atlanta is the big home of Coca Cola-my old roommate is a bigwig with Coke in Atlanta. I would have never thought back when we lived together(not lived together like boyfriend and girlfriend but as apartment mates) that he would ever have had such a big successful job. But I’ll bet that he’s a good schmoozer which is important in business. Isn’t it exciting about Barbara’s news. Now she can be a Quacker grandma too!
Adele, I’m glad that your refrigerator is running(well you better go catch it!} Remember that old joke? And that you will get reimbursed for the lost food. Is that through your homeowners insurance?
I didn’t know that Gary was having shoulder surgery. i must have missed that somewhere. What will they do?
Greg and I were out early today on some business and when we got done he actually suggested that we go to urgent care to have his ankle looked at. They say he just has a sprain but we’ll see. They didn’t take an xray or anything. So I guess if it doesn’t start to get better he will have to go back to the regular doctor. I’m just surprised it didn’t take more urging-but now he feels bad that he went and nothing was really wrong that he couldn’t have taken care of on his own. But you never know. I have known people who have broken arms and legs and didn’t know until they went to the doctor days later.
I gave Greg the choice of surf and turf or appetizers for dinner tonight and he chose appetizers with the caveat that we will have the other later in the weekend. So right now he is in the kitchen making the chicken liver pate for me and we will have that and cheese and crackers, shrimp, little hot dogs wrapped in pastry and mini quiches. We will just watch movies and snack and fall asleep in our chairs before midnight. lol
I am going to start a new Discussion for the new fresh month and the new fresh Year so i will see you all there in 2016.
GailHi Barbara,
Congratulations on the baby news. I can imagine that you are over the moon. When will she be due? Sometime this summer?
I’m sorry to hear that Lisa got shingles. Ouch! I hope that she and Joey work things out. How many years have they been together? It seems like a long time.
I hope that Jerry can get things straightened out for his Mom. That is awful that the one son has control of the checking account. I wonder if she could stop payments on that account or something. The bank shouldn’t be letting someone else use her account without some kind of written permission from her or if the son has power of attorney. There really should be some way to stop him since he’s basically stealing what is hers.
I’m glad that you were safe from all the tornadoes. Brent lives in the part of eastern new Mexico that got all the snow.
I’m glad that you were all able to get together for a Christmas dinner even if it was the day after. I always say it doesn’t matter which day it is as long as you all can be together.
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