The***OFFICIAL***Weekend Singles'Thread-Things that go "Bump" in the Night-(October 27-29, 2006)

DollyCali and All of the Singles & their FRiends | October 27, 2006 | DollyCali and Kate of Spice Island

[DollyCali]

your story must have been distressing.. a soul NOT at rest/peace..and you being the conduit for info!

I wonder how many times people are warned, reassured, comforted etc but just don't recognize it.

I love the many stories of 911 survivors who survived because they missed the planes, "situations" occurred that plans had to change re: being at the WTC or on a flight or at the pentagon.

Some people stated how they had profound images/feelings that they couldn't figure out until AFTER the events unfolded.

[DollyCali]

Wow.. what a foretelling of the time frame for you & hubby.. and how great you will share "whatever" as married soulmates TOGHETHER facing the trials ahead.

Most of us don't make the most of time with special people.. you will I KNOW!

[snugs]

I think you know Demerara as raw sugar here is what Recipezaar says about it. Demerara in other words is just the area it comes from which I presume is the only area we buy it from in the UK as all brands are called Demerara.

Raw sugar
Raw sugar is the residue left after sugarcane has been processed to remove molasses and refine the sugar crystals. With flavor similar to brown sugar, it should not be confused with brown sugar. Raw sugar contains molds and fibers which are considered nutrients, however, to be sold in the US raw sugar has been refined losing some of these properties. There are three popular types: Demerara sugar, a coarse-textured, dry, raw sugar from the Demerara area of Guyana; Turbinado sugar, a fine-textured moist raw sugar; and Barbados sugar, a raw sugar that has been steam cleaned.

[snugs]

According to Recipezaar correct definition of sultana is

sultana Pronounced:suhl-TAN-un A small, pale golden-green grape originating in Turkey. Originally used to make wine, it's primary use today is for raisins. Sultanas are more popular in Europe, and the American variety of the sultana grape is the Thompson seedless.

I think I have heard it referred to as the golden raisin in the US. We use them in Britain a lot, in breakfast cereal and for cake making. In fact we even have a light fruit cake that is called a sultana cake and that is the only fruit used in it.

In Britain we have a product called mixed dried fruit and that contains a mixture of currant, raisins, sultanas and candied peel. So for this recipe I just add up the number of ozs required of fruit and use that mount of mixed fruit much easier and you get an even balance of the fruit.

Next time I make some pumpkin bread I am going to add dried fruit instead of the cream cheese.

[snugs]

Your mom probably also made something called bread and butter pudding which is really a custard pudding with bread and fruit in it and if you like the flavour of vanilla (I do not - only in certain things and not much at in cooking) bread and butter pudding lends itself to add that ingredient.

Bread and Butter Pudding

When the weather I dull and dreary. Lift the spirits with this comforting old favourite (Snugs comment – again great for using up stale bread that you would otherwise throw out).

Butter for greasing
4 thin slices stale bread (fresh bread can too wet)
1oz butter
2oz sultanas or currants (I prefer sultanas (golden raisins because they are larger and juicer)
Pin of ground nutmeg or cinnamon (if you the flavour add more to your own taste)
14 floz milk
2 eggs
1 oz granulated sugar

Grease a quart pie dish. Cut the crusts off the bread and spread the slices with butter. Cut the bread into squares or triangles and arrange in alternate layers, buttered side up with the sultanas or currants. Sprinkle each layer lightly with nutmeg or cinnamon. Arrange the top layer of bread in an attractive pattern.

Warm the milk in a saucepan to about 150F, do not let it approach boiling point.

Put the eggs in a bowl add most of the sugar, beat with a fork and stir in the milk.

Strain the custard mixture over the bread (I do not bother with this and it works fine for me, I just pour the mixture over without straining).

Sprinkle some nutmeg and the remaining sugar on top and leave to stand for 30 minutes.

Set the oven at 350F gas 4.

Bake for 30 – 40 mins until the custard is set and top is lightly browned.

Serves 4

Pressure cooker tip for those who own one and I believe certainly in the UK they are on the come back.: Use a dish that fits in the pressure cooker. Cover the pudding with foil or greased greaseproof paper, tied down securely. Cook at 15lb pressure for 9 mins. Reduce the pressure slowly. Brown the pudding under the grill (broiler).

[DollyCali]

The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable.

A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the garage with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time. Let me tell you about it:

I turned the dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning swap net. Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous signal and a golden voice. You know the kind; he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business. He was telling whomever he was talking with something about "a thousand marbles." I was intrigued and stopped to listen to what he had to say

"Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you're busy with your job. I'm sure they pay you well but it's a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet. It's too bad you missed your daughter's "dance recital" he continued. "Let me tell you something that has helped me keep my own priorities." And that's when he began to explain his theory of a "thousand marbles."

"You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years.

"Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3900, which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime. Now, stick with me, Tom, I'm getting to the important part.

It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail", he went on, "and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays." "I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round up 1000 marbles. I took them home and put them inside a large, clear plastic container right here in the shack next to my gear."

"Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away. I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life.

There is nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight."

"Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign-off with you and take my lovely wife out for breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure that if I make it until next Saturday then I have been given a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time."

"It was nice to meet you Tom, I hope you spend more time with your family, and I hope to meet you again here on the band. This is a 75 Year old Man, K9NZQ, clear and going QRT, good morning!"

You could have heard a pin drop on the band when this fellow signed off. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about. I had planned to work on the antenna that morning, and then I was going to meet up with a few hams to work on the next club newsletter.

Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss. "C'mon honey, I'm taking you and the kids to breakfast." "What brought this on?" she asked with a smile. "Oh, nothing special, it's just been a long time since we spent a Saturday together with the kids. And hey, can we stop at a toy store while we're out? I need to buy some marbles.

A friend sent this to me, so I am sharing this with you all, my FRiends.

And so, as one smart bear once said..."If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred ~~ minus one day, so I never have to live without you."

Winnie the Pooh.

Have a wonderful Lord's Day!

[DollyCali]

Oh snugs, I have gained 5 pounds reading your wonderful recipes. Thank you.

I am going to try to locate cane sugar. My health food sources recommend it.

Need to get busy here & ready for church.. My extra hour has disappeared so it seems.

The sun is shining here! still windy

[DollyCali]

ah, yes golden raisins.. quite nice & I haven't used them for a LONG TIME

[snugs]

Rice Pudding

This basic recipe works equally well with flaked rice, sago or flaked tapioca

Butter for greasing
4oz pudding rice
25 floz milk
pinch of salt
2 – 3 oz caster sugar (dependant how sweet you like your desserts)
1oz butter (optional)
Grated nutmeg

Butter a 2 quart pie dish. Wash the rice in cold water, drain and put it into the dish with the milk. Leave to stand for 30 mins.

Set the oven at 300F gas 2. Stir the salt and sugar into the milk mixture and sprinkle with flakes of butter if used and nutmeg. (I think the butter makes it creamier).

Bake for 2 – 2 ½ hours or until the pudding is thick and creamy and brown on top.

The pudding is better if cooked even more slowly at 250F gas ½ for 4 – 5 hours. You can also do this in a slow cooker.

Pressure cooker tip: Bring all ingredients to the boil in the open cooker, stirring. Reduce the heat so that the milk just bubbles. Put the lid on and bring 15lb pressure without increasing the heat. Cook for 12 mins, reduce pressure slowly. Phil says this is the only way to make it – have yet to try it though he has been promising to make it this way for me for over 10 years LOL.

[DollyCali]

saving that one ..thanks. when I get my printer going will print out & ask mom how here differed. She is a "pinch here, no measure" type of cook but will see what she says.

Have fun on the talk show threads. If I ever get snowed in & miss church I would love to be on those. Know they are interesting & fun (and educational)

[The Mayor]

October 29, 2006

From Awe To Adoration

READ: Revelation 1:10-18

I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works. —Psalm 9:1

What's the greatest activity we can spend time doing? Worshiping God! Worship is not repeating hasty, routine petitions or listening to mood-inducing music. Worship is the experience of being "lost in wonder, love, and praise," as Charles Wesley wrote. It's awe that inspires adoration.

My first sight of the Grand Canyon left me speechless. The friend who had driven me there appreciated my reaction and stood silent beside me. I gazed in awe at this magnificent spectacle and thought, This is a glimpse of God's majesty. But my awe, by itself, was not worship.

My reaction is different when I come face to face with Jesus in the Scriptures. Awe changes into adoration as I behold Him in all His beauty. What grips my soul? His unsullied purity: "Which of you convicts Me of sin?" (John 8:46). His unrivaled wisdom: "No man ever spoke like this Man!" (John 7:46). His unbounded pity: "When He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion" (Matt. 9:36). And His overwhelming majesty: "He was transfigured before them" (Matt. 17:2).

As I see Jesus in the Gospels, my awe changes to adoration. I bow in worship and exclaim with Thomas: "My Lord and my God!" (John 20:28). —Vernon C Grounds

Behold Him there! The risen Lamb!
My perfect, spotless righteousness;
The great, unchangeable I AM,
The King of glory and of grace.  —Bancroft

True worship of Christ changes admiration into adoration.

Bible in One Year  Jeremiah 18-19; 2 Timothy 3

[GodBlessUSA]

This sure does make me think. :) Great post to read to start the day! Thanks so much Dolly for the ping. I'll skip doing the marbles though. Life goes by so fast as it is, I can't watch my marble supply deplete each week. ;)

[GodBlessUSA]

Wonderful, beautiful thread you have created Dolly! :)

[DollyCali]

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[DollyCali]

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[DollyCali]

YUK

sorry everyone for the double ping.. Leaving for Browns game party .. in a bit. Browns have a terrible season going so far but we fans to still cheer them on!!!

[DollyCali]

Snakes on a plane was really better than I thought it would be. I never took classes in reptiles, other than an invertebrate zoo class, which was an overview

they are getting so good with the special effects, models, computer generated "whatevers" and puppets, it is very hard for me anymore to tell real from fake.

The story line was feasible & the acting, terror very scary for many people in audience. I will admit to flinching a few times. Some of the "sensitive" locations for the snakes to hit however stretched things a bit.

If anyone doesn't like snakes, this is really NOT THE MOVIE FOR THEM.

Friday night saw movie The Departed. very graphic violence. Language you wouldn't want to take kids or your grandma to.. but good movie & outstanding cast.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/departed/

[DollyCali]

how is the job search going? any good leads? have you found your permanent homeyet or waiting to tie down job first?

[DollyCali]

Thinking of you. Know you are otherwise occupied but hoping all is going well for you.

[proud_yank]

Hi Dolly, the job hunt is going great. I have received 2 offers so far, and am expecting a third shortly. I was the last one accepted to interview for the 'new engineer' hiring program for one of the big oil companies here, and that starts this evening and all day tomorrow.

Hopefully within the next week or two I will know who I'll be working for. I'm pretty excited about it all, and things are going great!

Living wise, I'm still staying with friends until I know who I'll be working for.